Have I said anything in favor of crippling lower end cards or that these high prices of the high end cards are good? My only argument was that 4K displays in the PC space being the standard was simply delusional because the stats say something wholly different.

That would be ideal, true.

That doesn’t really matter if people on PC don’t game on it, does it?

These are the primary display resolutions from the Steam Hardware Survey.

4k displays are not at all standard and certainly not for a decade. 1440p is. And it hasn’t been that long since the market share of 1440p overtook that of 1080p according to the Steam Hardware survey IIRC.

Personally I would prefer a subscription instead of ads. I hate ads. I’d rather pay directly.

If Bluesky has an algorithm, I haven’t seen it. I get chronological posts from the accounts I follow with an occasional and subtle suggestion to follow other similar accounts. Many of the accounts I follow are news outlets, journalists, civic leaders, etc. Some of the accounts I followed on Twitter are finally joining Bluesky while less than a fraction of those are on Mastodon.

Bluesky does it even better IMO. Their default feed is a chronological feed of all the people you follow and you can add additional feeds that have their own algorithms (You can even create your own either with simple logic through something like skyfeed.app or code it entirely from scratch). This makes it much easier to choose what you want to see compared to Mastodon.

The feeds are the strongest feature Bluesky has.

Wow, I wouldn’t have thought that Apple Mail is more popular than Gmail.

On Bluesky you can choose which algorithm/s you want to see though and even create your own.

I don’t see myself ever giving up cheese.

Never say never. I thought the same for some time.

There are other ways to increase company value that do not necessarily result in Q/Q / Y/Y profit increases.

Can you name some examples? I’m not very familiar with economics.

I agree. And if you want some level of convenience and some level of privacy I think Apple is the way to go.

For example I have the skills to use GrapheneOS but I just don’t want to deal with it and I want to still be able to use NFC payments. So iOS is the next best thing.

Try XxMikeSmithxX

No, you are correct. If you are the only person accessing the service you don’t need to open any ports since you access your network via Wireguard anyway.

You count as active if you post, comment or vote.

Well, Microsoft has at least.

There are so many different ways they could create value.

Such as?

Bits are basically donations.

What is the best practice currently?

I mean without a keyboard attached.

How long was it an Epic exclusive?