Plenty. I don’t imagine ads cover the huge cost of hosting video in this day and age, especially with all the adblockers running around ( saw an ad revenue number in a study a while ago, google supposedly makes between 100s-10000s dollars per person, depending on their “value” ).

I for one am grateful to all the paying subscribers - it means google will more readily tolerate my shiny freeloading adblocking ass.

Afaik this a fairly standard software licensing model. Pretty much all paid videogames are like that, physical or not. Sony just started to act on it in the hopes of making even more moneyz

Nah, I’m standing by this conspiracy as well. Something is off about it - the timing, the fkn amateur “hacker” etc

Plus rockstar have drummed up drama in the past to promote their games

Remember the days when microsoft would get slapped with an antitrust lawsuit for simply preinstalling a browser? Pepperidge farm remembers.

Do wired usb-c headphones not exist? Don’t get me wrong, I hate that everyone has dropped the jack and buds can fuck right off, but they’re just advertising those buds as an adjacent product, they’re not locking anyone in.

Care to elaborate on the Terraria fanbase? I never got into the game, always liked starbound more, but I could not get from them anything besides condescension regarding any other 2d-survival-whatchamacall-this-genre games. It’s terraria or nothing else.

Try an Android e-ink device. I’ve been using a boox note and it’s pretty great.

Edit: You might want to get et the “e-ink bro” browser on the device too, it’s more optimized for e-ink devices

I don’t get it - what’s the market for an overpriced ( even by today’s standards ) non-upgradeable but “build it yourself” desktop pc? Is it because its a prebuilt server? Or just the fancy case?

They were convicted but it didn’t stick ( or someone intervened ) and afterwards i’m fairly certain they were set free and allowed to go to florida in an exchange of favours: we give you your guys and you shut up about us cancelling elections ( back then maga was particularly vocal about those elections, for good reason too). And wouldn’t you know it, not a maga peep about the elections since. The tates even revisited Romania to “make investments here”. Isn’t it nice when crooks scratch each other’s backs?

I guess they made decent phones so that oppo had a foothold in western markets, but they got their asses handed to them by xiaomi. The moment xiaomi established themselves I swear oppo started phasing out oneplus. This has been a long time coming.

Honestly you might find it more accurate to go by gut feeling/trailer or word of mouth. Imdb ratings are good for weeding out the truly bad ones, but for the rest it’s fairly unreliable. You can also see rotten tomatoes, but these days it feels very astroturfed and I haven’t really matched my rating with theirs for all but a couple movies that I saw. Letterboxd is better for user reviews but it’s very hivemind-y because popular opinion prevails kn their ratings.

Interesting. I thought companies usually waited until they at least had a good product or cashflow before going for enshittification.

Aaaand of course its through Reform MPs. Why did I expect otherwise

We won’t really know until early reviews start pouring in, but judging by the previews, it’s mildly improved, which is par for the course for a FH game. Biggest change is the map, which seems to be vastly better than FH5’s mexico. There’s some new customization such as the garage and domain or whatever it’s called, and also some new interesting ( to me ) game modes like touge and spec racing. What I have mixed feelings about is the car list. There’s about 100 new ones, and some are really awesome additions, but most seem to be FE cars, time-attack cars and other racing variants of existing models. It’ll probably catch up but as of now it’s almost 300 cars short of FH5’s list.

LLM salesman says their LLM is so advanced it"s totally human. News at 11.

Several funds which lend money have declared losses or restricted investors’ ability to take out their money. BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo and Blue Owl have all faced demands for billions of withdrawals from private credit funds - institutions that provide an alternative to traditional banks

Those are some…interesting names. Could these be attempts to pull the rug before an AI crash? I’m genuinely asking as I have no clue how funds work

I have an app ( feedMe I think) that also pulls the text from the web version along with the 1-sentence feed and ocasionally a header image. Very useful on an eink device, but not sure if it works with pcgamer, because it can’t pass some ad-walls/pay-walls.

However I feel RSS had a small part to play in the state of web today. If everyone were to use RSS how would writers get paid? Donations are too unreliable, subscriptions are frowned on, sponsorships are incompatible with the job and taxes really only work for state media like the BBC. People gotta eat, no?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-eu-partnership-deepening-ties-1.7570680

Carney already said no pretty clearly, so I’m not sure why this guy “floats the idea” again.

A lack of laziness I suppose. I’ve been using it on and off over the years and have Mint in dual boot right now in preperation for a post-win10 migration, but I’m constantly running into various small/large issues. In the past few years I’ve had issues with wifi drivers, with gpu drivers (f u again nvidia), issues with sleep mode and battery drain, issues with finding equivalent os management tools ( totalcmd, task manager, treeview etc ), issues with “alternative source” games etc. I’ve also had issues wrapping my head around bottles and wine prefixes ( but I will admit wine is an excellent piece of software and has come a looong way since the mid 00s ).

Linux is great if you’re a tinkerer because you will need to tinker with it at some point or another. But as I get older I just can’t be arsed most of the time.

Lol, they won’t. But don’t worry - after they fail the American taxpayer will have to pay the bail out regardless