MudMan

They already made it simple, are you kidding me? You are running a different OS inside an entrirely fictitious computer that doesn’t exist, and it takes a few clicks to set up on stock software that comes with your OS or is freely downloadable online. The whole thing is magic.

Magic that is still way below the awareness of common users. I’m not acting like “no one” wants to use VMs, I’m telling you that, at scale, this is not key functionality for the vast majority of the userbase. Which is entirely accurate.

And because the vast majority of the userbase is on Windows and doesn’t even know this would be a problem, that’s not WHY they’re on Windows or not on Linux. It’s not even a “tiny brain” thing, it’s just what people use (and don’t use) computers for.

This is demonstrably wrong on a scale where it loops around to becoming hard to explain, so that’s a neat trick.

There are enough people who have never heard of or don’t understand the concept of virtual machines to keep Windows as the biggest mainstream OS several times over. There isn’t a “root layer” in computers as far as normal humans are concerned. They’re computers and then a Windows pops up and that’s how that works.

At the very most, they understand conversion layers on the basis of having gone from an old Macbook to a new Macbook, and even that is like a tenth of the market (still several times bigger than Linux adoption, though).

The idea that a mass of people are waiting on the sidelines, chomping at the bit for direct GPU access through an extra layer of software fine tuning to be able to run some brand name Windows app with no Linux version is absurd. Even games are not the problem, as evidenced by that being mostly solved via Proton and not changing much.

I don’t mind either way, but man, consider what other assumptions you may be making that are wildly off, particularly if they’re on something more important than your hopes for relative OS market share on home computers.

What type of news editor for a hardware review outlet gets that wrong? That’s as weird as the Snowden thing. If you have that job you’ve surely been joking about AMD’s shameful “we just want to use the same name as Nvidia” thing for ages by now. This thing is so surreal.

So to put the likelihood of this in perspective, let me just repeat it to see if I understand the claim.

You’re saying that one of the big reasons of Windows’ market share is how artificially inefficient it is to install Linux, spin up a Virtual Machine, run Windows inside THAT and then run a game?

That’s the mainstream use case that is propping up Windows adoption in this scenario?

Wait, did the guy refuse to call AMD’s 9070 by its official name out of spite there at the end? Is this a weird tech The Onion thing?

You… may not have been following the news for the past couple of years.

Doesn’t quite look like “quiet death mistaken for peace” out there, and it seems like the world destroying is very much being done with guns, as per usual.

Endless capitalist growth and wealth accumulation is still bad, though, don’t get me wrong, and oligarchy is, as always, tied to all the rest of it. That’s just a bit of a reductionist take.

The “underlying value” isn’t much of a concern if you’re someone seeking funding or a small investor. It’s also not much of a concern if the “unchecked moral hazards” are still funneling money towards a small group of capitalists. Or if the political ramifications of the reporting are impactful in other areas.

It’s not a media conspiracy if all the real world consequences are based on the same consensual reality. “It’s all fake reporting anyway” is not a valid response here, even without disputing the base assumptions, which I probably would.

Man, the hysterical, unhinged US market just has no chill.

Someone came up with a better chatbot-- “OMG, superintelligence is here and is inevitable, all hail our robot overlords and their broligarch creators!”

Somebody outside the US had an idea to train a chatbot for cheaper-- “OMG, US tech is doomed, they have no recourse against this and all the hardware is now worthless!”

Maybe if the markets weren’t constantly freaking the hell out about any semblance of technological innovation in search for the next Google or Apple they woldn’t have to deflate like a balloon each time reality sets in.

You were talking to it in Portuguese? Because I definitely managed to get R1 to freak out using less frequent languages and just spout gibberish.

In any case, that’s not unique to this model, either. People need to stop taking chatbot statements about themselves as if a person was self-identifying. Most declarations of a chatbot about itself are either enforced manually or wild guesses. The chatbot doesn’t know about itself any more than it knows about any other subject.

I don’t even know if “good deal” makes sense in abstract anymore.

At this point I’d look at it the other way. If you want a PC you want to decide on a budget first, then see what mix of parts gets you the features you want. A good deal for a 1K build may not look anywhere near the same as one for a 2K machine. Or a good deal for someone into competitive FPS at 1080p on a 1K build may not look the same than a single player person looking to put games on a 4K TV.

Display tech and even software design is so wildly different now it’s all a bunch of interlocked decisions. Building PCs in the 90s and 00s was easy: games did one thing, which was put some frames on a CRT monitor. You bought the best thing you could afford to do the thing on the thing. These days it’s more flexible, but also more complicated, unless you’re going for top of the line, money-is-no-object stuff.

Yeah, I hear they’re not allowed to watch porn until 18 either and that works flawlessly.

Beyond questions of implementation this to me sounds like maybe we’re replacing Instagram with Fortnite, but it sure will be interesting to see how it plays out. I guess trying something is better than trying nothing.

Meeeeh… at the cost of breaking up the experience pretty severely.

They did it that way in the days of anaglyph 3D because the color filtering made a mess of everything else about the movie With modern shutter or polarization you can just watch the whole thing that way with minimum issues.

And even those proved to be too much. Nothing short of perfect glassless seems to be enough. I can’t imagine people would accept paying 600 bucks of a bulky HMD, stop a movie halfway and strap that on just to get immersive VR effects when they could just be playing a VR game instead.

Maybe as part of a more expansive mixed media thing, like in a museum or a theme park. For movie watching I don’t think it’d take.

Well, 3D was a feature on many high end TVs, all the way to the start of the OLED era. It’s not like it was mandatory to use. But yeah, not everybody was into it, and I certainly would much prefer glassless 3D as with the 3DS. The big problem there is supporting multiple viewers at once. I would definitely take it for a monitor or a phone, all else being equal.

How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems… very specific.

The idea with 3D TVs is they could do 3D on demand. They failed because even the lightweight 3D glasses were a bit of a hassle. It’s fine in a movie theatre, more or less, where you know you’ll be seated for the whole thing, but at home you don’t want anything extra sitting on your face, let alone putting stuff on and off mid-movie.

I agree on the VR filmwatching being ass thing, though. It’s hot, sweaty and isolating to do at home when your TV is right there, and it’ll take a whooole lot of normalizing before I pull out a HMD while I’m on a plane or a train without feeling like a complete idiot, regardless of whatever Apple was thinking about how the Vision Pro would get used.

I did it fairly often throughout. Left the 3D slider of my 3DS cranked up permanently, too, if you must know.

Either way I do own a bunch of 3D Blurays until they started making you choose between 3D and 4K and eventually stopped making them altogether.

You get to choose your format if you dump your own media. Plus you also get to host a media server and stop paying to not watch Netflix.

There are tons of options to play back 3D media on a HMD. Honestly my complaint here is that watching media on a virtual screen in VR kinda sucks. The quality just isn’t there and you still have a big thing strapped to your face. I’d much rather have good glass-free screens and leave VR for VR things, but it doesn’t seem to be the way tech is going.

Is this a big deal? I realize I have a skewed view because I dropped Google search ages ago, but… when I need maps results I go to a maps app, I never really relied on the search bar for that, even when I did use Google search.

Now who is confusing weather with climate?

It’s an article telling you that inflation wasn’t as high as intitially expected. Doesn’t mean prices went down, but it’s still good news against the alternative.

We’ve looped back around to arguing about the meaning of “positive”, which mostly tells me this is entirely a discussion about vibes, and maybe that’s the best takeaway anybody can get from it.

Ironically that is genuinely all I’m asking for. And yet I don’t think that’s true.

Yes, we do, you wonderful unique genius of an angsty fifteen year old.

It’s not that hard to understand, you are not possessed of a unique insight that somehow has eluded every economist on the planet.

You just haven’t figured out that getting angy on the Internet about how everybody is dumb is not the game changer you think it is. Turns out meaningfully altering the collective behavior of eight billion people, each with their own individual set of incentives, is less responsive to an earnestly worded social media post that one may think.

Also, you may have to be more specific about who “we” is supposed to be. Whose economic model are we talking about? Everybody’s? Just how much granularity are you considering here, if any at all?