As I am replying, you got 9 upvotes and 9 downvotes; looks like the perfect “storm” to put my hot take too.

We got psychotic people on both side, when you get this grade of polarization people usually lose the perspective.

AI is a technology, an human logical entity like math: AI works on very advanced (probabilistic) math. Math is not the evil… but an actual evil does exist.

There’s a difference between a LLM chatbot that runs on your local GPU… and one in the cloud.

The chatbot on your GPU is “trapped” by your questions, your needs, your choices.

Today the chatbot on the cloud will tell you that Elon Musk is a controversial person, tomorrow it will tell you Elon Musk is the savior of the Earth and you’re not worthy to kiss his feet.

People seeing absolute evil in AI, are against you running your chatbot locally, on your PC.

People enthusiastic about AI will accept any “gift” (or AI GF) Elon Musk will give them.

I understand what you mean; but Android isn’t even a regular proprietary either: you can’t build the like LineageOS or Amazon’s Fire OS with iOS or Windows Mobile (Apple or Microsoft will sue you; Google can’t).

Anyway, the point is not Android itself: but Linux’s opensource stacks access to the GPUs (with OSS drivers) beyond AMD, Intel and Nvidia.

If you observe the ARM gaming ecosystem, you see smartphone are the most common gaming device on the planet… “Android Linux” (quotes for emphasis) is not recognized, in the Linux sphere, mostly because proprietary driver (in the gaming context: GPU’s drivers).

If we accept “Android as Linux”, Linux is the most common gaming platform (beyond Windows), if we don’t… Linux is just a niche in the gaming industry.

You can see where the problem is: if every Android smartphone was capable to “install” any regular Linux distro, tides could change in a glimpse. If not Valve Gaming, there may be Samsung Gaming… and so go on…

Competition to Intel+AMD+Nvidia.

There may not be a problem of Japan itself, but the act of this specific company in Japan that’s responding to the “induced” PC hardware crisis. The induced doesn’t mean that’s some natural development (such as people is not buying PC anymore) but because critical components and materials (such as GPU/ram/SSD) are currently absorbed by the ongoing AI bubble eating and eating resources that are key for PC manufacturing.

Looks like an arm device: you can buy a good smartphone with better specs on that price. Actual gamers (people actively looking for a gaming device) are no the real market target: this is aimed more towards people looking for memorabilia or action figures from their favorite brand/IP.

Ricochet 2 will be sort of Valve’s Smash Brothers with all the characters from Half Life, Portal, Team Fortess and Left4Dead… and it will be cannon tied in a single Valve’s Multiverse.

Still not “3” for any of them tho.

I guess I am the only one thinking there’s a bit of conflict of interest in a publisher that works on the “already discovered side” talking about a supposedly effective discovery system that allow customer to discover… other entities (and thus add more competition)

Well, in UK the queen was used to make lords people that had great merit for the nation: Sir Sinclair for the quite popular zx spectrum and Sir Terry Prachett for amazing narrative, on turtle, universe he crafted.

I don’t remember there was any requirements on political side (queen or parliament) to acknowledge people’s merit to the nation.

I am not that much interested in Macron (or any other) political career; I just get the signaling when a bad politician want it easy (to screw people) and go for elderly people instead to put some effort to convince the future generations.

Conglomerate like Sony pushes it with their business in selling TV and collateral interest in media DRM for their services.

Other TV OEM companies follow Sony&co. lead because… uhm… “Oh! They make customers… spend money” broadly shake hands in air

Well, with old and elderly people you get Trump, Putin and Netanyahu; so I am fine with broadly politicians to catch younger generations.

Preservation doesn’t work the way you think: it need a context. The best example of preservation are works in Public Domain: but you’re not talking about a store then.

How do you define a witch hunt? Kings of the AI creates mobs through tiktok, facebook thanks to AI social engineering… so the mob hunt the random guys for their own guilts (as “king of the AI’s guilt”).

IMHO: relationship between public traded companies and shareholders is an endless exchanges of self help books on “how make money”. It’s whole economy is not based on either products or services… other than aforementioned books.

Thare was no problem with GoG: they saw an issue, the issue was fixed.

Zune, Metro, Copilot+

If you know, you know.

The core of the article is in the first paragraph:

It’s been eight years since AMD launched its first-gen Ryzen processors and it’s incredible how far we’ve come. But while AMD might be the king of gaming CPUs now, you shouldn’t dismiss Intel just yet.

So, yeah, AMD is clearly the king, but you may find good deal for some store having an unsold Intel inventory stock too high. Also with AMD raising the price of the GPUs should remind us to not let companies overconfident over their customers.

Tho…you can find AMD Ryzen 5 5500 also below the “100 bucks” quota.

If Linux adoption was something of a single season, some sort of growth Linux community had in the “early 2020” your argument would be valid: you had a steady growth on Linux’s own name:

if in the 2020 Linux were 2 and..
in 2025 were were 20 = you had a 900% growth

but this is not what is happening, Linux isn’t growing on its own number, but on the number of the global PC gaming growth. New desktop/gaming PC are sold by default with Windows: it mean people don’t “choose” Windows, they simply come with the stuff they bought. Windows 11 “growth” is mostly like that: it’s not about a growth of users that willingly are choosing Windows. The very slow pace of decline of Windows 10 tell also that people is unwilling to buy into Microsoft experience… even if they are basically forced to: they also cannot chose Windows 10.

On the other side, every newcomers Linux userbase is an active and willing-fully choice: the fact that “new Windows 11” (aka: default new PC) is not restricting the Linux userbase which, on the contrary, is keeping up with the pace (no, it’s not “thanks” to steam deck also: the SD’s gpu stopped it’s growth as you can see in the Steam HW survey). These are the key elements:

-- PC gaming is growing,
-- PC prebuilt market is slowing down (thanks to the ugly Windows 11)
-- Windows 10 decline very slow (looks like used market and DIY rigs still attract the old "not ugly/AI" Windows 11)
-- Linux is keeping the pace even tho the "pushing" of SteamDeck came to end.