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| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-10, 20:09 in Windows 11
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Dinosaur
 Post: #1121 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsofts-reportedly-trying-to-kill-hdd-boot-drives-for-windows-11-pcs-by-2023 Starting next year, MS wants OEMs to kill spinners for real: it's SSD or no W11 licenses for your next Brand-Name PC™. I... am full in agree with this measure. Once you try the pleasure of "almost like RAM" solid storage performance, you simply don't go back. I HOPE that 2023 is the year I finally start moving my metal to SSD (I guess there is little hope for the PATA boxes unless someone magically floods the Soviet Venezuelan market with cheap adapters, but for all the SATA boxes, I'm sick of shitty Ez-Break™ WD/Suckgate/Toshitba spinners, or unobtanium new-old-stock Samsung/Hitachi that it's already 10 years old at least). But of course, the only ones complaining are paranoid nutters ("teh evil M$ is telling me what to do with my computerizers!!!!"), pennypinching bastards still buying new "crazy supermarket deal" laptops with spinny rust, people living in embargoed Soviet shitholes (and even then, you can now have a half-TB SSD for as low as $50 here if you don't mind using a noname brand AND having a competent backup strategy), and Concerned Citizens™ about e-waste/planned obsolescence/the war at Ukraine/China Pest/China invading Taiwan/"I once bought a SSD and died fast, therefore SSDs over my dead body". Bring it on, MS. I'm still not using W11, but the move to SSDs is long overdue. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-15, 00:06 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #1122 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Yet another name-and-logo CPU vulnerability, because security researchers sole goal in life is to make our computers even slower (if software bloat hasn't achieved that yet): https://www.hertzbleed.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743110 *yawn* Thankfully my threat model is "mitigations=off and GTFO - I paid good money for all those megahurtz!". Time to add security researches to my shitlist? Oh, silly Intel - asking researchers to extend their NDAs won't fix your BROKEN CPUs! To the shitlist with you too! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-15, 09:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1123 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
There is nothing to tune on a supermarket Compaq from 2001, sadly. Those machines were just real picky with RAM. Found another PC133 256MB Samsung (single-sided, 8 chips) for ~$2 (module looks spotless, unusually clean for a random junkyard find). No way Jose - this one wouldn't work too... although memtest86+ could read the SPD EEPROM! Speaking of SPD EEPROM data: on my working 128MB stick, memtest86+ says it's a "32MB" module, go figure. While on the "half-working" 128MB Markvision, SPD reads "64MB"! WTF. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-16, 22:09 in Computer Hardware News (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1124 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Intel continues half-assing the launch of their highly awaited discrete GPUs: https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-arc-a380-available-china/ https://www.servethehome.com/intel-arc-a380-gpu-is-out-in-china/ Enter... the Arc A380?! Apparently the A3 is the low-end series, so I don't know if $150 is a reasonable price for this thing (although the TDP is quite high for such a low end part). Also, only available in China for whatever reason, because of neverending hardware shortages. Nice to see that the Chinese market now has two mostly failed products bearing the A380 name specifically being targeted at them: the superjumbo Airbus that was designed for high density markets like China (and on where a grand total of FIVE planes were sold... and two of them were permanently retired recently), and a Intel GPU that most likely will fly under the radar because Intel is not being serious with this (is it too soon for the i740 flashbacks?). The A7 series are supposedly to be the high-tier flagships, to be released someday. Can't wait for the A747 Jumbographics! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-17, 01:44 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1125 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Sega's solution to Saturn performance woes? Let's shove in MOAR PROCESSORS YEAH!!! Sure, Nintendo already had prior art and stuff, but man, just imagine adding 3 extra processors to an already toxic hellstew of EIGHT processors... Be glad that corporate/accounting don't let arcade folks design consoles anymore, or MS and Sony would be rehashing the 32X over and over and over... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 01:13 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1126 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
JWZ gaming tastes are... surprisingly OK! (at least when he bothers following instructions instead of breaking his hardware) He hates FPS as much as me, so points for that. Also I guess someday I'll have to try Rez... but then 1) they would need to make a PC port first, 2) buy a computer that can run it, and 3) find some time to play videogames. Too bad he is still a notorious asshole, and here are the exhibits for today: - Exhibit A: JWZ will fight to the death your right to not be surveiled with mandatory Silly Valley cellphone authentication crapola mandated by your local friendly government because trusting your personal information to some Shitty Valley scamtup is (rightfully) for idiots... - Exhibit B: ...but the very same JWZ will consider you last class scum that is trying to kill him with China Pest if you (rightfully) refuse to install any of those Silly Valley cellphone "vaxx pass" crapola, because he absolutely doesn't want to trust paper (hint: electronic records can be forged, but don't tell that to him!). Thankfully I'm always carrying my Ez-Fake™ cardboard vaxx card that fortunately is more legit than the banknotes on my wallet (because I'm not a self-entitled twat and I absolutely want to get this China Pest shitfest to end sooner than later), and for the sake of my sanity (which is worth far more than my privacy, mind you!), I absolutely REFUSE to deal with cellphone crapola for either government matters and/or certifying that I'm not an antivax bastard. Oh, and I'm not visiting nightclubs either (why I would want to be in one of those places given the current affairs? Party at home, people! Or better yet: you can get drunk at home for much cheaper, if you absolutely must... plus, it's MUCH safer too!) HAVE YOU UNINSTALLED XSCREENSAVER TODAY!? Seriously, slock and friends may not pass "it's unsafe because I didn't wrote it" JWZ "standards", but nobody (and I repeat: NOBODY) sane deserves to run assholeware on their computers. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 12:33 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1127 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Posted by desudesu Sure, here is the relevant context: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/04/looks-like-todays-the-day-that-centos-users-lose-their-god-damned-minds/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 JWZ releases XScreenSaver under an opensource license, which allows you to do whatever you want as long as you ship your changes and all that stuff expected by an ordinary, DFSG-approved license. Debian ships "old" packages on purpose on its stable branches (it's the whole point of a STABLE distro: i.e. do not introduce disruptive changes, we love stuff being set on stone), and only backports security fixes from later versions (whenever possible). This pisses off JWZ because he is always pissed off by something, so he built a "timebomb" on XScreenSaver (actually, a nagscreen). Debian (among other stable distros, like CentOS) users get pissed off by the nagscreen, so a bug was filled to remove it (it's FOSS, after all!). JWZ heard about it and got very cocky, demanding Debian and friends to remove his software. Debian refused to comply - it's FOSS, after all! That's the day when JWZ joined a few shitlists (including mine). Seriously, unless you're running a museum exhibit (or a hipster workplace), nobody needs screensavers in 2022 (And yes, I still have a soul!). As for screenlockers, there are plenty of replacements without built-in timebombs and with more sane developers. This is why people like me have been telling others to migrate away, as it is not worth to deal with notorious assholes the day you need support for a bug on their code (the very same reason I stay the hell away from Pale Moon). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 14:14 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1128 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Posted by creaothceann You can always set the display to blank/shutdown, y'know. As a bonus, power savings are much better that way~ Depending on your specific workloads, OLED burn-in may or may not be of concern, but I can think on better ways to mitigate it rather than wasting power with a screensaver: - "Pixel refreshing" cycles (OK, kinda similar to a screensaver, but you run those on-demand, not when idle) - Screen blanking/shutdown (which on OLEDs are basically the same, aside of deep power saving modes that also shutdown the electronics) - Lower brightness (which also helps prolonging the life of nearly any type of display, not just OLEDs!) - Autohide taskbars, fullscreen/"chromeless" UIs, try not staring at the same application for many hours a day... I still insist that screensavers are pretty much museum exhibits these days, and if you absolutely must use those, use anything BUT XScreenSaver!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-20, 23:12 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1129 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Oh, nice~! Does the Trance Vibrator works with PCs? :D Posted by desudesu He is the same dude that gets a painful hateboner every time someone talks about porting XScreenSaver to Windows, because he can't get past his Netscape-era grudge against MS (hint: MS is still evil, but there are new, nastier evils out there, starting with FAANG. Or was it MAGNA? Wait, isn't MAANA? Fuck! MS is EASY MODO nowadays). Shhhh, don't tell him you got this link from me~ But don't worry - he now sells beer in his very expensive political manifest (his words, not mine) known as "nightclub". Selling beer and getting entangled in legal battles against the State of California, while ranting about cellphones, people trying to murder him (which since China Pest became a thing turned out to be "everybody refusing to use a cellphone in the premises of his nightclub"), software written by others, and of course, hating on Linux despite Mac (his platform of choice) being a similar dumpster fire these days. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-22, 20:39 in Weird things you did to overcome limitations
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Dinosaur
Post: #1130 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Oh, the "absurd hacks you have to do to get shit working" thread~! - I blew the USB VCC trace on the (now defunct) motherboard of Saki (a PCCHIPS M535/8, for those new here), circa 2006. This was because back then I wanted to test the USB ports but I didn't had a proper USB header, so instead I just jammed in an USB plug from an extension cord. While the contacts inside the USB plug had essentially the same pitch as the motherboard pin header connector (so the whole thing actually WORKED for a few seconds!), I neglected to isolate the metal shielding on the plug. What happens when you short VCC to GND? Things burn and melt, of course! Boom~ no more USB ports. Except that the only thing that went boom was the (fat) VCC trace. A precariously twisted short length of cable between the VCC pins on the header and a nearby diode (?) were enough to bring back the USB ports to life. But since I couldn't solder back then (and can't really do it that well now), the cable would get a bit loose every now and then. A small strip of cardboard shoehorned between the PSU and the bodge cable (enough to push things back in place) took care of that :P Aamzingly that setup hold reasonably well for nearly fifteen years! - Most old motherboards don't recognize large IDE/PATA drives (where their meaning of "large" varies according to whoever wrote the firmware for those). I got used to several strategies for that, none of those involving Ontrack DiskMangler™, thankfully. One was the 32GB clip jumper, which had had interesting effects: while on most drives it effectively became a hard cap (rendering the rest of the drive space inaccessible and unusable), Samsungs and Maxtors cheated a bit: with the jumper set, these drives would become "32GB" drives, but the rest of the space would be hidden in a HPA. This is enough to fool both firmwares and Windows, but Linux isn't stupid: all you needed was to create a partition that extended into the (fake) HPA, and boot. Presto, no more size limits! Of course your boot partition had to be under 32GB, but that was all. And if bootability was not of concern (say, for a secondary drive), just disable that IDE channel on BIOS and let the Linux kernel probe things on its own! Ever wanted 320GB PATA drives on a Socket 7 motherboard? (or even well into the terabyte world with a suitable SATA-to-PATA bridge) Now you can~! (and yes, that means that unofficially chipsets as old as the Intel 430VX/PIIX3 could do LBA48 on hardware - the barrier was only software/firmware) - Case fans secured with adhesive tape or cable ties, power connections poorly spliced, and even handmade adapters with no solder. Yes, I risked frying things in the quest to keep my hardware cool because this is Soviet Venezuela and our computer stores were poorly stocked/too expensive and buying online wasn't an option for college students/the unemployed. - I'm pretty sure I've done a couple The Daily WTF-frontpage quality routines in my professional career codebases. For example, messing with session beans on J2EE webapps from other sessions, relying on nearly undocumented APIs, Reflection shit, StackOverflow copypasta, and the silly "noone would use anything but Weld for CDI, right?" assumption (which for now has held true, and only because we get to define the application server base platform AKA "only WildFly is supported, which we'll gladly setup for you"). - The very reason I started cracking open laptops for fun and (sometimes) profit: because bsnes was throttling down my Dell Inspiron 6400! No, "dust sponges" are NOT OEM parts! Remove those, and you'll get your FPS back :) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-23, 03:32 in Cartoons, imported (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #1131 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/16039 I want THIS lovey shit made into in an anime, PRONTO. ...or at least a VN on Steam~ (At least the artist is on the good track for that, as Kadokawa officially published those in a book. Small steps!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-26, 01:40 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1132 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Venezuelan airline 747 cargo flight sets off alarms in Argentina Read the entire thread (where the OP has been doing a stellar job keeping up to date) - it's Academy Award material: every new finding on this mess unearths more shady crap, almost like a telenovela script. And of fucking course, it had to involve the sole 747 ever owned (but not really) by a Venezuelan airline, because that's how Communism™ rolls. Nearly every aviation forum has its eyes set over the weird end for one of the the last (if not the last) 747-300 in active service in the world. Except for Venezuelan avgeek boards, that is - those are largely ghost towns these days. Who is that fucking stupid enough to fly a plane full of terrorists hiding in plain sight, full of fake credentials for everything (even for the airplane itself!), to a country where they have a special hate towards this specific breed of terrorists? That's Soviet Venezuela for you! *sigh~* Also, A Certain German Car OEM will have to review more carefully their air freight contracts with a fine comb from now on, if only to stop pissing off regulators around the world... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-27, 23:11 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1133 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Not exactly: the Mexican firm hired a Spanish shell company, who hired the Venezuelan freighter, which departed Mexico with only two pilots (despite the -300 requiring a flight engineer!), but by the time it landed on Argentina, it was already full of terrorists. And apparently Volkswagen didn't even asked for THIS specific delivery of car seats, as another shipment of seats landed on another flight of a completely different airline a week later... and those seats are still waiting to be claimed by their owner at Ezeiza. Almost sounds like "wait, wasn't our stuff supposed to arrive later?" It's the ultimate deepfake, so real you can smell the jet fuel! This also means no Venezuelan airline is welcome anymore at Argentina (although we barely had flights down there since the pandemic started), as every ground handling service there is now afraid about having to service planes belonging to "terrorists". Our entire airline industry is a bad joke, for this and many, MANY other reasons. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-29, 01:49 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
Post: #1134 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
PSA: Don't buy Sonic Origins. Sega fucked it. HARD. What promised to be the ultimate Classic Sonic remake to best 'em all turned out to be a total disaster: What we were promised: - More Retro Engine goodness - A proper Sonic 3 remake for modern machines (sans the cursed M.J. tunes) - Sonic 1/2 console/PC ports from the Retro Engine codebase (which was cellphone-exclusive until now) - Five games, one low price - Proper widescreen support, since noone owns 4:3 displays anymore - More love from Taxman, Stealth, and friends, sprinkled with Vintage Sonic Team goodies What we got: - A whole pile of BUGS, because Sega had to half-ass and rush things in house due to Japanese pride (including breaking things that were working for AGES), instead of letting Stealth/Taxman its magic. Is that the toxic stench of burning bridges? - Subpar music (particularly in Sonic 3), despite having Jun Senoue on board - No widescreen support when playing on Classic mode (even when every prior release of Retro Engine-based ports had that as a selling point) - Denuvo, because of fucking course Sega had to deliver that pandemic this time too! - Very confusing (and pricey!) DLCs, because Sega knows that keying in the digits of your Visa/MC is far easier than just playing the games themselves - $40 for games we're tired of buying over and over and over Well done Sega... NOT! To be this horrible it takes AGES To be this horrible it takes SEEEE-GAAAAAH!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-06-30, 01:50 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #1135 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
And now, a quick recap of Soviet Venezuela's mobile phone data networks: 2G (GSM): Largely irrelevant these days, except for the commie-owned Movilnet ("inclusion", they say... and the sole reason you can still find $15 Chinesium 2G-only turds in the local market). Any (U)SIM card sold by Movistar/Digitel since 2018 or so won't roam on 2G AT ALL, and even if you still own a legacy SIM, chances are that the nearby 2G BTS is either dead or not letting you roam in (tested with my 2012-vintage Movistar 3G USIM: it will see the network where available, but won't register at all). Movistar/Digitel policy on 2G equipment is of plain ol' neglect (maybe upgrade a BTS to 4G when those legacy Huawei station gear die or get stolen). 3G (UMTS/WCDMA/HS*PA): - Movilnet: By far, the worst of the bunch. Don't bother, no matter how desperate you are and how tempting is that 120GB data bonus they're giving away with new activations now. Either the phone will never connect, or will get a blackholed IP (apparently they're now abusing reserved DoD 30.x.x.x IPs for their CGNAT, but if you get assigned one of those, your phone will get absolutely ZERO bytes of data). Maybe once in a blue moon you'll get routed through one of their still working 10.x.x.x IPs, but with high packet loss, sub-megabit DL/UL speeds, and your connection will die in a couple hours at best. Even the long dead CDMA2000 was better than that, people! - Movistar: Another bad joke. While this network works consistently better than Movilnet (as in "it can connect to Internet at the first try"), high packet loss and multi-minute stalls are the norm. Forget about any kind of multimedia, or even JPEGs most of the time! Mind you, this behavior is 24/7, so don't even waste your time trying to connect afterhours. - Digitel: Somewhere between the frying pan (Movistar) and the fire (Movilnet). Even messaging is almost impossible on good ol' HSPA. Yes, it is THAT bad. Unusable waste of radio spectrum. 4G (LTE): - Movilnet: *crickets* Supposedly they HAVE a live 4G LTE network since 2017, but it's basically on paper. Their 4G footprint is minimal, even after 5 years (for example: my city has NO LTE service yet, despite being a strategic oil city). - Movistar: Surprisingly decent! DL is awful (sub-megabit most of the time), but UL is awesome. Low packet loss, good pings, almost no stalls. Slow but stable, almost like early DSL. Sadly in my place coverage is kinda marginal, so my phone is always balancing between "live" and "NO SIGNAL". While my city got 4G relatively early in the game, coverage is still patchy at best, with most of the city having no LTE service yet. - Digitel: See 3G section. There is absolutely ZERO difference between UMTS and LTE on Digitel, despite being the first to shower our local airwaves with 4G LTE "progress". It is THAT bad, folks! My predictions on 5G in Soviet Venezuela: same tired shit of many-G's working at sub-GPRS performance. Movistar has a chance to actually bring 3.5G speeds to 5G... but then Telefonica has been kinda busy trying to GTFO Latam for the last few years (and my commie hellhole has MOST of the blame on that, being one of the former Telefonica cash cows back in the BlackBerry era). Maduro will have his paper 5G network, and Digitel will stick to its consistently awful service. Of course no matter which telco you choose, your bills will inflate every month: pay more for less, just because~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-01, 11:37 in Delivering internet media is still a giant clusterfuck.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1136 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
It's time to ban animated GIFs. At least I can block WebMs and other actual video formats on my browser. Can't do that with multi-megabyte "GIF videos" posted by memesters that don't give a fuck on people on garbage-tier/metered connections. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-01, 20:54 in Delivering internet media is still a giant clusterfuck.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1137 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Posted by creaothceann Touché. But in my defense, members of the jury, it's only two measly frames! LESS THAN ONE KILOBYTE! ...one kilobyte that my friendly telco will nicely bill rounded up to the next megabyte. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-01, 20:56 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #1138 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Next time kids want cash for season gifts, give them what they want. Like this dude did: https://nitter.nl/TwoClawsMedia/status/1210030954485633025 Now I want to do that, but with hyperinflationary money :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-02, 02:59 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
Post: #1139 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Dolphin just dropped support for Windows 7, the last decent Windows version ever. Oh, and Windows 8.x too, but nobody will shed a tear on those. Now Or I guess you can buy a LOLMAC HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAnope! Many new games won't run on Windows 7/8.x anyway, so either you already got forceupgraded to W10, just bought a shiny new PC and smeared it with W11 vomit, or already tested your luck with WINE/Proton. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 22-07-02, 14:45 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
Post: #1140 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 2 hours |
Gaming has never been a priority for Mac, ever since the first Mac (apparently Steve Jobs wasn't a fan of videogames), so nobody serious would buy one (much less an ARMac) for gaming. Of course, Apple makes mad cash over iOS gaming, but why would you want to play cellphone games on a PC? (spare me the "muh exclusives", please - fact is, a large part of cellphone games are rubbish or outright scams). The sole reason Apple hasn't fully unified Mac and iOS into a single platform yet (i.e. put a touchscreen on Macs) is that it would eat into their iPad revenues, but I guess it's matter of time (as Macs and iThings already use the same brains). As for gaming on WINE/Proton, it's more complicated. I've yet to try Proton (as my rule of thumb when buying games on Steam is "no tux no bux"), but I've heard Valve has been doing an herculean effort to offer a seamless experience. Unfortunately, it will never be a silver bullet: - 3rd-party DRM/anticheat solutions, especially those war criminals still bothering with kernel-level shitware. Dealing with DRM/anticheat on WINE is a minefield, while kernel-level garbage (that should be outlawed and punished with public caning over the publisher CEOs and shareholders) is obviously a no-fly zone. - Quirky Japanese games often doing sick stuff because rules were made to be bent. Even today, for many Japanese games (including a LOT of VNs), it's not enough with "LANG=ja_JP.UTF8 wine ./erogame.exe". Last time I bothered checking, one of my favorites (Recettear) didn't had audio AT ALL under any version of WINE/Proton, for example. Or try running the original Melty Blood - it took literally A DECADE AND A HALF for WINE to get sprites working, which on a fighting game it's the whole point of the software! JP devs often do nasty things on their code and you would be surprised of the fact that their games actually RUN on their intended target platforms... - Gamedevs fixations over MS-specific shinies (DX12+ being the main one), instead of going with cross-platform standards... wait, at this stage, OpenGL/Vulkan are getting confined to Linux, as Apple opted out of those years ago, and consoles have been always on their own separate leagues. To be sincere, I want more native ports, not compatibility layers, but I get that ports can be hard and not worth the extra 1% sales, but still... At least it's great to see the push Valve is giving to WINE, if only to protect their revenue streams. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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