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  • No no no, it's not Chinese data mining.

    it's just socialised data with Chinese characteristics! Much better.

  • I mean, we let it handle payments, track our locations, carry around a microphone and camera, read our emails and texts, listen to our phone calls and track everything we do online.

    What's one more thing at this point?

  • It's all fun and games until it reaches City 17.

  • People never bought music from artists.

    They bought it from record labels.

    Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it's not Spotify that's keeping it all.

  • Do we really think people voted Trump based on eggs? I think we need to read between the lines here.

  • It can display Oblivion Remastered at it's native framerate though.

  • Wow, relive the early days of really fucking terrible LCD displays for just under $2000.

    What a time to be alive...

  • I had the point near the beginning of the file thing once and it was a really shitty file that only VLC could seek in.

    ffmpeg fixed it, but I've no idea how because ffmpeg command lines are some arcane black magic shit.

  • I used to love magazines, with their coverdisks full of goodies.

    But the internet banished them. I stopped buying once I realised I was reading things I'd already read about online 2 months ago...

    Monthly print can't really compete with instant.

  • Well, he's right on that at least.

  • Yeah, there's probably a fair bit of overlap between GamePass and PSN Premium games.

    I suspect to try and push their own products, we'll be entering an age where games are $80, and almost never go on sale, purely to make their own subscription services seem better value. And then they'll crank the price of those as well.

  • EA Play is on PS5.

    Assuming MS exit the console market, I don't see why Sony wouldn't allow it (as long as they get their pound of flesh from every sale of it). They'd basically just be another publisher.

  • A 2TB Xbox Series X now costs more than a PS5 Pro (in the US at least).

    That is mental. Xbox hardware division must be bleeding money hand over fist. I honestly doubt they'll do another generation, and stick to trying to monetise GamePass through PC and streaming. Maybe you'll even see GamePass for PS6 since they own so many studios now.

  • I blame those Jewish Space Lasers.

  • I feel like there's at least one country who is going to learn this shit the hard way.

  • I mean we've got the same system in the UK tbh.

    It's shite, and most of the time you can get a donkey in power if you stick the right colour rosette on it, but last election we did see seats change power that had been held for a century.

    I'm not really prepared to shoot anybody to get change. Voting is all we've got.

  • That depends on your voting system.

  • I'm thinking more your staff, your shipping from your warehouse to your customers, your retail store and rent, etc.

    Which all of course varies depending on the business you are. A small retail store would be affected much less by this than a much larger, more efficient operation that might not have retail locations at all.

  • I love that Outlook occasionally fires up one of its keyboard shortcuts and clears your entire email you were typing if you're not paying attention.

    Fucking love it.

  • Because they'd like to use it too.