heh. This reminds me of electric cars. I've been happily driving one for 9 years.
Lots of people online and in person tell me "Electric cars aren't there yet. They won't work." Well, you must be correct then. I just handed down my first EV to my kid and bought a second one.
Wish I could empathize, but I refuse to trust a car I can't fix myself. There's entirely too many computers and entirely too many points of failure-- it's a good thing that I'm medically 'advised' not to drive. I wouldn't be able to switch over until someone released an EV with the kinds of home-maintainability that like. A 60's Mustang once had.
I'm not tryna have to wheel the shit into a Firestone-- or god forbid the manufacturer themselves-- just to have to pay hand-over-fist to fix the errors borne of their shoddy fuckin work.
I refuse to trust a car I can't fix myself
Isn't that basically all cars nowadays? It's not about the type of engine, cars have gone "no serviceable parts inside" for at least a decade.
Yeah, and my last car was from the 80s lmfao. After seeing the way my coworkers were practically beholden to mechanic shops just to keep their cars running like every six months, I said 'no thank you'.
Good news, oil changes on electric cars are not a thing. Wiper blades, wiper fluid, air filters, rotate tires is about it. Maybe brakes and brake fluid at some point but haven’t needed it in over 5 years yet.
Only thing I’ve needed at the mechanic is rotate/balance tires and replace cracked windshield as I don’t want to own the equipment for that.
Anyone who says electric cars aren't there are making inaccurate statements at best and at worst are telling non-factual ones. The truth isn't that electric cars aren't ready, is that the energy distribution isn't ready. Only urbanized areas are prepared to offer that much energy at scale and living in an urbanized area you shouldn't need a personal vehicle for most of your travels anyway.
Side note, this is why I think plug-in-hybrids are the baby step we need to achieve first. Even with their obvious flaws they fill the gap between an internal combustion engine and full electric.
When is the last time you drove either down an unpaved washboarded road for 30 hours one way without any charging locations, and then back, and how did it fare? Also let me know how it works at -45 C.
I'm sure it works well for suburban/city streets, doubtful it works well for the above.
Honestly I couldn't give less of a shit of most triple A games or esports games not running on Linux because of EAC. I'll gladly keep throwing money at indy devs that make games that don't suck.
I played Fifa on my friend's Xbox the other day. We had to wait for an active connection before we could play each other. Players were removed from the roster because of updates from the server. Once his game pass was verified, we still had to log out and log in a few times, navigate the strange menu hierarchy to actually play against one another. Same pattern when trying to play NHL, same with Madden.
I remember when you used to buy a sports game, and everything you needed just loaded from the disk. Menus were easy, and you were two clicks away from starting an offline game.
This is why FitGirl repack's are a god-send. Declutters the bullshit, repacks the parts you actually want, and let's you play the game like you're not renting it on the whims of a fussy game lord.
+1 for FitGirl the GOAT! I wish I had money to throw her way, because the work she's doing is great and I hope she can keep it up for a long time to come.
A lot of my problem there is a solid half the games I play and make mods for run through EAC, so I'd be losing outright hobbies, not just slop.
I can understand that tbh.
One thing I do miss is the larger modding commuinity. Like R2ModManager works on Linux so a lot of Unity-based games have mod support and it all works with Proton basically out of the box. There is a Linux build for the Satisfactory Mod Manager too which I thought was kind of weird lol.
Exactly. I fucking hate microsuck for putting me in this position, but I pretty much only use my PC for gaming and watching stuff and the games I really like have this EAC bs...
"Just get a console then bro" lol... Lmao even.
“Just get a console then bro”
Guhhhhhh, yeah, sure, let's play into console wars and exclusivity bullshit and dumping nearly a grand every three years when a well-built PC will last you ten. Nahhhhhh, familia.
I recently started pc gaming again, I had played some switch and ds stuff but the last time I had gamed on pc was almost twenty years ago. Even given that I'm focusing on 2d games, I thought there would be a lot more hiccups trying to run windows games on a machine with intel integrated graphics. I like indie games much better in general nowadays, I'm not even going to worry about what I'm missing without buying a graphics card.
running bannerlord with mods just fine, because some hero had already done the work for me and just gave me the terminal commands to make everything function
We have the best emotes, folks. The redditors said that we couldnt have them, the lemmitors said we couldnt have them. But who has them now? 
Meanwhile in the real world, people be like "what's a linux?"
Odd. Things continue to improve, maybe it has gotten better? The majority of issues/glitches ive experienced on Linux while gaming have been glitches present on Windows too. Out of my library, there are no games that are outright unplayable on Linux, and 1 game that I need to host lobbies to play multiplayer. I tend to get better performance on Linux as well.
I recommend for anyone considering Linux for gaming, look at ProtonDB to see if your fav games are playable or require workarounds. I find it rare that I actually need to look anything up.
I pretty much am exclusively on linux just because I prefer the workflow of gnome.
Sure a few games don't work but it's usually a competitive game I have no interest in.
Being able to use my computer without ads or shitty updates is a godsend
I do find the steam deck is kind of buggy, at least for my use cases (usually docked, mostly used for emulation, and so on). But I'm thrilled that it exists, so I'm trying to support it as much as possible.
I could have sworn the last panel in this meme said "Stop having fun". Mandela effect?
reddit bros would literally rather believe they slipped through the cracks in reality than that they misremembered one word for its synonym
Darth Vader may or may not have said "Luke, I am your father", but he said something to that effect
