It's not even about the lower specs, it's the optimization in general.
My PC is a little old, but still fine for most games up to medium settings.
But when I tried FF XVI, which is mentioned in the article, I couldn't get anything close to acceptable performance with everything turned as low as possible and looking like shit.
Yeah, gotta have that and all that Secure Boot with TPM bullshit, because I'm visualizing a company workstation and nothing will work without those.
Because for some reason, no matter what I try, Windows 10 desktop is laggy as hell on Qemu, and smooth out of the box on VirtualBox.
Sure you can. wink wink 🏴☠️
I got the disc version for used games too, but the sad truth is that where I live there isn't really a market for used games.
Or, well, there is, but the prices on used discs are often barely below retail price, if you can even find a copy.
It's not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.
Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you're likely to have to activate it online anyway.
The "own your games" ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.
Also, fun fact: Kagi owner believes only criminals want privacy and GDPR doesn't apply to them, because they said so!
I mean, of course USA has culture - it's one of their most successful international exports!
I think when people complain about lack of culture they usually mean "old" culture, since USA as a country is still relatively young.
But it's not a Spotify client, is it?
IIRC it uses Spotify APIs to generate playlists, but that's all.
Actual music gets streamed from YouTube.
These volunteers didn't think about it in these terms.
They gave away their work for free to help people learn languages, and for a long time Duolingo seemed like the best platform for that.
Starting your own platform is much more difficult than contributing to an existing one that seems to be operated with some amount of goodwill...
They already said they don't want to.
They asked you to install the app on purpose, in hopes that you'll decide it's too much hassle and decide not to delete the account.
XVI != XIV :)