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Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams
Classic streisand effect
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Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams
Classic streisand effect
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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery
Instead of capitalising on Google pissing off power users with its crusade against adblockers, why the hell is Mozilla fucking up so hard here? Seriously, which chain of command green lit all of this and didn't even think this would be remotely an issue?
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Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5
Of course it would. Why would I pay 100 bucks for a game that consistently got worse over time past it's first few months and becomes dead in a year when the new game comes out? If it wasn't on game pass, I wouldn't even have bothered.
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Why am I using an Android device then? Also how would this even work with open source apps that people build from source?
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Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier:'We Have No Chance Against This'
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I hate this chasing of overly complicated and excessive software in cars. The only touchscreen I want in my car is the one that let's me run Android Auto for GPS and music. Everything else should be tactile analog switches and dials. Whichever person thought touchscreens are a safe UI choice in a fast moving death machine is insane.
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Intel and Nvidia announce stunning plans to combine their CPU and GPU products for both consumer PCs and AI servers, with Nvidia taking a $5 billion stake in Intel
RIP Arc
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In Asia, the global oil crisis is turning into an everything crisis
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It's the humidity in tropical regions. If it's not sealed properly, your biscuits will absorb the moisture in the air and turn soft. They're not oxygen removers, they're water vapour removers and it's there for a reason. It's not because we hate the environment or we're nuts. Hell, English as far as I know doesn't even have a word in common usage for it. In Hokkien we have a word "lau hong" which literally means to lose air as in lose the crispness of the biscuit.
Hell, there's also so many ants here that when I was in Finland, I was shocked that people leave biscuits as is without putting them into containers. If you do it in South East Asia, your biscuits would have become an ant colony in hours.
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
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Downloading 4 GB of data without your consent is a pretty big issue. If you're on a bandwidth starved or data capped network, that becomes a huge problem. Wasting 4GB of space on this nonsense that users aren't gonna use too is pretty absurd.
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Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal
Considering their trend of cutting everything other than the bonuses for their executives, I find that hard to believe.
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Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most
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Tribalism is one hell of a drug...
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Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
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Same issue with AMD's drivers sometimes. Not to say that their drivers are perfect but as a graphics engineer, I've had stuff my colleagues wrote and tested on Nvidia work fine but break on AMD because AMD was implementing the OpenGL spec exactly but Nvidia decided to be "lenient" and add hacks that make incomplete code work.
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Goodbye to pirated Windows and Office: a country [Vietnam] sets fines of up to 1 billion in local currency [Vietnamese dong = ~$38,000], and PC users should pay attention
Seems a bit sensationalised but they're only targeting companies selling pirated copies which sounds about right I guess? Your average user who does this isn't gonna be affected.
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METRO 2039 - Announcement April 16
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While it was different, I did like Exodus in a different way and it felt pretty fresh.
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Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand
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The average person frankly doesn't really care as much as you think probably. Anecdotal but people I spoke to who also got it mainly got it for the price. They'd still prefer Windows since it's what they're used to but the lower price makes trying something new a lot more palatable.
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Gaming PC deflects bullet shot through wall by neighbour, saving owner's life — criminal negligence charges for culprit who claims 'firearm was accidentally discharged by her dog'
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Europeans? More like most of the world really...
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It has begun.. | IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption | Fortune
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So they're doubling down and ignoring the root of the problems that they've found? Classic.
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"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership
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The clickbait titles and thumbnails destroyed most of the interest I had in their videos but at that time, it was clear that they were pivoting to a more typical less enthusiast-level audience. I still found some of their occasional videos somewhat interesting but the increasing hypocrisy and shit they've pulled made me stop watching all together.
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Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026
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What the other responders have said aside, are you seriously comparing a hardware focused company the size of Asus to Valve who's hardware business is more of a side thing?
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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
So what happens if they're not based on the US?
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Report: Chinese Android makers are testing under-display selfie cameras with 3D facial recognition
After so many years, can't say I understood the appeal of facial recognition on a phone. You're already going to be holding it so fingerprint readers still seem superior in every way. You can unlock it before you even take it out of your pocket too.