GM badged Fiero revival please.

Like, if I could get something that even halves the time it takes to build a bevy project when I first open it back up, that'd be amazing. It's straight up 20+ minutes on this laptop compared to like 3 min on my big home PC, but I need to be here and not at home.

I know we're in dire straights, but this is an absurd thing for a publication with the legacy of Eurogamer to be doing to their website.

How exactly does a device refuse to exit a battery protection mode in 2025, years after it was launched and well over a decade since this problem was universally solved?

Presumably that's some sort of hyper low power mode that preserves only enough processing to manage a couple button inputs, but how does that not automatically exit when it reaches a certain state of charge? I'm just not certain why you'd ever leave something that fails on like that out of house.

Like yeah man, I'd love to have time to contribute to Blender, or Inkscape, or FreeCAD, but 1) software dev is not a hobby of mine at the moment, and 2) I'm not a software dev by trade, so I simply do not have the time. That's not an attack on anyone, acting like that is weird.

I'd suggest these people lack the critical thinking skills necessary to realize that telling someone who interfaces with a piece of software a couple times a year to go do free labor on it is inane, but I also kinda just think they like being jerks in a way they think is plausibly deniable.

I'm well aware of how FOSS works, thanks. 1) I have no time, 2) I have no time, 3) I have no money and already give to a couple other FOSS projects despite that. Maybe go post something useful somewhere else instead of being a pedant.

If by told you mean metaphorically beaten into submission. They're not here because people want it, they're here because the upside is they get to fire all their employees and just pass money around between each other forever. And they're business economists so they think that'll work somehow.

And none of this is something I think I should have to think about when all I want to do is spit out Gcode for a shop bot to make a replacement pick guard for a bass guitar without paying Autodesk or Onshape $1500 a year.

I'm really, genuinely not sure that there's a reasonable use case for requiring me to bind sketch geometry to a part in order to use it for that part. Nor am I convinced that, for example, sketching and drafting need to be bespoke workspaces within the context of a CAD application.

I want to be clear here, the problem is that PC Gamer has profited off advertising AI stuff, lets a staff member consistently run AI hype press releases as content, and let that same staff member say he is excited to see people who make games lose their jobs because he actively hates them.

I feel like my head is going to explode reading the comments on the viral skeet of this thing

PC Gamer was shilling AI slop a full year before the industry hopped on the hype train. Letting them get away with this kind of pivot is absurd. These people, maybe just the ones in charge - maybe all of them, are among the least trustworthy voices on this particular topic that you can find.

This year my present is that my Steam Deck just spontaneously bricked itself and no longer turns on. There's a 0% I can solve this via anything other than lucking into it suddenly working. Merry Christmas or whatever.