Holy mackerel, GrapheneOS and Ironfox are free, unmonetized software ya know…

Guess I’m not surprised, but you Apple users live like this?

“Deploy the yellow smoke for the waffle-copter supply drop!”

“Man, this deployment in [southeast state] is really testing my grits…”

You can use it on PC! :D

Theoretically? Although we’d need to do some testing first as a community before we confirm that’s the case (or build a solution to it).

During the “Gold Rush” era (Wild West 1800s), there were plenty of people descending onto California to try and make their fortunes by staking out land to mine and pan for gold.

However, the first millionaire wasn’t anyone who got lucky staking out a mine. It was the largest store owner in the area selling all these prospective miners their shovels to dig with.

The “AI industry” has a lot of parallels here, but everyone wants to be the store owner, and hardly anyone has a genuine need for their tools.

You can buy counter strike and tf2 defunct trading platform accounts that are decades old for pennies on the dollar.

Thanks to sandboxing in GrapheneOS, I haven’t ran into any of those issues. Things like banking apps that are only available through the play store ecosystem can be installed anonymously via Aurora, and play services can’t usurp the sandbox, so you can limit the permissions of it and all apps (including spoofing permissions that they can’t actually use)

A) You’ll have people selling their place in line, which means that those who can afford to take a large quantity of orders in advance can profit from the difference

B) It’s not exactly good PR to order something and having to wait a variable window of time for it to finally arive at your door (see almost all Bethesda merch incidents post Fallout NV)

C) Valve doesn’t operate like a dropshipper. There is no “white label” steam controller being made in china that they can slap their logo on and sell as soon as people order for it. They have to contract volume in advance, since it’s a bespoke product.

Oh yeah the new california map is amazing, but some of the quest designs have me scratching my head at times.

I think I just walked in here from searching about VR stuff, but you can 3d print a PCVR headset and assemble with off the shelf components for under $150 USD (there’s an article on hackaday), or buy used headsets for $200-300. It’s not unobtainable to most, I think.

“Y’know, I’m somethin’ of a scientist m’self.”

• Redneck Engineers

You can run it through Winboat or via a standard VM, but like Adobe they hate you running it via Wine, and will try to block you from doing so.

So your best bet will be VM+GPU passthrough.

Then you run into the problem of generalizing about a wide spectrum of ages. I’m older genZ, and have experience with all of these things as part of hobby projects and my career. Obviously the iPad kids haven’t.

Boomers are reliably feeble with technology across their entire age spectrum. Gen Alpha has very few experienced enough because of their circumstances and age gap.

Yep, the future is now, huh?

Dude, I’m an electrical engineer born in 02.

That’s a consequence of the native ports not being maintained by most studios, especially post-proton.

That might change in the future though.

“Some assembly required”

Yarr.

Considering I got rammed into twice by distracted drivers, it makes a modicum of sense.

“porque no los dos?”