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Unpopular opinion here but... The state of the gaming industry is largely the fault of gamers. For a long time gamers turned a blind eye to Bethesda's buggy bullshit because "Skyrim was great!". We live in an age where games are simply half baked and the rest of the game comes in the form of microtransactions or the games are broken on release because people pre-ordered(Why???).

Had gamers revolted against large companies; EA/Bethesda/Blizzard for the shady microtransactions/broken games they launched on release, then the overall state of gaming would of been better. Unilaterally it seems gamers hate microtransactions, so why do they keep appearing in games? Because it is still profitable... The same way releasing a bugged game is still profitable because people still pre-order because ("Bethesda made it."). It hasn't been until recently gamers started speaking with their wallets, and it happened far too late to make a difference.

There are a few good companies out there still, but a majority are just pushing out yearly releases and they still get bought by the millions. PC/Console are in the same boat here. When gaming went from "Lets make a game that is so fun to play it makes you want to quit your job" to.. "Lets make a game so expensive to play that you need a job" thats where things went wrong.

Don't get why people are trying to suggest OP builds that are 800 to over 1000 dollars for web development. Web Development =/= gaming machine. OP should go with @SupaKomputa's suggestion.

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So it seems like this law is about minimizing exploitation of news agencies on the web,and bringing more honesty and fairness to the media on the web.

Neither of those two entities should have any form of power to control the flow of information.
 
We in the western nations (I think AUS is considered a "western" country? Not sure.) really need to get a handle on the internet. Freedom of speech and transparency should be forced down the throat of governments and corporations alike.
 
We should make them choke on it. No form of speech should be censored unless it is an already accepted exception to that rule. That being harassment (which occurs over time), incitements to riot/panic/violence, threats, etc.

No, the extremely nice and always ethical Google not protecting their business interests, I'm shocked.
 
I'm sure if it can be bad for Google they will find a way to make it look bad, while the law also could be that's basically a non factor for Google. It's not good for us so kill it.
 
Why are we taking Google's word about this?

Voting with your wallet is not an answer to this behavior, I dont think you understand how much these companies are worth, and how little it would impact them if a few tech savvy people said "not cool" and stopped buying their products. This kind of behavior is not going to be stopped by a lawsuit, or unhappy customers, the free market gods arent going to solve this, they are powerful companies with a very large amount of influence over how communication happens over the whole world. The problem is not about these companies being able to decide what to do with their platform anymore, apple and google own so god damn much of the phone market share at this point that any decision they make effects every single person on the planet who communicates with a phone, so when they make shitty decisions that negatively impact everyone, they need to be blocked from that, and telling people not to complain about the way they use a device that is so important to function in the modern day is missing the point.
 
We live in a society.

that's not how it works.  and it is a monopoly.  why do you think EU constantly goes after google search engine, its the same reason.  when your that big there are antitrust laws you have to follow.  

If said rules are meant to enable a monopoly, then they're in the wrong.

Monopolistic behaviour nonetheless. 

"Just move" is an admission that 1. there is a problem, and 2. you don't care about addressing it.
Monopolistic behaviour needs to be dealt with. 

Exactly, they didn't care until they had their own.  It's as obvious as anything could be and people are still blind to how bad it is.

Apple cares about selling you their hardware, and not having the choice of any other app is very monopolistic. Imagine if Windows or Mac didn't let you use any third party AV software.
In the blog post it really proves apple are forcing a monopoly over apps, apple didn't care about the app being in the store for 3 years.

citation that kapersky exploit children's data.
 
 
 

Don't worry, there will be people along shortly to tell us why they are still our saviors and how paying them to not only tell us which apps we want but to remove the ones they believe we don't need is definitely in our best interests.
 
They are a company that is doing this only to make more money, don't let yourself be fooled into thinking they are consumer oriented. 
 
 

Screw McDonalds, there's a R33 Skyline on the 2nd pic!

Dear big company,
           You are my only choice for service X,  I implore you to screw me over as hard as you can and then tell the FCC and any other government agency that I asked for it, I know it it sounds like justification for rape (because it is), but they will believe you if you give them enough money.  Then I can live happy knowing I am paying over the top for 3rd world service. 
 
Yours in denial,  Under valued customer.

I'm saying $999 for the 2080ti and $1299 for AIB cards again that are all triple slot and watercooled. I'm just curious to see mining performance 

Apple is also showing the pear logo in black and white, which is deceptive when it's actually green. The color difference makes the two marks much more distinct.

Summary
Microsoft could acquire the popular short-form video platform’s U.S. service, with President Trump poised to order China’s ByteDance to sell the business
 
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This is out of nowhere for me. I was expecting a ban on the app. I'm not sure how well it would do under microsoft considering they just shut down mixer recently..
 
Sources
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/31/tiktok-trump-divestiture/

You haven't truly lived if you haven't been 15 pages deep in a Tech News flamewar

This forum isn't so much a community of people who are together to have a laugh, chew the fat, feel like a part of something...but more a place where you can ask and answer questions, and read some tech news.
 
Everything else is apparently a Status Update, which I doubt many people actually read, I am sure I will be contradicted there before the Mods shut this post too, but I haven't read any updates in the months I have been here and I doubt I ever would...why would you read what one person has to say, on a forum that is designed to engage the whole community?  That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
 
Why is this place becoming Stack Overflow rather than a place where people in a community can come together to talk about stuff and have a laugh? - as long as there is some connection to technology, the fundamental base of the community.  If it isn't offensive, if it isn't divisive, then why isn't it allowed as long as it doesn't break the rules?
 
That is the point of a forum, to foster a community.  It isn't meant to be a question and answer place and a news site, there are places for that.
 
If it isn't a community, then I for one, don't really see any point to it.  It seems like a lot of effort spent on not creating something.

The only GPU currently that faces a bottleneck on PCIe 3.0 is a 2080ti and its by 2-3% when using 8x lanes.

I've seen similar paper on both dell and lenovo laptops.
 
Specifically Latitude models for dell and Thinkpads for lenovo. They were not AMD models either. Not sure what it's supposed to do. I always removed it, as it was usually half falling apart by the time I opened the laptop anyways.

If that were the case (which I highly doubt) they would make more more money again by just not making AMD latops in the first place.