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The good thing about this is that people maybe start questioning if a product for some reason gets "better" because their favorite actor says so - because he got money for doing so.

Imho, he doesn't need to warn his fans, they are not affected by this at all. Maybe the toothpaste is even a bit cheaper compared to the one that actually paid a (probably very pricey) Hollywood star for their ad. He's the victim, not his fans.

But he wants to look cool in front of his friends.

Just because it's not possible on a Turing Machine doesn't mean it's impossible on a PC with finite memory. You just have to track all the memory that is available to the algorithm and once you detect a state you've seen already, you know it's not halting ever. The detection algorithm will need an insane amount of memory though.

Edit: think about the amount of memory that would need. It's crazy but theoretically possible. In real world use cases only if the algorithm you're watching has access to a tiny amount of memory.

It always depends on which existing tools you have access to. Go back some more years and there is no GPS. Detecting the bird will be the easier problem then.

That wasn't an easy game. But it didn't require the accuracy today's competitive FPS shooters do. Even Duke Nukem 3D was pretty cool back then. Was super easy to hit your targets though.

I'd prefer to be on the couch instead of at the desk, too. But FPS with controller is just worlds below mouse and keyboard.

Staying loyal still keeps the (extra) cash flow going.

Also, there's usually a 2nd safety mechanism that prevents it from popping up.

The GPU manufacturers are having the time of their lives.

Just keep in mind that after update support ends, it's a ticking time bomb. And there's basically no "second life" for it because it's so locked down.

It's the amount of legacy it's carrying on that drives me crazy. Many of the implicit default implementations are confusing. That's where all these "rule of 3", "rule of 7", "rule of whatever" come from. The way arguments are passed into functions is another issue. From the call-side you (sometimes) cannot tell if you'll end up with a moved value or a dangling reference. The compiler will not stop you from using it. Even if the compiler has something to tell you, it'll do it on the most cryptic way possible. I'm grateful we have C++, it paid lots of my bills. But it's also a pain in the ass.

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You're not safe from Google though. And that's quite a big backdoor if you're a target of interest.

My girlfriend bought a really cheap one from Lenovo. Besides watching movies and browsing the web there's not much you can do because ChromeOS is extremely limiting. Wouldn't ever recommend anyone to buy anything with ChromeOS on it.

I really want to enjoy games like Fallout or GTA on the Deck but compared to mouse/keyboard it's just really bad. I cannot understand how so many people like to play games like CoD or Battlefield on consoles.

Just craft one yourself, it's not that hard. Chop a few trees for the wood, craft the workbench, dig down a bit for the diamonds and there you go!

Can't discuss with these people. Anyway, you're right. Feddit is definitely a leftist community which is one of the reasons I'm there. Germany surely has a lot more extreme right wing people which is just sad to see. The media is responsible for big parts of that.

If people keep buying that crap, what's going to stop the companies doing that? I'm at a point where I don't care anymore to be honest. I have so many games on my library that I haven't played yet olus all the emulated stuff, that's going to be sufficient for the rest of my life. There will be really good AAA games by nice companies once in a while, like Baldur's Gate 3 right now. Then there are really good indie games like Stardew Valley, Minecraft (in the early days), and so on.

Diablo 3. Not the one Blizzard released.