As I wrote they play it less. I never claimed they don’t play it. and I clearly indicated that the numbers aren’t stats, I made an example and a hypothetical based on it.

As I wrote it doesn’t mean they don’t play it, but it means they play it less.

The market they are missing out on is growing. If 4 friends decide to play a game, and 1 has Linux, those 4 will not play a Ubisoft game.
So even if Linux is only about 3%, it could hypothetically mean 12% lower playtime on their games, and that will reflect in lower future sales. Where people will prefer to buy games they play more.

What an absolute trash misleading headline.

The Russian army captured more than 5,600 square kilometres (2,160 square miles), or 0.94 per cent, of Ukrainian territory in 2025,

So at this pace it will take a 100 years to capture Ukraine!?
The war of attrition id a Ukrainian strategy that actually works, Russia is very slowly taking territory, but at insane cost. This will exhaust Russia, and Russia is now on the brink of collapse. Russia is fucking using cavalry and donkeys now!
Their meat attacks are less and less effective, because they have no heavy material left to back it up. Their current pace of advancement is literally comparable to a snail, and the Russian economy has been collapsing throughout 2025, and 2026 will only get worse.
The deficit in the Russian federal budget is enormous, they thought they could sell oil at $70, but the price for Russian oil is only half that now, and at the same time sales have declined 30%. Meaning their greatest source of revenue is only 35% of what they based their budgets on. And it’s still declining.
Russia is now actively preventing people from withdrawing money from the bank, and bankruptcies and unemployment is increasing, and tax revenues are way way lower than before the war. And at the same time the Russian federation exceeded their military budget by 30%.

Russia is clearly losing this war, maybe not so visible on the battlefield yet as Russia continues their meat waves, but the back-end that is needed to support the war is collapsing, it already started collapsing in 2025 as we were many that predicted, but the collapse is accelerating, and even if Russia decides to end the war now, there’s a real danger for Russia that the Russian federation will collapse both politically and economically.

Some years back we had a company in Denmark called Nordic Feather, a very old company with a stellar reputation in every respect.
But suddenly one day, the CEO committed suicide apparently out of the blue. And after that it was revealed that he had been cooking the books for years, and the company had basically been bankrupt for a couple of years. But had been held up on bank loans and credits that were issued on false information.

Russia is in a very similar position today, the country has been cooking the books for years, and may in fact already be bankrupt. The budget for 2025 was made with an expected manageable deficit, but military expenses have been exceed by some 20-30% and income from oil and gas is only about half what they expected in the budget, because both sales and prices are down.

Where the Russian economy was in a weird limbo from 2022 to 2024 with a simultaneous combination of symptoms of recession and overheating, the overheating part is now long gone here by the end of 2025, and only the recession symptoms are left.
Increasing bankruptcies, and examples of mass factory layoffs, decreasing tax revenues and purchasing power.
Purchasing power is now so weak, it has actually caused inflation to go down on food!
Allegedly increased reports of infrastructure failures, are caused by shortage of skilled workers, and shortage of parts they used to import, and even sometimes caused by failures due to workers working on extreme overtime schedules.

I’m hoping the Russian economy and infrastructure will be so seriously strained by the end of winter, that the Russian federation collapses politically. For it to actually collapse economically will take a while longer. Russia has been selling a lot of gold and diamonds to keep things together economically. But Russia is REALLY close to be out of options, and when that happens, there will be no money for the government to pay for anything, we may see running the money press resulting in hyper inflation as the final attempt to extend the lifespan of the current government (Putin).
But for sure Russia has already been running on borrowed time for a while now.

I don’t think Russia will attack EU or NATO, but I also didn’t think they would invade Ukraine.
So we probably better prepare for Crazy Ivan being crazy.

$6 billion in aid to Ukraine from Japan is amazing IMO.
AFAIK Japan is considering beefing up their military a bit like Europe has already decided.
Maybe Europe and Japan could cooperate on research/production/acquisition of weapons a bit like we do now with Canada entering the SAFE agreement. Japan is a very politically stable country much like Canada, and could be an excellent defense partner.
Europe and Japan definitely have common defense interests, and USA becoming an unreliable defense partner must be just as much a problem for Japan as it is for Europe and Canada.

We have had several Drone incidents here in Denmark, and after the first, police was quickly equipped with equipment to detect them sooner and shoot them down.
Next drone incidents however absolutely nothing happened. Except closing the airport again.
The reason is that it is illegal to shoot them down in peace time, if they are near anything civilian, and in little Denmark it’s basically impossible to not be near something civilian.
So the article is based on a false dichotomy that doesn’t really exist. We absolutely have the equipment to shoot them down already. Especially if we allow the military to do it.
The basis for this article is exactly what Russian propaganda is trying to do, raise opposition to help Ukraine, under the guise that helping Ukraine is harmful to ourselves.
Poland already has shut down drones that flew into Polish territory. Every single European country can do the same, all they have to do is make the decision to do it.

This is really good news, but it would have been better to take the money from the Russian accounts IMO.
Belgium being afraid of Russia is so embarrassing IMO. Denmark is building Ukrainian weapons factories on Danish territory, something Putin has stated makes Denmark a valid target. But he won’t do shit about it, because Russia is already losing this war, their economy is in ruins, and attacking another country will only make things worse for Russia, and when Russia loses this war Putin is finished, as in literally finished.

Putin had a very insecure childhood, and he learned from a rat, that lashing out violently could scare off an attacker way bigger than yourself.
Unless he is extremely delusional, he is probably very worried ATM, because FSB (KGB) seems to be removing some of his strongest supporters.
So Putin may be nearing the end of the line, and he knows it. So he is lashing out because he is scared, while at the same time trying to appear calm and in control.
Putin is becoming more and more isolated. He is losing popular support, because the population is beginning to feel the costs of the war. He is also losing support from the elite, because the failure of Russia to defend their oil industry, has sown doubt that he can protect Kremlin and Moscow. And they too probably see their positions as being in danger. Finally even the FSB seems to be contemplating a shift in power, and they have moved way more boldly and apparently independent from Putin in later months.

So it seems Putin has enemies all around him, and he is probably paranoid already as a result of his childhood. So even if the threats are only superficial, he is most likely afraid. And many Russians don’t believe he can win the war anymore, and even if they believe he can, many don’t think it’s worth it, because they will take over only ruins, and it will be expensive to rebuild, when the Russian infrastructure is already failing as it is.

So if you think it’s exciting to live dangerously, I’m sure Putin has a lot of excitement right now.
Putin has been lucky so far that Moscow is having a mild winter, when the winter gets cold, many Russians will freeze, and many will run out of money, and things may heat up in other ways.

Yes Putin is a master of deception, and the money he pumped into the economy early on made people think the war was great for the economy, and a lot of people were happy because they were doing well for themselves.
But now we have reached the point where the truth becomes evident, and I’m shocked the truth about the economy weighs heavier than the horrors of the war.
There is no way you can morally just not care about the people from the remote provinces, and even if you do, you should be able to realize that there is only so much they can take. Maybe they will come for “you” next!

I used to think for the first year that the losses would wake up Russians to the futility of the war. Because allegedly it was losses in Afghanistan that made Russia pull back from Afghanistan.
But even way bigger losses in Ukraine have done nothing to make Russians wake up. It seems more like the economic pain in Russia is beginning to have that effect.
It’s absolutely insane!!!

True, but at that time we didn’t get daily numbers, those are estimates made later. But I suppose there was a reason Russia had to pull back, and actually occupy less territory today than they did the first ½ year.

The bubble has been going on this entire year and more. The difference is that now the people that created the bubble are beginning to recognize that there may be a slight problem with profitability.

Even Sam Altman is recognizing that profitability is a bigger problem than he originally thought.
I think investments could already be slowing down, but of cause this is also a pissing contest among the richest people in the world.
And they may think the one that can stay the course will be the ultimate winner.
So I’m not sure this race is decided based on reason, because billionaires tend to be megalomaniacs.
So you may need to buy a new battery for your old phone if you want to avoid the high RAM prices. 😋

Those RAM prices will drop like a rock soon. When AI investments are shown to not yield returns on investment, the investments will plummet, and at that time RAM production will be higher than ever.

So if you can, hold out a few months on buying anything where RAM is a factor.

Whoa 1730 lost personnel?!
I don’t recall ever seeing it that high before!
Is it Russia trying to look strong? And instead they just send their soldiers to die in hopeless attacks.

Sounds pretty stupid if you don’t know which platforms you want to target from the beginning.
If development really is that random and poorly planned, they are making extra work for themselves due to poor planning more than because they chose to support the Steam deck.

Apparently not, because many people buy glass back phones that are both thicker and heavier than a good synthetic, Then they add a cover to protect the back, making the phone even bulkier.

The smartphone market is goddam moronic in some aspects IMO. It all started when idiotic reviewers claimed the Galaxy S2 that was superior to the iPhone at the time, didn’t have the same “premium” feel of the iPhone. In part because it was lighter!!!
Also the Galaxy was way way more durable, the iPhone cracked if you looked at it wrong. So there is no doubt which phone was made from the better materials as in the more functional ones.
But after that “premium” phones were basically all glass despite all the downsides, like adding thickness and weight, and being way less durable, and also glass being more slippery so risk of dropping it is increased too. Unless of course you use a cover, which then again makes the glass back utterly pointless.
There is simply no way glass is a suitable material for the back of a phone. Except moronic reviewers continue to claim so, and phone makers keep making high end phones almost exclusively with glass back.

Cool, a large capacity battery is nice for many things, like taking pictures or recording movies or gaming, or even just to have some buffer if you suddenly discover it only has 20% left.
And finally a bigger battery last longer, because it requires fewer full recharge equivalents. So if the expected lifespan of a 5000 mAh battery is 5 years, the 7000 mAh can last 7 years!!