alessandro

...as you can see, if you buy from dev's website you get to buy the advertised Linux's version. A Dev that publish exclusively on Epic store is de facto forced to trash away any additional Linux support they may have put into.

Basically, if a Dev support Linux, the time they go exclusively on Epic became essentially windows-only.

Bypass Epic completely, buy the drm-free .zip files from the website.

You can buy from website and Tim Sweeny don't get a single ¢. If giving money to Valve is your other issue, you can also try ask for Gaben's bank account and put there an additional fee as cutshare for your purchase.

You get to see companies taking the hit only when they shut down. Before than that, you get only to see human people lose their livelihood

Gotta lift a different issue here.

There are other Olympics event that can be directly traced as product placement?

Because, let's assume that the esport picked is Fortnite... wouldn't be the whole event a big ads for Epic (I am sure they would also put big money to lobby hard in this)?

Olympics are expected to promote products with ads, billboards and whatever... but the event itself?

Is still Bethesda, you've gone too far.

yeah but it didn’t try to lock him into a subscription plan or software ecosystem

Not AI fault, the first one (killed) was a remotely controlled by the product of a big corp (Skynet), the other one was a local, offline one.

Moral of the story: there's difference between the AI that runs locally on your GPU and the one that runs on Elon's remote servers... and that difference may be life or death.

Didn't John Connor befriend the second IA he find?

All your unattended date will be taken (and some of the attended one). This doesn't mean you should stop to attend your data. Even of you're somehow forced to use Windows instead open alternative, it doesn't mean you can't dual boot or use other privacy conscious devices when dealing with your sensitive data.

Closed/proprietary OS and hardware driver can't be considered safe by design)

(Snapdragon) from mildly interesting to zero.

I don't think the poll question was well made... "would you like part away from your money for..." vaguely shakes hand in air "...ai?"

People is already paying for "ai" even before chatGPT came out to popularize things: DLSS