Allero

joined 11 months ago
[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

You'll never be wrong by making it dual boot - if you won't need Windows, hooray, but if you will - it's still there, always has been.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

It's alright! We don't all have to host our own instance. Existing ones can easily accommodate hundreds of users.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The docs are not only often difficult for an inexperienced user, they commonly omit points of failure.

Various prerequisites, problematic settings, possibility of the user choosing the wrong menu etc. etc. should always be considered.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, if you spend over $1k on the game you gain access to beta-testing etc.

And the most scary part? Plenty of people do spend this much money - I know many Carrack owners, for example, and this ship costed, when I remember it, $1200. Yes, very real $1200 for an in-game ship, and there's plenty of buyers.

Heck, I know a person in Ukraine - not a high-income country by any standards, GDP per capita sitting at ~$5000, vs ~$85000 in the US - who spent about $6000 on the game by hiding huge portion of his income from his family for years. And this is not an exceptional case.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Long story short, they severely fail to deliver on their promises and also mismanaged their development incentives so that they are not financially interested to ever release, or even make the game fully playable.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That was my concern long ago when I entered the game.

The problem is, CIG have financially incentivised themselves, knowingly or not, to never finish the game.

Being alpha game means you can wipe everything again and again. And they do! One thing they do not touch, however, are ships purchased with real world money. And players do buy those ships in order to not start the game from scratch over and over again, and pay a lot for it, in hundreds and often thousands of dollars!

Upon release, on the other hand, no wipes are planned, and this means one thing: revenue will absolutely plummet as players just buy ships for in-game currency instead of actual cash. Releasing the game now is a suicide move, as CIG won't be able to blatantly extort players for their money anymore.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I guess you were downvoted because Recall is a closed-source privacy nightmare, and systemd, for all its flaws, is open source.

Does it relate to your statement? No. But people will take pitchforks if you compare the two, I fancy.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Kinda mad, but this won't make them go on a Kremlin. I don't know what will.

Would still be way way worse if Steam got blocked.

Source: Russian gamer, talking to other Russian gamers

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Proud owner of 1TB Samsung 860 Evo.

Pretty much yes, it counts :D

Moreover, iirc, there are 64TB 2,5" SSDs and 100TB 3,5" available for enterprise users, and 8TB M.2 SSDs on consumer market. Space is really not a constraint.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is 3.5" preferable? You can always use a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter, and even 2.5" casing is mostly empty anyway

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

SSDs can reliably hold charge states for years, and there are storage media that are more reliable than HDD.

HDD's would still find a niche, probably, as a balanced option, but said niche will likely get smaller and smaller over many years.

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