And it looked impressive in some biomes with natural disasters, but other than that it's miles and miles of (comfy?) desolation and boredom. If not for scattered remains of gameplay, it could've been it's own art thing.
This screencap can spread and have a life of it's own separate from whatever context the post has. It is a meme to me, but this kind of memes is sure not created by artisan mememakers.
IoT is Internet of Things, devices where you usually don't know there is even Windows to begin with, due to some McDonalds Menu Picker overlay or whatever. There is no market for Microsoft acc or OneDrive as they are by themselves are rarely meddled with and are installed en masse. They would get security updates for 10 another years. But besides some differences, only corpos and no end user have a reasonable access to said release, so if you may be checked for legitimity of your software e.g. you try to use it in your business and get caught, it's obvious you haven't bought keys for it. So it's for personal use only.
I'm pissed most youtubers cherished it like a God's own baby. It led me to finally unsub from Angry Joe I forgot I followed from earlier years. There were just a few bloggers who said they didn't like it or pointed any problem with it.
The hype building up behind CP2077 made me curious, but I couldn't care about it after ten hours in. I'm still not sure if it's not my type of game/storytelling, or that I wanted too much from it (or was prepared to hate it as an ordinary reddit contrarian), but I feel like I don't understand why people liked it or want to replay it now.
In contrast I do know Doom: Ethernal was definetely not my type. I'm a huge Doom/Quake fan, and jumping puzzles, gimmicky mapmaking, maraudeurs, resource farming routine, the fact you can't kill stuff without constant QTEing were frustrating. The way they constantly show you how awesome and brutal you are in the cutscenes is just damn cheap. For me it was a downgrade from short but breathtaking Doom 2016. I'm happy it makes money to do great remasters with new episodes though.
As a counter example, as I played Like a Dragon games back to back, I've seen the sentiment that the third game, the first unremastered game in a chronological order, is the worst one for a modern gamer, even called Blockuza for enemies behavior. While I can understand that, I find it's bearing one of the greatest emotional moments for the main character, as well as the less confusing storyline that 4 and 5 tried to pull. The 6th game revisits the same vibe space, but does so in a more technologically advanced and experienced way, and it means a lot. So I think the antihype there can be unfair too.
If and when W10 become unusable, I'll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it's my last Windows.
Depending on your usage, it may mean years, especially as it's IoT that iirc has longer update cycle.
Microsoft didn't lock anything meaningful behind w11 upgrade, like they did with DirectX versions, RAM limits etc. So as long as your software doesn't drop Win10 support (like Steam dropped Win7 just a couple of years ago), you'd be fine.
It would be pretty interesting to see where Linux would be by that time tho.
I'd have liked to make an installation of a dozen of them, an altar, like you can see in some games/movies. All of them on top of each other with different angles, but showing you something in sync, before every one of them shows a glitching digital eye looking at you.
Reading OP and thinking about their misinformed understanding of what they are doing, I came upon an idea I propose to all of you: the almighty Babylonian Compression Algorythm.
As long as we have all combinations of (say, 256x256px) images in the database, we can cut down image size to just a reference to a file in said database.
It produces a bit-by-bit copy of any image without any compression, so it puts OOP's project to shame. Little, almost non-existent problem is having access to said database, bloated with every existing but also not-yet-existing image. But since OOP's solution depends on proprietary ChatGPT on someone else's server, we are on par there.
I'd counter, but realistically just add to your sentiment by vouching for having non-online alternatives for most of our needs. Banking and government's services in my country are on the edge of going full web/sim-driven, and I don't like it that way. If I happen to get the delivery from my post office, they default to sms confirmation, and I'm not sure if I can get my parcel just by showing my ID card.
Internet access should be a human right, just as avoiding it should.
I'd probably try to reflect onto how this topic or that person are relevant to you right now. There're random chances to just remember stuff, but if it drove you to post it, you think that's important, and this argument is probably unresolved or led to a less than enjoyable results.
You're going to have to measure and evaluate something. In my experience, corporations loves measuring all the wrong things. They can usually barely even define what "performance" means, never mind measure it correctly.
I'm wondering if there is even the right way to do that in most trades, and moreso a uniformal way to do it across several activities. Maybe the whole conversation is misleading and inescapably drive you off the path, because the problem itself is erroneously set. Like this blurry line when you start to care about genetics that much it start to smell like eugenics. Measuring people's worth in money does leave this bitter taste, and under capitalism you are supposed to do so to get by, if not as a boss, but as a worker estimating own value convertable into quality of life. It wasn't always the case, and probably, the bright future is when we will abandon this concept and would freely replicate food from reusable and abundant energy traversing space and searching for it's many wonders.
One half-finished racing game that boasted having the largest open world at the time on consoles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_(video_game)
And it looked impressive in some biomes with natural disasters, but other than that it's miles and miles of (comfy?) desolation and boredom. If not for scattered remains of gameplay, it could've been it's own art thing.