Not really sure why there was outrage for this. 16GB has been seen as the minimum going back to COVID times? (If I recall correctly?) 32GB is a reasonable amount to recommend if they expect a user will also be running a browser and discord while gaming.
The windows 11 team at Microsoft isn't responsible for the realities of modern software. The community bulling them into pretending that 32GB isn't a good recommendation these days doesn't actually help anything
It's almost like putting up a speed camera on a stroad does absolutely nothing to address the design issues that caused people to drive fast on those roads to begin with 🙄
Ya for sure in this case the platform that hosts the downloads is going down, but that was never the promise of distributed platforms like this. It's more like owning a CD that still requires an internet connection to download the updates.
You're free to give that CD to anyone you want, but if the publisher shuts down the server you're shit out of luck.
In theory someone else could come along, leverage that some blockchain and let people get access to their games again (this isn't actually going to happen)
Now I know I'm making a lot of assumptions on how this platform actually implemented blockchain and such, but that is how the technology under the hood works. The part that I assume breaks this is that i bet that the company actually maintained private keys on behalf of the users, and if users didn't actually have their private key then there was actually no benefit to the blockchain and it was just a marketing ploy.
Am I misundersnding somethings here? It's the ownership/license that is decentralized. So a user could do whatever they wanted with that license (keep it, resell it, give it away). But at the end of the day there always needs to be a way to use that license to download the game files. That's the bit that is shutting down.
This distinction likely doesn't matter to the people losing access to the game, but most of the comments here seem to fundamentally misunderstand the setup here.
An opinion piece? Really? City budgets are public, it isn't even that hard to right a real journalist piece on it. But reading this opinion piece and seeing the publication, I now just assume that Calgary (like most other municipalities in Canada) have been getting less funding per year from their provinces and have been forced to make ends meet in other ways. So like most of the problems in Canada, I'm assuming this is a n issue created by provincial governments and this article is trying to refocus the blame elsewhere
Isn't this the best option? The reason to push this onto Operating systems is because they could in theory do the verification completely client side without involving a remote service.
And if applications can then just use that age check API provided by the OS it would greatly increase the privacy of these types of features.
(I'm not at all trying to say I support these sorts of checks, I'm just asking this under the assumption that these age gates are here to stay)
I don't know if Alberta is like Ontario, but here in Ontario over the last 3 decades the province has slowly been reducing how much it transfers to cities while also offloading more expenses onto those cities.
This has resulted in:
higher house prices as cities have needed to start adding large fees to house building in-order to help balance the books (and raising property taxes is always very unpopular)
worse public transit as the provinces now expect cities to take on more of those expenses.
And likely other things too. But those are the ones always on my mind
Curious to see where this lands. I'm not in that space, but it sounds to me like this could be an overcorrection before we know how much more common those rarer items are becoming. It still all comes down to luck of the trade ups
I'm so surprised that municipalities weren't willing to reduce development charges when they had a promise of maybe possibly getting provincial funding. I never could have imagined that would happen...
Which books would you recommend? I know very little, the part I'm most familiar with is instilling distrust in public institutions is one of the early steps towards fascism.
I've also naively connected the Canadians right's insistance on stirring distrust in CBC, statscan data, Health Canada, PBO, etc as a step away from a free democracy towards fascism or one of the other forms of governments that depends on lack of information.
I keep retyping what I want to say, but I think my feelings come down to:
There are 150 million switch 1's in the wild, that's going to continue to be a massive pull for developers when porting new games.
Many families may already have the switch 1, are the exclusives enough of a pull to encourage those people to upgrade?
I do think the switch 2 will do just fine, but I also think there are a lot of people who loved their switch 1 who might look at the games they played, and look at upgrading to a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.
You said something untrue and then tried to continue to justify it as if it were true. If you were indeed trying to make a joke by exaggerating that should have been your initial response to my question, but instead you run into it.
You don't have to dumb anything down, if anything you need to step it up a notch if you're trying to pass off lies as truth 😛
Edit: if you're curious, what you did isn't hyperbole at all. Hyperbole would be suggesting that Brookfield will own all the rental properties, or something along those lines.
Trying to state that the government is planning to work with Brookfield to do this program isn't hyperbole unless there is a grain of truth to exaggerate, which there isn't. You can't exaggerate a lie and turn it into hyperbole.
It doesn't matter what carney was the president off. You said that Brookfield would be the owner of these houses, and based of the evidence we have and you provided, there is zero proof that that's the case.
There is nothing else really to discuss. You made something up and stared it as fact, and you acknowledge that it's at best a guess based off weak connections.
Not really sure why there was outrage for this. 16GB has been seen as the minimum going back to COVID times? (If I recall correctly?) 32GB is a reasonable amount to recommend if they expect a user will also be running a browser and discord while gaming.
The windows 11 team at Microsoft isn't responsible for the realities of modern software. The community bulling them into pretending that 32GB isn't a good recommendation these days doesn't actually help anything
Only within 100 or so feet of the camera itself though. Proper road design can make the whole road safer
It's almost like putting up a speed camera on a stroad does absolutely nothing to address the design issues that caused people to drive fast on those roads to begin with 🙄
Ya for sure in this case the platform that hosts the downloads is going down, but that was never the promise of distributed platforms like this. It's more like owning a CD that still requires an internet connection to download the updates.
You're free to give that CD to anyone you want, but if the publisher shuts down the server you're shit out of luck.
In theory someone else could come along, leverage that some blockchain and let people get access to their games again (this isn't actually going to happen)
Now I know I'm making a lot of assumptions on how this platform actually implemented blockchain and such, but that is how the technology under the hood works. The part that I assume breaks this is that i bet that the company actually maintained private keys on behalf of the users, and if users didn't actually have their private key then there was actually no benefit to the blockchain and it was just a marketing ploy.
Am I misundersnding somethings here? It's the ownership/license that is decentralized. So a user could do whatever they wanted with that license (keep it, resell it, give it away). But at the end of the day there always needs to be a way to use that license to download the game files. That's the bit that is shutting down.
This distinction likely doesn't matter to the people losing access to the game, but most of the comments here seem to fundamentally misunderstand the setup here.
An opinion piece? Really? City budgets are public, it isn't even that hard to right a real journalist piece on it. But reading this opinion piece and seeing the publication, I now just assume that Calgary (like most other municipalities in Canada) have been getting less funding per year from their provinces and have been forced to make ends meet in other ways. So like most of the problems in Canada, I'm assuming this is a n issue created by provincial governments and this article is trying to refocus the blame elsewhere
Can I ask a question here without being flamed?
Isn't this the best option? The reason to push this onto Operating systems is because they could in theory do the verification completely client side without involving a remote service.
And if applications can then just use that age check API provided by the OS it would greatly increase the privacy of these types of features.
(I'm not at all trying to say I support these sorts of checks, I'm just asking this under the assumption that these age gates are here to stay)
I don't know if Alberta is like Ontario, but here in Ontario over the last 3 decades the province has slowly been reducing how much it transfers to cities while also offloading more expenses onto those cities.
This has resulted in:
And likely other things too. But those are the ones always on my mind
Curious to see where this lands. I'm not in that space, but it sounds to me like this could be an overcorrection before we know how much more common those rarer items are becoming. It still all comes down to luck of the trade ups
I'm so surprised that municipalities weren't willing to reduce development charges when they had a promise of maybe possibly getting provincial funding. I never could have imagined that would happen...
I also enjoy Navidrome. What does Musicassistant add for you? Seems like it can do a whole lot
Which books would you recommend? I know very little, the part I'm most familiar with is instilling distrust in public institutions is one of the early steps towards fascism.
I've also naively connected the Canadians right's insistance on stirring distrust in CBC, statscan data, Health Canada, PBO, etc as a step away from a free democracy towards fascism or one of the other forms of governments that depends on lack of information.
Yes, when combined with the switch 1
I keep retyping what I want to say, but I think my feelings come down to:
I do think the switch 2 will do just fine, but I also think there are a lot of people who loved their switch 1 who might look at the games they played, and look at upgrading to a steamdeck instead of the switch 2.
When did lies become hyperbole?
You said something untrue and then tried to continue to justify it as if it were true. If you were indeed trying to make a joke by exaggerating that should have been your initial response to my question, but instead you run into it.
You don't have to dumb anything down, if anything you need to step it up a notch if you're trying to pass off lies as truth 😛
Edit: if you're curious, what you did isn't hyperbole at all. Hyperbole would be suggesting that Brookfield will own all the rental properties, or something along those lines.
Trying to state that the government is planning to work with Brookfield to do this program isn't hyperbole unless there is a grain of truth to exaggerate, which there isn't. You can't exaggerate a lie and turn it into hyperbole.
It doesn't matter what carney was the president off. You said that Brookfield would be the owner of these houses, and based of the evidence we have and you provided, there is zero proof that that's the case.
There is nothing else really to discuss. You made something up and stared it as fact, and you acknowledge that it's at best a guess based off weak connections.
I thought they were meant to be sold off to the private sector for short term gain
Where did you read that?