Holy title gore, Batman.

But anyway, hooray.

“We have some exciting news to share: our talented developers gave Steam Deck players the option to play Assassin’s Creed Shadows at launch; despite initially announcing we wouldn’t be able to support until later,”

Edit: We just wanted to deny that we’re not not going to do the thing at said we wouldn’t not be able to do.

That’s pretty plausible. Inexperienced engineer plus overheating…good chance that adds up to a malware infection.

Yeah. Hiring inexperienced children into government isn’t fraud, by itself. But I bet it makes fraud way easier.

has Elmo only hired people who claim that they can “wrangle data” and say “yes” ?

There’s two issues going on:

1. Elmo’s sociopathic approach to laying people off is public knowledge, and top experts have the luxury of not even applying for his jobs.
2. Elmo’s ability to judge engineering talent has likely been wildly exaggerated thanks to how he has successfully bought organizations full of talented people, in the past.

Jokes on him. I push bugs to production all the time anyway.

That’s probably the one I’m running. My vision isn’t good enough for 4k video, so I never tried.

Edit: I think my TV is too cheap anyway actually. Lol.

There are de-googled builds for Raspberry Pi TV Android without Google’s stuff.

I typically solve this by:

1. Factory reset the Smart TV to take it offline.
2. Install Android TV on a Raspberry Pi and connect it.
3. Mount the Raspberry Pi to the back of the TV with some Velcro tape.

The result is most of the convenience of a Roku with none of the privacy concerns.

And as others have said, JellyFin is a great addition for watching home movies, or any other Mp3 or MP4 files.

But also, the most Android streaming apps just work.

As of when I posted this:

• Disney+ works now.
• DropOut.tv works now.
• Netflix worked last time I tried it.
• Amazon Prime worked last time I tried it.
• Paramount Plus doesn’t work no matter what I try. (But I’m not willing to add Google Framework Service, which would likely work.)

Paramount Plus also has more trackers in it than any other Android app I’ve used, so I tend to avoid sending them money anyway.

“Mom, I want Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 Remastered.”

“We have a skateboard game at home.”

Neat. I’ve been holding out for a new higher quality retro emulator without sticks. The old games I want to play don’t use sticks, and the sticks make it harder to carry in a pocket.

Get her a Raspberry Pi! Lol.

I’m pretty sure that if you use elevated privileges to run commands you don’t understand, you can break Windows just as much as you can break Linux.

I can confirm.

Source: I learned most of what I know about computers (which is genuinely quite a lot), by doing dumbass stupid stuff I didn’t understand yet.

The big thing that changed side 2010 is that most distros are perfectly usable on most hardware.

I keep tossing Linux onto random stupid hardware I have lying around, and lately it just goes spectacularly well.

I should be ashamed of even asking if Linux will run on it, but Linux ends up running well on it.

Around 2010, I used to tell people that if they did their research and used Mint, for simple web stuff, they’re going to be fine.

Lately I end up telling people “I don’t know how to do that advanced thing you’re debating which Windows product to pay for, because, of the last three random Linux distros I tried, all thee provided it for free and pre-configured with sensible defaults”.

I’m sure there’s still plenty of interesting reasons to need a paid operating system. But for the simple practical stuff, I find Linux so much easier, even on my random poorly researched distros and hardware combinations.

I might well have just had an incredibly lucky streak, of course.

Thanks. I’m aware of that…

Just to be clear, the person answering Flatpaks isn’t being flippant. Any tools, editors or games that Mom wants, she can safely install by searching and clicking ‘intall’, all without enough permissions to harm her computer.

Linux, for less technical parents, is genuinely really nice, now.

Considering how difficult it still can be to get root on Android, I understand the shade, though.

Yeah. I’m still looking for a good answer to create. There’s a huge number of technology mods in Luanti, but I haven’t found one with the same maturity, yet. If I find one that’s close, I may fork and update it, yet.

I think I’m most of the way to having AE2 replaced, for my needs, using Pipeworks and SWRobots.

All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.

Yeah. It’s wild!

Waterfall has been a negative term in software from it’s very first use in software.

Ultra wide gaming works fine for Luanti, lol.

(Which has vanilla Minecraft level graphics. I’m just trying to make you laugh with this comment.)