What it needs is for the rig you have now to be basically playable. If it’s playable on Windows, it should be playable on Linux. Losing a couple of fps is frankly not a big deal if it’s still overall playable.
Setting aside some anti-cheat issues, it mostly is. Nvidia has some abysmal inconsistencies in a few titles.
And yet there’s still LTT forum idiots posting on how “Steve is just running a drama channel”.
On a tangent, I appreciate this bit in Daniel Whiteson’s answer:
“I’m not a fan of categorizing things as ‘science’ or ‘not science,’ because who knows what nerdy curiosity will lead to a discovery?”
And also in Thomas Van Riet’s answer:
“People say that without experiment we cannot call one theory better than another. That is plain wrong. There are many consistency checks, which are ridiculously hard to pass. Can you compute black hole entropy? String theorists were able to compute it in very idealized circumstances and reproduced Hawking’s famous formula for black hole entropy!”
You’ll sometimes see flat earthers, creationists, etc. taking a textbook definition of the Scientific Method, claim that anything that doesn’t do that is “not science”, and therefore wrong. Except that’s not at all how it works. The important part is gathering data to support your claims. That data could be experimental, but it could also be observational.
Is that anything unique to Hitler?
Is there any value to analyzing his DNA? The idea that evil is genetic is itself feeding into some Nazi ideas about eugenics that are deeply wrong.
For satire to work, it has to be based on something real.
Funny, I was just reading about this sort of thing in “How to blow up a pipeline”. It’s the sort of argument that seems obvious in retrospect.
When someone in the global south uses a coal stove to cook their food, they’re doing it by necessity. When a billionaire sails out on a mega yacht, it’s pure excess. Yeah, banning them won’t make the difference between 1.5C and 2.0C of global warming, but it’s low hanging fruit.
We can also ban private jets, and the only significant impact to the economy would be that some billionaires have to travel around in first class like some kind of lowly multimillionaire or upgraded plebian.
It does not matter if you think Valve makes good products or not.
All of this is going to be based on the fluctuation of RAM prices and tariffs, as well as whether or not Valve has an existing stockpile of RAM from 6 months ago.
FWIW, Sony just announced a Japan-only PS5, sans optical drive, for about $350. Now, US prices are remaining higher, but the GabeCube is likely to have less performance than a PS5. I can’t see them going much over $600 and still having a value proposition. Even that is going to be based on the gigantic library of Steam games that can be played on it that aren’t on the PS5.
It’s because of this:
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465289/ps5-vs-ps4-sales-comparison-june-2025/
Align PS4 and PS5 sales to their launch date, and you’ll see that the PS5 has been lagging behind. Not by a lot, but it’s noticeable. This is despite the fact that The Xbox Series X/S is doing a bit worse than the Xbox One, and the One did a lot worse than the 360. Nintendo, of course, is in another room doing its own thing.
Sony expected every generation to sell better than the last. The market has clearly hit a saturation point, so that expectation is no longer valid. Combine that with the fact that Moore’s Law (originally defined as the price per integrated component dropping) is completely dead. That means you can no longer expect better hardware to get cheaper. You might be able to find fabs that can give you more performance, but it’ll cost you.
This is why the GabeCube is a good idea from a business persepctive. It will likely have better performance than the Xbox Series X/S, but not as good as the PS5. What it can do is be affordable with good enough hardware. The specs appear to be a bit Frankenstein, which is what you’d expect if Valve grabbed whatever deals on things they could find to put something together.
Not coincidentally, Data is seen as an autistic/adhd/neurospicy hero. He has friends but feels like an outsider. His friends do like him even when he misreads social cues. If he does have emotions, he’s processing them in a mechanical way.
So no, I don’t think you’re projecting anything that wasn’t there already.
Astronomy still has imperialism problems. Best places for telescopes (radio or optical) aren’t around white people. Sometimes they’re more agreeable to the local population than others.
Roddenberry loved his god-like children plots. Charlie X. Trelane. Even Q. Every time he had writers block, he’d spew out another one of those.
I always try to park further back because of this. Then I still underestimate it and can’t find where I parked.
With motorcycles, it’s almost mandatory to park further back. People will try to pull in, hit the bike, knock it over, and then drive off like nothing happened. If confronted, it’s your fault for riding a bike.
I’m not so concerned with the instruction set. The differences are generally overrated.
I’m concerned about monopoly power. Out of three companies that can legally make modern x86-64 processors, AMD is the only one worth talking about anymore. Unless China wants to throw some major weight into restarting VIA’s x86 line, that’s not likely to change. China seems fine with ARM and RISC-V, and ignoring x86.
The competition on the horizon is no longer AMD vs Intel. It’s AMD vs ARM vs RISC-V.
They’re both calibrated against a stupid wet molecule that carbon based life on this planet is addicted to.
Introducing: the Nihon. 0Nh is the freezing point of Nihonium at 1 bar pressure, and 100Nh is the boiling point. Well, theoretical freezing and boiling points. Nihonium is one of those elements that doesn’t stick around long enough to be studied. But we thought really hard about it, did some shit with particle accelerators, and we’re pretty sure these numbers are good.
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Which could be seen as a way of defining the mechanics of how emotions work.
I think there are very good arguments that Data does have emotions, but they get expressed in different ways. If curiosity is considered an emotion (I’ve read competing ideas on that), then Data certainly has at least one emotion.
The Orville explicitly ran with this idea.
There’s a Westly Sweater minifig.
Weyoun wants to hit that.
If you didn’t know this, it’d be weird how many academics are in the Epstein files. Once you do know it, it’s obvious.
Oh, and Robert Maxwell was legitimately a badass in WW2. Everything terrible about him starts after that.