LainTrain @ LainTrain @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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We email now and then. It's enough.

Jfc some people got some fucked up dads in the comments here, leaving, slamming people through doors and table legs. My dad was okay, he had a bad attitude but I think he understood dedication and hard work and taught me to love it too. Haven't spoken in years, but I think about him now and again.

I don't have any issues with Xorg honestly, it just works and always has for me. I tried Wayland as a default in plasma and I couldn't get gaming to work at all, and I had weird issues watching video in the browser. Really odd that it's a default in kde imho when even the steamdeck is all Xorg (or gamescope. in gamemode.)

What is it?

The world isn't benefitting from your research, you benefit from the world's research based off your own research, on and on it goes and we all get smarter and know more and strive towards bettering our condition, curing our ills and minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness for all.

At least in my opinion it's why scientific research while a truly neutral morally activity and generally done as an end unto itself - from a broadly humanist standpoint - is worth pursuing, even when the immediate benefits aren't seen by the shortsighted.

Yay! Maybe I'll give Wayland a chance again when all these issues are ironed out.

We're all done with Teams. But billionaires gotta make their bonuses so oh well, who needs to talk to anyone for work anyway, not like several thousand people used slack daily at our workplace or anything.

Maybe during the next wave of layoffs/layoffs-disguised-as-RTO/cuts/"we're not performing where we can be" will bring in a more useful messenger, like a python script that pipes text into /dev/null.

We've gone full circle from random boomers posting "boobs" on twitter thinking it's Google.

Nah my S.O. is down to game and does so more than me because she's unemployed, but I on the other hand don't have the time for it.

Where would I ever get time for that? I don't have kids but I'm genuinely curious. In-between chores, upskilling and work and S.O., I have absolutely zero time to just sit down and game, and even when I do, I have no energy.

TIL. Thanks!

He spoke his mind, which is allowed as far as I'm aware.

Huh? Source on porn being blocked in all of France and Germany?

I have all that on Jerboa.

Hi

Because men tend to be insecure about their height. It's not at all unusual or uncommon. The only direct reply was explicitly stating they appreciated.my honesty, which makes it seem like I've been overly "honest", in that I wouldn't date a man below a certain height. Your "factual" rebuttal is a matter of semantics.

Your personal investment in continuing to respond further convinces me not only was I right to assume, but that it is you specifically who is insecure. G'day.

Lmao so you include all the deals for the switch with your "mario kart upgrade", but not the steam deck?

Ironically enough a steam deck with zero games on it is still a way more compelling device if we're describing a generic gaming device,, because all games on PC are free if you want them to be, and that's a library of hundreds of thousands of games. Then you consider it's also your laptop/main PC too...

Plus, if you must buy games, you're only a few quid away from one, not £60 + online fees etc etc.

We can go in circles forever though, but over the long term of course a PC or any Steam Deck will win in terms of ownership cost due to cheaper/free games. The issue is that we can't really calculate an objective metric of value there.

That also isn't the point I was even disputing, it's precisely that the ownership is more expensive because PC gamers buy more games, but either way you're wrong.

But if we keep going, we'll run into problems because of course it's apples to oranges to compare the value because these are largely mutually exclusive target audiences I'd imagine.

you made up an argument that I never made

Original comment I'm responding to states:

so the total cost of ownership for a switch 2 probably still stays under the total cost of ownership for a handheld PC.

That point is incorrect. That is the point I'm disputing.

Maybe chill out bro it's ok to be wrong on the internet, the world goes on.

Btw, these 9 titles would have cost a switch user just €540, if all of them were AAA games at full price. That too doesn't factor in that the figure from Nintendo includes massively popular cheap indie titles or the fact that even Nintendo games sometimes go on sale.

Yes, I'm a heavy buyer of games, but those games cost £12 on average, not £60, nor anywhere near to that amount, even if it's lower due to the few indie games that get console releases.

€540 for those 9 games is roughly more than half of what I spent in the last decade on 430-ish PC games. It's literally why I even have more games in the first place.

So even though I have more games on paper, I don't spend more paper, capische?

And I certainly don't spend more per game than the switch user, which makes your claim misleading.

In fact the opposite is true and most PC gamers are notoriously stringent in spending on games.

Wait, what?

First of all, PC gamers don't buy a ton of games.

PC is the number one piracy platform for starters, seeing as it requires no jailbreaks and the like.

Secondly, PC gamers tend to own a lot of games legitimately because our gaming library doesn't expire with a console generation, and because our steam libraries consist of many many indie games that cost a few bucks each, not a few $50 AAA releases.

My steam library is about 435-ish games. But that's since 2013.

The total value of the account per steamdb is like £1080, this is a vast over-estimate because I used to live in a country where the entire GTA series before 5 cost £0.20, but let's go with £1080.

If I bought £1080 worth of standard £60 games, I'd only have 18 games. That's actually less than I even had for the PS Vita, and most people would be surprised to know that platform even has that many games.

Between the online fees and subscriptions to PS Plus etc., lacking discounts compared to steam, and the inability to pirate even an extremely high end PC tends to be far, far cheaper in the long run than a console, especially since it also doubles as the TV, the music player, the work and hobby computer, etc etc.