That would be beautiful.

Oh I wasn’t kidding with my speculation on that part. The half-life 3 part is over the top silliness, but framework collab is definitely plausible.

Framework + valve collaborating to release half-life 3 as a platform exclusive, confirmed!

Nah, lots of train nerds doing train nerd stuff.

Surprisingly little Thomas fan-mods tho.

Railroader. Lots of heavily-modded Railroader.

Late 1970s / early 1980s.

Because other people stop existing in that bubble, because they become part of the background, bubbled people stop caring about them.

See also !fuckcars@lemmy.world

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It’s sort-of true. Write cycles are limited.

However most modern-ish SSDs have a secure-erase command which would allow clearing without actually re-writing each sector from the OS level. It’s also much faster.

There are utilities to do this: hdparm and blkdiscard

That said, there’s little reason to do this.

Not conductive? Isn’t that a good thing?

Honestly this is not a good reason.

Basically the only sticking point IMO would be whether the specific games you enjoy tend to have problems (often due to draconian DRM or anti cheat systems)

Sunflower oil is another possibility.

Interesting that the very similar “… have anything but disappeared” would mean they have very much not disappeared.

Not a 7900 but my 5900 does for sure.

I’m not super-familiar with mod managers in general but my experience has been that they just work with proton more than you might expect. I know for sure that unity mod manager works fine in proton; I use it for railroader.

I mean the answer is pretty easy: video games generally have a long shelf life and no maintenance at some point after they’re released.

Yeah but enough people would.

It means you don’t need to turn on proton for unsupported games the first time you start steam

(or alternatively you won’t be briefly confused why unsupported Windows games don’t launch on a fresh install)

Because either way you’re taking a risk.

Security flaws and aging hardware are two obvious problems.

I’d very much question why you’d use windows 10 over something better supported— maybe not Linux but at least Windows Server OS.

It’s a tough balance… tough to show the reality but also show how the perception is being manipulated in reporting.