What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!

[LadyCrimson]

34 minutes ago, BruceVC said:

The point Im making is thats one reason why Microsoft needs access to your PC and its for a good reason 

[Gorgon]

I bought a portrait lens by mistake, clicked the wrong thing. I meant to get a wide angle prime and now instead of returning it,  I've kind of gone into a rabbit hole of minimalist framing.  It's interesting, in a ship in a bottle kind of way. 

https://imgur.com/Uf9Hc9q

 

 

Don't you dare stop holding hands, you're not in focus yet. 

 

 ****ing ****

https://imgur.com/a/8Mqgym8

[uuuhhii]

so support for win10 just ended

anyone can guess how long until game dev force player to update to win11

[LadyCrimson]

54 minutes ago, uuuhhii said:

so support for win10 just ended

anyone can guess how long until game dev force player to update to win11

Probably less time than Win7 vs. Win10, but I wouldn't worry about it much for 2-3 years. And even then probably mostly AAA/AA, and/or initially mostly the "we won't support your bug reports" vs. "game absolutely won't run."

I mean, look how long it took Steam to make Win7 not work with their client (supposedly, never tried).  They all know lots of people refuse to go over for a long time.

I've been looking into Linux (for gaming) again and I guess for me it might be something like Mint vs. Bazzite. Linux for everything but gaming, I'm sure I'd have no issues with, outside of maybe my ancient fave and simple image editor might not work. But Linux for gaming - I don't know. I know most things these days work or can be made to work but there's always certain titles that won't, not including MP/anti-cheat dev linux support issues (since I don't MP). So it always feels like I'd have to go back to multiple PC setups, switchboxes and/or extra displays etc again for outlier cases, and I really don't want to.  Edit: getting too old for that kind of stuff

Edited 19 hours ago by LadyCrimson

[Bartimaeus]

Steam announced ending support for Windows 7 (and Windows 8, extra characters here because "8" and ")" right next to each automatically turns into an emoticon I can't disable) on March 28th of 2023, effective January 1st of 2024. 12 days before that announcement, Steam's own hardware survey said that 1.58% of users were on Windows 7 and .36% on Windows 8 - by early December, it had dropped to a combined 0.96%. Microsoft dropped non-security support for Windows 7 in January of 2015, extended support in 2020, and paid-only enterprise support in January of 2023. Right now, Windows 10 is still at 33.74% on Steam...in other words, you can expect a few more years at the very least. The big issue with ending support for Windows 10 is that there's literal hundreds of millions of devices out that that can't easily upgrade to Windows 11, so I think there's a good chance Windows 10 will be supported by most stuff, including Steam, for just as long as Windows 7 was. It will take time for people to upgrade their PCs to even be able to install Windows 11, especially given current PC tech prices.

Edited 10 hours ago by Bartimaeus

[BruceVC]

EPIC is offering Amnesia Bunker for free till 25 October

I like the Amnesia franchise so I got it, good horror  games

[Bartimaeus]

I got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. My dentist and the surgeon thought they would be simple pulls because they'd all surfaced fully and without any major impacting, but they ended up having to cut into my gums and drill them apart because they had gnarly deep roots and refused to be pulled. 20-30m procedure turned into 3x that. Fun. The worst part so far was the anxiety leading up to it (I decided I'd be IV sedated...and that was almost certainly the right choice), but we'll see over the next few days.

[Hurlshort]

I got my wisdom teeth out around 35 years old and it was not a fun time. Good luck with the recovery.