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Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”

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I've been thinking about this since the announcement from Sony. I see alot of friends complaining when I fully know they have massive steam libraries and no optical drives.

And I think it comes down too we have Steam. Steam is run by Valve a non public company with no shareholders. And Valve not only says but does. They keep things open and accessible. Game removed from Steam, that's file you can still download it and play. Things like GoG where you can get an offline installer. And we can pirate probably fits in There some where

But console you only have the maker and not a single one can be trusted. Sony removed movies and TV shows a couple times at this point.

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Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again

Memory controllers used to be on the motherboards. So your motherboard would determine the type of RAM you used.

As you may know the something called the chipset these days they used to be called south bridges and we had a north bridge. And the North bridge had things like Memory Controller and other IO stuff. South Bridge hasn't changed much in terms of what it does. More IO.

It's basically like cache tiers. The closer you are to the CPU the faster you can be.

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I like a name with an origin story

My friend has a cat named Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator. And that's what the legal docs say too. Wu for short.

And I have the lore because I named it more or less. Me, Cat Owner, Other Dude talking shit like 3 guys do. One of the things being you have one cat now you need a second one. And were just fucking about with names. Other Dude is like used a Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator. And I'm like no no no THAT is the name. And I guess Cat owner thought that was good shit. Cause like less then 6 months later not only did he get a another cat like we call he indeed named it Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator and she ain't nothing to fuck with.

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Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does

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I totally bought a Palm off eBay few months ago. It's been fun to use Palm OS 5 again. I got a model that actually has WiFi, which was also interesting to set up a AP that was compatible with it.

One I got had a dead battery, ordered a new one, it was so much nicer to open the old tech and replace the battery. Just screw and little solder. No glue and impossible small stuff to work with.