You can set up your PC for couch play just as easily. If you’re invested in a wireless mouse/keyboard instead of a PS5, or spent 5 minutes setting up steam big picture, you could have saved a whole lot of money.
You could also pirate your games on PC (which you should be doing). You could have saved thousands if only you weren’t brainwashed by console manufacturer propaganda
“Next generation” “Tim Walz”
Consoles are more expensive than PCs for equivalent performance for most of a console generation.
When a new console generation starts, they are price competitive over PCs for a year or two, but even then, they are not price competitive in terms of the total cost of ownership. Games on PC are significantly cheaper. Online services are free as opposed to a subscription on consoles. And I haven’t even touched piracy, which you can’t do on consoles.
They are arguably cheaper
No they are not. The total cost of ownership is much higher with consoles. That is even if you don’t pirate. Not to mention that the buying price for consoles is only competitive in the first few years of a generation.
they’re plug and play,
No, you wait around inserting a disk, and for a 100GB update to finish.
no reinstalling windows/Linux Most gamers never reinstall their OS.
You don’t have to fiddle with the settings,
This is a bad thing. On PC, I can decide to play it how I want. Do I want to trave in fidelity for performance? I can. Do I want to do the reverse? I can.
check fps
They don’t let you check fps on consoles because of you knew how pathetic it was, and if you ever had any experience playing on PC, you’d know how much of a rip off consoles are and switch over.
it’s poorly optimized for your specific piece of hardware
This is never the case. A wide range of hardware work with PC games. PC parts are interoperable by design. The two main GPU vendors - AMD and Intel, optimize the hell out of their drivers. If a game is optimized, it is automatically optimized for all hardware.
Russia attached a European country
Mf Russia is a European country. You ask if you can trust Russia and yet most countries in the world wouldn’t trust EU and NATO for shit.
She should be executed on sight. Killed in cold blood. Animals like this shouldn’t be allowed to live.
You probably also heard on the news that there was a “fire” on an aircraft carrier deployed to Hormuz caused by the laundry detergent. And they had to pull back because of the fire.
At the same time there was a simultaneous incident on the deck as well where a member of the crew slipped and fell and created a large crater.
It just happened to be a very unfortunate circumstance that they were close to Iran when these things simultaneously happened all of a sudden, together at the same time.
Tanning is incredibly dangerous. It is literally burning your skin, destroying DNA in the process. It can give you skin cancer and ages your skin faster. It’s a bad idea. I don’t know how “skin-whitening”, which is the first I’m hearing of this, works, but I wouldn’t imagine it has no health disadvantages.
I have no idea why anyone would want to change the color of their skin. It is literally a completely meaningless property. It makes no difference whatsoever. The idea that one might want to is uncomfortable to me.
I did not join Lemmygrad to be linked to Occupied Korean propaganda media. What the fuck is this.
You are a tankie. OP is a tankie. Everyone I don’t like is a tankie. Tankie was the OG Hamas before it was cool to accuse everyone of being Hamas
Funding on the other hand, does indeed equal an amount of control. The Linux foundation consistently develops and invests in things that mirror the interests of their fund sources. They fund crypto projects ffs.
Linus for example, strongly rejected GPLv3 even though it was a vastly superior version compared to GPLv2. He even rejected the concept of Tivoization, which is insane. GPLv3 would have hurt companies more and helped user freedoms.
The Linux Foundation is not where you should send your donations to - you should instead send your donations to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which actually stands for user freedoms.
The Linux kernel also includes, by default, proprietary blobs that have been added there, and these infringe upon user rights.
All of these companies that fund Linux development make lots of money from Linux, and that’s why they fund Linux. Even as desktop Linux is sometimes a competitor to Microsoft Windows, Microslop makes way more money from their enterprise software which runs on Linux, so does Amazon.
And because Linux is GPL, they cannot just take the code and spin their own version and sell it to customers without also making the code GPL, so they necessarily have to contribute to the Linux kernel if they want to also use it. They are forced to make it better, they are forced to pay up.
In cases where the project does not use a GPL license, (for example, FreeBSD, which uses the BSD license), companies just rip them off. An example is Sony, whose playstations run FreeBSD based operating systems, but Sony rarely ever contributes or funds FreeBSD development in return. This is because the BSD license allows them to take the code and make it proprietary and sell it for money themselves. With GPL, this would be illegal.
The Linux foundation barely develops the Linux kernel anymore. Most of their money goes to side projects, some AI there, some crypto here.
Besides, Linux is just the kernel. The operating system is you run is in face, the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel under the hood. GNU tools and licenses are developed and maintained by the FSF, which is not, by any means, funded by big tech.
Because these big tech companies make hardware, their support is needed in maintaining the Linux kernel (which is ultimately, a software package that contains code that can interface with hardware).
Ultimately, you are running GNU. Linux is just a marriage of convenience. If Linux development starts being guided by Big Tech against the interests of the user, then it would be trivially easy to switch over to another kernel, or even a fork of Linux.
Someone would have had to do this eventually anyways. Be angry at the geriatric fascists, not developers. If it comes to it that the project cannot survive without these changes, then it would be made so that these changes are made.
Very little pay, very long, expensive training and very long hours. The shortage has meant that more people have been given more hours to work, which drains them, and many of them go into early retirement, which worsens the shortage and so on.
This is also the case with Air traffic controllers as well. And even doctors. America is crumbling from within.
So the Chinese did nothing, and won. You don’t say!
It is equally unlikely Russia would risk WW3 over Cuba.
Russia cannot meaningfully compete against American naval dominance in the Caribbean. Their navy has been in decline for so long. Russia is incapable of projecting power in Cuba. Even the Soviets were - they couldn’t and didn’t attempt to break the blockade during the Cuban missile crisis.
Only a small portion of Russian naval vessels are capable of traversing the Atlantic without refueling to Cuba in the first place. They no longer have carrier strike groups as the Soviets did. Their submarine fleet has also diminished considerably, and what’s left is needed elsewhere for the very important task of maintaining nuclear deterrence and cannot be spared. Submarines are also not offensive instruments. If a submarine makes its presence known, it is a sitting duck.
If the US decides to attack Russian escorts to Cuba, then that is reason for the warmongerers at NATO to active article 5 and attack Russia on land. And Russia is not going to win naval battles either - the offensive capabilities of the US Navy are unmatched (perhaps except by China, due to their extensive collection of anti ship missiles, but they only work near China)
Windows File Explorer is the best in terms of features, most Linux File managers lack basic functionality
This is a very, very interesting take. I have seen nobody with this opinion in my life before
I suppose if it’s your brother’s then you wouldn’t want to sell it and get a PC instead for the sentimental value of it.