An absurd change followed by rolling it back to an “acceptable” version that is still worse than their original position prior to the initial announcement.
This is a psychological manipulation.
And more to the point it ignores the issue of their violation of trust and consistency.
This is still precedent, they still showed their hand.
They want to have “passive income” at your expense.
If we don’t obliterate ourselves by 2032, then I highly suspect nothing will be done about the 32bit rollover time issue as it becomes politicized, nothing will get fixed and literally the solution is to add another 32 bits in front of the existing 32 bits.
This is a FUD panic article. Trying to invoke the steam machine debacle to make the steamdeck fail is a poor tactic.
Confusion and inconsistency alongside varying prices and compatibility made the steam machines fail.
There is one* SteamDeck. Valve only advertises The Steam Deck.
We’re not getting an Asus deck or a Gigabyte deck. And I’ve heard people in the wild talk about the deck in a positive light. The Steam deck is never going to be like the steam machines.
*one in the sense that there is one model without drastic changes in design. Although the Glare-resistant screen is an outlier, most consoles have tiers of storage and even a pro/normal variant model.
The lawsuit argues that Google has effectively ‘bought’ the UK mobile phone search engine market. Google forced mobile phone handset manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search and Google Chrome browser apps on devices that use Google’s Android operating system in order to obtain a licence to use Google Play....
True, but imo ddg has gotten pretty close in terms of capability.
But Google has become the Walmart of the internet. The only thing their missing is a literal storefront.
Need email? Gmail. Need a browser? Google Chrome Want entertainment? YouTube Search engine? Google Phone OS? Android (most) Chromebooks, Google Office Suite, AdSense.
Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group (www.middleeasteye.net)
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑 (arstechnica.com)
No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.
Sony (sh.itjust.works)
just wait, it could get worse.... (feddit.de)
Twitter, Reddit, Unity, Blizzard... who else? (startrek.website)
Anon learns the difference between the internet and real life (sh.itjust.works)
For science! (lemmy.zip)
Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod (kotaku.com)
There's a lack of brooding (startrek.website)
Very rich guy news media, the most legit of the legit. (lemmygrad.ml)
Does Valve still action reports? I remember getting 3 of these notifications at once years ago, but not since. (lemmy.world)
Granted, I’ve been mostly sticking to community servers recently, but still.
Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability (siliconangle.com)
Now supports standard energy sources instead of proprietary kyber chrystals (feddit.de)
Steam Client Update - September 11th (store.steampowered.com)
COVID And Working From Home Made Starfield Development "Very, Very Slow," Todd Howard Says (www.gamespot.com)
ya wanna go mate (lemmy.world)
There Are Too Many Handheld Gaming PCs To Choose From Now (www.inverse.com)
Oh no starlink bad (feddit.de)
Can someone please explain why not to use Brave browser ? (privacytests.org)
privacytests.org rate Brave as the best browser.
NVIDIA's AI GPU Shortage Could Last Till 2025 Due To Supply Constraints, Says TSMC (wccftech.com)
TSMC has acknowledged the immense demand from the AI sector, claiming that the shortage of NVIDIA AI GPUs could last up to 1.5 years....
Duel of the Banjos (lemmy.world)
Google faces a £7 billion lawsuit for blocking search engine competition at the expense of consumers (consumervoice.uk)
The lawsuit argues that Google has effectively ‘bought’ the UK mobile phone search engine market. Google forced mobile phone handset manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search and Google Chrome browser apps on devices that use Google’s Android operating system in order to obtain a licence to use Google Play....
Risk it for a biscuit — Linux on RISC-V (youtu.be)
Seems like a better use for it to me (startrek.website)