How is this even legal? So now suddenly every chromium extension has to go through a play store style review? How is Google entitled to do this on their competitor’s browsers?

You mean rent premium (it’s a subscription of course)

Forza Horizon 4 did this but worse. It would be an unskippable 2 minute video ad ignoring your volume settings. It only played 5 times in my 45 hours of gameplay but it was so damn unacceptable that it’s reminding me to give that game a negative review.

Forza Horizon 5 does not do this. Get that game or something else instead.

They should allow premium users to use third party YouTube clients using an API, like Reddit before Spez’s war on third party apps.

It is currently overhyped and so much of it just seems to be copying the same 3 generative AI tools into as many places as possible. This won’t work out because it is expensive to run the AI models. I can’t believe nobody talks about this cost.

Where AI shines is when something new is done with it, or there is a significant improvement in some way to an existing model (more powerful or runs on lower end chips, for example).

This is my biggest concern about video games when I become a parent. My parents were far more concerned about “violence,” but I’d rather have a 10yo child play doom than candy crush. One might initially look more dangerous to the untrained eye, but looks can be deceiving.

You probably mean the 13700H, but yeah. I wonder if there’s a way to separate the P and E cores in the graph.

You can click on the files it shows, and if it’s a .exe file you can start the program

My phone (Moto G Stylus 5G 2022) costed $300 and has 8GB RAM and 256GB storage

Use “everything” by VoidTools to search the file system. It’s the perfect search tool, very powerful and lightning fast.

On storage, the markup is about 2000%.

And on RAM if we compare to DDR5 (not totally fair because of how Apple’s unified memory works), it’s about 800% marked up.

The unfortunate consequence of this is that old working apps need compatibility updates.

What I’m noticing is that the first game had 2015 graphics and on a medium to large city runs at cinematic framerates (20-30fps). On Cities 2 the graphics are a mishmash of 2010 and 2025 graphics that run somewhat poorly, but also stutter a lot. On my 10k city I’m getting 45fps average with low-medium settings with the recommended changes to improve performance, but large lag spikes are frequent.

I’ve been having playable framerates but they’re not improving. On a 10k city I get about 45fps average but I frequently experience frame drops which definitely make it less enjoyable to play the game. My specs are Ryzen 9 5900HX, RX6800M, 32GB RAM

Interesting. I’m guessing the changes were too big to just be added incrementally in updates to GTK 3?

Thank you for the explanation! What specifically does Qt 6 do that Qt 5 can’t do?

But price disparities already exist in other places sometimes. Like YT premium using the App store (due to the 30% cut) and everywhere else.

There’s no way that can be legal. I generally support Valve but that is monopolistic as hell.

So why can’t they sell their game for $56 on Epic and $70 on Steam? They’d make about the same money per sale on each?

I’m not the most knowledgeable on this subject, but I’m curious to learn more.

Why do various toolkits have major releases that seem to reset the features of the last one?

GTK 3 seems like GTK 2 but slower to me, and before the transition was even complete GTK 4 showed up, which just seems like GTK 3 but a bit different. Qt 5 works really well and is efficient on resources, so why are we switching to Qt 6? It seems like reinventing the desktop over and over again.

I understand updates for the kernel for compatibility, small to medium updates to all software for bug fixes and new features, and major updates to toolkits when there are big problems with the current release (X vs Wayland for example). Or if the current release was unreliable and bloated, which I heard was what happened with Qt 4 and why they switched to 5. But I also heard Qt 3 was really stable and lightweight, so why did they switch away from it?