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The original iD guys always felt like they had grand ambitions but were unable to bring them to fruition due to technical constraints at the time. Certainly, what they COULD bring to the table was awesome, but if you look at their original design documents the games were vastly bigger in scope (especially Quake) than what was built. Then, once they got the funds and better technology, it was shown that they couldn't really compete or manage these large scale productions.
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Carmack spent time in juvie because he made thermite to burn through a window to steal some Apple IIs in middle school. He admitted he did it because he thought he could get away with it and blamed the nearest fat kid on getting caught. I am not making any of this up. By comparison, all of the faults of the other Ideas from the Deep crew put together aren't even a glancing blow on the psychopathy that makes up the brain of John Carmack. Brilliant graphics wizard. Excellent programmer. Absolutely trash human being.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol welp turns out dave plummer's actually a huge piece of poo poo Urgggh.
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I'm glad Plummer is being called out. However the guy that made the video could have been a bit more structured/planned. The longer it ran, the more he started to waffle around like a squirrel.
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Echoing others: I was always a bit dubious about how Dave Plummer was seemingly this big shot Windows developer that worked on pretty much nothing grandiose but suddenly shot to fame on YouTube with a lot of videos that were just variations of "Hey check out this complicated and defining thing that this other person did. I was there too! (At Microsoft, not with the person)" However, when he posted about his home network connectivity and was sinking silly money into 10Gbit++ connections between devices in different buildings of his estate, but framing it as if every Joe Bloggs could do it in terms of ability and finance was the moment I truly switched off. I already had a bad taste in my mouth with the way he used autism as a justification for anything he wanted to, his total disconnect from reality was just him showing how much of an rear end he is. But, considering this new video I can understand exactly where he got the cash...
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# ? Jul 26, 2024 13:55 |
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I don't know, the words that have been said to me when I have let slip that I occasionally game on a Macbook make me believe that that thumbnail is relatively tame and standard for GAMERZ
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# ? Jul 26, 2024 14:02 |
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I've been thinking about slamming a couple 2x10GbE NICs into my NAS machine and my desktop with DACs between them for 2x10GbE R/W connectivity between them. It shouldn't be super difficult. Two physical interfaces on each side bonded into a 20GbE logical connection. I don't need that much power but I could, and it wouldn't cost me much more than a couple PCIe cards and two DACs. So why the gently caress not?
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Combat Pretzel posted:I'm glad Plummer is being called out. However the guy that made the video could have been a bit more structured/planned. The longer it ran, the more he started to waffle around like a squirrel. A bit, but it got the word out. David “autistic” Plummer scammed people on purpose to get money, in arguably one of the best times to do it when computer knowledge was a lot lower. gently caress ‘em.
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njsykora posted:Guys who were involved in early Windows feel to me like guys who worked at Id in the 90s where the fact they worked on [thing] becomes their entire personality. This increasingly true, only it’s shifted forward to “I worked at [tumblr/twitter/facebook/apple] between 2000-2012” Except 90% of the time whatever they brag about working on was bad and/or doesn’t exist anymore. Somehow people still treat them with deference and I’ve always wondered why EDIT: those two fuckturds from Humane AI Pin are a good example
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Hardcastlemccormik posted:This increasingly true, only it’s shifted forward to “I worked at [tumblr/twitter/facebook/apple] between 2000-2012” My Uncle worked at Apple and made the iTunes Music Social Network, Ping.
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~Coxy posted:My Uncle worked at Apple and made the iTunes Music Social Network, Ping. No actually that’s completely believable. Does he have any interesting leftover corporate gear?
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210656/intel-is-laying-off-over-10000-employees-and-will-cut-10-billion-in-costs Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ / After losses, the chipmaker is cutting $10 billion in costs. Good job intel
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https://youtu.be/U_ZXmq5D7GE?si=CyzayYMbRs0nEDun Seeing Gamers Nexus’ Steve and Lv1Tech’s Wendell do collabs is really enjoyable. Wendell doesn’t seem so jaded being in the techtuber space and it’s nice to see him get excited about some sort of server part that is far beyond my comprehension. Back to the video though, I feel like I agree with the sentiment. I jumped from windows I think about 2 years ago and started mainlining Linux since then. It’s not perfect and it’s not helped by me being dumb but it’s nice working with an OS that isn’t user hostile for sake of some idiot’s metrics.
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buglord posted:https://youtu.be/U_ZXmq5D7GE?si=CyzayYMbRs0nEDun Wendell and Steve seems to fall into the techie dilemma in a lot of the video, yes you can put linux on your pc, yes you can store your data on a home server in your dungeon but is it acceptable to change some if not all the use flows on most of the normal population for this? Grandma doesn't give a flying gently caress about making an online account to log on her pc, she just want to see their kids pictures and she doesn't even want to know what zfs setting is best for her server. Yes it's upsetting to the nerds and the data privacy is debatable at best but, UX wise, babysitting my nas and burning power is far worse than paying half a hundo to get one terabyte of onedrive and, even better, that amount also include zero phone calls from tech adverse family members that also are in the sub due to busted disks on cheap laptops.
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# ? Aug 2, 2024 12:10 |
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Hell, I run a NAS, a local VM server, and a firewall running on OpenBSD, and I don't even give a gently caress about whatever the FLOSS Cult thinks about Embrace Extend Extinguish in 2024. You know what I like my desktop to do? Everything I need it to do, and that includes running Windows software and games without needing to fight with Proton or dual-boot because some greybeard has an allergy to anticheat software. Besides, you are already pwned by people who have much more power than some Microsoft advertising division.
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Yeah I approach my iCloud membership as the price of going to backups and telling them I never want to think about them (though I do want them to happen). No-one gets excited or wants to think about backups unless they have terminal computer brain.
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SlowBloke posted:Wendell and Steve seems to fall into the techie dilemma in a lot of the video, yes you can put linux on your pc, yes you can store your data on a home server in your dungeon but is it acceptable to change some if not all the use flows on most of the normal population for this? Grandma doesn't give a flying gently caress about making an online account to log on her pc, she just want to see their kids pictures and she doesn't even want to know what zfs setting is best for her server. Yes it's upsetting to the nerds and the data privacy is debatable at best but, UX wise, babysitting my nas and burning power is far worse than paying half a hundo to get one terabyte of onedrive and, even better, that amount also include zero phone calls from tech adverse family members that also are in the sub due to busted disks on cheap laptops. I think that is exactly why they said the thing to kill windows won’t be Linux or any other os, but a different way to compute. Could be more thin client devices where everything is stored and run in the cloud. Could be something else. They also said that things like Apple’s MyCloud is much easier for consumers than offline backups, even if they don’t like it. And that people are generally able to more easily find and do things on mobile devices than on desktops and laptops.
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Kibner posted:I think that is exactly why they said the thing to kill windows won’t be Linux or any other os, but a different way to compute. Could be more thin client devices where everything is stored and run in the cloud. Could be something else. They mysteriously avoided talking about Google, using an android phone without a Google account is an exercise in futility but people aren't throwing molotovs at the Googleplex. I feel that the video is a bit opinionated maybe to save themselves from being hosed by the algorithm? The everything to cloud idea is a failing proposition for countries with poo poo internet (like the US HEYOOOOOO) so you will still need a baseline of offline compute capability to run reliably. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Aug 2, 2024 |
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I still don't trust phones that much.
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SlowBloke posted:They mysteriously avoided talking about Google, using an android phone without a Google account is an exercise in futility but people aren't throwing molotovs at the Googleplex. I feel that the video is a bit opinionated maybe to save themselves from being hosed by the algorithm? honestly, i think that's the big problem with microsoft pushing accounts - they're trying to make it a thing by making windows shittier. google or apple got you to sign up by offering useful stuff in general/for whatever platform you're on, and they got there first. microsoft's trying to get you stuck on a microsoft account by making windows suck and making sign-in make it suck less. people don't want that. people just want the os to work.
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Ultimately Microsoft hosed up by failing on Windows phone.
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Kazinsal posted:...or dual-boot because some greybeard has an allergy to anticheat software. This has nothing to do with Linux maintainers. Game devs are free to develop kernel modules for their anticheat the same way they do for Windows.
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Yeah but why bother making another thing you have to maintain for such a small userbase. Riot dropped the Linux League client even before Vanguard was introduced because so few people used it.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Ultimately Microsoft hosed up by failing on Windows phone. It's this. A while ago I got icloud/iphotos/etc set up on my windows PC and for as slightly clunky as the implementation is it is REALLY loving nice having access to the photos etc. from my phone on my PC and select documents and other files from my PC on my phone. If there was a truly good implementation along the lines of what you can do using a mac and an iphone? I could easily see myself having a windows phone in that hypothetical. God, doubly so since they've got the whole xbox ecosystem thing going.
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njsykora posted:Yeah but why bother making another thing you have to maintain for such a small userbase. Riot dropped the Linux League client even before Vanguard was introduced because so few people used it. Yes I'm aware of why they don't do it. I'm just saying there's no ideological or platform holdup.
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njsykora posted:Yeah but why bother making another thing you have to maintain for such a small userbase. Riot dropped the Linux League client even before Vanguard was introduced because so few people used it. Frankly at this point with Proton native linux implementations can sometimes be more of a pain in the rear end than they're worth. Right now I'm playing Wasteland 3. The deves made a native linux version, which is the version that the Steam Deck grabs by default. Unfortunately this means that cloud saves don't work with windows devices, and I wanted to be able to play it on my desktop then grab the deck to continue playing in bed or on an airplane or whatever. The eventual solution was to force it to use Proton, which forced it to use the Windows version, which meant that the cloud saves were compatible. And that's kind of a microcosm of a lot of the problems with going all in on Linux. At the end of the day there are good chances you will still have to interact with Windows in some form and if you do cross compatibility can be a pain in the rear end. The thing keeping me on Windows right now is a 2TB RAID that I would need read/write for both on.
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It for sure feels weird to advocate against native Linux versions but it's 100% the wrong move now that WINE/Proton are mature enough to have a large community of maintainers for video game support. It makes zero sense for any studio to devote the resources necessary to keep a Linux port in sync with Windows in perpetuity and honestly I'd think they were stupid if they said they were trying. Spend your time and money on something better. Selaco has a native Linux version but they also get to defer most of the maintenance to GZDoom.
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Arivia posted:honestly, i think that's the big problem with microsoft pushing accounts - they're trying to make it a thing by making windows shittier. google or apple got you to sign up by offering useful stuff in general/for whatever platform you're on, and they got there first. microsoft's trying to get you stuck on a microsoft account by making windows suck and making sign-in make it suck less. people don't want that. people just want the os to work. Apple and google do provide the same sets of services (email, contacts, calendar, storage) as microsoft. Microsoft provided file sync and photo storage well before icloud did (in fact live mesh, the precursor of skydrive/onedrive, is older than the launch of icloud). The main difference is a successful app store, which microsoft never committed to, but is likely going to crash on apple and google heads, due to the current wave of regulations on third party stores.
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Tiny Timbs posted:It for sure feels weird to advocate against native Linux versions but it's 100% the wrong move now that WINE/Proton are mature enough to have a large community of maintainers for video game support. It makes zero sense for any studio to devote the resources necessary to keep a Linux port in sync with Windows in perpetuity and honestly I'd think they were stupid if they said they were trying. Spend your time and money on something better. Ironically, on the deck, Linux versions are an inconvenience, because of save file incompatibility.
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buglord posted:https://youtu.be/U_ZXmq5D7GE?si=CyzayYMbRs0nEDun lmao I finally got around to watching the whole thing today on lunch. I love both of those guys, but this is the most up-their-own-asses power user bullshit that I've seen in a long, long time. The highlight for me was when Wendell commented on the general rejection of that Microsoft screen logger bullshit that they floated in a beta and said that he thought it was because of people's long memories of them loving with start menu settings etc. Dude, no. LMAO no. The entire world recoiled at that - to the point that it got covered on CNN - because everyone went "oh gently caress I do NOT want microsoft saving screenshots of my me time after the wife and kids go to bed." If people had any kind of previous touchstone it was dealing with similar spyware installed on work PCs, and perhaps having a coworker get fired for being dumb enough to browse porn on a work machine. This wasn't some kind of principled stance against enshittification from Joe Average User, it was MSFT overstepping in a way that freaked the general public out because of how much sensitive poo poo people use their computers for, from jerking off to banking. Also the way that Wendell kept sarcastically pointing out how you have to use iCloud to get the best phone backup experience and lamenting that you can't just do it on your laptop or a NAS. Dude, that used to be the way you did it. I remember doing iPod backups on my laptop in college. It was a thing with early iPhones too. And you know what? Everyone bitched about how much hard drive space got eaten up by those backups. Hell, for a while Apple sold their own network-enabled NAS/router combo (Time Machine) that had as one of its huge selling points being able to point all your apple devices at that for backups. Moving that poo poo to the cloud might not be desired by the sort of power user who's answer to file transfer is SSH and a home server, but it's great for the bulk of people who just use a computer as an appliance, and frankly at this point people's phones are more likely than not their primary computing device. I'll use my own family as an example: two nights ago something hosed up on my wife's iphone. I've gotten conflicting version from her, but it was either a hosed update or she fat fingered her account ID one too many times. Either way, the fix was a wipe and restore from backup. Which she did. Without any intervention from me. Was it annoying? Yes, restore from backup always is. But it was simple enough that someone who'd not really tech savvy did it herself with no problem. No configuring the reset device to connect to a NAS, no using some import application to restore a backup. Just click through and let it auto-pilot. And the bit where he talks about his linux setup and the way poo poo breaks but that's OK because he can fix it is rich. And again, i say this as someone who has more than a few janky computing devices that I have the same relationship with. But goddamn you have to realize that fixing that poo poo is power user stuff and a random consumer just needs an appliance that works without doing anything much more complex than setting up automatic updates. Microsoft's core problem is that most people do their computing via phone now, and they bowed out of that race. These days iphones drive mac sales, not the other way around. So what they're left with is enterprise clients and the people who need a keyboard for whatever reason. They don't control the hardware so they're not going to make money on that end, so what they're left with is selling licenses and services. That's it. They want to push you into One Drive because if they can get you to pay $10/month for it that makes them money. And for your average user that's actually a pretty decent deal if it means that they have a secure (enough for their purposes) backup of important docs and family photos if their laptop gets stolen. edit: again, let me emphasize that I'm saying this as someone who likes those guy's channels, and agrees with them on a lot of other stuff they say. But this is some REALLY refined tech nerd myopia that just completely misses how most people engage with computers. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Aug 2, 2024 |
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But he did spend time talking about the battle of our lifetime: Gaming on Linux vs gaming on ARM.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:But he did spend time talking about the battle of our lifetime: Gaming on Linux vs gaming on ARM. That was another thing that struck me, how they both latched onto Proton and the growing accessibility of gaming on Linux as a shining path forward to get people off Windows. If you post on a lot of tech forums yeah, that will loom large because there's a shitton of overlap between the sort of people who have serious opinions about windows revisions and the sort of people who know who Gabe is. But gamers aren't the world and there are way, WAY more people out there using their laptop for facebook, updating their resume, and Zoom than fretting over video game OS compatibility.
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SlowBloke posted:Wendell and Steve seems to fall into the techie dilemma in a lot of the video, yes you can put linux on your pc, yes you can store your data on a home server in your dungeon but is it acceptable to change some if not all the use flows on most of the normal population for this? Grandma doesn't give a flying gently caress about making an online account to log on her pc, she just want to see their kids pictures and she doesn't even want to know what zfs setting is best for her server. Yes it's upsetting to the nerds and the data privacy is debatable at best but, UX wise, babysitting my nas and burning power is far worse than paying half a hundo to get one terabyte of onedrive and, even better, that amount also include zero phone calls from tech adverse family members that also are in the sub due to busted disks on cheap laptops. I think the point of this was that MS could have made a user-friendly backup / home server product if they wanted to, thus bringing up Windows Home Server. The main thing they're complaining about is the tendency of both MS and Apple to charge money for solutions to problems that they created. Automatic OneDrive on your windows account so you run out of free storage space and have to pay. Slow data transfer from iPhone so that you backup using iCloud and have to pay. Either company could include some really simple ways to point these things to non-proprietary devices or options, but they don't. And Google doesn't catch may strays in this because they're really bad at this tactic. Great at causing problems, bad at making something you want to pay for. (Though my phone now bugs me to turn on cloud storage for photos every time I open the photo app, ugh.) Cyrano4747 posted:edit: again, let me emphasize that I'm saying this as someone who likes those guy's channels, and agrees with them on a lot of other stuff they say. But this is some REALLY refined tech nerd myopia that just completely misses how most people engage with computers. They're talking about themselves and their audiences, which are all tech nerds. Their brief discussion of "what will normal people do when they get frustrated" comes up and is quickly answered by "normal people use phones as their primary device". Steve and Wendell both devote about 0% of their time to topics that aren't in the enthusiast or professional zone of tech. Their rant is that MS is ruining Windows for people like them.
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I think Microsoft really just wants to get out of the consumer space and move entirely to enterprise, and I'm wondering if that's what Satya is ultimately trying to achieve. Like they mentioned in the video with Adobe going full-on subscription model. What other markets are Microsoft trying cover here? No Microsoft competition in the phone market anymore. Console? Is XBOX really going to create a next-gen console to compete with Sony or are they fully invested in Game Pass instead? For Windows, it's just riddled with ads and attempts to get you to share data or buy services, and it's not going to get any better from a UI perspective. Azure and MS365 services is where the money is for Microsoft, and I can see Windows-as-a-Service fitting into that perfectly. In general, a service model better suites them if they're not going to take hardware seriously. People are increasingly realizing they can use their phones for everything, and are even settling for writing out long emails or a resume on their phone even though a proper keyboard would be a better experience. PC gaming is a niche, specific market and for your average consumer it makes no sense to spend $1000 on a phone AND $1500 on a desktop PC. There is also less of an incentive to buy your own Windows hardware when your job provides you a laptop to use anyway, which comes with Windows Enterprise licensing and less of the annoying ad stuff.
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I used Windows Home Server for years until they stopped supporting it
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Cyrano4747 posted:jerking off to banking. It’s the only way to fly, really
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Weaponized Autism posted:.... Has the era of the reliable £250 foldable double width phone arrived yet? No?.. goes back to PC.
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SlowBloke posted:Wendell and Steve seems to fall into the techie Grandma doesn't give a flying gently caress about making an online account to log on her pc, she just want to see their kids pictures and she doesn't even want to know what zfs setting is best for her server. Yes it's upsetting to the nerds and the data privacy is debatable at best but, UX wise, babysitting my nas and burning power is far worse than paying half a hundo to get one terabyte of onedrive and, even better, that amount also include zero phone calls from tech adverse family members that also are in the sub due to busted disks on cheap laptops. Cyrano4747 posted:edit: again, let me emphasize that I'm saying this as someone who likes those guy's channels, and agrees with them on a lot of other stuff they say. But this is some REALLY refined tech nerd myopia that just completely misses how most people engage with computers. I don’t use windows for anything now but I would never in a million years install Mint on my moms computer, if she had one (her computer is an iPad 9th gen). Ditto, the friends I’ve built gaming computers for didn’t care about Windows/Linux, and I didn’t wanna be on the hook for tech support, so I will also never in a million years install Linux for them. And lastly, while my dads wife succumbed to the dark patterns of OneDrive, she told me unprompted how cool it is that all her files are on all computers at once, and that I haven’t been called to do tech support because everything on her newly purchased computer is “just there”. All of her work is done in a web browser so her fancy computer is essentially a cloud machine already. It sucks that power users get bundled into that mess and have the eat the spinach like Microsoft decrees. And since the vocal minority is still a minority, I don’t see why Microsoft would reverse course on a formula that they feel is working for them, sadly.
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Weaponized Autism posted:I think Microsoft really just wants to get out of the consumer space and move entirely to enterprise, and I'm wondering if that's what Satya is ultimately trying to achieve. Like they mentioned in the video with Adobe going full-on subscription model. What other markets are Microsoft trying cover here? No Microsoft competition in the phone market anymore. Console? Is XBOX really going to create a next-gen console to compete with Sony or are they fully invested in Game Pass instead? For Windows, it's just riddled with ads and attempts to get you to share data or buy services, and it's not going to get any better from a UI perspective. Azure and MS365 services is where the money is for Microsoft, and I can see Windows-as-a-Service fitting into that perfectly. In general, a service model better suites them if they're not going to take hardware seriously. Microsoft gets a shitload of money from office in consumer space, they are not going to leave that space unless it's an antitrust decree to choose consumer or enterprise. At this point windows is a platform to sell connected services, be it office for consumers and entra/intune/office for enterprise. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Aug 2, 2024 |
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Weaponized Autism posted:People are increasingly realizing they can use their phones for everything, and are even settling for writing out long emails or a resume on their phone even though a proper keyboard would be a better experience. PC gaming is a niche, specific market and for your average consumer it makes no sense to spend $1000 on a phone AND $1500 on a desktop PC. There is also less of an incentive to buy your own Windows hardware when your job provides you a laptop to use anyway, which comes with Windows Enterprise licensing and less of the annoying ad stuff. The consumer PC space ain't that small and while PC gaming is a 'niche' in terms of total spend on *motions at all of enterprise*, it's a 'niche' worth 10s of Billion per year. I would also say that the nontech people in my circles are starting to push back on phones more. This is partially the phone's fault - you go to a website natty these days and 40% of the top of the screen is ad, and 40% of the bottom screen is ad, and there are two pop ups you have to click through, and this experience is terrible. Part of it though is that I've heard from more than one person they are not happy with trying to do text input on a phone for various reasons. Now, this doesn't translate to another Window's user again - some are on chromebooks or even tablets for that, but I think it speaks somewhat to people's frustration with the limited UX of the platform. And there is absolutely no way an enterprise is ever moving to phones as business units, which means at least white collar workers will be forever exposed to PCs which I would argue is a good thing in the net. I will finally say that I think Microsoft has done an awful, awful job monetizing Windows. I think the pattern of 'inject ads everywhere to solve problems we created' is not a good long term plan and a quick look at Windows market share of desktop OSes shows why. Charge for a license, make a product that people want to use and then solve REAL problems. That's a slower burn for the quarterly reports, but it's not one where you are actively burning up good will and positive mind share while you slowly bleed out from the bottom. Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Aug 2, 2024 |
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