yes and that’s why i said europe and not the eu

try saying that you support palestine action publicly in the uk. lol

i got to jump back in recently w a new laptop that came w windows.

i’ve been buying linux first hardware for the last decade and going through this exercise has been eye opening for; i wasn’t aware of much the landscape has changed.

We dont even know their names.

that’s surprising to learn since the likes of farage, le pen have & hocke heavily influencing politics in the uk, france & germinay and meloni winning her election in italy.

it’s not that they’re ignoring it; is that the legistlation doesn’t address buying it from non-government agencies and probably on purpose.

our billionaires are also funding the protests again them; one of the walmart heirs is entire responsible for the noking protests.

that’s fair. lol

I’m surprised that they kept the “Steam Machine” name. I thought they would choose a different name to avoid any negative connotations. It is a very cool name though.

what negative connotations exsit for “steam machine”

the europeans on lemmy continue to insist that americans are ahead of the fascism game; but we still don’t have chat control and have only elected one fascist so far. lol

now that i think of it, i’m technically one of them since i still play age of empires 2

it makes you wonder why valve is pursuing it; are there enough people still playing these old games to justify a profit from the endeavor?

my last linux rig died and i had to buy a new one and system76 price tag made me go with ordinary windows laptop and putting linux on it.

i’m currently getting reminded of how much headache buying a from a linux-first company alleviates too; it’s taken me over a week to setup an encrypted installation to dual boot with windows. lol

I haven’t used Windows in so long that I’m genuinely excited at the prospect at getting a new computer w Windows on it. Lol

Also, I’ve been buying Linux hardware so long that I was surprised how much bang you can get for your buck nowadays.

… That’s assuming that you don’t calculate in how much all the ads and mandated spyware will cost your sanity and future. Lol

something like this happened to be too circa 2005 and it made me switch to debian; which stayed rocked solid until 2016 when the motherboard died.

what’s ESO?

google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before

then you’re in luck because it’s old news. (circa 2016 iirc).

tldr: they decided to pull away active development on some foss projects because they conflicted with their profit motive.

it’s easy to appreciate why a for-profit company would want to protect its revenue stream and it would seem that the waters would get really murky when their products rely on free and open sourced work; but i know from personal experience that much bigger fish like google and oracle have made it work REALLY well for themselves and in much better fashion (atleast publicly) than system76 has.

i was going to argue that there’s no way that it was ten years ago before i realized that the tropico i liked was released 11 years ago. lol

afterall: 1999 was only 15 years ago too. lol

yes and not the way you’re probably thinking: the last windows rig had a dedicated nvidia card (i forget which) while the linux rig had a cheapo integrated intel gpu and the intel gpu it performed MUCH better like i described.

it could also have been the maturity of the nvidia driver back then, but then again it was the same game on both machines so it wasn’t that far apart in age-wise.

one possibly expensive way to find out is to add an expensive cooling solution to it to see if it stays active.

happens to me on random websites and it wakes me tf up when i’m surfing just before bed. lol