[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 20 hours ago

Just when you thought marketing people were already the lowest scum among legal professions they sink even further.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

Oh so that's where the new porn characters are from!

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've tinkered plenty even when using Windows haha. I even have a Windows 98 and Windows XP virtual machine for some old things, but everything I care about seems to have a modern HD release, a userpatch or can be hooked with dxwnd, so I don't use them anymore at the moment.

But yeah probably the long term solution is Linux. Personally I wouldn't run Windows 7 anymore. The unfixed CVE list has become quite long. I just went checking for the above titles out of principle, because I don't like this conflation of PC gaming with only Steam.

I still haven't made the jump to gaming on Linux, unfortunately. Although I've been running a dual boot for the last 8 years or so, because I used Linux for my studies, use it for my work, and for hosting my game servers on a second computer, so I would be in a prime position... but so far I have just gone the way of least resistance, which is still Windows 10 at the moment.

But I have a deadline now: October 2025. Just need to figure out the best distro, I don't think I'll use my existing Fedora KDE install for this. Maybe Arch, or one of these new immutable distros, that might be neat for when different games require different versions of libraries.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Ah sorry I hadn't heard that they switched to Java 21 with 1.20.5

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 days ago

The title of that article is kind of weird. It's just wrong to claim they are dead for gaming because of a lack of steam.

Anyone can just get Witcher 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Stardew Valley, or Anno 2070 from GoG and for each of them you can game for another 50 hours without needing steam. Or get Minecraft from their page directly and play for 100 hours. This is all without going to any retro titles.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

looks like a console from a 90s pop music video

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We just discussed this a month ago in the Technology@lemmy.world community if anyone wants to check it here's the link: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/23083174

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 3 days ago

Sure, but that's not a woman, that's a drawing.

Comparing the evolution of art styles to the evolution of dog breeds, doesn't strike me as problematic.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

I also prefer coming late and leaving late. After finishing my formal education nothing forces me into the rhythm of the morning larks anymore. I've been enjoying it quite a bit.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 days ago

Besides "AI and facetuned images" from OP, another supernormal stimulus that comes to mind is fat anime tiddies.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Well, maybe now with a republican FCC

lol, no

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 6 days ago

All these shady things started happening after he left.

Not really, they have a history of this kind of thing. They just calmed down a little between roughly 2005 and 2015.

The big antitrust case when they killed Netscape was in 1998. Bill Gate's deposition from that case is kind of interesting to watch as a historical document. It's on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL90W55zhFBOuZuhgxBsjpgDy0o3ll1PSz

In that lawsuit their "Embrace Extend Extinguish" strategy in which they tried to smother open standards became public too.

They tried with Java and their J++ language too, but failed luckily. And lost a lawsuit against Sun on the way.

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