We know it’s a patent suit though. Just because the article focuses on specific patents doesn’t mean those parents are not already ridiculous and that the lawsuit, even if it’s not based on those specific patents, is also ridiculous.
If you use the subscription for like a single console generation, you find out most of the cost of the console was hidden in the find print via those installment payments. At least with the PS5Pro, thanks to the really high console price and relatively short time til the PS6, the cost of the subscription isn’t that much if you intend to upgrade to the PS6 immediately. But if you got the original 5 and planned to keep it until the 6, then you might be spending more on your PS5 basic-tier subscription than the MSRP of the PS5Pro (and double if you used premium the whole time).
Ventoy is cool. Wish clonezilla didn’t have issues with images being in the same device as clonezilla, but that’s not ventoy’s fault. I still just have a windows boot drive lying around since before ventoy, so I forgot to consider that. Granted, I’m not sure how many people who already have ventoy setup and defaults to using it without looking up guides and l wanted to install W11 on an old device for some reason would find it hard to figure out how to do so.
Rufus does.
You still have to decide what you are doing with different storage devices and partitions, regardless of what OS you are installing. If you have a single storage device and a single OS, it’s probably straight forward. If you add more, it gets more complicated. At least with windows, if it’s your only OS, the assumption is you will let it handle everything and it’s all just nfst. With Linux, it often seems to want to make all sorts of partitions (at least home, root, and swap? Idr since it’s been some time), make decisions about file systems and what type of partition. I rather not leave those choices up to default autopartition options, especially when dualbooting.
Just back up any important files. I’ve had to do many reinstallations because of accidentally breaking things.
For pdf software, using wine is an option. It also has been a concern of mine with switching, but it seems the software I’ve been using (PDFxchange) works fine with wine.
The bypass thing happens when making the boot drive and is basically the exact same process as Linux. It just asks do you want to bypass it and you click that. If you aren’t getting a boot drive, then you can’t install it. And making a boot drive is the easiest part of a Linux installation.
The bypass is just ticking a box while making the bootdrive to install the OS. If making a bootdrive is too hard, installing linux is probably out of the question.
It’s possible to only play dozens of hours? I figured it’s the type of game where people either drop it within a couple hours or play 100s+
“Dead game” in this context refers to games that have low active player count. The obsession with active player count and daily player count is countered by things like daily log-in rewards that turn games into jobs.
Also accusations of spamming reddit with alt accounts that they claim aren’t theirs.
My largest single DSP file size is about 300MB, and that’s small compared to some people who have CPUs that can handle the end-game grind. Or just use sails, because they’re apparently an unoptimized mess.
From my understanding, its only that bad with windows XP without any service packs, with firewall disabled, and without using any sorta of router that would also have security measures built in. I don’t think its even reproducible on XP SP1, much less 7 or 10.
Of course I’d be surprised if there weren’t people who stockpiled vulnerabilities in the leadup to the discontinuation of windows 10 security updates, so seems like a good idea to update if it has an internet connection.
Hopefully better VR support on Linux becomes a thing in the near-future. From my understanding, non-VR games are generally pretty good nowadays (bar a few games with extremely invasive anti-cheat malware that you probably shouldn’t be running anyways), but VR is still lagging behind.
On one hand, the lawsuit seems nonsensical. OTOH, if a jury decided to side with individuals suing a major companies like Activision regardless of the specifics of the case, I certainly wouldn’t blame them.
Forgot to mention I got it used, so should be comparing it to used consoles (PS5 looks like its still about $300 for digital edition, but doesn’t really matter since the subscription is most of the cost anyways), so a used switch would actually be cheaper.
£83.99 a year In USD, the most expensive plan is $160/year. The basic plan is $80/year. Over the lifespan of the console, the basic plan plus the console itself comes out to about $1K. Already more expensive than a basic gaming PC (and much more expensive than a steamdeck). If you were gonna be getting a basic computer anyways, you could probably get a pretty reasonably high-end gaming PC with that extra money.
If the only thing you care about is the up-front costs, then consoles are cheaper, but at least in the US, that’s not really true in the long-term (except for the switch) if you want basic online access. Especially if you are are going to own a decent computer regardless of whether you game or not. Personally, the only difference I would make between my current computer set-up if I didn’t also play games is I wouldn’t have upgraded my 9 year old GPU for $250 (3060ti*), which is cheaper than even a switch without accounting subscriptions costs (which is relatively reasonably priced at $20/year and a lot of the games I’d be interested in if it weren’t for Nintendo are primarily games I’d want to play offline anyways, so the subscription isn’t really that important anyways but the games like like $60/each…).
*edit: used. So a used switch would actually be cheaper as long as you don’t get a few years of subscription or buy like 2 games.
can’t buy in. As in the games aren’t available in Japan via Steam. Original title gave the impression that they were locked to only be available in Japan.
I have absolutely no idea what you meant if you don’t think the reply is a relevant response.
I want a free dom too :( /j