RMP 055 — We Need to Talk About the Future of Tech

Episode NotesCheck out The Retro Millennial on the small web!NewsApple News* iOS and macOS 27 public beta released in mid-July* Not advised to run on your main devicesMicrosoft News* Microsoft lays off another 4,900 people -- approx 2.1% of total workforce* Windows 11 Patch Tuesday for July was the largest ever with 570 vulnerabilities fixed* Includes 428 bugs in Edge, WebView2, and Chrome’s Chromium engine* Also included fixes for multiple zero days including some actively exploited ones targeting Active Directory Federated Services and SharePointLinux/FOSS News* Linux Mint Cinnamon DE version 6.8 move Wayland support out of “Experimental” while still fully supporting X11* The Lunduke Computer Operating System release 0.1 out now* Hannah Montana Linux has been reborn* COSMIC 1.3 introduces translucent “Frosted Glass” UI option* AppImages get a package manager called “AppManager”Retro Gaming News* Bobby Prince, composer of Doom, Doom 2, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem has passed away at 81* Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Unreal Engine Remake ends development for obvious reasons* iam8bit releasing transluscent reproduction carts of Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 for the 35th aniversary* Complete games on playable cartridges, in matching reproduction clamshell boxes with a manual* Each costs $99* GameInformer magazine has made every issue of the magazine available for free on their websiteOther Tech News* Sony removed purchased digital movies from customer accounts* Sony going fully digital in January in 2028; no new disks will be made* Sony considering PlayStation Plus price increase* “We want to make sure that Customer LTV (Customer Lifetime Value) for every new user is profitable,” Sony told investors. “We aim to achieve this by driving higher Customer LTV, increasing recurring revenue, and implementing operational discipline and efficiency. By balancing growth in these areas, we can achieve our aim for profitable growth.”* So we can’t by physical in the future* The physical games we get now aren’t actaully physical* They’ll take away our digital purchases* And charge us more for the licenses on a monthly basis* I think it’s just time to start saying no to these companies and stop giving them any of our money* But no one wants to do that and not be entertained...Command Line Tool of the Month: BasaltBasalt is a TUI application -- written in Rust -- designed to manage Obsidian vaults from the terminal. It is available for Mac, Windows and Linux via Cargo and Aqua.Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe