In the last 24 hours I've had a great time playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on my laptop, feeling pleased about my 800+ games on Steam and the fact that I'm not having my life ruined by Shigeru Miyamoto's lawyers. This is what people get wrong about boycotts and the defeatist refrain, "no ethical consumption under capitalism." It ignores that, on the example of Nintendo, I have not purchased any of their systems since the New 2DS XL. No Switch, definitely no Switch 2. And in leveraging that opportunity cost I have instead directed my resources to one of their competitors, which has had immediate benefits for my own personal life.
It's not about what you want to kill, it's about what you want to grow. I am helping to support the increased use of Linux by using Linux, paying for products that have Linux, and naturally advertising for Linux as a result of that being a part of my life. I don't care how successful Nintendo is, because I am already free from their enshittification.
It's really not, and evidently you don't know jack shit about the discussions, studies, and history in piracy. If you did, you'd know that a primary argument in favor of the free sharing of information is that as we consume media, we effectively become free advertising for that media. So by claiming my stance is a "weirdo interpretation", you are undermining one of the pillars that supports movements to make info and culture more free.
You're basically saying boycotts are ineffective. That's bullshit. Sure I know Nintendo isn't going away, but now I'm putting my time, effort, and money towards the goods and services from a more deserving company. And Nintendo is gone from my life.
It's about what you want to grow, not what you want to die.
I guess it must be a hot take, because it gets downvoted a lot every time I say this, but...
I think it's better to boycott Nintendo outright, rather than pirate their games. Piracy is still promotion, it still benefits them, and anyone going out of their way to facilitate Nintendo piracy is clearly putting themselves at great risk. Even video content creators who are doing nothing illegal are at risk of legal battles they often can't afford.
Nothing that Nintendo comes out is so uniquely great that it's worth putting up with their awful business practices, fan abuse, and general enshittification. As far as video game platforms go, Steam provides orders of magnitude more value for the same cost, and they are doing genuinely good work advancing the quality and popularity of Linux.
Exactly this. 7 was absolutely the peak of Windows. Everything after was enshittification, and everything prior was still less user-friendly and rough around the edges.
And anyone arguing XP was peak should try installing XP and try connecting to wifi. Talk about a mess. XP was only a marginal upgrade over 98/2000, but with some glossy paint. 7 was the first time Windows felt modern.
Oooh, I wonder if they're going to pursue a free phone based on Risc-V. It's a longshot but if they pull that off, it'd be like feeding two birds with one scone.
Yeah sure, but that's not the greater issue. It's a question of whether I have any interest in putting up with cast iron's hassles, when I know I don't have to. It also doesn't help that cast iron is a very oil-centric kind of cooking, and I generally don't use any added fats in my cooking. It just doesn't make sense for me to use it.
I was done with cast iron when I got a new cast iron pan that rusted the same day because it was humid and I didn't get a chance to glaze it for just a few too many hours.
Oh well, I prefer to do big batches of one-pot cooking anyway. Simple, easy, efficient.
That is the unfortunate thing, it is clearly a very well designed controller. Even just the form factor - unlike any other controller I've had, the Xbox one has a just right feel to it. And it has by far the best dpad I've used (albeit loud).
Although I've always grown up with Sony controllers, so for me the ideal would be something like the Xbox controller, but with both analogs either on bottom or top (like the Wii U Pro controller).
Yeah after some searches it sounded like updating the controller might fix the bootloop issue. Running the accessories app for the controller through Linux seemed like a no-go, so for me the path of least resistance was putting Windows on an old laptop I don't generally use anymore.
Updating fixed the bootloop issue, until it didn't. The lesson I'm taking from all of this is to not buy Xbox controllers anymore. Currently the DualSense is my main, but I'm looking at the Gulikit ES Pro at some point.
If I ever find a controller that has a companion app that natively runs on Linux, that's what I will prefer. But really, controllers needing to be updated is dumb to begin with.
That's a good question. What evidence do we have for the existence and prevalence of obesity in prehistoric humans?