Except China has advantages in supply chain integration and way cheaper labor that’s kept artificially low by it’s government playing games with it’s currency exchange rate.

Translation: our workers are paid better, our companies follow relatively strict environmental law (or used to) and our government hasn’t helped spy on other countries’ technology advancements and given it to private industry to beat the other guys.

That’s a pretty steep advantage to China.

Fuck. I’m just waiting for Haro Seldon to show up now.

Where do you think our cops are going to come from when China invades Taiwan? This was necessary.

76% of AZ water use is for agriculture, but that’s besides the point. I’ve read that most of the water used in a fab gets recycled, so once up and running, water usage isn’t as much if an issue as you’d think.

It didn’t work before, maybe I’ll try it again when I have the time.

Right. Snob all you want, but I thoroughly enjoyed Div1 and 2. AC Origins was also a lot of fun, especially for someone that grew up fascinated by ancient Egypt.

Civ6 is on EGS… Battlefield 1and5 on EA, plus the Mass Effect series…

But hey… Those games are awful, right… The chi chamber is loud today.

Like I wrote, Steam games were generally good, other storefronts, not so much.

I want able to get it to work unfortunately. This was a few years ago though.

I tried building a Steam box with the bootleg version of SteamOS from the deck… Can’t remember the name of the distro. Steam Games ran great for the most part, but getting Epic, EA and Ubisoft to work was a nightmare. If Linux can get that sorted, I’d never use Windows again.