RMP 042 — Is Retro Gaming Still Worth It in 2025?

Episode Notes

News

Linux/FOSS News

• Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least

• DeepSeek outperforms OpenAI's reasoning model at just 3% of the cost

• Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 cost-effective AI is impressive, but OpenAI will "obviously deliver much better models" than it….

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touts DeepSeek's open-source AI as "super impressive": "We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously

• GOOGLE OPEN SOURCES PEBBLEOS: NEW PEBBLE DEVICE IN DEVELOPMENT

• Netrunner 25 “Shockworm” Released

Microsoft News

• Trump says Microsoft is one of the companies eyeing TikTok

• Microsoft is working on a smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with Snapdragon X

• Your Microsoft 365 subscription cost is going up for the first time in 12 years — but don't worry, it now includes a "monthly allotment" of Copilot

Creepy AI News

• Trump’s AI Push: Understanding The $500 Billion Stargate Initiative

• Microsoft introduces “Muse” generative AI model for “gameplay ideation”

Other Tech News

• VLC Developers Working on AI-Powered Real-Time Subtitles

• Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez Calls for Ending Online Anonymity, Linking Social Media to Digital ID

• World Economic Forum White Paper Pushes Public-Private Collaboration to Accelerate Digital ID and Censorship Initiative

• Players upset following two-day PSN outage

Retro Gaming/Tech News

• The prototype GameCube from Space World 2000 is being sold for $100,000

• SuperStationOne, FPGA PlayStation 1 console now available for pre-order

• 'Ninja Gaiden 2 Black' highlights a major on-going issue with Xbox / PC Game Pass

• DINO CRISIS & DINO CRISIS 2 ARE BACK, AVAILABLE ON GOG!

• The Sims 1 and 2 Legacy Collections launch to 'Mixed' reviews on Steam as EA investigates 'various issues'

• The House of the Dead: Remake now available

• DoomPDF - Play Doom Inside PDF Documents

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Main Topic: Is Retro Gaming Still Worth It in 2025?

• The original article from 2022

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