One of Sony’s best-ever PlayStation ads is a 21-second video titled, “Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video.” It’s a “step-by-step” guide about how to lend your PS4 games to your friends. It has one step: one person hands another person a game box…
…But more than a decade later, it’s not hard to imagine a future where Sony’s own ad doesn’t apply anymore
What a gut punch!
Once valve drops better nvidia support into the kernel, and steamos starts coming pre-loaded on laptops and pre-built desktops it’s over for their consumer division.
The real issues are capitalism and the lack of green energy.
If the arts where well funded, if people where given healthcare and UBI, if we had, at the very least, switched to nuclear like we should’ve decades ago, we wouldn’t be here.
The issue isn’t a piece of software.
I know that was part of my point. Thing was mostly finalized by my birth year lmao.
Also, little off-topic but, as important as it is to computing culture, some of the gatekeepy shit put in there aged like milk. But I kind of expect that from nerd culture, especially 20th century nerd culture.
Bit of an unhinged and unreasonable nerd rant but here it goes:
The second dot com boom in the 2010s ruined us. Like holy shit. As someone younger looking down the line, living in tech bro culture, but exposed to the likes of the jargon file, y combinator and their venture capitalists literally ruined hacker culture.
We used to have a thriving culture that cherished freedom, real freedom, not freedom for the rich. What happened to the culture that spawned Windows buyback day? What of the dream that networked freedom would one day break the chains of economic heirarchy?
Like holy fucking shit. If you’re not here for the love of the machine stop touching a compiler or better yet go loose your fucking hands.
Steam does most of the fucking around for you these days.
What are you doing you’re regularly being attacked by children?
Do you think you’d have to pass to feel happy presenting. Or would you feel happy having people accept you as a woman who happens to be trans?
That latter part may be very difficult (or hopefully not) depending on where you live and your family/friends.
You don’t have to pass to be, or to be accepted as a “real” or “valid” girl.
Not to hand wave your feelings away. I’m sure you’ve thought this before. Personally I don’t mind not passing so long as people respect me as a woman.
Then again that might change once I’m out of the closet…
I hope to god one day the developers at Mozilla finally get tired of this shit and fork everything under a new org.
Fuck off with more services and give me my integrated FTP client back. No one who uses Mozilla software wants more cloud shit or online services from Mozilla.