Quazatron

Epic is run by an idiot.

GOG had its ups and downs, but I’ve been able to build a sizeable library there.

That is the entire content of the Microsoft’s Guide to Business Practices.

One page, one sentence.

Embrace, Extended, Extinguish.

Seems like it is geo-locked or down.

True, yet somehow this is even worse. There’s always a deeper level of hell.

My favorite Springsteen song.

Yesterday I watched Spain - Belgium on a live stream on Prime Video. The same stream was available on Netflix and YouTube.

It was like live TV, but properly enshitified. Instead of professional journalists and commenters, you get streamers reacting to the game, improper comments, like and subscribe notices, publicity every time the ball stops, paid viewer comments overlayed on the broadcast. A complete shitstorm.

I realized that this is what the future of live TV looks like. So I think I’m done with it.

Treating your customers decently can lead to profits in the long run. What an insight. They should teach that at business schools.

Very true.

I would like to read the article, but unfortunately it seems that the site and its 843 partners care so much about my privacy that they want to share my data between them. So it seems that privacy now means the opposite of privacy. Interesting times.

Good. Can we have our RAM back, please?

I expressed this view before. Wine and Proton are now the Linux Gaming Layer.

Windows has relatively stable APIs or ABI to serve the third party software and games.

Linux does not. It is however so incredibly flexible that it can assimilate entire operating systems as interface layers. I think it’s absolutely awesome we are using Microsoft’s DirectX tech combined with Vulkan to run Windows games faster than Windows does.

It’s been years since I bothered to check if a game I’m buying is Linux compatible or not, because of it isn’t, it will be soon.

I’ve done my part and closed my account. Those freebies were nice, but I’m not supporting that wanker.