A lot of my colleagues love playing games simulating our job.

I don’t because I eork enough already and don’t want to get bad reflexes from something badly represented in a sim.

Then I guess it ain’t such a huge deal but it’s scary for the future and game preservation.

It also makes you feel like it’s probably gonna get worse…

Do you have a source?

This would make sense and would give a better image of Sony.

I’m happy to be progressively disinvesting from the Playstation ecosystem.

As much as they’ve created so of the greatest games ever, I don’t like what they’ve been doing lately.

I won’t sell my ps5 as it’s still great for many things that I won’t be able to do on Steam Deck/Steam Machine, but it’s getting used less and less.

And I’ll only buy physical games for this console.

Had he succeded, I guess a lot of people would have happily bought the game.

I fully agree!

As much as I want to support Linux/repairability friendly companies, I want to avoid creating e-waste even more.

That’s why, for my administrative uses, I might never buy a new PC again but only get Linux friendly used ones.

As for gaming, I’ll still probably get a Steam Machine on top of my Steam Deck (got it used) as you need something more powerful and can’t just get something from 2012 if you want to be able to play recent games.

I’ve been using OnlyOffice for years and was quite happy with.

I’m thinking about switching to LibreOffice. Anyone knows if LibreOffice would be able to connect to kDrive? Maybe through WebDav?

I’m trying to force myself to forget about this game.

For me MGS ended with number 4. The prologue from MGSV was good but the rest of the game is just bad, without any deep and interesting story…

That’s a really good question as I was also curious about it since we only hear about Asahi on the M Macs.

I don’t know what you can run on the Snapdragons Linux wise…

My son is pretty lucky as I’m the only dad around with a Steam Deck and a Playstation 5.

He didn’t even have to ask for these as I’m the one gaming the most.

I guess none of his friends is gonna get a Steam Deck or a Playstation 5 soon with the prices or the availability of these things…

The only good part is that maybe people are gonna learn to enjoy what they already have and devs could learn to keep developing games for old hardware.

It always surprised me but I never bothered asking why.

Thanks for doing it and thanks to people providing an explanation.

Agreed. When you download, you don’t really know what you’re getting. Also you don’t get consistency between all of your movies. That’s the difference when you rip your own stuff.

With the bluray drive, there isn’t much choice on the used market in Switzerland so I’m just trying to go with a good brand and check reviews if I find some.

In my country, used i7 or i5 are around the same price, but I can’t find an i5 with 16gb of ram to future proof it and make it useable for something else than a media center if I want to recycle it in the future.

Still I hope the i7 isn’t consuming too much or producing too much heat.

Can your project be downloaded and used or is it just something you’re working on for yourself for now?

To be honest it looks great and at first I thought about how impressive it is.

Then you think about how it modifies what was created and how it could lack consistency with a character looking a certain way in a part of the game and differently later.

I don’t know know what to think about these technologies like FSR and DLSS…

I don’t think I mind the fake frames as it could give you more performance on something like a Steam Deck, but the rest is tricky…

Thanks for your answer! I only realized now that since it’s gonna be near my router, an Ethernet cable can do the job in case RPM Fusion and installling the Broadcom drivers isn’t enough.

Just put an offer on an auction site for a MacMini with 16Gb of Ram, an i7 and a 265gb SSD. We’ll see if I get it for less than 100.-🤞

Okay thanks!

What kind of technical hurdles do you mean? Apparently makeMKV makes it quite easy but I’d be happy to have feedback

I read your article and it was interesting.

I didn’t know the RAM on the 2014 MacMinis wasn’t upgradeable. Thanks for letting me know.

Also what did you mean by don’t bother with the hotter i7 version as I saw a lot of them for quite cheap? Are they bad or just too powerful for what I’d do?

As for the Broadcom module, I’ve done it on my 2012 upgraded MacBook Pro and it was easy in Fedora. Don’t know about other distros though…

The external Bluray poayer is a necessary for me as I really want to make copies of my own movies.

Some of them could also be difficult to find on torrent sites and a Blu ray player can also be useful to backup my videogames at one point.

In my country, it is legal to make copies of something you own. Even downloading movies is legal to make, but it ain’t what I want 😇