Ultimately, an Xbox running full Windows is a win for Linux.
Why? Because it pushes PC gaming on a TV into the mainstream. And once that happens, people will start realizing something obvious: “Wait a second—I could just build a small ITX PC, install Linux, and get better performance than an Xbox.”
That’s already the story playing out with the ROG Ally. The hardware’s there, the software’s catching up—and Linux keeps closing the gap.
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Okay, but what if I told you Windows has already been a game console for more than a decade? I know—because I’ve been running Windows on my TV that long.Windows is the reason I stopped buying Xbox hardware. Hear me out.
For nearly 20 years, Windows has supported Xbox gamepads natively. I still remember playing Serious Sam 2 on my roommate’s 1080p TV and thinking, “If Windows just had a proper launcher, this would be killer.”
Fast forward to 2012. Valve rolled out Big Picture mode for Steam—and that problem was solved. Suddenly, the entire interface was gamepad-friendly, and you could even tell Steam to “Start in Big Picture Mode” on launch. It turned Windows into a full console experience overnight.
Is it as seamless as an Xbox or PlayStation? No. But the tradeoff is worth it. Because when you use Windows as a console, you get the biggest game library in history. Steam alone has well over 100,000 titles—and that’s just one storefront.
So yes, I’ll take a few minor inconveniences for that kind of access. That’s why Microsoft’s next move—a set-top box running full Windows—makes perfect sense.
The real question is how Valve responds. After all, they’ve been pushing Linux hard, and thanks to Proton, more than 90% of Windows games already run on Linux. Could this be the moment Valve revisits the Steam Machine idea?
RE: turtleisland.social/users/csgr…Callista Graves (@csgraves@turtleisland.social)
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I see this going the same way it went for them with Windows Phone, Windows 8, the tangled mess that was MSN/Hotmail/Live Mail, etc.Turtle Island Social
Okay, but what if I told you Windows has already been a game console for more than a decade? I know—because I’ve been running Windows on my TV that long.
Windows is the reason I stopped buying Xbox hardware. Hear me out.
For nearly 20 years, Windows has supported Xbox gamepads natively. I still remember playing Serious Sam 2 on my roommate’s 1080p TV and thinking, “If Windows just had a proper launcher, this would be killer.”
Fast forward to 2012. Valve rolled out Big Picture mode for Steam—and that problem was solved. Suddenly, the entire interface was gamepad-friendly, and you could even tell Steam to “Start in Big Picture Mode” on launch. It turned Windows into a full console experience overnight.
Is it as seamless as an Xbox or PlayStation? No. But the tradeoff is worth it. Because when you use Windows as a console, you get the biggest game library in history. Steam alone has well over 100,000 titles—and that’s just one storefront.
So yes, I’ll take a few minor inconveniences for that kind of access. That’s why Microsoft’s next move—a set-top box running full Windows—makes perfect sense.
The real question is how Valve responds. After all, they’ve been pushing Linux hard, and thanks to Proton, more than 90% of Windows games already run on Linux. Could this be the moment Valve revisits the Steam Machine idea?
RE: turtleisland.social/users/csgr…
Callista Graves (@csgraves@turtleisland.social)
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I see this going the same way it went for them with Windows Phone, Windows 8, the tangled mess that was MSN/Hotmail/Live Mail, etc.Turtle Island Social
Infrastructure: From foreign loans to domestic capital [Business Africa]
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Infrastructure: From foreign loans to domestic capital [Business Africa] | Africanews
With lenders and donors fatigued, attention is turning to underutilized domestic capital. According to the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Africa has $4 trillion in domestic capital that can be channeled to infrastructure financingAfricanews
Avram Grant out as Zambia coach weeks before Africa Cup of Nations
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Avram Grant out as Zambia coach weeks before Africa Cup of Nations | Africanews
The former Israel, Ghana and Chelsea coach oversaw three straight home defeats this year in World Cup qualifying without scoring a goal, against Comoros, Morocco and NigerAfricanews
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Best NFL bets for Week 9: The Patriots will keep rolling
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Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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The offer will first roll out to Jio users aged 18 to 25 before expanding to all subscribers nationwide.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
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Grand Egyptian museum set for historic opening, showcasing the full legacy of Tutankhamun
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Se tunne, kun saa suurelle tunteelleen nimen.❤️ "Kyseinen suru voi Aaltolan ja Pihkalan mukaan muuttua ”misantrooppiseksi melankoliaksi”. Siinä yhdistyy pettymys ihmiskuntaan ja jopa viha ihmisten tekoja kohtaan, sekä melankoliaksi muuttunut suru menetettyjen ihmisideaalien vuoksi. Aaltola ja Pihkala väittävät, että erilaisten kriisien aikakaudella misantrooppinen melankolia tulee tunteena yleistymään ja ansaitsisi jo siksi selvästi enemmän yhteiskunnallista huomiota."
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Eläinsuru voi kohdistua paitsi lemmikkieläimiin, myös esimerkiksi sukupuuttoon kuolleisiin lajeihin ja tuotannossa käytettyihin eläimiin. Se voi myös koskettaa menetettyjä ihmisideaaleja ja johtaa ”misantrooppiseen melankoliaan”.www.sttinfo.fi
Women displaced from al-Fashir in Sudan describe harrowing experiences
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Women displaced from al-Fashir in Sudan describe harrowing experiences | Africanews
Witnesses said Rapid Support Forces fighters went from house to house, beating and shooting people, including women and children.Africanews
Called it.
Microsoft’s moving away from the walled-garden model of the old Xbox and heading toward a full-Windows set-top box.
Actually, that’s the only move that makes sense. Valve has been eating Microsoft’s lunch on the PC gaming front for years—and this is their only real way to fight back.
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'It's Funny That People Think About the Console-PC as Two Different Things' — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Drops Biggest Hint Yet That the Next Xbox Is Basically a PC - IGN
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has dropped yet another hint that the next-gen Xbox is basically a PC.Wesley Yin-Poole (IGN)
Messerattacke in Aschaffenburg: Beschuldigter muss in Psychiatrie
Nach der Messerattacke auf Kitakinder in Aschaffenburg muss der Beschuldigte dauerhaft in ein psychiatrisches Krankenhaus. Das entschied das zuständige Landgericht. Bei dem Angriff im Januar waren zwei Menschen getötet worden.
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Messerattacke in Aschaffenburg: Beschuldigter muss in Psychiatrie
Nach der tödlichen Messerattacke in Aschaffenburg muss der Beschuldigte dauerhaft in ein psychiatrisches Krankenhaus. Das entschied das zuständige Landgericht. Bei dem Angriff im Januar kamen zwei Menschen ums Leben.tagesschau.de
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Die Fujifilm GFX-Welt mit dem Canon EF-Mount erweitern - Erik Schlicksbier
Nein, auf wenn man mit AF arbeiten möchte, muss man für eine GFX nicht zwingend die teuren GF-Linsen haben. Es gibt gute und günstige Alternativen.Erik Schlicksbier
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Morning light along Chinook Pass, where alpine meadows glow with huckleberry reds and evergreen greens. It’s a good time to slow down, breathe the mountain air, and take in how beautiful the world can be.
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How many truckloads does it take?
The jewel heist at the Louvre proves what I’ve long felt, that going to an art museum induces stupor and you don’t notice what’s right in front of you clearer than day.
Americans under 65 are too young to remember Watergate, how a piddly little break-in at Democratic headquarters, the theft of some papers, led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon at the urging of his fellow Republicans. The country has come to accept insults twenty times more gigantic than ever before. Watergate was a slap in the face and the past nine months have been a dozen truckloads of horse manure dumped on your front yard. But after the second truckload, you don’t really notice. You pull your shades and use a lot of air freshener and go out the back door and hope for a good heavy rainstorm.
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I absolutely adored the manga. And it looks like the Koreans have managed to make it into a movie… although the protagonist is now female. But I think the Korean movie industry man I was just a kick out some good films.
Per Israele il bulldozer D9 ha una doppia funzione: proteggere l’avanzata dei soldati e radere al suolo gli edifici. L’obiettivo è rendere la Striscia inabitabile e impedire il ritorno dei palestinesi. Il video di Le Monde.
I bulldozer usati dagli israel...
I bulldozer usati dagli israeliani per distruggere Gaza
Per Israele il bulldozer D9 ha una doppia funzione: proteggere l’avanzata dei soldati e radere al suolo gli edifici. L’obiettivo è rendere la Striscia inabitabile e impedire il ritorno dei palestinesi. Il video di Le Monde. LeggiRedazione (Internazionale)
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Iran’s Abolfazl Zandi Wins Gold at World Taekwondo Championships After 10 Years
Iranian taekwondo champion Abolfazl Zandi ended a decade-long gold drought for Iran by claiming the top title in the men’s 58kg category at the World Taekwondo Championships in Wuxi, China.iranpress.com
Die Weihnachtszeit steht wieder bevor. Für viele Menschen wird in dieser Zeit bewusster, wie allein sie sich fühlen. Manchmal besteht auch einfach nur der Bedarf, mit jemand anderem anonym und kostenlos zu sprechen.
Du kannst helfen, indem du ans Telefon gehst. Denn du bist die Person, die anderen Menschen ein offenes Ohr schenkt.
Plaudernetz - finde jemanden zum Reden am Telefon | Malteser
Gute Gespräche führen am Telefon ✔ kostenlos ✔ unkompliziert ✔ anonym ✔ Jedes Gespräch eine einmalige Begegnung. Jetzt testen!Plaudernetz - finde jemanden zum Reden | Malteser
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Republican voters back sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine
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Exclusive: Republican voters back sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine
Six in ten Republican voters support selling the missiles to Ukraine, even as more than half oppose approving more aid.Morgan Chalfant (www.semafor.com)
Trump is Xi's cock holster.
Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
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Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a diplomatic rebuke to President Donald Trump during their bilateral meeting in South Korea, dismantling Trump's claims about resolving the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.Adam Nichols (Raw Story)
A Republican state legislator and a Democratic county commissioner want to ditch the 110-year-old name for what they see as a more marketeable brand.
Others decry the idea as a waste of money and abandonment of history.
#Florida #politics #marketing
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"There won't be a Shire anymore"
When the War of the Ring comes to the Shire it's because Lotho Sackville-Baggins made a fortune selling pipeweed to Saruman, and he uses that fortune to gain power over his fellows. Lotho industrializes and militarizes the Shire. Prior to this the Shire has literally twelve law enforcement officers and no written laws, but Lotho uses his wealth to get many hobbits to turn on their neighbors and join the sheriffs. Saruman eventually arrives and takes over, killing Lotho and expanding the militarization and industrialization. Our heroes carry out the Scouring of the Shire, where the Shire is liberated.
This is literally a story of a capitalist turning to fascists for greater control and tyrannizing his own people through surveillance, paramilitary occupation, expasion of security forces, and legalism, before that homegrown fascism grows beyond his control.
ICE is the Chief's men you stupid fucks
This is your regular reminder that Tolkien self identified his politics with anarchism, his notion of a good king was the idea of someone who could hold all the power bu never use it so that no one could actually wield state power, his anti-industrialism is based in his hatred for people being instrumentalized into mere tools therefor robbing their work of meaning and individual expression, and one of his most consistent values throughout his life and writings was anti-authoritarianism.
Chuds literally do not understand Tolkien and use like three coffee table book facts about his life to claim he was right-wing because they want to adopt a Tolkien aesthetic*.
*actually a Peter Jackson aesthetic but they don't know the difference because they don't read
Die Stimme dort hört sich hart nach Henning an und die Kommentare debattieren, ob die ihn im Refrain als Sample eingebaut haben oder ob der Sänger einfach nur ähnlich klingt.
omg, THIS
I was bordering on apoplectic when I first heard about K-12 teachers forbidding students from using Wikipedia but then teaching them to use LLMs.
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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The most Britannica manages to mention of what was actually in that land is this:
❝Much of the territory turned out to contain rich mineral resources, productive soil, valuable grazing land, forests, and wildlife resources of inestimable value.❞
Not a single mention, AFAICT, of the fact that there were already people there.
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I remember being extremely confused about this as a kid when I first heard about the Louisiana Purchase. How could the US “purchase” land that nobody from the nation had even explored? Didn’t the people who live there own it? Huh?!?
Wikipedia, for all its messiness, answered Young Paul’s question. Britannica buried it.
But guess which one teachers are •still• trying to keep out of education.
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One muddle-headed way of looking at this is “oooooo Wikipedia is wooooke blah blah.”
The better way of looking at it is that Wikipedia lets people jump in and say “What?! No, you are totally missing something important!” It actually •does• the thing the radical centrists (falsely) claim they want: it opens itself to different perspectives.
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As humans, we •all• live our lives with our heads up our butts — including but not limited to the Britannica writers. If we’re lucky, someone will help us see what we’re missing. If we’re wise, we listen. At its best, that’s what Wikipedia can do — and in public, at scale, for everyone.
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I remember years ago seeing a study that diligently compared the factual accuracy of Britannica vs Wikipedia for a few select articles (will update this post w/link if I find it).
They found a similar rate of factual errors. The short of it: Wikipedia is chaotic and messy, but Britannica often had missing or out-of-date information. Wikipedia had higher noise, but also a higher correction rate. Factuality came out about a wash.
[UPDATE] I think it was this study: nature.com/articles/438900a
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Internet encyclopaedias go head to head - Nature
Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. UPDATE: see details of how the data were collected for this article in the supplementary information .Nature
Wikipedia has •numerous• problems, but it belongs in education.
And right now, per the McSweeney’s OP, it’s a lifeboat of humanity in a sea of slop.
For reference, snapshots of the two articles concerned at the time of this writing:
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Thomas Massie Hits His Own Party for ‘Protecting Sex Traffickers’ After JD Vance Says They Can’t ‘Count On Him’
Thomas Massie Hits His Own Party for ‘Protecting Sex Traffickers’ After JD Vance Says They Can ...
Thomas Massie ripped into the Republican Party after JD Vance specifically called him out and claimed the party can't rely on his support in Congress.Zachary Leeman (Mediaite)
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L'immagine è un diagramma circolare che rappresenta il software multimediale. Il diagramma è diviso in sezioni colorate, ciascuna etichettata con un nome di programma. La sezione più interna, contrassegnata con "Software", è verde. Seguono sezioni etichettate "Player", "Editing", "Recording", "Streaming", "Creation", "Management" e "Conversion", che partono dal verde e si muovono verso l'esterno con colori diversi.
I nomi dei programmi sono i seguenti: VLC, MPV, Shotcut, Kdenlive, OpenShot, OBS Studio, Handbrake, OBS, Firefox, Ksnip, Flameshot, Simple Screen Recorder, Kazam, OBS, FFmpeg, Spectacle, Gnome, Shutter, Core, Qrator, LMM, Rythm, Hydrogen, Audacity, Flow, Krita, Darktable, Pinta, DigiKam, Audacity, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Media Manager, Linux. Il diagramma è accompagnato da testo: "Created by study-notes.org".
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Brussels rushes to complete the Lisbon-Madrid 'missing link' in the high-speed rail network.
Travel by train between the capitals of Spain and Portugal should take no more than 5 hours by the end of the decade – and just 3 hours by 2034 – according to plans unveiled by the European Commission.
The EU-backed project is key to connecting Iberia with France and Germany and shifting passengers from planes to trains.
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Brussels rushes to complete the Lisbon-Madrid 'missing link' in the high-speed rail network.
Travel by train between the capitals of Spain and Portugal should take no more than 5 hours by the end of the decade – and just 3 hours by 2034 …Euractiv
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"Giftig und brandgefährlich" - Warentester warnen vor Shein und Temu
• Die Stiftung Warentest hat Produkte der chinesischen Online-Plattformen #Shein und #Temu getestet. Zwei Drittel davon erfüllen die EU-Standards nicht. Ungefähr ein Viertel sei sogar "potenziell gefährlich".
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"Giftig und brandgefährlich" - Warentester warnen vor Shein und Temu
Die Stiftung Warentest hat Produkte der Online-Plattformen Shein und Temu getestet. Zwei Drittel erfüllen nicht die EU-Standards.David Zajonz (wdr.de)
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