It’s at this point that Apple should throw in the towel and walk away from Apple Incompetence already…It’s clear that it won’t do what they want, as “AI” can’t think or reason. This is just going to amount to a lot of misused person power and money, effort they could push into making their OS, software, and hardware better.

Sounds incredibly pointless and dangerous, given that ‘AI’ is hilariously insecure. Brute force attacks are super effective against them…I’d rather use my own brain and look up information myself, without feeding these techbros my data for their nefarious uses.

It is honestly better to learn, draw a little everyday…Fundamentals have a way of sticking with a person once you master them. Generating the same slop as everyone else is such a stupid thing to do, art is all about personal expression. A GenAI model is just creating empty pieces, images that have no life in them, just the gibberish whispers stolen from artists by bot crawlers and guile.

All it takes is cheap printer paper and a basic pencil and effort. Personally, I find writing to be a better form for me…However, by trying, you learn your own strengths. With GenAI, a person can learn nothing.

ROFL I remember this YouTube Short about putting all his points in Charisma! Dealing with the BBEG in a thrilling and slightly slutty way is always the best solution. 😈🤣

This is the worst timeline, I’m not surprised that they lied and tried to hide the truth. As they knew, it would raise alarm bells…Their little mole going to attempt to sabotage one of the few safety nets the USA has. Just because those rich bastards and corporations want more money.

Kubuntu is pretty solid, I personally went with the full install…KDE Plasma is so flexible and can look it’s best with the tweaks users can apply. For the getting Flatpaks over Snaps, you do need to enable the option in Discover, but once you have and restarted…Snaps (save system critical ones) will be optional to install, and Flatpaks will take priority in Discover. Canonical low-key annoys me with their insistence on focusing on Snaps over Flatpaks. They are creating fragmentation in the Linux space just to establish a proprietary packaging system; Canonical is one of the most corporate Linux distros, but damn, the advantages of third party support codecs and drivers right before installation is blessed. Makes setting up a PC so easy. I hit the ground running, often after only 20 minutes, being able to use my PC without further configuration demands.

Thankfully, I run sane distros only…This sounds like my personal hell, made manifest. 🫠

Sounds like Deepin has drank the hallucination engine juice and won’t be returning to reason any time soon.

Ubuntu 24.04 would both be a solid recommendation, as you don’t really need a ‘gaming’ distro per se to game on Linux! It boils down to software choices, hardware support, and a recent Linux Kernel for said hardware support. (I edited this due to noticing the laptop you are using has an NVIDIA Graphics card, and historically Fedora takes umbrage with proprietary drivers).

I run Kubuntu 24.04, using Heroic Launcher for installation and playing my GOG games, Steam (with Proton Compatibility Layer for non-native games) for games I bought there.

If you want to, there’s nothing wrong with using Bazzite on your laptop. Bazzite is more useful for gaming handhelds in my opinion; while any distro with sane defaults work just as well.

Given the push for Wayland adoption and the dropping of Xorg, this is not surprising. In fact they chose a good time to do this as more testing can be done before 26.04 is finalized and deployed to end users.

With Microsoft as it is, yeah, I doubt they’d try to get Xbox/PC parity going…It’s just a flight of fancy that most gamers would love to see. However, Corporate America has mostly lost sight of their end users and only care about the numbers going up. They aren’t willing to invest more effort into creating an ecosystem that attracts new users; they want it cheap, fast, and constantly. I do agree that it would be a badass thing, to be able to seamlessly switch between PC and Xbox, with the expectation of being able to play any game in your library or in Microsoft’s Gaming Library. I do use Linux, so I wouldn’t necessarily benefit from that type of parity. It would be beneficial to those invested in either ecosystem, regardless.

Sam Altman at this point is a parody of a human being, one that failed upwards in spectacular fashion. I can’t wait to see the postmortem of why AI failed, and this weird advert for AI to be cited. ROFL

PC Parity would be a hard approach for Xbox, possible if they had been working on it for years to get this parity nailed way before launch of physical hardware…

If they truly believed in Xbox Anywhere, that would be their move; however, I doubt their ability to manifest such an integrated back and frontend. Making it so devs can easily optimize their games for available Xbox hardware. So that games wouldn’t need lengthy dev times on ports, and release riddled with performance problems.

On Multiplayer, I can’t foresee a world where Microsoft gives up on the income generated from this player base anytime soon. They don’t care about PR enough to cease receiving those injections of cash. Microsoft is certainly playing a short term game in most cases, so the lure of profit will get ahead of them and mess up any efforts to realistically succeed at first try. Their engineers likely understand why Valve is so successful, but the bigwigs can’t possibly understand it. As they likely don’t have any connection to the gaming scene. I can see Valve dominating in the handheld space because of their focus on user experience first and knowing that profits will follow after.

Microsoft might get lucky and have someone on that handheld OS team who is passionate and can translate their passion into terms those dollars seeking C-Suites can understand. I won’t hold my breath though, only seeing what happens next will and a postmortem assessment will tell us how successful or how big a fail this effort will be!

In the console space, with luck, they’ll do better as there is a body of experience to draw from in this space at Xbox. Hopefully, they’ll reduce the ads which currently plague Xbox’s home screen and get in the way of players reaching their games (if that is their style of interacting with Xbox). Backward Compatibility will be prioritized so that libraries across console gens are still highly accessible, making Xbox a strong contender for playing older games on modern hardware. It’s not exactly a game preservation dream, but making these older games accessible is a good move.

I’ve gotten better about not accidentally activating Big Picture mode, but I agree it’s all too easy to do it carelessly!

Microsoft is already doing that with AI, something they are actively hemorrhaging money on…I doubt they’d try doing something too extreme and risk alienating end users again! The reason why Sony has such a leg-up currently is due to Microsoft dropping the ball with that online library BS which seemed legit bad (despite how much they said it would be convenient). I feel like they are going to stay dedicated to providing a better experience than Sony with backwards compatibility and offering other form factors to engage with their ecosystem. In an effort to capture handheld and console enjoyers. Microsoft has seen the success of Steam Deck and SteamOS, I doubt they’ll get it right initially, though. As ironically, they couldn’t get Windows Phone right despite part of their core business being a major OS (I blame bad leadership and poor decision-making lower down the chain).

Their subscription service Game Pass won’t go away, but, they’d probably keep it the same as now. Only Multiplayer and being able to play games that are on the service without additional charge.

I’m curious about what Xbox will be doing in order to keep the people who use their stuff and improve the hardware/software situation enough that more people will become interested in Xbox again.

That would be hilarious, but, given that Mattel are trying to directly market to children…It’s probably going to be far more insidious and wrapped in a benign enough looking appearance.

ROFL Tone deaf and drunk on the idea that AI is going to rake in the cash…Sure hope that Mattel fails and doesn’t produce any cursed products.

ROFL Reply guys, they are a special kind of dumb sometimes.

LMAO Google is so desperate for people to use their AI, as they know their product is fucking shit. If Google’s AI were actually good and useful, people would naturally use a product. However, due to it misrepresenting information or flat out hallucinating news stories or technical information…‘AI’ will remain an untrustworthy tool.