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I've got ten year parts in two machines but I got a weird blessing in disguise when my old DDR4 mobo died a couple years ago and forced me to go full DDR5, new CPU and so on. I was upset then, not so much now.

You just never know when a bad thing ends up being a good thing.

I mean, today I saw a chocolate company ad saying no AI was needed. For chocolate. Anti-AI in a chocolate ad.

If Sees Candy is getting in on AI hate to sell shit, obviously people are tired of this crap. The bubble will burst.

Say what you will but at least he keeps his lamp in an unlocked chest in case it's dark outside or under a castle.

That's gotta be a wild 911 call. "It's happened again!"

I don't mind 720p at all, but I play a lot of old games and usually upscaling to 720p on PlayStation 2 games and stuff makes a tremendous difference.

Anything older, CRT filters. Bloom and interlacing make games like Super Metroid very eerie.

I don't buy the bot narrative, but I also won't say this is a genuine jump in Linux users. Rather, as someone who has done statical research before, a sudden jump like this feels like a change in how that data was gathered plus a rather high point on natural variance.

For starters, why would bot behavior change in a month? Any serious bot network would already be on Linux, so unless bot filtering got significantly worse in a single month, I'm skeptical on that front. I suppose it's possible a patch to scrapping plugins happened, or a change in bot sensitivity on the researcher side, or something, but you'd assume someone would point that out.

However, Linux adoption explanations are also iffy. The "Year of the Linux" people point to summer being a factor, or maybe Steam machine release. Maybe someone went viral promoting it and somehow... doubled installs? Seems unlikely, although a small jump can be attribed to these factors I suppose.

But back to the statistics -- all samples naturally vary over time and this can be a major factor month to month as statical noise exists. If it drops back to, say, 7 or 8%, that's probably that factor, although this is much less an issue if the sample is large (which I think it is?). It's also possible there's a change in measurement error, such as Unknowns getting parsed correctly this month, though I'm not sure if that can explain most of the chunk coming out from Windows. I think these are the explanations I'm leaning towards, though (e.g. the Linux was there all along!)

All I can say from my experience is a jump like this is unnatural and usually points to variance and/or measurement error. Rather than the actual population having a change, the researcher does something different that changes results. It doesn't necessarily mean the new results are biased (they might be less biased!), but it also doesn't mean reality has suddenly changed. After all, we're talking about a doubling of the population; if 300 million use the Internet in the US, that's 15 million people changing to Linux in a month.

Can confirm; I teach statistics and allow take home exams. I don't even really need guardrails on the math-- if you cheat via LLM, your answer is almost always hilariously wrong.

Where is Earthworm Jim?

Or did I hallucinate that cartoon...

I wish I knew, it played quite a few things, including PSX. The other commenter may be right, it's been a few years though so I don't remember if it folded or not. Timeline works out that it might have been when FunKey S debuted, though.

That is interesting, especially since manga piracy is such a big deal there. I wonder why there's a distinction in the laws in that and not with video games.

Sorry if I missed a tiny bit of context: most Sonic stuff is SoA lately, especially after the success of the movie. SoJ is a lot less open minded.

I don't get why Nintendo of America isn't as cool, though. I'm betting Japan dictates a lot more with them.

Speaking from experience, there's a very different mindset between Japanese and North America in regards to fan made stuff, like mods, etc., to the point that I was told to stay absolutely shut about my love of emulation and fan games when having dinner with a certain JP dev friend of my wife's. By contrast, a US dev friend literally was showing me his emulator keychain, lol.

Sega is a weird case, though, because they're both US, European, and Japanese in equal parts (to the point that if one flops, they all feel it). Leads to some interesting debates across teams though, or so I'm told.

Can't speak of Nintendo of America, though. They're up in Washington iirc, so I've never met anyone from there.