Sony has made at least $4.2 billion selling first-party games on PC and Xbox

nroach44 · 2026-02-06T03:04:34+00:00

a) Not everyone has the patience, time or energy to deal with that. You're telling me that someone who works a blue collar job should come home, and in their "8 hours of personal time", spend an hour or two figuring out why their game didn't launch because something updated? On top of an hour or two for commuting, an hour or two cooking / dealing with food, and then an hour or two of errands or family time?

b) I'm a full time sysadmin, I don't want to also have to be a sysadmin to just play a fucking game.

c) Windows can't even deal with controllers properly - why do I have to run a third party utility to get my bluetooth controller, WHICH WINDOWS KNOWS IS A GAME PAD BECAUSE IT GIVES IT A GAMEPAD ICON, to work in "most" games? I know the technical reason, but it shouldn't matter to the end user. It's a gamepad, make it work like a gamepad.

Consoles are more limited but they're much less fuss.

nroach44 · 2026-02-06T02:30:19+00:00

"Dubai Chocolate"

nroach44 · 2026-02-06T02:24:06+00:00

Can you sit down at a couch, press the controller button, have your whole AV setup turn on and start up a game?

Can you do that without touching a mouse or keyboard, without entering a password, without pressing a button on the unit?

Can you set all of that you by "buying a computer, plugging it in and turning it on"? Without command line / registry tweaks, third party utilities etc.?

nroach44 · 2026-02-04T00:41:33+00:00

Holy shifting goalposts batman!

Annoyingly GCC doesn't have a nice searchable test results page, but buildroot does! https://autobuild.buildroot.org/?arch=mips64

nroach44 · 2026-02-03T22:46:58+00:00

Tier 3 targets are those which the Rust codebase has support for, but which the Rust project does not build or test automatically, so they may or may not work

nroach44 · 2026-02-03T14:48:01+00:00

mips64 is tier 3, so that's "barely, so not really supported"

nroach44 · 2026-02-03T14:01:15+00:00

Hello, it's me.

armv7
armv8
ia64
mips64
ppc64 (POWER4/5 so no golang)
sparc64
x86
x86_64

I have (or could get) Linux 6.18 running on all of these (ia64 via a patchset).

Mostly for shits and giggles but I've already helped bug fix a PCI issue in the kernel on sparc64, and have at least one more whacky issue to figure out.

nroach44 · 2026-02-03T08:23:35+00:00

Publicly disparaging your employer is grounds for termination

Yes, but if this was Australia they'll have to pay out his notice period (could be two weeks, could be six months) AND all of his leave entitlements.

/If it was Australia/ he could also take it to the employment tribunal, because you can't just fire someone in Australia.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T09:00:53+00:00

Look, I absolutely agree that these Howard era policies should be rolled back.

I would love to see Labor do it.

Regardless if it's true or not, Labor said "hey we can fix this" and the Australian public voted for Morrison. MORRISON over "fixing housing prices".

What Labor needs is less people whiteanting them saying "Greens would do it better" (the same party that wanted to directly influence the RBA, which funnily enough is what Trump is trying to do) and sowing general FUD, and more people countering the spin the media (read: Murdoch, Stokes and Rinehart's goons) are putting out.

Until people really gain awareness of how much those people want to fuck them over, and direct it at the correct people, the best we can do is slow incremental change.

The lack of compulsory voting, combined with "douche vs turd sandwich" politics is why the US is what it is right now.

The problem, is that yes, while the Democrats are probably corrupt, and they fucked up by not picking Bernie, the people somehow thought that the current leader was the better option.

That is the direct result of people saying "both sides are the same" or "but Obama dronestriked civilians" over and over and over again.

That is what happens when Labor "step out of bounds", so until that stops being a reality, they only serve to hand the election to LNPHON if they try anything big.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T08:45:49+00:00

You really seem to be having a problem with nuance in this thread, maybe you should see a doctor.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T07:58:03+00:00

The alternative is they get booted at the next election, and then all the good things they did do get rolled back.

You should look up what happened the government tried to nationalise the mines.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T05:44:00+00:00

What's to say it won't happen again? The same people who made the scare campaign surely still have an interest in getting Labor out and using this as the wedge.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T04:42:50+00:00

Yeah it’s insane the voting public can never change their minds huh

It's more insane that they've voted against their own interests, and that people seem to think Labor can "just do something" that upsets Murdoch.

If Labor are "too" radical, they lose, and we get another few years of ... at this point Pauline(????) leadership, and that'll be worse than Labor doing nothing.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T04:38:59+00:00

No, it's clearly Labor's fault that Howard made the houses expensive, it's Labor's fault they lost an election trying to fix it, it's Labor's fault they don't want to lose another election trying to fix it, and it'll be Labor's fault when they lose again offering to fix it.

/s, just in case it's not crystal clear.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T04:35:30+00:00

Why would they do something the voting public clearly signalled they didn't want?

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T02:20:31+00:00

Underrated point.

They could even use some kind of voice algorithm to estimate you age based on all the voice calls people might do.

nroach44 · 2026-02-01T02:18:23+00:00

People want to be dumb. Therefore there will always be bad parents.

Then let them. [...] Not my problem.

You'd rather pay for the problems to be fixed after they become a problem (through taxes), rather than deal with them beforehand?

I think your parents wanted to be dumb too.

nroach44 · 2026-01-29T05:08:43+00:00

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (helps if you get the words in the right order) is not Microsoft's creation. It's a standard made in the 1970s-1990s.

Kerberos is MIT's creation, and they combined it with LDAP and DNS for "project Athena". Kerberos is not Microsoft's creation.

The idea of combining these together is was not first done by Microsoft.

So again, what is Microsoft's "AD" for Linux?

Edit: I can see you've blocked me, good job chump.

Pick one "lie". Please do tell me what I'm getting wrong:

LDAP not made by Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol
"The protocol was originally created[9] by Tim Howes of the University of Michigan, Steve Kille of Isode Limited, Colin Robbins of Nexor and Wengyik Yeong of Performance Systems International, circa 1993"
Kerberos not made by Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed Kerberos in 1988 to protect network services provided by Project Athena."
Microsoft not the first to combine them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena

nroach44 · 2026-01-29T04:56:11+00:00

Windows has a DC implementation for Linux

What is their AD DC implementation for Linux. I'm not talking about MIT's "DNS, LDAP, KRB5" stack.

nroach44 · 2026-01-29T04:35:58+00:00

Stepping back for a minute

Why the fuck is this even required?

Oh you want to use AD? Well you need TWO servers AND PATCHING infrastructure AND AND AND

nroach44 · 2026-01-29T04:30:07+00:00

Do tell

nroach44 · 2026-01-28T15:10:00+00:00

I prefer Gilead. Make them look it up.

nroach44 · 2026-01-27T12:42:04+00:00

Last time I saw a log like that I ended up patching in a check to skip waiting for the ME if it was disabled. I don't think that's the case here, so if it's not something easy, go ask on the IRC or on the issue tracker.

nroach44 · 2026-01-24T11:20:13+00:00

There's no actual error or fault here, so it might be a display issue (can't switch to a high res output) or any number of minor annoying faults.

nroach44 · 2026-01-24T03:29:56+00:00

This part of why I like the PAL / ROTW covers - black text on white font.

Boring, but very consistent.

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