It also launched a year or two before the ps3 and I feel like it was significantly cheaper. Xbox Live also seemed to be huge despite the cost, probably some network effect in action. I remember Gears of War being another big name they had.

In the uk I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.

That was probably one of their most sensible naming decisions

Exactly, the cheapest device is the one you already have!

I meant bad luck that you bought a machine with loud fans generally!

FYI Lemmy already supports RSS, for instance I could add this feed to any RSS reader to follow you

Ah, bad luck

I guess they’re trying to make it more integrated and covering every source they can, but something about taking an open source project and turning it into a subscription service to play the games you already bought on the computer you already bought is… not to my taste

Is it the kind you can open up and clean the fans?

That sounds about right. I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.

I believe that’s to get the assets (i.e. the textures, character models, etc) which are still covered by copyright and so can’t be included in the decomp projects

Copying my own comment from when this was posted last year:

Every time I see this quaint but misleading image reposted it’s necessary to make the same comment: the words attached to each image are do not exclusively represent those images. “Equality” could apply to all but the first; nobody uses “equity” this way; and most people use “justice” to refer to criminal justice and punishment.

Imagine you went through the pain of learning it to make a web front end. You want to make back end things too, but they all require knowing different languages. You’re not learning another language, learning this one was hard enough! Easier to keep using the same horrible language for everything, of course.

I think if you click on anyone’s profile in the Lemmy web UI (or any community) then you can click a little RSS button to get this link, not sure if it can distinguish between posts and comments though

Spongebob did it first!

I was surprised to discover how simple Windows commands on Linux (via Wine/Proton) are, x86 on ARM is much harder. That said, Apple have managed it pretty well (Rosetta?) so it’s clearly doable.

hide away the complexity of Windows

for 720p gaming

the ability to log in via the Windows lockscreen with your controller

Seems like they’ve finally taken some notes from the Steam Deck, interested to see if they can actually make something decent. It seems unlikely, but I’m still interested!

If you want to hear about any and all games being given away for free then there’s this great* community you can join called [email protected]

~*insert image of Obama giving himself that medal~

Was there an original uk one? This one is the only one I’m aware of, it had a moment of doubt a year back but we got new admins before we needed to move.

Relevant xkcd