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  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • I'm hoping by the time googles Android goes to shit, GrapheneOS is readily available on more phones or PostmarketOS. Same with Linux with KDE Plasma Bigscreen running on a minipc rather than using an android TV box

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Like others, desktop I'm using Firefox with ublock origin. Android phone, Firefox with ublock origin. Android TV, SmartTube. Ad blockers have always outpaced Google in my experience though I use youtube maybe like twice a week and I don't randomly browse reccomendations. Just there for specific stuff

  • Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not?

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  • For the most part no. Exceptions being like if some high budget game came out built with Godot, that'd be something I'd consider as a showcase for open source game engines. Same with other lesser known ones like Bevy or O3DE. Once any becomes fairly common, the novelty for me wears off like 2D games made in Godot. It was the same for me and Blender Open Movies ~15 years ago

  • Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game

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  • This is one of those things that after a few years, is going to become a heavyweight feature that every other storefront should have been working to have but for some reason haven't started yet like Steam Input or WINE/Proton/Linux integration. I imagine in the near future retro-handhelds mostly abandoning Android for Linux and basing their specs and marketing around some analytics done on Steam games and the crowd-sourced game performance data. PS4 is in its 13th year. Blink and next thing you know you'll be seeing cheap mini handhelds advertising playing vintage PS4 era video games on your bought from AliExpress PSP sized retro gaming handheld. It'll be advertised like 98% of games released before 2020 have been found to run well on hardware as powerful as this gaming device (*according to Steam user data)

  • ETA Prime: "PC Game Emulation On Android Phone Is INSANE!" [Red Dead Redemption 2, Project Cars 2, Resident Evil Requiem, Ghost of Tsushima, GTA 5, Cyberpunk 2077]

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  • A couple more years of FEX development and I'm betting we'll be close to as compatible as year one Steam Deck

  • PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites

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  • Sony doesn't even release that many games anymore. Games take half a decade plus to make and I've lost interest in Sony's superhero movies with interactive elements

  • If not Github, where would you host your projects?

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  • Locally I run forgejo. Anything I want available to me away from home, Codeberg now. Before I would use Gitlab because I've used that a lot more than Github since like 2014

  • Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’

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  • They're propaganda laws. Internet censorship laws. Palestinian genocide started trending on social media and suddenly all the countries out in the west wanted to start banning/controlling social media. Plus the earlier push to ban TikTok by Facebook to try to ladder pull the market from competitors

  • It took 3 years for PlayStation to earn $300 million in PC sales

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  • By the PS5 release date, I was over the cinematic AAA narrative style of game. That's what Sony makes so I don't have urgency to buy them. Really only interested in them when they're really cheap and primarily to play a little to show off graphics to myself before I go back to playing games with graphics where uncapped I get like 300+ fps. Since the start of the PS5 gen, the only Sony game I've purchased so far is Ghost of Tsushima. Was only planning on Yotei but that's off the table now

  • An architect of GameStop's long-forgotten Steam competitor explains why he thinks Valve came out on top: 'What Steam did better than anybody else was to create a community'

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  • Impulse early on used to be as good as Steam and it had extra software in it to download like Stardock Fences that I liked. I felt it a bit infuriating that Stardock didn't seem to see its potential and then the same for gamestop. It had Demigod and a handful of other games. It was a successor to Stardock Central. Stardock digital storefronts predated Steam but Stardock didn't have the right vision compared to Valve and GameStop didn't after buying Impulse

    It was still mainstream to say PC gaming was dieing until like 2014 so I guess no surprise how little so many companies wanted to invest in a PC platform but that's what makes Valve special. When PC gaming shelf space was disappearing in brick and mortar and old guard PC game studios were calling the platform a dead end (Epic), Valve was building up Steam as a relatively small company long before they had their live service sugar daddies in TF2, CSGO, and DOTA2

    Then Valve again with Steam on Linux. Steam Linux share hits 5% this year in 2026. Steam Linux went into public beta 2012. They've been working on Linux for at least 14 years and it's starting to look like it'll pay off

    I wanted Impulse to succeed as well because I thought PC gaming needed numerous major desktop client storefronts to save PC gaming. Turned out Valve would improve Steam beyond anyone's expectations and doing that with anemic competitor challenges to push them

  • Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’

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  • To me twitter started off as like how the facebook timeline used to be, people posted inane stuff about their day. The place for people to overshare. It was the evolution of early 2000s personal blogs now told in a daily stream of single sentence posts.

    Then it became celebrity gossip and it continued to be that until celebrities got on and it became the text version of Instagram. As in it was a major advertising portal. Then the scammers/wellness/influencers came in (just like Instagram) and it became where people tried to get people on financial multi level marketing schemes and special pink salt that removes negative ions from your surroundings (that's still advertising). Around that time Trump was a hot take artist on Twitter and managed to parlay that to the White House (he really worked the media well in 2015/2016 - Twitter was the ultimate guerilla advertising platform then). To that event, whatever good discourse was going on on Twitter was deep in obscurity by like 2012. It had been a culture warzone well before Musk bought it

    Everything becoming a punchline, I associate that with twitter. Like no delays joking about sex trafficking and Diddy became a joke day one of his arrest. Joking like that became mainstream on twitter a long time ago

  • Linux reaches new massive peak of 5.33% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: March 2026

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  • Definitely feels like it's snowballing. From barely moving for like a decade after 2012 to really pumping after the Steam Deck came out. Hoping hardware shortages can be resolved well enough for the Steam Machine to hit. It's the perfect form factor to me for my living room to finally make couch multiplayer comfortable for me and guests

  • Playstation increased their prices by $100? I bought a PS3 with 23 games for the same amount.

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  • You should get the first Dragon Age game too. It's nice that the console version has perfect gamepad support that the PC version lacks. White Knight Chronicles is a love it or hate game. I wouldn't play that soon as a judgement on JRPG games if you haven't played much of those. Same with FFXIII and the Star Ocean game there being love it or hate it games. Of what you have, I'd play Eternal Sonata. That's a gem that sorely needs a PC release. I feel like that one is universally loved by those that play it. If you like Eternal Sonata, I'd then pick up Tales of Vesperia. There's the Infamous games. Yakuza Dead Souls has yet to be released on any other platform

  • Linux and RISC-V by 2030

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  • It shouldn't be hard by 2030 I imagine; particularly if you primarily or exclusively use open source software. The RVA23 chips announced I usually see people comment them as having synthetic benchmark scores at about the Apple M1 level. I regularly use a laptop with a Skylake dual core in it and a Raspberry Pi 5 run off a microsd rather than a m.2 NVME hat. With that in mind, if RISC-V designs don't get any better than that in the next 4 years, they'll still be better than hardware that I will still be using. I still use a Raspberry Pi 3. At work every now and then I'll throw a gitlab runner on a 10 year old desktop to have another thing building when things are busy

    There are RISC-V developer boards today with PCI-E slots that you can throw in pretty much any AMD graphics card. The big distributions Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Red Hat - they all support risc-v. felix86 is equivalent to box64 and FEX for x86 to ARM:

    https://felix86.com/felix86-26-04/

    Software support is solid already today. It's hardware availability for the announced RVA23 designs that's not mature yet. 4 more years and I imagine in most cases the experience of Linux on RISC-V hardware not being much different than on ARM or x86 hardware

  • Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC

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  • PS6 is going to be so boutique when that comes out. PS5's cross gen period with the PS6 is going to be even longer than the PS4s with the PS5

  • Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

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  • I have not. Maybe I'll check that one out

  • [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)

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  • That makes sense after some thought on it because of how long games are in production. Like 5-8 years of a main studio of like 300+ people. Like if it's plain 100k salary per person a year at 300 people, $30 million in payroll a year. Add overhead like insurance, taxes, benefits. AAA games have support studios they contract out to. Think like the credits having 1000+ names in it. Getting to 300 million for a US/Canada AAA game sounds unsurprising considering how many years games cook now

  • Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

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  • They just need to keep getting smaller, cheaper, and continue improving the display/optics. Quest 3 was lighter but not light enough. I think the Steam Frame is listed as lighter. Thing is they're both neither super high res nor do they have incredible OLED/micro-LED displays. The upcoming Pico headset that was announced would certainly be too expensive and probably still not light enough. Someday though

  • Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

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  • I thought it was supposed to be a cash grab because Stephenson was hurting for cash so wrote a book that was real campy and targeted edgy geeky crowd that wanted more fantasy than harder scifi and it ended up being even more of a success than he had anticipated. So to a degree satirical and maybe a bit eye rolling to who the expected readership would be. Not mean but I remember reading the book and thinking these characters are like how someone would poke at super geek scifi fantasies