I’m hoping entire custom campaigns.

Back in the day, Operation Flashpoint, the predecessor of ArmA, had a mod community that built mods that came with huge new maps, new equipment and actually decently written campaigns. All because of the official mod tooling, which even came with tutorials.

I believe that was the time it was hated the most because it was forced on people

Add in the costs of a PC vs a console and it’s not even close

PC: 0€ because you already have one for all the other stuff you do that’s not gaming?

Or does everyone really just rely on smartphones exclusively nowadays?

I think it’s because there’s no real competition and nobody wants to be buying DVDs (blu-rays?) nowadays.

Consider that the only other storefront that treats its’ users with any sort of dignity is GoG and many major publishers would rather avoid it because it has a policy of being DRM free, so you lose out on a lot of games by sticking to GoG for everything.

You’re left with Steam, Epic Games Store, and some other platforms nobody’s ever heard of. Epic Games’ policy is “we don’t need a better store interface because it doesn’t affect sales” and “there’s no need to support Linux, nobody uses it”. Steam has a good-enough UI and not only supports Linux for Linux-native games, but also integrates Proton (which Valve also develops) so you can play Windows games on Linux.

Sure Epic will take less of a cut from publishers, but I’ll have an inferior experience and probably pay the same.

Steam hasn’t been popular for 20 years, my dude. 20 years ago, Steam was LOATHED. I’m not gonna google it because I’m at work, but you can find a gif of the Steam logo performing anal on a bent-over dude.

10-15 years ago it was still fairly common to avoid Steam on purpose. I personally started using it actively maybe 6-7 years ago, but I’ve been gaming for just a bit over 20.

Operating system so TrueNAS in your case

Apple does share address space I believe.

Chiplets are still fairly close to each other, they need to be cooled. We’re going to need some massive cooling solutions here. Fortunately ARM has great power efficiency at least compared to x86.

Of course SoCs are also the death of upgradablity. You upgrade everything at once or nothing at all, since CPU, GPU and RAM are all part of the same package.

Definitely.

I know a person who likes going to a national park and work from there. All day battery is crucial for that.

AMD is still here though.

I have no problem with ARM chips in PCs. I’ve loved every Apple Silicon Macbook I’ve had (one personal, 2 for different jobs). But for my gaming PC, I want the raw power of x86-64 and I want a socketed CPU and a GPU that goes in the PCI-E slot, not an SoC soldered onto the motherboard that includes everything.

I think ARM servers are also an interesting use case. The efficiency advantage is more significant at the data center level than for most desktop or laptop users (yea 25 hours of battery life is cool, but my work laptop is docked all the time anyway)

Battery degradation is ridiculously unpredictable. I’ve seen 100 cycle batteries at 75% and 2500 cycle batteries over 90%. I only dealt with like 5 MacBook models

Did you use a Handy to write this comment?

Definitely good for the game devs themselves, who actually have two major studios to choose between now (for local work anyway, there’s always remote options of course)

See on väärt oskus, meid on lausa tosinaid!

There’s a localization module available for the US, it should handle the arcane tax code and everything, but I haven’t tried.

You get access to the source code you use. If you pay for an enterprise license, you can access the enterprise source code too, but it’s indeed a proprietary license, you can’t really sell modifications.

I do wish it was fully free & open source (because that wouldn’t affect me, I’m not on their payroll, I just work with the software), but I still prefer the current model over Dynamics 365 or SAP (though I believe Microsoft open sourced some or all of their Dynamics 365 Business Central code too? I haven’t really kept up).

If Odoo ever decides to close their open source business and only offer it with a closed source, you bet your ass there are going to be dozens of forks of the latest open source version. I’m fairly sure my own employer would do the same, our CTO is an open source evangelist. Would probably RiiR the core even.

Not sure why you think the FTC would be the best body to talk to here. Odoo is not an American company, but rather a Belgian one.

Free in FOSS stands more for what you’re allowed to do than what it costs. The devs have to support themselves somehow, the project is absolutely massive and has a bunch of dedicated developers on the payroll.

spread across multiple FOSS alternatives

And you’ve already lost hopes of gaining significant market share.

The fact that Facebook does everything is what keeps people coming back. I haven’t scrolled my feed in years, but I still make use of Marketplace and Messenger sometimes. It’s the network effect at play too.

You can try out Odoo, it’s heavily customizable so you can add in the parts you don’t find existing modules for - and customize existing modules too.

We’re working on a huge Dynamics 365 thing at work

So I had two interviews at a Dynamics 365 partner, until they ended up restructuring internally and said they’d “get in contact if they have need for new devs”… Then later I interviewed at an Odoo partner, got the job and ya know what? I’m glad I didn’t get the Dynamics 365 partner job. Not only is our core product FOSS, it actually feels pretty nice as an end user too.

You probably can’t change things at your job, which sucks, but anyone looking at ERP solutions should probably consider Odoo as an option.

I thought Las Vegas was on Earth, but I could be wrong as I haven’t been there (to Las Vegas I mean, I’ve been to Earth).

Anyway, if you’re already building a tunnel, you might as well put a train in it, even on Mars.