It’s a really interesting article about something we might not think about.

It’d be interesting also to try to see how much money they can save by using a lower bitrate or saving energy by using less servers.

It’s a lot of things we take for granted when we’re just watching a show and you don’t think about all the work behind it.

Ok Thanks for the info. I might check it out 👍

It’s an interesting article and I’m also starting to think more and more about game preservation.

I don’t understand why a company like Sony wouldn’t provide you a way to play ps1-3 games on your ps5. I would even be ready to pay for it.

There might be some technical problems I’m not seeing, but people can do it on older pc’s…

I guess the whole video game industry has to think about preserving its own history.

I don’t know if open sourcing games would help, but something needs to be done.

Even playing a game like Sim City 2000 on pc is proving challenging now on Windows. I would want to play it on Linux but I can’t imagine how difficult that would be as the game isn’t even listed in Proton DB. And the VM solution would probably not work as Steam wouldn’t support something like Windows XP…

If they could now release the few exclusives they still have on ps5 now, it would be perfect.

Do you know how much is the limit for the external drive?

The problem is also that you can only use it for PlayStation data, that’s why I went with a « small » 2tb one.

I have an external 2gb hard drive and I use it to play some ps4 games and stock the data from the ps5 games I ain’t using right now.

Games are so big nowadays and you have to download so much data that it’s almost necessary to at least have an external drive.

I feel bad saying this, but I’m now struggling to play games without trophies.

And it’s not because I wanna show off in front of my friends, because none of them cares about trophies.

Still it’s some kind of addiction.

I’m still playing a lot of gt7 even if I have almost all the trophies, but I’d be really enthusiastic about getting a new career mode with new trophies.

Oh okay thanks for the info. I don’t think it’s such a problem because it’s open source and the code can be reviewed.

Also I’m not sure American companies are less evil than companies from other superpowers.

What is the problem with its origin?

I love short games that I can play at least two times.

I’ve replayed every Uncharted or Killzone at least two times, but I’d never do that with a game like FFVII rebirth.

It doesn’t mean that FFVII is bad (I loved it in the end), but it’s important for me that they keep producing short games with a lot of replayability.

For instance, having a different trophy for every difficulty is a big incentive for me.

Also, as much as I enjoy open worlds, I don’t think every game should become one.

Regarding the graphics, I don’t think I would ever need something better looking than Last of Us part. 2. I think it would be better to focus on some details like trees or building popping up in front of the player as it takes me out of the game.

I would want to « force » my relatives to use Linux. My wife had an unsupported MacBook Pro from 2012, so I managed to convince her it would be safer to switch. Since then, she hasn’t used macOS, but she also hasn’t used Linux because she can use her work provided windows laptop 😅

I also proposed to my mom to provide IT support remotely to her via Linux, but she prefers using windows and relying on an old friend who is forcing her to buy a lot of Microsoft products otherwise he refuses to help her.

I hope I’ll at least be able to teach my kids that Linux ain’t scary 🙏

Yeah clearly Lemmy might have a lot of Linux users because Lemmy in itself is really niche. Way more than Linux.

I understand why it’s a loss for some developers, but I don’t think we should prevent Apple from integrating something in iOS just because of it.

You could also say these developers just benefited from the fact that Apple omitted to integrate some obvious features.

I have a 2018 Seat Leon Cupra ST 300, so basically a cheaper Golf VII R estate.

Previously I had an Audi S4 b6.

These newer cars are probably both great cars, but they are clearly not the same despite sharing a lot of parts.

The Golf is fake 4 wheel drive (a front wheel drive car most of the time) while the S4 isn’t.

You also clearly don’t need the same budget to keep them running as the Audi is gonna be way more expensive to run while being a bit more grown up in its attitude too.

Quality wise, I have nothing to complain about my Cupra after around 60000 kilometers.

It seems like an interesting project, especially with the problem of banking and payment apps not working on anything else than iOS or Android.

I hope one day we’ll be able to daily drive Linux phones, even if it’s through an app on a custom Android rom.

I’m also thinking a lot about the best way to move everything from one computer to another if one day I buy a new computer.

I thought I had found a way with Clonezilla, but after trying to clone my Surface Go 1 to an old laptop I had, it didn’t work. Could be because I hadn’t removed the surface specific kernel. But now I don’t feel safe anymore.

Some people are suggesting to copy my home folder which I did, but I’m not sure it would fit my needs.

Basically, my files are taken care of with cloud storage (kDrive by the way), but I’d like to keep the way all my programs and extensions are setup.

So I ain’t sure I was a big help😅

I hope one day we’ll just have some program to prepare an archive to unpack for your next system to make the transition seamlessly. Or just putting the computer side by side and sending everything wirelessly.

I feel like we need this with all the personalization we can have on Linux.

I don’t like Apple but I’m forced to admit that the iPhone my employer is forcing me to use and my wife’s 2012 MacBook Pro are good machines.

The MacBook runs Linux like a charm and is making me consider old MacBooks for my next Linux laptop.

I’m also looking forward to testing iOS 18.

A while ago there was an article about how Apple is destroying a lot of its phones (old generation) instead of selling them at a low price.

It was also explained that in the facility where it was done a lot of phones were disappearing because employees were stealing them to use them.

So I don’t know if they’re so good about recycling ♻️.

I can’t find the article but it seemed legit.

Yeah I know but honestly it looks really complicated for someone who’s not at ease with terminal. Just finding the instruction to install it on Fedora (so no sudo apt install) is difficult, so I’m scared to do anything wrong, especially with important data.

So now I’m still using a Windows 10 virtual machine even if it’s awfully slow on my not powerful computer…

I’m looking forward to iOS 18 as I have to run an iPhone for work.

From what I understand, this update is gonna bring a lot of things iOS was lacking in terms of personalization.

Now I would really want them to improve on how things are handled outside of their walled garden as I’ll never buy a new mac (maybe an old one to run Linux) and they’re never gonna convince me with their old tricks of keeping special features between Apple devices.

We need a Linux version or equivalent to iTunes to backup your phone, better interoperability with Windows/Linux…

The iPhone is a great product but I feel like the walled garden is preventing me from fully enjoying it.