Not voting is also a choice. You can’t expect any change without participation.

I’ll only address journalism as it relates to video games/reviews, but my opinion is that there are better ways to communicate information about a game than reading about it.

For me the big one is simply seeing it played. I’ve read beautiful reviews of games that when it comes time to play do not click for me. Watching someone else play it gives me way more context and appreciation. My go to for this is simply youtube. I skip the middle man entirely. I get a wide range of videos from different players in an easy to access format. Others I know use twitch to similar effect. As the options for providing this information grow, older media lose footing. I’m not surprised at all. I’m not sure we should lament it, truthfully.

How dare.

Surprise surprise.

By old you mean not-old surely. 2010+. Actual old games had no such concepts.

Video games also do this. I’m sure there are other examples.

Management (mis)using kpi is a classic example.

No. Devs owe you nothing. You’re free to find another game though.

Risk tolerance is definitely a thing and I’d argue being all in on the s&p500 is already poor diversification. Global broad market etfs would fare better. The worst thing to do regardless of tolerance or portfolio is selling at crash.

I play both. Couch gaming is simply more epic (also comfy). Glorious 7.1 surround on a couch? chefs kiss

Precisely. When comparing against home ownership, people often only consider the mortgage.

As always, you have to run the numbers. Ownership also comes with hidden costs. Property taxes and maintenance aren’t cheap.

Don’t think the comparison is valid. While there will be creepers at hooters, they are more likely to already be social and accustomed to the norms. They’re out and about. Whereas there’s an undeniable mass of socially inept users that streaming specifically caters to. They have zero concepts of socially appropriate behaviour and interactions.

The older single man angle has nothing to do with it.

Pepe. The whole concept of a prawn Muppet is amazing.

So I did some digging, and it’s less clear than I thought.

I come from the embedded development world, where bare metal has been in use for a long time. Pre-2000s, this is exclusively what the term meant. Sometime around the mid 2000s, the virtualization services starting coopting the term.

So I guess it does indeed mean both, but being a stickler for tradition it doesn’t sit right with me. The term just makes more sense when you’re applying it to the hardware; bare. No middleman, and that includes an OS.

Bare metal Ubuntu

Just a nitpick but bare metal means no OS.

Sounds about right. Last time I had an office phone at my desk was 2021.

Same. There just aren’t enough users.

It appears you do not, in fact, get the joke.