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So sad that the only good games are Sony Playstation exclusives, with literally no other games existing that are worth playing.
So sad.

<cries in backlog on GOG and Steam>

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We have similar legislation in France already, it's implemented differently but the intent is the same: since 2024 all new connected consumer devices (computers, phones, smartwatches, etc) must include some sort of parental control software/settings at no extra costs. The law mandates that users are prompted to set it up on first launch.

From what I understand, the major differences are:
- It doesn't focus on operating systems but on devices, in fact our law has an explicit exception for devices sold _without_ an operating system.
- It doesn't require the device to ask the user's age and doesn't mandate how the parental control software should works, only that it should allow blocking content which is illegal for minors.

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Tech has advanced enough to no longer justify making dedicated game boxes with locked down software that become e-waste. From a price perspective the games will cost more, not to mention the lack of access to the many marketplaces that include plenty of free ones, fan creations, or ones without DRM.

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More than anything, it's an admission of a fundamental lack of self-confidence on Sony's part. If you're turning out bangers then PC ports are free money, and advertising for the next game. And that's the view expressed by Sony at the time. When they still had games studios.

Since then, they've squandered all their money chasing a live service plan that would have failed even if had succeeded (which it didn't - it was just failure all the way through). The primary selling point of PlayStation - "the easiest way to play the best games" - isn't something they're capable of any more. They can't do "the best games" reliably, and nor can they manage "the easiest way." Even if the Steam Machine never actually happens because of the AI-induced component market destruction, just the prospect of what that would be is enough for people to say "no subscription? Free backwards compatibility forever? That's what I want: not PlayStation." And Sony can't meet that head-on with "here are the amazing games you'll get first on PlayStation" because they closed their studios. So all that's left is to lock up their trickle and try to lock in their existing customers, and wait for the end.

It's quite sad, really.

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It's bad news for PC people, but I suppose it makes sense from a business perspective. We all have seen how well XBox is, and a big part of its current state is because of their "strategy of having 0 exclusive titles. Why would I buy an XBox if on other platform I can play all those games and more? The answer previously was GamePass, but now that it's been enshittified, the platform has nothing.

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I buy games and I buy hardware, but I don't buy operating systems or closed hardware, and I'm certainly not going to buy in to a closed ecosystem.

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i wonder if the steam machines/ xbox made they change their minds, or if their plan was to make pc gamers get to know their games so they knew what they were losing then the sequels were no longer avaliable.

but sony is stupid, all they need to do is their own version of an steam machine, and a good client for pc, instead they chose to make less money.

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Shame. I'm very open in buying games, but there's no chance I ever dip myself into a locked console again. Well, it was nice while it lasted.

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So... not enough subscribe to PSN, do not fancy half/close to/over decade old game for full price just because it now have high graphics settings and/or rejecting some other stuff easily fed to console base...

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

You clearly do not value freedom of speech. And it's gotten rather extreme. There was one instance where a woman who texted a friend and called the man who raped her a dog received a harsher punishment than her rapist.

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Quoting: HamishYep, it runs just the same as with the Rage 128 Pro, you are limited to the glquake.glx binary for 3D acceleration.

Thank you for your response.

Can you play Quake: The Offering using quake.x11 or squake with GeForce2 MX 400?

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I've never bought a game on Playstation, for myself. It's not going to change. Sony doesn't want my money? So be it. It's been fun while it lasted.

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couldnt they at least port gravity daze/gravity rush 1 and 2 rush to pc before they make this stupid decision?
:v

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It's kind of looking like MS and Sony both saw the RAMpocalypse, crunched some numbers and perhaps decided that it's possible to squeeze out another console generation after all - at an inflated, but still relatively lower vs the PC enthusiast market price. So, they're hitting their respective brakes hard and pivoting. Maybe? The timing is at least curious for both the regime change at MS and the Sony pivot.

To me this means I won't be playing any new Sony games. Nintendo you ain't, Sony. Most of the time these days even Nintendo ain't Nintendo.

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Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

What counts as "seriously lacking container support" here? I've been using konsole with distrobox just fine even before I got on ublue, and that's before we even have Bazzite and only had ublue-kinoite. I can enter my container pretty quickly - just use an alias or zsh-autosuggestions if you want to do it quickly.

re: Discover and Bazaar

Spoiler, click me

I don't care about Discover's problems with Flatpak and others. I just want to be able to keep my applets, themes, and kwin scripts updated. If it bothers people so much, just include Bazaar, pin it in favorite, hide Discover in Utility category.

What I hated was Discover being removed when Bazaar still sucked. I did give it a try back then - it locks the entire app if you clicked Update, it was still pretty slow, I know it crashed on other people, and I find the way it loads on each keypress while searching to be rather uncomfortable as I am a bit sensitive to flashing screens. It wasn't ready, it was shoved in my face, and what I needed was removed while restoring it isn't as straightforward as with Konsole. The last time an operating system didn't something similar, I left and learned an entirely new operating system.

Honestly, I don't even want to talk about Bazaar anymore - it just keeps making me angry remembering how it was implemented in the ublue ecosystem. I don't even care how good it is now, the initial introduction left such a bad taste in my mouth.

with the Ptyxis terminal you can easily open a new container session from a dropdown in the UI, Konsole did not have this until very recently (we're still waiting for the merged commits to land in an actual release, but you'll be able to select your containers if you right click the 'new tab' dropdown)

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fine, then I will move away from giving Playstation my money

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Quoting: toorReally? I thought they were selling their consoles at lose and making up with side stuff, like games and accessories.

Yes, but that does require you buying games at console prices, not Steam prices.

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The only Sony-exclusive games I wanted to play in recent history were Gran Turismo and Bloodborne and they never ported those anyway. So I guess not much of value is lost for me.

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Totally makes sense for Sony from a business perspective - not gonna buy a Playstation, though.

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Really? I thought they were selling their consoles at lose and making up with side stuff, like games and accessories.

How many people owning a gaming PC would actually buy a playstation for a specific exclusive game, and would that cover the buyers they would get on the PC port? Prolly depends how much it costs to do the port.
Anyway they'll definitely lose me as a buyer, and I did buy many of their titles.

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Ah, great, more depressing news is just what I needed. I'm so exhausted by this reality. Every day it's more bad news. I'm just so tired.

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something to note: Schreier posts Adwall-free links on his Bluesky profile. Heres the article link for this one:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjYzMTM4OSwiZXhwIjoxNzczMjM2MTg5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQkRNVTVLR1pBS0owMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.iJ25MhKjr88ECoSb_2cT3JX9MqYduN3JmMm63yusBVE

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Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: CarollyHonestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I mean. They could still sue you. Your Terms of Service and EULA is only as good as your legal team and how much money you have.

I feel like everyone is so optimistic that they can't be sued because the alternative is taking it seriously and it's scary, as well as involves compromises on things that traditionally we don't care for (but now have to because law is law).

A majority of distros aren't even based in the US, so good luck with that.

But I'd imagine it would just be thrown out of court regardless. California cannot impose their laws outside of their own jurisdiction. There's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either. If it were that simple the California AG would be suing people left, right, and centre for failing to comply with Prop 65 labeling legislation outside of state.

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This feels like such a bigbrain csuite executive decision that has no basis in reality.

I fear for the fate of Nixxes ... seriously one of the best development studio ever. Their optimizations on the various ports were literally some of the best from a technical standpoint ... ever.

I really had a great time in Horizon Zero Dawn (not so much forbidden west) and spent the crazy high premium costs to buy those games. Oh well, I suppose they don't want that income. There's an approximate 0% chance I'll go "ohhhhhh lordy me I suppose I will just have to go get a playstation 6".

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

So it's an insult. It's also an opinion. (and insulting opinion?)
Not something that should get one arrested.

However, your comment reminded me of:
[From the Hip clip.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYW6fLfMMJU)

Loved that movie.

Politicions only care about getting re-elected. All that "think of .."
distractions. Will the laws actually DO anything useful? nope.
What about all the ones already passed? more nopes.

btw, calling somone (politicians) an a - hole, could be considered an accurate description you know.
(they open up and fecal matter comes out.) lol.

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"Senior Anti-Cheat Engineer" is a hilariously dumb-sounding job title. 😂 That aside, I think this will be good for those people who stay on Windows because they simply cannot cannot bear having to give up those games. As long as they can partner with Valve and implement it in a way that doesn't compromise the security and privacy of people who don't want to play those games, I'm OK with it.

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YESSSS!!!! This is so exciting!

Although: I'm a little scared. Maybe a lot. April is usually a busy work month. I should just pre-email all my contacts and be like "sorry stuff is delayed, I'm playing Shapez leave me alone"

This game is gonna be SO GOOD on release! I mean it already is but Manufacture Mode sounds wonderful.

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Quoting: Stellawhat about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.

Of course my friend this is an easy solution! We the benevolent hyper intelligent best ever government of all time United States of Murica will simply dispatch a government monitor employee lizard I mean human being to help you click the proper boxes that we will mandate that totally exist when you are creating those docksners so the lizard I mean human being can report back and ensure everything is on the up and up.

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Quoting: CarollyHonestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I mean. They could still sue you. Your Terms of Service and EULA is only as good as your legal team and how much money you have.

I feel like everyone is so optimistic that they can't be sued because the alternative is taking it seriously and it's scary, as well as involves compromises on things that traditionally we don't care for (but now have to because law is law).

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Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

What counts as "seriously lacking container support" here? I've been using konsole with distrobox just fine even before I got on ublue, and that's before we even have Bazzite and only had ublue-kinoite. I can enter my container pretty quickly - just use an alias or zsh-autosuggestions if you want to do it quickly.

re: Discover and Bazaar

Spoiler, click me

I don't care about Discover's problems with Flatpak and others. I just want to be able to keep my applets, themes, and kwin scripts updated. If it bothers people so much, just include Bazaar, pin it in favorite, hide Discover in Utility category.

What I hated was Discover being removed when Bazaar still sucked. I did give it a try back then - it locks the entire app if you clicked Update, it was still pretty slow, I know it crashed on other people, and I find the way it loads on each keypress while searching to be rather uncomfortable as I am a bit sensitive to flashing screens. It wasn't ready, it was shoved in my face, and what I needed was removed while restoring it isn't as straightforward as with Konsole. The last time an operating system didn't something similar, I left and learned an entirely new operating system.

Honestly, I don't even want to talk about Bazaar anymore - it just keeps making me angry remembering how it was implemented in the ublue ecosystem. I don't even care how good it is now, the initial introduction left such a bad taste in my mouth.

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