HarryNyquist

Oh boy I can't wait to be pestered constantly to update to Windows 11 and then have the installer tell me my hardware isn't eligible and quit, and then repeat that process for months. It's like they want us to forget about the TPM nonsense or more likely they want people to go buy new computers.

For reference just in case people don't realize how much money that is, that's 99.7% of its value lost in 6 years. Good luck with the pivot OF. Lmao

Parsec isn't just for playing games, it's also used by enterprises as a more comprehensive remote work solution than traditional remote desktop. Unity's probably buying them to sell a package deal to developers. Buy a Unity license for your game, you get Parsec as well. Now you don't have to pay a lease for a real office, you can just have everyone work remote via Parsec.

Notice they don't say the brand(s) that agreed to do this. That's very important.

It would be the case for a simple observer view, but there's stuff like Beat Saber and VRChat that have (optional) separate viewpoint cameras that would indeed be a third viewport to render.

With a normal game on a normal computer running on high graphics, the computer is rendering 3D graphics from one camera view in realtime at a resolution for the monitor (let's say 1080p for instance). High graphics looks good for you because the monitor is kinda distant from your eyes and you can see the whole thing at once. On something like a Valve Index, the computer must render two slightly different 3D images from two camera views each at 1440x1600 resolution at high graphics. It's doing twice the work (or potentially more, say, if you're streaming with a third "observer" camera). Reducing the graphical quality is an option here. The tradeoff is the displayed images are inches from your eye, so any small reduction in quality can potentially be VERY noticeable, whereas on a monitor on your desk you might not notice the difference.

Oh no, how horrible. What will I ever do without ads that track me everywhere I go and track everything I do on a per-minute basis? How will [CORPORATION] sell me [PRODUCT] unless they can also sell all my personal information while they're at it? GOOD. Junk ad farm apps out. Quality applications that developers are required to care about because otherwise people won't buy them, in. Fuck the entire """free app""" paradigm. If it's free, then you're the product, every time.

Cool. My upgrade to an iMac is ensured now. Fuck you microsoft.

Man... I've only had this hardware 3 years and now I'm gonna have to abandon it so I don't lose security updates in a few years. Nothing is disabled in my bios and I have no bios updates or anything like that. Between this and the hardware shortage my next Windows PC will probably just be a prebuilt. Who the hell at Microsoft thought TPM 2 was a good thing to **REQUIRE** for an upgrade? Talk about instantly making hardware obsolete.

I'm so infinitely glad my Oculus Rift S broke. Holy shit.

Seethe, google.

Andrew Lee, the founder of Private Internet Access. The articles are rather sparse on info, likely reflecting the lack of info we have overall. The speculation is that he slowly seized more and more power over Freenode Limited (their holding corp) until he took full control recently.

XMPP is incredibly complex to set up properly. IRC requires starting a daemon or two and you're basically good to go. EDIT: just saw this official statement from Gentoo Gentoo Freenode channels have been hijacked – Gentoo Linux And this from GrapheneOS GrapheneOS on Twitter: "Freenode admins hijacked the #grapheneos and #grapheneos-offtopic channels due to us migrating to Matrix rooms: https://t.co/6FQGghonyx They removed our channel moderation privileges, changed the topic and set the channel to invite-only preventing users from joining/rejoining. https://t.co/bwj930TICX" / Twitter

Is that really a dongle considering you MUST plug it into the wall? It's not like if they moved it to the laptop charger, the power supply is an integral part of the computer. They moved it & the ethernet port (maybe the whole card, idk) external to save space in the machine itself.

I'm almost certain this violates the app store TOS. You're not allowed to incentivize enabling of tracking, and I'm pretty sure a thinly veiled threat to charge for Facebook/Instagram qualifies as incentivization.

The determination will now be if that was a purposeful deception on the researchers' part, or if the IRB's ignorance led to a gross violation of research ethics. Judging purely by the topic of their research (to submit patches to open source projects that look useful but are harmful), it would not surprise me at all if they purposefully deceived the IRB into thinking no humans would interact with these patches at all.

It seems like they DID talk to the IRB. Many, many people are about to be upset. https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf

Oh my god, they got their IRB to think this wasn't "human research" Someone is getting fired for this. Lmao

As much as I hate external psus, that IS a pretty significant bit of bulk in the machine itself. Though honestly I wouldn't have minded them integrating it into that fancy monitor stand but w/e

"Just buy a console, they're way cheaper than PCs"

Yarr harr fiddle dee dee What is it with modern game companies not wanting to let people play older games legally and make money while doing so? I don't get it...

March 15, 2021—KB5001567 (OS Builds 19041.868 and 19042.868) Out-of-band (microsoft.com) Looks like they've released a fix. Though apparently a BSOD isn't considered important enough to automatically install a fix for though. "Optional" my ass. Though "Optional quality" does seem to describe Microsoft lately.

Oh boy, I can't wait to never be able to buy one.

This is a stupid statement, Tim. It can't be a well-designed system, or for that matter a secure system, if the possibility is there that anyone can be given access if they ask.

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