Valve decided to use an immutable file system for the Steam Deck’s OS - essentially, the core of the operating system, including the directories where system-wide apps are typically installed, is read-only. It’s a safeguard against people who’d accidentally end up making their OS unbootable by blindly following…

Yeah, what happened recently? I now have to log into Kinja everytime I close the page and return. It doesn’t remember me.

How is that working out for you?. Decent/good quality?

I’ve been running Microsoft Edge on mine (for GamePass streaming) and it’s getting updated on the reg.

I assumed it was doomed when the con man who’s desperate for attention announced he was buying Twitter on a whim.

My take is that Musk never had the liquidity to swing the deal in the first place. He made the offer, then realized he couldn’t afford it after Twitter took him up on it. Now that he finally came to the conclusion that they have zero motivation to give him a discount, he’s pulling out.

They tweeted something stupid

Right, because gamers are well known for restraint and being even-tempered, particularly on social media.

I don’t think “mad” is the prevailing emotion so much as “tired bemusement”

Nepotism.

What, precisely, is the point of having a “Social Team” if they are not also the people in charge of the (verified) twitter account?

1st Gear: It’s insane that people are willing to pay 4 figures for a car payments.

Just having Riccitiello on board as CEO shouldve been the iceberg off the bow for employees who know their history of the industry.....

The last time I got severance pay at all, it was only two weeks. Two months sounds great to me.

2 months of severance + COBRA seems like a really shitty deal.

A friend was laid off last week 2 hours after an all hands assuring everyone they weren’t “laying everyone off”. I would guess it’s a way to keep people from destroying work or causing havoc before they can revoke access.

Gotta make sure you wring every last ounce of labor out of your workers before kicking them to the curb.

“Two weeks ago, during an all-hands in front of roughly 3,000 full-time Unity employees, Riccitiello assured staffers the company was not in any financial trouble, and that Unity wouldn’t be laying anyone off, according to sources who attended.”

I spent nearly a decade in QA, so I’d say I have a pretty good understanding of the process. Seicarescu is absolutely right about the number of teams on projects like this. Largescale games will almost certainly have an internal QA team that works for the developer, along with at least one external team. The external…

I’ve worked in the industry far more than Mr. Booty and it was never a badge of honor to sleep under your desk.  It sucked to have to do that 10 years ago and sucks even worse now.  What a choad.