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I doubt it. Many windows applications still are 32 bit only today. Visual studio only got 64 bit support in 2022. Windows has a long history of backwards compatibility and I would expect to be depending on software compatibility layers for a decade or more, even for some Microsoft products.

No? Nvidia and AMD have been the main competitors for a while in the high end space, and Intel recently entered that market after dominating the integrated GPU space.

That’s not even what 12ft.io was. It wasn’t scraping anything, it was just a redirect to the google web cache. Importantly, it was also accessible, something that anyone could use without installing anything.

Group voice is discord’s biggest feature, but also general messaging (both direct/group as well as communities), video streaming, and file sharing.

Element might be a viable alternative, I’ve used it for chat where it certainly is, I haven’t used voice but I’ve heard some people say that video has a very high delay. My friends and I will often share screens for one reason or another and I’m not sure that the experience would be comparable in Element yet.

Mumble isn’t comparable because it doesn’t implement any of the same features other than voice, it doesn’t have persistant logins, etc.

And requires setting up and managing a server, which costs time and money and requires a certain degree of expertise. Also it can’t really be used as a primary chat app, so you still have to use another app for that. It also doesn’t support features like livestreams so that’s another application you may need.

I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.

Xbox specifically could be broken up into studios, publishers, and consoles.

The average lemmy user maybe not, but year hundreds of millions of people still use twitter, and billions use Facebook.

Offline speech recognition is a thing on the Apple Watch. It’ll process Siri requests locally, and if the request can be fulfilled without contacting the internet, it will be.

I doubt a home server centered around software like nextcloud would ever become commonplace. I think a more probable solution involves integrating new use cases with devices people already have, or at least familiar form factors. For example, streaming from your smart TV device (chromecast, Roku, Apple TV, the actual TV itself) instead of from the cloud, or file sync using one of these devices as an always-on server. But, in both of these cases, there is in inherit benefit from using a centralized cloud operator. What are the odds that you have already downloaded the episode to stream to your TV box, but not your phone if that was where you intended to watch it anyways? And for generic storage, cloud providers replicate that data for you in various locations to ensure higher redundancy and availability than what could be guaranteed simply from a home server or similar device. I presume new use cases will need to be more creative.

It’s really sad because edge is actually not a terrible browser. There are some questionable features that have been tacked on but nothing that makes it particularly terrible. The real issue with edge is the marketing, and Microsoft’s force-you-to-use-it-until-you-like-it approach. It just really sours an otherwise perfectly acceptable browser. Even Apple lets you set a default browser and doesn’t try to trick you back into Safari if that’s not your preference.

I and many of my coworkers pay for ChatGPT. It’s super useful at work and can be used to save a considerable amount of time.