Honored to have been asked by 'Tycho' of Penny Arcade to write a guest blog post for them about the state of video game ownership and game servers. The reason I decided to commit full-time to building GN originally was actually because of PAX Prime in 2010, which is a gaming convention hosted by Penny Arcade. It was the first major show I had attended (and the last one that my dad went to with me), and after getting home, I remember thinking "this is the only thing I want to do." 16 years later, I am fortunate enough to get to speak with the Penny Arcade team and contribute a guest post to their website. You can check it out below in the comments.
Although it's been a few years since I've been able to make it to PAX, mostly due to the timing conflicting with other events, Penny Arcade's web comic and the PAX events remain dear to me for creating the excitement to get me to commit fully to this project.
We're back at it! Took a publishing break this past week to just get a breather and give everyone some downtime, which allowed us to catch-up on a bunch of projects and also just let everyone get some extra time off. Very excited about the stuff we have coming up next! Just filmed 3 videos, one for GNCA and two for GN. In one of them, the cartels return! That'll go up on GN soon. HW News is up as of today. Always feels good to slow things down a couple times a year so we can just catch-up on everything.
Big success today. Not necessarily for a video, kind of boring business software stuff, but: Only 2 software suites keep me on Windows, at this point. Adobe and QuickBooks. I've managed to migrate off of QuickBooks, which has killed its desktop software to go cloud only. Fuck that. I was able to find Linux-compatible bookkeeping software that actually works way better than QuickBooks. Much faster, more automate-able, more customizable, can custom write Python scripts, etc. That and the fact that QB was forcing users to go online (no doubt to scrape for AI models), so this is local, fully self-owned data, and no cost. In the background, I've been slowly trying to (for real) move to Linux on my work machine. Haven't really talked about it for content yet.
Took all goddamn day, but man was the frustration worth it. Definitely not an easy migration process. I ended up trying several tools - Beancount with FAVA, hledger, Manager, GnuCash, and some others. Have narrowed to two, but the point is that there is a promising path forward and I now only have one set of software keeping me on Windows, which is Adobe.
There are solutions for that as well. It's a little more painful since the entire company uses Adobe and, for that reason, we don't have an immediate need to move and there's a lot more inertia. I will start experimenting with alternatives personally though and we'll see if we can roll it out over time.
Definitely promising.
I fucking hate Windows. The amount of spying is unbelievable at this point, and the pain to find alternatives to all my old tools is at this point lower than the concerns Microsoft introduces.
Just for anyone curious, we finally got a functioning 2x 8GB kit in that worked for the Steam Machine. If you missed it, we originally could not POST on the first kit we tried, but the new one we bought was compatible out of the box. The results are identical to the 2x 16GB kit that we tested in the single vs. dual-channel configuration video, which makes sense, as we only ran tests that fit within the original 16GB capacity. We won't be running a video on that since it's the same exact result, but did want to provide that extra data for anyone who might find it useful. The TLDR is that, in the tests we ran for dual vs single, the capacity was a non-factor and the results are unchanged on 2x 8GB vs 2x 16GB. Of course, if you were to need 32 vs 16GB, it would matter, but that's a different limitation.
Remember this scene from when we visited Bloomberg? "Bloomberg's organization is funding this," Louis Rossmann said about the 3D printing legislation that aims to control what you're allowed to print (and potentially leads to closed sourcing of 3D printing).
At 8:30 AM Pacific Time today, there is a 'public safety committee' hearing in Sacramento that will serve as the last time people can speak publicly in opposition to 3D printing legislation which aims to control what you print -- possibly resulting in forcefully feeding 3D prints through online corporate servers and potentially leading to the 3D printing community going more closed-source with more government oversight. There are likewise implications for open source 3D printing hardware and software, which could face restrictions and enshittification.
Louis Rossmann will be speaking with the committee and is hoping viewers show up at least to just be a presence and show the committee that people care, or at best, to speak about why these kinds of laws are damaging to ownership while not achieving what they claim to achieve.
If you can make it today, please attend to show your opposition to this controlling legislation that benefits the consolidation of printing into fewer private corporations. This is how we get monopolization in 3D printing, because it benefits companies that play ball with forcing internet connections.
TIME: 8:30 a.m. June 30th 2026 ADDRESS: - 1021 O Street, Room 2200, Sacramento, California, 95814-5704
Although claimed to be targeted at "bad shapes," this sort of technology could also feasibly be used to scan prints and determine if they are breaching intellectual property -- the monster character you personally modeled and want to print for fun could be blocked by object detection in the future of 3D printing for resembling, say, a Pokemon. Obviously, feeding prototypes and artwork through corporate servers also could lead to being ripped off, to data breaches (that lead to being ripped off), or just to eventually feeding your prints into some sort of AI learning server to either rip you off or analyze the cylinder you printed and determine it's a bad cylinder, not a good cylinder.
This is important. It is physically impossible for GN to make it out there in time due to the distance, but we will be covering this and trying to attend hearings on other similar issues as we become aware of them.
Trying to plan for the next handheld reviews. What's the interest level in the new Intel handheld platform? The conclusion is almost definitely "it's too expensive," so trying to figure out if we prioritize time to test this one or not vs. other products.
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Honored to have been asked by 'Tycho' of Penny Arcade to write a guest blog post for them about the state of video game ownership and game servers. The reason I decided to commit full-time to building GN originally was actually because of PAX Prime in 2010, which is a gaming convention hosted by Penny Arcade. It was the first major show I had attended (and the last one that my dad went to with me), and after getting home, I remember thinking "this is the only thing I want to do." 16 years later, I am fortunate enough to get to speak with the Penny Arcade team and contribute a guest post to their website. You can check it out below in the comments.
Although it's been a few years since I've been able to make it to PAX, mostly due to the timing conflicting with other events, Penny Arcade's web comic and the PAX events remain dear to me for creating the excitement to get me to commit fully to this project.
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We're back at it! Took a publishing break this past week to just get a breather and give everyone some downtime, which allowed us to catch-up on a bunch of projects and also just let everyone get some extra time off. Very excited about the stuff we have coming up next! Just filmed 3 videos, one for GNCA and two for GN. In one of them, the cartels return! That'll go up on GN soon. HW News is up as of today. Always feels good to slow things down a couple times a year so we can just catch-up on everything.
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Big success today. Not necessarily for a video, kind of boring business software stuff, but: Only 2 software suites keep me on Windows, at this point. Adobe and QuickBooks. I've managed to migrate off of QuickBooks, which has killed its desktop software to go cloud only. Fuck that. I was able to find Linux-compatible bookkeeping software that actually works way better than QuickBooks. Much faster, more automate-able, more customizable, can custom write Python scripts, etc. That and the fact that QB was forcing users to go online (no doubt to scrape for AI models), so this is local, fully self-owned data, and no cost. In the background, I've been slowly trying to (for real) move to Linux on my work machine. Haven't really talked about it for content yet.
Took all goddamn day, but man was the frustration worth it. Definitely not an easy migration process. I ended up trying several tools - Beancount with FAVA, hledger, Manager, GnuCash, and some others. Have narrowed to two, but the point is that there is a promising path forward and I now only have one set of software keeping me on Windows, which is Adobe.
There are solutions for that as well. It's a little more painful since the entire company uses Adobe and, for that reason, we don't have an immediate need to move and there's a lot more inertia. I will start experimenting with alternatives personally though and we'll see if we can roll it out over time.
Definitely promising.
I fucking hate Windows. The amount of spying is unbelievable at this point, and the pain to find alternatives to all my old tools is at this point lower than the concerns Microsoft introduces.
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Lemme cook
New dish on the menu: Entertainment Software Association
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Just for anyone curious, we finally got a functioning 2x 8GB kit in that worked for the Steam Machine. If you missed it, we originally could not POST on the first kit we tried, but the new one we bought was compatible out of the box. The results are identical to the 2x 16GB kit that we tested in the single vs. dual-channel configuration video, which makes sense, as we only ran tests that fit within the original 16GB capacity. We won't be running a video on that since it's the same exact result, but did want to provide that extra data for anyone who might find it useful. The TLDR is that, in the tests we ran for dual vs single, the capacity was a non-factor and the results are unchanged on 2x 8GB vs 2x 16GB. Of course, if you were to need 32 vs 16GB, it would matter, but that's a different limitation.
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Remember this scene from when we visited Bloomberg? "Bloomberg's organization is funding this," Louis Rossmann said about the 3D printing legislation that aims to control what you're allowed to print (and potentially leads to closed sourcing of 3D printing).
At 8:30 AM Pacific Time today, there is a 'public safety committee' hearing in Sacramento that will serve as the last time people can speak publicly in opposition to 3D printing legislation which aims to control what you print -- possibly resulting in forcefully feeding 3D prints through online corporate servers and potentially leading to the 3D printing community going more closed-source with more government oversight. There are likewise implications for open source 3D printing hardware and software, which could face restrictions and enshittification.
Louis Rossmann will be speaking with the committee and is hoping viewers show up at least to just be a presence and show the committee that people care, or at best, to speak about why these kinds of laws are damaging to ownership while not achieving what they claim to achieve.
If you can make it today, please attend to show your opposition to this controlling legislation that benefits the consolidation of printing into fewer private corporations. This is how we get monopolization in 3D printing, because it benefits companies that play ball with forcing internet connections.
TIME: 8:30 a.m. June 30th 2026
ADDRESS: - 1021 O Street, Room 2200, Sacramento, California, 95814-5704
For those who can't attend, here is the information:
event: luma.com/g2uw6fuf
senate link: www.senate.ca.gov/calendar?st...
Although claimed to be targeted at "bad shapes," this sort of technology could also feasibly be used to scan prints and determine if they are breaching intellectual property -- the monster character you personally modeled and want to print for fun could be blocked by object detection in the future of 3D printing for resembling, say, a Pokemon. Obviously, feeding prototypes and artwork through corporate servers also could lead to being ripped off, to data breaches (that lead to being ripped off), or just to eventually feeding your prints into some sort of AI learning server to either rip you off or analyze the cylinder you printed and determine it's a bad cylinder, not a good cylinder.
This is important. It is physically impossible for GN to make it out there in time due to the distance, but we will be covering this and trying to attend hearings on other similar issues as we become aware of them.
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Returning back to the US for the first time in weeks and instantly greeted with an inescapable reminder of Microslop.
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Microsoft adds "AI" to its Windows Explorer search and yet a basic filename search in Explorer still does not find any files. Peak Microslop.
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Noctua AIO soon. Will be working on it this coming week.
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Trying to plan for the next handheld reviews. What's the interest level in the new Intel handheld platform? The conclusion is almost definitely "it's too expensive," so trying to figure out if we prioritize time to test this one or not vs. other products.
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