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Sneptaur

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28F, she/her - Seattle - Drive stick, use Linux, do praxis. Don’t call me unless I gave you my number

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Oh look! You can post relevant news! Great job!

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Another post from you of a months old article. Transparently pushing an agenda.

You don’t need to even do this. The current news articles and headlines are just as damning. Why poison the well?

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Oh you’re smug and rude too! How delightful.

The crazy part is I don’t even disagree with you. You’re rather ineffective in this way

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This ain’t it chief. The OP is a communist, not a fascist.

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This is a lot more boring than any of that. Just tech debt

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While you wait an hour for it to charge yeah

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Disney must be excited

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It was a joke

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Imagine you have a computer that’s been compromised by malware. What do you think the search engine will be set to? Not Google, not Bing, probably some third party one that has ads and malware. Changing that to Bing would technically qualify as a repair.

They could easily improve this by just adding a list of common reputable search engines, and adding those to an allow list.

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Glad you had something useful and helpful to add to the discussion. Have you ever in your life heard of “playing devils advocate”? Read a book some time.

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Yeah it’s not ideal. I just don’t see a world where Microsoft will set people’s search engine to DuckDuckGo

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Controversy drives engagement

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You don’t have to use this site

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Ok 💅

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Finally, they’ve optimized this game. Shameful that they released it in an unfinished state, but at least Bethesda is continuing to work on it.

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Importantly, if you have already opted out of sending data to Mozilla, this change will not affect you. It only sends data if you have the setting turned on. It takes just a few clicks to entirely disable it, and Mozilla deletes all record of your browser within 30 days from turning off this feature. If you're worried about it, do it now, it's just under Settings > Privacy & Security. Instructions are also linked in the blog post.

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It seems like a profit-driven thing to me. Big piles of anonymized data are worth a pretty penny.

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A non-profit can, in fact, profit, but it has specific rules on what it can do with those profits. Tax law is a rabbit hole and I don't even wanna peer in

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I’d just like for these things to be opt-in, not opt-out.

Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?

Is it a 'thank you for prepping my room' or 'please clean my room today'? If you tip post cleaning, it's likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...

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Only tip on stayovers. I used to be a housekeeper and I kind of grew to expect it after a guest had been in the room for multiple days, but never for just an overnight.

If you make a really big mess in the room, and don’t tip on a stay over, I would dip your toothbrush in the toilet 😂

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This isn’t really news. The PS5 is 4 years into its cycle by now.

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"Sonly sold slightly less than their extremely optimistic projections" ---> "Consoles are done for" is quite a stretch lmao

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Consoles are not intended to turn a profit on their own. Game sales are intended to turn a profit. There will always be a demand for an easy-to-use box you can buy for less than a PC and plug in and play games. The console is a loss leader, the games are the real profits. Why wouldn't they publish on more platforms? They lose money on every console sold.

I'm glad competition is so strong in the PC market.

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I think a lot of this sentiment is more true for the previous generation (PS4, XBOne) because those consoles could barely keep up with PCs at the time. The current generation of consoles have gotten so good that the average consumer would have a hard time telling a console and PC game apart. This is, of course, because the modern consoles are just gaming PCs themselves, with very tight integration.

Just think about your average dad who buys a TV at best buy. Now think about how he's going to be so impressed by the on-by-default HDR feature on the PS5, and how he can also be sold on the home theater aspect where the device can play 8K Blu-Rays if he wants.

I'm not arguing that consoles are the best thing, or that they're going to be the same forever, I'm just saying they have their place and I don't think they're going away.

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For my money, I think Sony will release a PlayStation store for PC, continue pushing the cloud thing, and start allowing third party app stores on consoles if and when they’re forced to by regulators.

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Very reasonable take. I’d like to toss a little bit of credit Sony’s way for their excellent controller design at least! I’ll keep buying consoles so long as games are still sold on physical media for them

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You mean to tell me they couldn't plug in their own USB controllers?!

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Because some gamers think windows would be better for this. And maybe a little bit of gamer brand loyalty

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Gen X does not vote with Gen Z and millennials. They tend to vote alongside the boomers. Therefore, we get Biden.

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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/millennials-will-not-age-into-voting-like-boomers.html

Time is up for neoliberals | Democracy requires a new, progressive capitalism. ( www.washingtonpost.com )

We care about freedom from hunger, unemployment and poverty — and, as FDR emphasized, freedom from fear. People with just enough to get by don’t have freedom — they do what they must to survive. And we need to focus on giving more people the freedom to live up to their potential, to flourish and to be creative. An agenda...

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I'm listening to the article now.

TL;DR, the author argues that capitalism went wrong starting with the Reagan administration. Laissez-faire capitalism is clearly a mistake, and they argue that we should push back and establish a more progressive form of capitalism.

As a socialist, I would be thrilled if this became the mainstream view. We need to start taking steps toward a more progressive society. Starting by taxing the rich, getting money out of politics, and stricter regulations on business and wealth.

It's just kind of a funny thing to say "progressive capitalism". Capitalism itself is a regressive system... but the ideas presented here are indeed good. I like seeing this in WaPo.

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That is a fantastic start, yes, exactly. I still think we can do better than this, like a 75% billionaire tax, but I'm okay with walking, not running, to the desired goal.

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Trust me, I know. I criticize Biden because unlike Trump, he actually listens to criticism. It's good advocacy. Of course I will be voting for him, in spite of the genocide he's enabling.

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That’s the joke

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This isn’t news, it’s been ongoing for quite some time.

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This isn’t a surprise but it’s good to see light shed on it

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There are some politically correct terms that are not well liked by the people they describe:

  • Differently abled
  • Houseless
  • Latinx
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This is correct

Sneptaur ,
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Corsair can’t even make reliable ram. This is likely to go poorly

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I also used it for half a decade and had 4/6 sticks of RAM fail. When I contacted support, I had tor request a manager escalation to get past the engineer who insisted it was a problem with my windows installation. I run Linux and tested it with memtest86+.

Corsair makes bad products. Your brand loyalty is embarrassing.

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I mean I’m a senior engineer and I mostly handle escalations and high priority client issues, but my work is mostly break/fix

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💣

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This is also just a few days after Durov published Nazi dogwhistles in the latest Telegram update blog post.

https://plush.city/@PsyChuan/112336464469767051

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Where's the interview with the liberal reporter, lol?

Steam HW survey: Mac are 1.35%, Linux 1.90%... but is the industry reacting to this? ( store.steampowered.com )

The PC gaming industry (AAA and such) seems more sensible the economy of money around the Apple Platform, for sure. But we're talking about iOS gaming... not exactly what keep the industry busy with complex technologies like RayTracing, cutting edge PBR textures and gigallion of cinematic rendered Quadruple-A art assets....

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They don’t need to react. Valve handles the compatibility for them.

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Proton has gotten so good that many games do better under it than native

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Honestly, my argument that new and old games are both good would be to point straight at the Ratchet & Clank series.

In my opinion, it's only gotten better with time, and the latest entry in the Series from 2021 is genuinely one of the greatest games I've ever played. It's modern, cutting-edge, requiring a PCIe Gen4 SSD and a DualSense controller for the best experience. It's just fantastic. New games, even AAA games, can be great so long as the project is being led by people who know how to make good games.

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And you’re somehow not? Cmon now.

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