AI has been an absolute game-changer for these companies!

Now they can create an artificial supply shortage, bump the prices up, and never deal with the economic side-effects of Moore’s Law again!

Fuckers.

Bizarre. I live in a cold climate (Alberta) and have never seen something like this.

Come on, there’s no way you can believe that.

It wasn’t a mistake. The “mistake” was in not raising their prices as fast or as much as they possibly could, and so they just decided to not to honour it, and crank the price next time around - because they could.

This is pure greed, plain and simple.

Worthy of a class-action lawsuit.

Corsair executives should fry for this.

Yeah, DAWs are definitely one of those niche things that keep people using Windows. I’m an Ableton user as well, and it’s one of a few Windows apps that I struggle to replace.

My wife teaches post-secondary, and stays on Windows because all of the commercial CAD software is for Windows. (AutoCad, Sketchup, Pro Tools, etc.)

After dealing with the dumbnes of Macs, back in the day, I made a conscious decision that my first 16-bit computer was going to run Windows (3.1).

I’ve played with many many OSes before and since then, and still have a soft spot in my heard for OS/2. I’ve been a professional Unix/Linux sysadmin for a quarter century now, and yet my desktop is still Windows.

No more. I will never EVER install Windows 11 on a machine; and never give Microsoft a penny of my money or a byte of my information to resell.

It’s easier than you think. Muscle memory is a pain, but can be rewritten with new habits and keystrokes. Or for that matter, you can mostly mirror the exact functionality that you’re used to using.

Microsoft will not get their shit together, ever. They don’t have to! If they lose 30% of their existing OS market share, all it will effectively mean is that they’re immune from antitrust complaints, which is a net win for them.

Meanwhile, Steam is working their ass off to make gaming on Linux a seamless endeavour, and are mostly there.

Do it. Give up on the company that wants to milk you, to steal your information, to abuse your trust.

Fair enough, but my (old) house is all copper and steel plumbing, and it’s all exposed from the basement. Been working on it 25 years, and while I hate the plumbing, I trust it.

Try the early '80s. They were the first company to put their developers front and centre with pictures and names.

So, don’t buy shit from Amech.

Don’t buy ANY shit from Amech.

Ever.

That is a completely worthless article.

At age 16, or age 37.

We need to stop reporting what these brainless twats are saying. Just freeze 'em out.

Trust me, most of the people in Barrhead only speak one language, or less. :-)

Not that uncommon. In Canada you can buy metric, imperial, or dual-unit tapes. People who use them routinely at work will buy single-unit tapes so they don’t have to check which side they’re on. Dual units are handy for us mortals who use them infrequently and need both.

Red Dead Redemption 2.

I picked it up a yeat or two ago, played through it, and loved it. When RDR was finally released for the PC, I immediately dove into it.

RDR was ezcellent, but it made me crave RDR2 gameplay, which was far deeper. So now I’m riding around in the epilogue, completing challenges and collecting every piece of clothing, saddle, and trinket.

My wife has that package. Originally sokd for about $500 CDN. It was a great deal new.

I read this as "have no plans to remove any titties.’

Grim Fandango.

Seriously, it’s one of the only games I consider to even HAVE a soundtrack. It’s absolutely next-level.

I played through RDR and RDR2 on a 1060 and i7-4770k, and it ran fine at 1200p. Damned shame that these cards won’t ve getting updates anymore.

But they’re stable as they stand and we WILL be getting security updates, so my card is going to run another year.

That is going to be awful.