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Yes it would be nice but there are many reasons I would want official versions of the best. First off, game companies have little financial incentive to make modding happen. Second, most mods don’t work on all platforms, such as consoles. Hopefully official versions would get wider release. Third, some financial incentives for modders, like the chance that they could sell their mod to add to the original title, would hopefully help the modding community.
I don’t mean the usual game company tactic of trying to extract money without adding value. I mean paying modders for their creations and then putting them out officially. I’d bet it would pretty much always be more profitable than doing it in house, and in most cases produce a better result. I mean, why don’t we have some beautiful next gen Skyrim from all the mods out there, or VR versions of most games- the mods are pretty good usually.
With so many good mods out there I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more.
I used Borland Turbo Pascal and C++ all through school and I have to agree, these were the most intuitive and efficient IDE’s I’ve used.
This was cringe even in the '90s.
Buying an Xbox rather than a PS4 in the last generation was the biggest disappointment in my 40 year gaming history. I won’t be doing it again.
I think between all the ideas in this thread that I could conceivably pull it off. I’d probably have to stay on iTunes and Windows Office under a VM, but Windows and office licenses aren’t hard to come by.
I can’t imagine who would ever pay $700 to upgrade from a ps5 for this.
The 3tb are mainly my music and photo library and the rest of my files. I actually have 2 NAS’. I could use them, but I like having things locally and to keep copies of the most important things in multiple places. So one NAS is mainly for backup of the other computers around the house. The other is for home automation and media server.
The disk is less of a problem than the RAM as I just keep it on an external drive. With the 2018 mac mini I have now, I just bought the lowest RAM and SSD possible and added an SSD RAID externally and then upgraded the RAM. I could concievably keep the RAID for the next computer. But even the base 128gb without any of my actual home folders on it is still to small (it’s criminal that they even sell this SKU as it would be entirely unusable for anyone in it’s base config). I could get by on 16gb of RAM (8 is really shit, I can’t do it), but I have to ask myself why I should when I can get more for so cheap.
More than anything I’m just tired of being screwed, and generally want to move to FOSS for everything at home. The FOSS stuff I do run at home like Plex and Homeassistant serve me so well, so reliably, over such a long time, that that’s just where I want to end up with everything so I’m not constantly having to fight being herded into paying for too-expensive cloud solutions or overpaying for basic computer hardware. I’m tired of having my software and hardware be unsupported and then replaced by solutions that are worse just so that they can attempt to extract new revenue streams from me. I want off the treadmill.
Fair points. But I need 3TB minimum on my desktop machine. I have 2 NAS’ with 6TB and 3TB RAID arrays. Yes I can get by with 8gb of ram but I keep a ton of stuff open. It’s slow. 16gb is probably the right amount but with upgradable ram 8 can get 64 for $200 which is well worth it to me. None of this is possible within my budget on new Macs, whereas on any normal hardware platform it’s pretty affordable. You might want to go back and look at Mac ram and ssd prices and compare them to market prices to see how out of hand they’ve become. It’s like a 10x multiple in some cases. The one area I don’t need to go big is on CPU as nothing I do is compute heavy, which is of course the one area where Apple doesn’t charge an absurd premium.
If nothing else it enforces readable code which I think is a good thing.
Plexamp is so close but they don’t allow you to sync your whole music library.
Immich looks nice I will try it out.
If my job weren’t so heavily focused on Outlook and doing things quickly and efficiently there, I wouldn’t be such a snob. I am just quicker on local software and use a lot of local things like many windows, drag and drop between windows, etc. Every time I tried o365 I ran into some sort of major blocker to my workflow pretty fast (like within hours). If workflow and throughput weren’t so important to my job, I wouldn’t mind, but it gets me in trouble at work if things don’t work smoothly. I can probably grab a cd key from my employer or an old laptop, so I don’t see this as much of a cost issue as it is to max out a mac with RAM and HD.
Solid advice, thanks. Winapps looks really promising for those things where there is just no other option. I will have to give that a test run.
I run office for Mac. It’s far inferior to the windows version but it gets the job done for the minority of time I work from home.
I look at vendor lock in more as giving you proprietary file types or other data that simply won’t work on other systems. I’ve been very careful to avoid that by using DRM-free media exclusively for example. Smart playlists and those sort of things are features that can and have been delivered on multiple platforms. The only place where I’d say I’m truly “locked in” is in Echange server integration, but that’s a choice my work made which I have no control over.
It’s the lack of anti trust enforcement in the USA that causes this. There is little to no competition left in many markets.
I honestly couldn’t give 2 shits. IT allows it so I’m sure they have their methods of securing things. It’s not a small company.
I’m 50 and really don’t watch movies almost at all any more. They tend to be so formulaic and too long to watch at home at night. If I’m going to watch something it will likely be episodic tv series. I do still play video games on the regular though.