It’s more about FEX + ARM handhelds, than those in isolation. Only in the last few years has FEX started to become viable, and more and more Linux ARM handhelds (not Android) are starting to appear.

The Switch represents a floor of what is possible, with weak hardware, unofficial Linux support, and likely poor GPU drivers. ARM handhelds that aren’t Android may have better long term support, and will become closer to the experience of a Steam Deck (albeit slower), at a much lower price.

It’s the UK sky news, not the far-right Australian one.

I actually am using a VPN, and much like blocking ads, I’m not turning it off to use a website.

To help keep our platform secure, we require visitors to temporarily turn off VPNs (including iCloud Private Relay) and proxy services.

Thankfully, it’s discounted at a bunch of other stores too: https://isthereanydeal.com/game/returnal/info/

What a country!

Right, but then we are back to the question of how these companies are supposed to make money. I suppose hardware manufacturers will be okay with this outcome but I’m not sure how these heavily inflated software companies will profit under a local first world. So we are back to the bubble deflating or bursting.

People will pay $10 a month for chat GPT to write their emails.

They won’t even pay that in many cases but instead rely on the free offerings. Expect those to go away altogether, to be heavily hamstring, or to become absolutely riddled with advertisements.

It’s more likely to go up in price for the foreseeable future.

There’s little to no reason to use esync anymore. Use a recent kernel and a recent version of Proton or Wine and you can instead use NTsync which is faster and more reliable.

I was never religious, but at around that age I remember confirming/asking if Santa wasn’t real, and then immediately following up with: “And god isn’t real either, right?”

Thankfully, I have atheist parents so I got a straight answer.

Collaborative editing and the like isn’t really easy to solve with other methods. Maybe a P2P approach could be viable.

It’s the main flatpak repo, so it does get a lot of use on Linux. Anyway, people who really want those apps will just have to add a third party repo most likely.

so you’re much less likely to actually make any money off it unless you’re really steeped in economics and markets

You’re also competing against people with insider knowledge (depending on what you are betting on) which currently isn’t illegal AFAICT.

Also, I wonder what happens to these companies in the future when there are no senior developers anymore, because nobody hires junior developers to train up.

I think they are hoping they can make a bunch of businesses so dependent on them that they can’t afford to leave. Which could work, but probably not enough for them to become profitable.

On the individual side, maybe they are hoping to exploit a bunch of whales but I can’t see people on average be willing to pay for what it actually costs.

You don’t actually need the official Mullvad program either, although there’s nothing wrong with it.

I prefer to just load the wireguard config directly with network manager (or whatever your distro uses).

They mean on the client side most likely. A reverse proxy will be transparent to the user.

This is a hard one as I generally just ignore games that don’t appeal to me, so I forget they even exist.

But I guess games that have FOMO mechanics that don’t respect your time and push you towards playing every day.

Just start with Persona 5 Royal which is on Steam and is regularly discounted. Fanatical currently have it on sale.

While there is debate about which game is the best, if you don’t at least somewhat like P5R, you probably won’t like the series.

I could buy no new games for the rest of my life and still not get around to completing everything in my library (and I’m excluding bundled games I have no intention of playing).

And in 10 years time, all of these exclusives will be available via emulation even if they never officially leave the console.