The elephant in the room here is that hardly anyone has a disposable income to spend $90 on an AAA game title and potentially thousands in hardware on which to play it.
Shelter, food, healthcare and power costs have increased too much. When the basics can’t be met, people stop spending money on these additional things because it makes the difference between eating or not for a week.
In the pearl-clutching liberal world where people still can’t understand why she lost when it was her turn
Suggest reading about the circumstances running up to the storming of the Bastille.
Adam Tooze just gave an address in Zurich and talks about this very question… apparently China is very well aware of this issue and is currently “working on it”
Not really, unless you directly purchase the shares, you get no proxy voting rights on corporate governance.
When you have an investment account, do you know who does take your money and hold the corporate governance rights? The fund managers.
OWui has a search module which can be enabled. For me, running it entirely offline is more or less the draw. I think it also supports RAG search, although I don’t know how “good” it is… mostly I was just after a little magic box to play with.
Now, if only enterprise glass GPU’s weren’t so power hungry and expensive…
Maybe real estate?
I tried to get this up and running back on my K6-2, unfortunately I couldn’t work out how to get the X server running with my 3Dlabs FireGL Pro card at the time.
Ah, that explains why everything felt pretty off with the whole thing.
US now in the byzantine period…
Yeah, then they lose all their best and brightest who are disappearing off to work on their own things.
All these idiot C-suite trash will wind up holding is a bag of yesterday’s technology, a mass of obsolete infrastructure and a bunch of brands they’ve helped destroy.