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- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 week ago:
Personally this reeks of being a shadow lawsuit by Epic games.
With the end goal being to let people buy and play the games on Steam, but then buy the addons via EGS.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Fair, it was over a decade ago that I used it.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
A long, long time ago, there was an online messaging tool called ICQ. You didnt even have callsigns in it, you had a randomly generated number you shared with your friends. You chatted. Had fun. Life was good.
Then there was AOL instant messenger. It largely replaced ICQ in the US. It added emoticons.
Then there was MSN Messenger. It tied into the MSN gaming zone(Before MS killed it to make Xbox Live. You could play games with your friends through it. You could do rudimentary video chats.
Then you had Skype(pre-MS. Better video, not tied to MS).
MS makes MSN Messenger into Lynx and adds it to office. Its not good.
Then you had Google Hangouts. Better chat, fun features, tied to your google account.
Then you had MS owned Skype as Skype for Business. Largely replaces Hangouts because Google enshittifies everything, not because it is good.
You also have former Vancouver startup Slack. Its fantastic. Until Salesforce buys it.
Now we have the bastard officespring of Skype for Business: MS Teams.
- Comment on You ask who believed this stuff. But in 20 years people will look at the mainstream newspapers of today and ask the same question. 1 week ago:
No, weekly world news was always patently ridiculous.
They're the ones that had all of the really crazy conspiracy theory stuff. Used to see them every week for sale at a place I worked. Best cover was the one of a bad photo edit of the heads of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden over two guys going at it.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 1 week ago:
The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.
Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 2 weeks ago:
Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.
The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 2 weeks ago:
Jlorida?
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 4 weeks ago:
Duke Nukem 3D Demo.
62 floppy disks.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Thats nice mozilla.
Installed and set up Librewolf yesterday. Absolutely recommend to everyone.
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 1 month ago:
Yes, he did. One of the major shareholders in the new US Tiktok is the saudi group that includes Kushner.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 month ago:
!Grakata
I may or may not be looking forward to continuing that tradition.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 month ago:
Whether they allow the warframe community to make a mockery of the concept of chat again.
- Comment on We've got a bone to pick. 2 months ago:
Is Spinosaurus basically the dinosaur equivalent of a North American Black Bear?
Evolved from fast dangerous predator into a massive strong thing that can be very dangerous, but 99% of the time eats roots, honey, berries and Salmon(when they are running.)
- Comment on Stupid recipe 2 months ago:
You'll get pancreas issues first. Exactly what Steve Jobs died from
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 2 months ago:
Don't forget giving accounts the ability to hide their activity on the profile page, making bots and corporate spam accounts very easy to hide.
Making it functionally impossible to track bot activity.
- Comment on Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party? 3 months ago:
To add on a hypothetical:
If someone drives into you and totals their car and hurts you while you are on work business, they only worry about paying for your costs. The car is a tax writeoff to them.
If someone drives into you and totals your car and hurts you while you are on work business, they need to now worry about paying for you and your car.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 3 months ago:
Replaced pop/soda with tea. At first needed it sweetener(with honey) to enjoy. Now, no sweetener at all is best.
And there are so many awesome flavours.
Right now I have a fantastic vanilla and peppermint tea.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
This entire article is trusting the word of Microsoft's director of marketing
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 3 months ago:
Neat, I stand corrected.
I doubt the french history teacher I had who taught me that is still alive though.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 3 months ago:
French predates English.
Also, bold calling a language silly in english
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 3 months ago:
Russia == Rossiya doesn't belong in that list.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 3 months ago:
Yeah, so if you install an app that gives them full permissions, they can see what you're doing on your phone.
shocking
- Comment on As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' 3 months ago:
I think its an internal disagreement.
There have been rumours for a few years now that the price of gamepass was causing issues as it was seen as denying profits from other teams inside microsoft.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 months ago:
In a word, mostly, yes.
They are endangering themselves and everyone around them.
Go to a race track on a track day. Or organize one.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
We can't determine if you are an adult.
But we can determine that you are old enough to see credit card ads.
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 4 months ago:
This dates tactic predates the internet.
Cable, telephone and banks used to do this regularly.
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 4 months ago:
In a word, yes.
They know it benefits them more than us, so they make it opt-out.
- Comment on Trump says ‘bad things’ will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base 4 months ago:
Yes, that is the exact airbase that Epstein's close friend Donald Trump created a hasty withdrawl plan for that occured entirely in Biden's administration.
That Epstein's close friend Donald Trump now apparently wants back. Like the Chinese haven't paid the Taliban for every single piece of US hardware left behind.
- Comment on Only way that you're happy here... 4 months ago:
If only the creator hasn't turned out to be completely insane.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 4 months ago:
Because it's 1023am somewhere