Hey now! They’re called „weapons enthusiasts“ or „firearms aficionados“! They just needed lots and lots of ammunition to appreciate it! The more the merrier, you see? Stop badmouthing our dear completely harmless right wing extremist gun fans!
Do I really need to put a /s here?
In 2023, it was €5.000/month (source).
That‘s about as much as a full stack software developer makes in Germany working a 40h week (source).
Seeing that he was a CEO, definitely worked more than 40 hours per week and was the driving force behind Mastodon, I, as someone who supports them financially, am totally okay with him getting a big payout now.
This article leaves out that the same proposal would completely undermine the GDPR, massively reducing data protection and selling out EU citizen’s data to big tech.
I‘d love to have a browser based cookie solution. They should have implemented it like that in the first place. But not at the cost of my privacy and the ownership over my data.
For now this is just a proposal by the commission, so it has a long way to go before becoming law. But it‘s really exhausting having to fight those ridiculous ideas time and time again.
These figures just haven‘t gone up all that much over the last decade. Sure, you can get 128GB of RAM and 24GB of VRAM if you‘re willing to pay for it. But if you don‘t want to spend upwards of $5000 for your PC and you‘re maybe not that experienced, you might just look for a gaming rig from a vendor you‘ve heard of before and get 16GB RAM and 8GB VRAM even in 2025 with current-gen hardware.
I‘d like to think that Asus and Lenovo would build „console-beating“ Steam Machines, but they‘ve also tried building more powerful Steam Deck alternatives and those were meh at best and terrible at worst.
Steam Machines are probably easier to design, as they‘re just PCs. But seeing how much thought and care Valve puts into their hardware designs and how little of both Lenovo and Asus have put into theirs in the past, I‘m not going to expect great products from them.
I’d be very happy to be wrong, though.
My gut feeling really isn‘t good on that. The very slow pace of improvement Cities Skylines 2 had, and the multitude of issues it still has, seem like strong indicators for deeper technical issues to me. Fixing those will be a lot harder for a development studio, if it doesn‘t even have the original developers onboard.
It‘s really sad to see, because Skylines 2 could be a lot of fun if it wasn‘t for the glitches, the bugs and the performance issues. I‘m unfortunately not optimistic that changing the developer will improve things.
Note that this is an issue from 2021. Firefox has implemented countermeasures since version 85, Chrome seems to have done the same.
So while this is definitely interesting, it shouldn‘t be an issue anymore.
To be fair, everyone was offered a refund for that game. So technically they probably haven‘t paid for it anymore.
I still totally agree that Sony shouldn‘t go after private Concord servers. This game is very interesting, because it was an unbelievable failure despite having pretty solid gameplay. And preserving that on private servers provides a great way for other developers to learn, and maybe prevent, the tons of other issues leading to the game‘s failure.
If you’re comfortable with helping the Proton developers fix the issue, I‘d recommend searching Proton‘s Github issues for the game that won‘t run.
If your problem hasn‘t already been reported, create a proton log (run the game with the launch option PROTON_LOG=1 %command% once and find the log in your home directory). If an issue for the game doesn‘t exist already, you can open up a new one. Otherwise, append your log to the existing issue in a comment and describe what‘s happening exactly.
The devs over there are usually really helpful and nice. Many of my reports have been fixed within hours or days in bleeding-edge, although it can of course take longer if the issue is more complicated.
Both works. It has a builtin ARM based PC running SteamOS but it also comes with a 6GHz dongle allowing you to stream from your PC wirelessly.
The Steam Deck uses the capacitive thumb stick sensors to completely disable the trackpads as soon as the stick above the respective pad is touched. This works very well, so I think they‘ll implement the same thing here.
I always enjoy recognizing a specific developer's handwriting in a finished product. Luckily, Valve's misyltoad, a proud inhabitant of "Frog Cult", United Kingdom, makes this very easy. From their work on frog-fifo-v1 for Mesa, to frog-color-management-v1 and frog protocols for Wayland, to their talk Rainbow Frogs: HDR + Color Management in Gamescope/SteamOS, they seem to follow a very strong theme. I'd be surprised if they weren’t responsible for this frog as well.