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Hence why I use a secondary account where I have 70-90% off all games vs my currency + store all year round =) The day Steam really starts cracking down on Gift Cards and Accounts usage outside the store country is when I'll really start feeling the pain. Until then, my Turkish, Argentinian and Ukrainian cousins will keep sharing their games with me.

So the only issue is Microsoft being able to use these titles through Cloud Instances? Why would that be such a massive point of denying the acquisition? Microsoft will still be able to sell these products in their XBox Live store and theoretically (if they hate money) outright no longer make these titles available in their competitor stores and platforms. Honestly I don't really care if Microsoft acquires Activision and all rights since I don't consume any of Activision's products, just trying to wrap my head around why Cloud Gaming is such a massive point of contention to go ahead with the purchase, yes I know that Sony gave a statement that more than half their playerbase primarily play Call of Duty, just don't know what Cloud Gaming has anything to do with that.

- no fee return - free roaming inside EU - cable standardization like USB C - removal batteries which is supposedly going to be enforced in 2027-2030 - GDPR which even by today is still not followed by many corps which have consequently been fined due to it These are just 5 from the top of my head without looking it up, there are innumerous laws and regulations just in the EU Consumer side of things...don't know lad, you might be from France but like the other lad said, you seem clueless or just irrationally angry so you just flat-out say things without meaning them that are simply not true and extremely hyperbolic. And yes, I am too an EU citizen, which is a false appeal to authority anyways, don't need to be from the EU to know what they have done for their EU citizens...

Why would Emby or Jellyfin get canceled if a part of its userbase uses it for nefarious actions? If that was the case Deluge and many others would had long been shutdown. EDIT: just read the whole spiel between you and LAwLz, which I basically subscribe to what he said.

Why would it matter what Emby thinks? It is Open Source, do whatever you want with it. And if Emby is not your cup of cake you also have Jellyfin which is also a popular Open Source alternative to plex.

Use Emby instead.

I think the best way for you to get answers is to read what they have to say about their data: https://www.digitec.ch/de/wiki/6167 Often you get a replacement instantly, sometimes depending on the supplier you might wait a while, I had one instance where I had to wait for 2 weeks to replace a UPS since those were handled by an affiliate in Germany that represented their main branch in Spain (Salicru), so it took a while to get processed. Parsed it through ChatGPT (deepl asking for a sub lately for longer text): EDIT: Getting too late for me, I just realized that I replied to a very old post that probably already got addressed lol

Nah everything you wrote is standard practice here in Switzerland, most of the people around the world underestimate the logistics and sheer purchase power of the average citizen here just because it is a small country not part of the EU. Pretty much every retailer that has their warehouses here delivers their shipment in a single day to all of Switzerland and Lichtenstein. RMAs are completed in about 1-2 days, often they don't even bother with repair, they will just outright give you credit worth the current market price of the product in their store, or ship you a replacement the same day. Second hand market (Ricardo) is a massive business here, most of the items I purchase, use and then sell there a couple years down the line get sold at around 90% market price, some even for more, latest sell being a Rowing Workout machine which I sold for profit after I didn't need it anymore due to lifting of covid restrictions. Swiss consumerism is massive, specially due to their huge purchase power, whatever latest product gets released, you can assume that at least a handful of Swiss already own it, I'm not boasting, just telling how it is. https://www.gfk.com/insights/map-of-the-month-gfk-purchasing-power-europe-2022

Old news, dunno why Toms Hardware decided to now make an article about it, guess to parse the data after half a year of this being live? Here the original source when this first was introduced: https://www.galaxus.ch/de/page/gnadenlos-ehrlich-digitec-galaxus-zeigt-neu-die-garantiefall-und-retourenquote-25950

Be damned if you do, be damned if you don't. I was one of the people criticizing LMG heavily, I even unsubbed way before GN made that video due to the reasons cited in there. What the hell did you actually want? Them preparing the answers and reading off a teleprompt is not bad, quite on the contrary, considering the size of the company and the passionate response from the community on Steve's video doing that was the correct move. A moronic step would be answering on the fly without any preparation and forethought, causing a trainwreck of the level of what Linus's first response was in this very topic.

Wrong, it is always innocent until proven guilty, that point is obviously an if-else case, depending on how the Lawsuit develops one side or the other will win the public opinion, most recently see the lawsuit involving Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. If people draw conclusions of a court case before it is concluded, their opinion is automatically irrelevant and they should be disregarded for anything in any topic ever.

Damn even in this thread the #1 LMG Sycophant is hard at work, to the point of even making sexist remarks too, based.

Unfortunately been reading your replies while trying to reach the end of the thread which will never happen, each page I jump 2 new ones pop up. Advice, let the grown ups talk, based on your replies you're either too young, inexperienced/lack the knowledge or the absolute worse case you're a prime sample of the Dunning Kruger Effect. Dunno if hitting "Ignore" in your profile will spare me from more brain rot, probably not, hoped there was akin to a block function to never see someone's posts, don't take it personal, with time you'll look back to this and cringe, happens to all of us, happened to me too.

Sorry Linus, but most of what you wrote as a response felt Corporate at best, not genuine. Quality of the videos when it comes to reviews, data and its consistency has fallen off a cliff, I unsubscribed to every single LMG channel except for LTT because of that months ago. As for the GN video, most of the points are valid and hopefully light up a fire under you guys to actually do things slower and more carefully, most importantly please put more time into a video to actually meet the standards you preach about products you test constantly, thank you.

Meh, why not? I always welcome less cables, specially for parts that get swapped frequently, in a dream world scenario you buy a motherboard and you'll use that for several CPU generations, post installation the part you probably most frequently swap is the GPU, since that's the easiest performance uplift path. Most users, don't even use more than 600W off their GPU, and the likelihood is pretty high of manufacturers gambling on this adoption to extra ship an adapter that lets you use those GPUs on mobos that don't follow this new design... Haven't read on the technicalities but my biggest worries would be on the motherboard itself surging off that port for whatever reason and frying everything else with it.

A revolution for lonely nights, non-dominant hand going to lose its job.

There can be a simple reason for it, performance. If DLSS performs better on nvidia cards both in terms of frames and quality, then why not? If developers want to implement both in order to give the best possible experience to as many customers as possible, then I see it as an inherently bad thing if a competitor is attempting to sabotage development by denying customers access to certain features. If FSR was superior to DLSS on nvidia cards, then I could accept AMD's approach, since it could be seen as "goodwill" to save them development time and focus on other matters instead.

What I care about is color accuracy and pixel density on the panels being used since I use my Quest 2 for PC gaming using Virtual Desktop anyways, so I don't care how powerful the new processor is. Guess I'm not upgrading this time around, was hoping for panels that are substantially better that could warrant an upgrade not subjected to paying a grand for a new one.

Only had that GPU for 2-3 years after release, so probably 2009 or 2010. You get a popup to collect and submit the data, if you just close it, it shouldn't submit it unless you said so, at some point I stopped getting the popup completely, has been so long ago that I don't know if I managed to opt-out of it somehow despite the fact that I don't think you can do that.

I have a 7900xtx, last time I participated in those surveys I had a 8600GTS

Has been years since I last bought ink, got a Canon Laser Printer and never looked back, sure the upfront cost is massive, long run it is cheaper and has been cheaper. It's B&W only as well since I personally never needed to print colored, if I want pictures to hang on the wall I usually go to a professional since I tend to want those pictures to last and look good.

What that report doesn't describe is how those sim swapping incidents occurred in Switzerland, at least I didn't find that info clearly stating that those 50+ were explicitly from calling customer service or getting phised with fraudulent URLs, it just lists what type of fraudulent SIM Swap can happen, then says that in Switzerland, France and UK, 50+ occurred at least one of those from said list. You can log into your provider Customer Portal and ask for a sim swap. You can't call customer service and ask for one. I am explicitly talking about the Social Engineering way with customer service, the scenario I described in my post clearly points that out over AI replicating your voice, you answering questions with it...etc If you get phised into giving full access to your account, then that is a whole different scenario which is game over, and that can happen regardless if you have SMS 2FA or the time based one many use. What I will retract is that all of them will send you separate letters to your address, apparently that's at least a thing with Salt (formerly Orange), relative of mine when he asked for a swap with UPC due to damage from clipping a full sized SIM into a smaller form factor, he could say to which address to send the new SIM and it was all in the same letter, not separate.

You say no if ands or buts, however there are ifs, if you live in a country that actually knows how to manage SIMs and Numbers correctly you won't have an issue. Good luck using Social Engineering in Switzerland to have access to my number or replace a SIM , you won't be able to, they're not allowed to do so, you won't be able to do it even if you were to use AI to replicate my voice and answer all personal questions that would ID me in their system since whoever services you does not have the power to do make that type of action. You will be told to go to the nearest shop of whatever provider you're using to process that, and even if you manage to do it all over the phone without having to go to said shop, they will explicitly send the SIM and SIM Codes to activate it in separate letters and dates to your address, basically handling it the same way as if you were to receive a new Credit Card or e-banking creds. Burner phones aren't a thing here either, since to even get a number (even if it is prepaid), you have to provide your Citizen ID and sign documentation.

That's optional, you either receive the current market value of the product that is listed in their store, or you just get a replacement that possibly has the same underlying issue, you choose what you want, and sometimes the current market price in their store is higher so you actually win from it. It is an option to cop out of an investment that has no solution, the Logitech G Powerplay lineup is a good example, expensive shitty products where the only thing they got going for them is the convenience of never having to think about charging your wireless mouse again. Why are they shitty? They use flimsy mechanical switches, I replaced under RMA 6 Powerplay mices in the span of 2 years because they kept starting to show double click/twitch contact issues around 3 months in because the metalic contact responsible for the clicking mechanism would get damaged over time. Now that problem wouldn't be noticeable if you had a low polling rate mouse, since those wouldn't catch the bad contact, on those high polling rate ones you notice it instantly, drag and drops just canceling, double clicks or clicks outright not registering, was infuriating, tried their whole Wireless G Lineup, all have the same problem. So I gave up and got myself a wireless mouse with optical switches instead, no issue ever since, still mad over it because my expensive mousepad isn't using the feature I purchased it for...

Always preferred them over any other retailer, had a couple warranty cases over the years specially with Logitech Products (Mechanical switches wearing out) and Samsung Monitors (Massive horizontal/vertical artifacting on cold boot and high hz), while other retailers drag you on and demand you to deliver the product (on your costs) even if you provide glaring evidence showing the problem, Digitec on the other hand just processes it and gives you the current product value back as a coupon or replacement without the need of returning the defective unit, you're just told to either keep it or throw it away. Also love their price graph in every product page, can see the historic value, what I don't like is that you can clearly see them manipulating and taking advantage of certain market situations like Black Friday, example being a Laptop that was being sold for 1300.- (9% off), a week before Black Friday the price explodes to +2000.- where on black friday the 1300.- is now seen as a big deal even though it wasn't.