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They already do, at least partially. Adding !g to the end of a search redirects to google.

This is one to look out for, I've been using this for about a week, and the search results have been really good, empirically they feel a bit better than DuckDuckGo. If this stays this good over …

Yeah, it's a fool's wish but hopefully RISC-V and SiFive stay as open as they've been, if they do Intel's cash could really usher in a golden age for open computing

At the risk of sounding dumb: I agree fully with UBI and automating away menial jobs that don't bring people fulfillment. But what happens once we've done that? Do the top .1% just own all o…

Yeah, this also seems like the most logical reason to me. If your business depends on people seeing ads in apps, why give them the possibility to circumvent them?

Be careful. By putting a lot of emphasis on length, you'll end up with ubisoft games, where 80% of it is filler content to get to the 100 hour completion time and only about 20% are actually fun …

Oh right, I forgot that the libraries themselves still need to run on the host system. Can that ever be a problem for binaries? Will flatpaks start bundling python 2.x at some point?

I wonder if flatpak will (hopefully) become the standard for linux apps in one or two years time, and if in 20 years we'll just be able to go back and install the flatpaks and have solved that pr…

Damn, early personal computer history always sounds so wild west-like and full of anticompetitive behaviour by microsoft. Crazy to think that apple were the good guys at some point.

You know what, that's a pretty good reason. Guess I'll add "click an unsubscribe button on a simple website" to my list of acceptable ways to handle unsubscribing. :)

To be honest, these days I'll click the unsubscribe link in newsletters and stuff, but if they expect me to click on another small link on a website or even enter my email again I just go back an…

I don't think autopilot is actually enabled in this clip, the steering wheel icon is greyed out.

You never hear much about OpenSuse or Suse, but whenever you do, users seem very happy with it. Is it just a perspective thing, or is there another reason why it isn't huge like Ubuntu or Fedora?

Nah, nVidia massively profits from the marketability of stuff like HairWorks / GameWorks a couple of years back being proprietary, and now it's DLSS. It's super cool tech, but kinda sad…

Same exact thinking here, plus apple devices being way expensive for not much gain over cheaper devices + not being able to install apps not from the app store + fully closed source OS is keeping me o…

AMD recently patented their DLSS competitor (albeit with a really dumb name, "Radeon Gaming Super Resolution").[1] If this launches on RDNA2 as rumored, it could be very interesting to see i…

Oh, I feel you! CS is one of those games where, at least with regards to weapon balance, it's in such a good spot that the community actively doesn't want many changes. Most people are also …

According to the article they are shooting for a late 2021 release date if nothing goes wrong. Fingers crossed they'll say more at E3, which they're attending this year. Not sure why people …

If you take some time to plan it out and pay attention to thermals, you can absolutely make a relatively unassuming Micro-ATX build nowadays, and just have a sleek small(er) black box sitting there.

Artifact was a good card game only killed by really dumb marketing and monetization decisions. Half-Life Alyx is almost universally hailed as the best VR game and as good if not better than the previo…

Valve has money, but not Apple or Microsoft money. I doubt they'd be able to source a high-power arm chip + the necessary hard/software features to make something like the rosetta compatibil…

That being said, they did support both the Steam Controller and Link for a very long time, and the Steam Controller continues to be used by many (The configurator and services for sharing the configur…

Because it's Apple's incentive to offer a good web browser to sell very expensive devices? The same incentive Microsoft has to make Edge and Google has to make Chrome for Android. They do no…

Yeah, it's mostly just aliexpress but with a 100 to 200% price mark-up.

would be funny to look at the internet for a few days though

No? Youtube's use of compute power serves a purpose that is not quite literally wasting energy for the sake of it.

The arbiter of what's "too much" power for a use case is the fact that proof of work systems are literally designed to waste resources / power.

That's fair, same for me. Discover weekly (and to an extent release radar) were some of the best features on Spotify for sure, they had a way higher chance of really hitting good than they have a…

Oh. So no word on the Android app yet?