It was impressive watching the seagull who stole my wife's donut hastily swallowing it whole to stop the other seagulls from getting it. Which seems kind of jerky given that they'd been acting as a distraction while it did a steep dive from behind.

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This definitely looks like my kind of thing. Wishlisted.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Beamboomit caused a serious hog on my system resources.

I am now imagining this pig with a deep frown of concentration running diagnostics on your system.

LOL but isn't that what it's called, resource hog?

Oh yes. I just suddenly was thinking of the hog being serious.

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Mm, put that way I can see Valve's point. What if you had a stack of different ones interacting weirdly, making Steam look bad and massively complicating support?

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Quoting: NibelheimCheck networth and how AMD is crushing Intel since 2022. Sales don't mean anything.

I would want to claim that sales do in fact mean something, and indeed that things like stock market valuation can often be deeply misleading, especially these days when it can often reflect cannibalizing the firm by using all the profits for share buybacks instead of investing in the firm. Boeing's net worth was sky-high until certain unfortunate incidents revealed they no longer have the ability to build decent planes.

If a company is in the selling chips business, and it is selling chips, you should have a lot more confidence in it than if it is not selling chips.

This is not to say that I have a ton of faith in Intel right now in particular. Just, in your haste to rubbish them don't create a bad rule of thumb that will mislead you.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI never really understood why people shell out massive amounts of money for a laptop that's heavy enough not really to be a mobile device anymore, when they could get a desktop PC with similar specs for half the price.

I generally agree. But, 5 and a half pounds . . . I could sling that in my backpack and not really notice it. So still moderately mobile if you're a backpack person.

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Quoting: CaldathrasI think that software licensing confuses a lot of people, who are expecting an ownership model such as you get when you purchase something like a hammer.

. . . or a physical book. Which is not unreasonable.

Complicating things in the other direction, software licensing seemingly "confuses" a lot of software licensers, who often claim rights in their licenses that they are not, in most jurisdictions, legally entitled to claim. Just because some software company puts "use of this software entitles us to your firstborn child as slave labour" deep in their license doesn't make it real or enforceable even if you click.

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Well, reasonable that they changed the name. As names go, it's a nice enough name for some sorts of things . . . it would be a fine name for a random open source infrastructure project, or a Linux distro or something. It has a pleasant sound and a clever derivation. For games though I do tend to prefer that names be sort of descriptive, I find these abstract names are unmemorable, don't give me anything to hang onto to remind me that this name belongs with that thing.

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Quotea chaotic, larger-than-life environment

Isn't it rather a a chaotic, smaller-than-life environment?

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Quoting: Beamboomit caused a serious hog on my system resources.

I am now imagining this pig with a deep frown of concentration running diagnostics on your system.

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