I’m an absolute Linux tard, so it’s hilarious to me trying to read and understand most of these comments

If we’re just talking about the USA, then the ~200 million working people would get $150 each.

I can’t be the only one who thinks “ROG Xbox Ally X” is a really stupid name.

Microsoft could literally make “gargle the balls of Bill Gates” a login requirement and the masses would still use Windows.

I’ve heard port forwarding is important for seeding, but why is that? Doesn’t your uploaded data still go through your vpn regardless if port forwarding is enabled?

You severely overestimate how much the average person cares about their own privacy.

It’s both stupid expensive and the jobs don’t pay enough anymore. I can make the same salary as an engineer working a trade or any other white collar job.

I’m sure the growing distrust in science and general stupidity didn’t help either.

Anybody have a mirror link? It’d be a shame if I accidentally downloaded it.

Literally in the article brief and in the second paragraph: “Electronics manufactures must from Saturday fit all devices sold in the EU with USB-C charger ports…”

Right, BattleEye is hit or miss depending on the game developer.

Another significant drawback I have is OBS compatibility. It technically works, but just having it open drops my framerate by ~30%, and having it record drops it by ~50%. I haven’t found a fix for it yet, so I’m effectively unable to stream or record gameplay on Linux. The same settings used in Windows hardly impacts my framerate.

I’ll continue using Linux, but I haven’t deleted my Windows partition yet.

At absolute most, they risk losing the portion of users who use ad blockers because of this decision. They’ll certainly lose less, but are practically guaranteed to not lose more.

They probably determined that the additional ad revenue from those who used to use ad blockers was more than the revenue they’d lose from people leaving.

I don’t agree with it, but I bet that’s happening here. Personally, I’d be surprised if 20% or more of Chrome users have an ad blockers installed. Even fewer would use Revanced or the like.

Most (hopefully all) computers in industry running outdated OSs are disconnected from the internet for that exact reason.

Thinking about buying one to play Project Zomboid on. Has anyone here done that? Happy with the experience?

ChatGPT apparently lol

Why though? I thought impedance of the human body is lower at 50/60 Hz than at DC.

I haven’t, but I’m also an electrical engineer so I’m pretty familiar with the issue haha

Fun thing you can do, is open your mouse and look up the PN of your switch on DigiKey. Filter for components with the same package/footprint, then sort by actuation force. Get a few different ones and try them out. They sell good brands there.

I play a lot of shooters, so my left click is real easy to press, and my right click is ~3x harder.

If you have basic soldering skills and care enough to do this, the mouse buttons can be replaced for less than a dollar each. Not that this excuses Logitech’s poor QA, but my g502 g305 will last damn near forever if I keep replacing the switches like I have been.

Which includes practically all gun related content lol.

Most gun channels make their income from sponsors, who are companies in the firearms industry.

This is just Google’s latest act of garbage, over-reaching, corpo censorship. Fuck em.

More than just “ripcord likes to have lights on at 6:00 pm,” surprisingly.

It knows what brand lights you have, who’s interacting with it, who you might be with if anyone speaks in the background, what times and days you’re typically home… it’ll even infer your mood based on how your voice sounds.

Unfortunately, Amazon isn’t required to disclose every bit of personal data they take from you, so only so much is known about it. If you consider though that data collection is a new, multi-billion dollar industry, and how effective hundreds of PhDs in data science and social-engineering can be with near infinite resources to develop tools to extract as much information from these devices as possible, it starts becoming more believable.

Here’s a good paper I found: http://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.10920

If you have an Amazon Echo (or whatever they call it) in your home, then you already pay them by letting it spy on you, your family, and any guests that come over. Even if they improved the service (they won’t), why would you pay $20 or $30 a year for it?