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  • Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025

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  • I don't think the 5863 is limited to games released in 2025

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    Minisforum's new flagship NAS comes with OpenClaw pre-installed — Strix Halo-powered N5 Max can run a local AI LLM

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/nas/minisforums-new-flagship-nas-comes-with-openclaw-pre-installed-strix-halo-powered-n5-max-can-run-a-local-ai-llm

  • Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

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  • These idiotic lawsuits. First of all, this isn't even Valves responsibility. Second, Steam/Valve are small frys compared to Amazon/Apple/Google/Microsoft. In gaming they may be smaller than Sony and Nintendo and those two have full on closed software platforms. Steam is one software store among many on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. All these groups want to enshittify PC gaming. They want to enshittify personal computing in general. Turn pre-iPhone smartphone operating systems into iOS

  • Getting rejected

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  • Don't know if it's still a thing in hiring for minimum wage jobs - what I remember were all the meyers briggs and similar test. When someone tells me their personality type from one of those test, I instantly start thinking that they never had a retail hell job stage of their working life

  • Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?

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  • Could be an age thing. 20 years ago on the 360, achievements I cared about. By the middle of the PS4 generation, I stopped caring about PS trophies. On Steam, never cared about Steam achievements. 20 years ago being a completionist was an interest of mine which included achievements. Today, I'm fine not finishing games

  • Romancing Saga 2, good or pass?

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  • You can always keep a look out for deals

    https://isthereanydeal.com/game/romancing-saga-2-revenge-of-the-seven/history/

    I enjoyed it. My first romancing saga game. At first you get attached to your first character and set of characters but after the first one dies or passes of old age, you get used to cycling through leaders. It's a fun mechanic since it makes you change up how you play. I've read people really going at optomizing builds around the changing of king/queens and the skills that are passed down the line

  • Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

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  • More incentive for people to go to PC and chances for Linux gaming to grow. We'll get a Linux GOG client someday and drag EGS kicking and screaming to Linux too. Steam lets devs generate keys for free for deva to sell on other stores with no Valve cut. Bundle sites like Fanatical, Humble Bundle, Digiphile

    Closed hardware platforms with closed software distribution loops are destined for enshittification

  • Switch emulator Eden is surviving life after Nintendo kicked it off GitHub

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  • They're hosting their own Forgejo. Forgejo is easy to self host. There's even easier simpler stuff like Gitbucket. If you want something with a ton of features, Gitlab self host but that takes way more resources. Personally I have Gitbucket on my NAS for my basic stuff but am thinking about giving Forgejo self hosted a try. It looks better than gitbucket

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Something I think is that back in 2008, I'm certain Hilary Clinton would have won and possibly won by a bigger margin than Obama. Practically anyone that won the dem primary in 2008 would have won after the start of the financial crisis and the albatross of middle eastern wars, but Clinton in 2008 hadn't been so successfully smeared and there wasn't 8 years of continued middle eastern wars and widening income inequality discontent under a dem president where interest in party outsiders exploded. Plus the significance of social media was so much more important in 2016 than 2012 and 2008 and Clintons poor adaptability to the daily internet mood swings wouldn't have been a problem in 2008 when Facebook was still duking it out with MySpace and didn't really have middle aged and older people yet, youtube was 2 years old, twitter was niche, reddit was really nerdy, instagram wasn't a thing yet

    I'm certain in 2008 Clinton would have won easily, won by a larger margin, faced less unified opposition from republicans in congress. 2024 ended up so close that I'm sure if there was a democratic primary, Harris would not have won but whoever did win, would have beaten Donald Trump. Like if the Michigan governor ran and won the primary, Gretchen Whitmer would be president

  • Google ends its 30% app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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  • Tech writers consistently suck. We've had 3rd party app stores for a long time. Googles trying to make them worse, not welcoming them

  • Xbox as a platform is officially dead

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  • Microsoft Xbox hardware wasn't going to be competitive in sales with Sony or Nintendo. Maybe now they can be competitive with ASUS ROG and Lenovo Legion and Dell Alienware

  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

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  • All I care is how open of a hardware and software platform it is. Being a European phone is not a plus to me. It's a neutral. Still leaning towards the Motorola GrapheneOS in the short term as a primary device and a side device PostmarketOS/Ubuntu Touch/Mobian for the long term

  • Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC

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  • That's not going to get me to buy a PS6. PS5 is at least my only (UHD) Blu-ray player that I rarely ever play games on. Not buying another PlayStation in the future for not even averaging 1 exclusive game a year that I'd want to play

  • Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US

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  • The only solace is that wireless operators are becoming competitive for me. Like all these companies suck but now I can use Cox, AT&T, EarthLink as the mediocre to crappy wired options and then Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile for 5G internet options which are good enough for me

  • Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform

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  • Xbox as a 3rd party publisher can succeed. As a console vendor, it's too late to stop the multiplatform strategy this gen. They're not Nintendo. At least on the Wii U, Nintendo was still releasing great games and the 3DS sold like 80 million units and Nintendo were also releasing great games there and all those studios would converge on the Switch. They can't be serious launching a console without a great launch year lineup of exclusives marketed well to convince people that they won't cut tail and run if a new console doesn't take off.

    The advice for the new Xbox CEO that I believe in is to rip the bandage off and embrace 3rd party publishing. Timings for a new console seem awful. Fable is supposed to release this year. Forza Horizon Japan this year. Obsidian has already released their two big games last year. Perfect Dark cancelled. Forza Motorsport studio seemingly on life support rather than working on a new entry. New Gears of War should release soon. Elder Scrolls VII I'm not betting on that before the 2030s. Also these unreleased announced games are marketed as multiplatform already. Is it going to be another attempt at a Halo as the launch title after a string of crowd goes mild Halo releases. The hasty media work being done now with the new CEO is going to be thrown back in her face within a few years as some sort of hypocrite critique rather than someone speaking before they built up their Xbox strategy and was pretty much kind of winging it on short notice

  • NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

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  • As unhinged as social media gets, this is pretty much why so many end up trusting it over traditional media. The internet broke the veil of commercial reporting/journalism - media in general. Broke the trust on accepting public personas and not being suspicious of them behind the scenes. Sell out reporters/journalist/artists/etc are like scabs to labor strikers

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  • I use it mostly two ways. Important emphasis enclosed statement as compared to in between parentheses which I treat as lesser required context/info. Second way is an indicator of a pause in a statement but not so much like an ellipses. Like a short pause for a punchline whereas ellipses for a long thought or time collect feelings/compose oneself. A sharp contrast compared to a period from the first part of the sentence to the post-em dash part of the sentence. I've been using it before LLMs and frequent enough that I am pretty self conscious now since I've noticed people call out em dashes as a call-sign for bots. A lot of times it's such an innocuous usage that I feel like people are witch-hunty paranoid reading posts on the internet

  • LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!

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  • That'll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven't tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress

  • What headsets are linux gamers using?

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  • I want to first say that if it was 2005, hi-fi was expensive. Today hi-fi is cheap and you quickly run into diminishing returns at like ~$300 for around ear headphones but IEMs are cost effective and you get good quality starting at like $20. The gist of the history is that ChiFi changed the whole audio market for quality at affordable prices

    Any bluetooth headset will work from what I've tried. You don't have to spend a lot. You can use the Anker brand Soundcore bluetooth noise cancelling headsets

    https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Cancelling-Headphones-Comfortable-Bluetooth/dp/B08HMWZBXC

    https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Adaptive-Active-Cancelling-Headphones/dp/B0B5VHRX7F

    Not sure if anything beats the Q30 at its price point but bumping up to the Q45 is an increase in build quality so even though my Q30 are multiple years old, I've heard from others who are more abusive of their gear it breaking. You can also use wireless TWS earphones. Like I have moondrop and earfun brand TWS (category of earphones that Airpods are). They're cheap and are adequate at low prices though you can jump to the higher priced ones they have and get better mic quality. Examples such as

    https://www.amazon.com/EarFun-Canceling-Snapdragon-Bluetooth-Detection/dp/B0D5M9SH1X

    https://www.amazon.com/Moondrop-Space-Travel-Noise-Canceling-Low-Latency/dp/B0FGDBP2ZZ

    The IEM market is insanely competitive. You can google best IEM's for $30 and see dozens of brands you've never heard of but if you aren't deep in the placebo, you'll probably find any of them pretty good

  • When and how often do you update your system?

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  • I have no cadence. Unless whatever software you're using is unstable, you probably won't notice updates. I update on a whim which is often because it's habit. Though sometimes it can be weeks between when I run the update