The Tango Gameworks closure is a mistake that's going to continue to haunt Xbox.
JoMiran
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I have used it on my Lenovo X1 Extreme as my daily driver for years. Bulletproof.
I have recently bought older generation 12.9" iPad Pro and an M2 MBP through Backmarket at a fraction of the price. I'm primarily a Linux user but I bought the iPad for the screen and the MBP for music production. Even though they are years old, they still have more processing power than I need.
There is some functionality not available through the web apps. If you work in a corporate setting, the odds are really good that the web apps won't be adequate for you.
One example that comes to mind is one of our clients that has us file a report once per quarter. The report is an Excel spreadsheet that can be filled but not edited. The submission demands that the file be then password edit protected and uploaded along with the password. You cannot secure files that way via the web app. We literally keep a Windows VM with the a copy of the desktop office suite, just for this client's quarterly form.
Fun Fact: I started "archiving" games off of BBS back in the intel 386. By the early 2000's I had hundreds of games and apps going back to Zork and other very early PC, backed up in hard drives, CDs, and Zip Drives. I have no doubt that I might have had one of very few copies in existence of some games.
Sad Fact: They all went missing after one of our moves. All I have left are a small stack of zip drives and no zip drive to read them with.
The point is that, had it not been for a moving mishap, I would have copies of long lost games to share with the world, all thanks to piracy.
I use to run RasPlex on a PiZero with a Bluetooth gamepad as a Plex client. There has to be a jellyfin equivalent. For some time, I have just used older game consoles as media clients instead.
These sickos could just wank off to the AI-gen stuff, but I suspect that the real thrill is in the abuse.
Time to look at memes before I get more upset.
Spot on. 51yo. Corporate. NDA'd to hell and back.
Windows is not the problematic Microsoft product. Not even close. If you understood how much of the US infrastructure and controls are consolidated under Microsoft cloud services, you'd never sleep again. Cloud was fine back when it was a product catering small and medium companies but when large corporations started migrating their critical infrastructures to cloud services to offload responsibilities, we really went off into the weeds.
I cannot disclose any details but this article vastly undersells the risk and how exposed the US is. It is definitely goes well beyond government exposure.
What a complete clusterfuck.