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  • Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62Ie7dKXRY

    This video answers the "why" perfectly.

    tl;dw: everything more expensive, bullshit fees, less quality

    Also, in my personal opinion, the current political climate doesn't help to draw in international tourists.

  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Release Date Trailer (December 4)

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  • You mean the DLC-exclusive motorcycle in BotW, that released 9 months after the actual game, that you only unlock after completing all major dungeons, do a long quest chain, and then an additional dungeon plus a boss fight, that drains materials while you use it?

    You are comparing that DLC Bonus to an (appearent) major game design mechanic showcased in this Metroid Reveal Trailer?

    Be real dude.

  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Release Date Trailer (December 4)

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  • yeah I dunno, the bike boost animation looked a bit jank. Couple that with the empty desert and the implications for the game design and I'm officially worried about Prime 4.

    Well, it's not like I plan on getting a Switch 2 anytime soon anyway, so there's that.

  • Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will

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  • There's no article - this is something that happened to me personally, today. I needed an outlet and wanted some advice what to do about this, and I'm really happy about the responses I've gotten.

  • Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will

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  • e/os is most likely my next step, especially with Google disabling installing "unverified" third-party apps in 2026.

    Bought a FP5 with e/os in mind as a possible upgrade path, I just was too worried to immediately do the full jump.

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    Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will

  • Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

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  • goddamnit I JUST bought a new Fairphone 5 and opted not to go for e/os variant, because I was worried of incompatibility issues.

    Guess I'll have to learn how to replace my phone OS in 2026...

  • Nintendo-owned titles excluded from Japan’s biggest speedrunning event after organizers were told they had to apply for permission for each game

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  • Same. Passed on the switch 2. Fuck that noise.

  • public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)

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  • I admire the plan, but I doubt the public sector is going to completely acclimate to Linux. The average age of an employee in the public sector is something like 40+.

    You might get lucky and get them to use one new program like LibreOffice, but there's no way you're going to completely revamp every desktop PC to Linux. I work in this field, and while everyone has been nice and friendly, they (and the entire system around them) are also hugely resistant to digital change. If they ever make the move to a Linux Desktop environment, the IT support will go through hell.

  • Nostalgia_irl (Art by FieldExplores)

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  • Man, I LOVED reading instruction booklets as a kid, whenever I wasn't allowed to game. I was obsessed with videogames back then.

    One anecdote that comes to mind, is the german Instruction Booklet for Donkey Kong 64. Throughout the booklet, there were those little dialogues made by Cranky Kong (the old grumpy Kong), who would often insult the player, telling them games have gone "too easy" and that they're "too soft". But on one page that listed all levels of the game, Cranky was surprised - he appearently made a level himself called "colorful barrel fight" and couldn't find it listed on the page, however, if the player was looking enough, they might be able to find it ingame. Needless to say, my kid brain went wild, and I was always looking out for a secret door/wall or something in the game whenever I played. Had me searching for hours. Buuut I don't think anything like that secret level actually exists in DK64. Maybe it was a mistranslation, or maybe Cranky is just referring to the Barrel Minigame that can be accessed via DK's platform. By now, people have rummaged through the decompiled source code and speedran this game for decades while breaking it in every possible avenue via glitches. It would be next to impossible for an entire secret level not to be found.

  • Kudos to Nvidia

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  • As a Linux noob I feel that lol... Currently on my Mint Laptop with an nvidia gpu (RTX 4060 Mobile version) and while most stuff worked out of the box, am running into several small annoyances:

    • steam doesn't launch (steamwebhelper doesn't respond).
    • Sleep mode just completely crashes the system once in a while.
    • The GPU runs pretty warm, even if I don't use anything / have the laptop closed.
    • Tried to tinker around with the 'nvidia-xconfig' CLI in order to use a custom fan curve and it created a config file which completely stopped my desktop environment from even launching at startup... Somehow managed to recover the system through terminal shenanigans

    To anyone thinking about switching to linux, do yourself a favor and do it on AMD hardware.

  • Nvidia falls 14% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off

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  • You wouldn't, because you are (presumably) knowledgeable about the current AI trend and somewhat aware of political biases of the creators of these products.

    Many others would, because they think "wow, so this is a computer that talks to me like a human, it knows everything and can respond super fast to any question!"

    The issue to me is (and has been for the past), the framing of what "artifical intelligence" is and how humans are going to use it. I'd like more people to be critical of where they get their information from and what kind of biases it might have.

  • YouTuber "HandOfBlood" im Twitch Gespräch mit Vizekanzler Robert Habeck (2h 40min)

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  • Joa, muss echt zugeben, mit der Aktion hat HandOfBlood mich echt überrascht. Bondenständiges Gespräch von beiden Seiten aus, es ging um Themen und Inhalte und es wurde auch mal richtig in die Tiefe gegriffen. Vermeide normalerweise Politik-Talks wie die Pest, aber HoB hat recht. Eigentlich müssten wir uns alle mal mehr mit Politik auseinandersetzen und öfters mal wieder miteinander reden.

    Herr Habeck kam mir in diesem Gespräch echt sympathisch rüber. Man muss nicht alle Ansichten von ihm oder der Partei teilen, aber ich finde er hat seine Denkweise gut dargestellt und mit Fachwissen erweitert. Respekt. Macht wahlkampftechnisch für mich viel mehr aus als ein Poster am Straßenrand in dem "Zuversicht" draufsteht.

  • Anyone just hates how some apps can disable screenshots?

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  • I realistically only need to have mobile data, run Signal, Discord, possibly WhatsApp, and have a working browser... Hm. I hope that works.

  • Anyone just hates how some apps can disable screenshots?

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  • Wanna know what's even more fucked up? Few years back, I had exactly this problem. Searched the internet for a solution. Guess what?

    Enable Google Voice Assistant and say "Ok Google. Take a screenshot." Google magically has the rights to make a screenshot on the App that doesn't let you, the user, take the screenshot.

    Next phone I get is gonna be something with a alternate OS, no Android or iOS.

  • Nintendo targets Reddit pirates in piracy crackdown

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  • People are missing the point of this article a bit - It's not just about Nintendo trying to remove forks/backups of yuzu/ryujinx. It's that they are trying to subpoena Reddit as a corporation for user data. They want to pursue legal actions against anyone discussing Switch Piracy online. And then ask yourself - Do you trust Reddit as a corporation with your user data?

    In addition to requesting records from Reddit, Nintendo's filing also makes appeals for information from other companies, including domain registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with firms such as Cloudflare, Github, Google, and Discord.

    Reminder, that you do not own your social media accounts and that corporations might end up sharing whatever you post online with whomever. Privacy and anonymity are not guaranteed.

  • Miss me with that low bitrate

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  • It's an original character from @whoismonday on twitter ( https://x.com/whoismonday ) called "Mote". The meme template used to have a doge in it but somehow this version got more popular recently.

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

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  • It's a complex issue and kind of depends on your games and your hardware and your software. In general, you can definitely count out major competitive multiplayer titles that rely on aggressive kernel-level anti-cheat software, since that is essentially spyware and it's incompatible with Linux. Furthermore, very new titles often pose problems, as the primary target audience is always Windows. Linux compatibility is seldom considered by big publishers, and as such the FOSS community has to pick up the slack. With the release of the Steam Deck, Valve released a custom version of Wine called Proton, which acts as a compatibility layer between Windows and Linux specifically for Steam Games, but even that kind of is hit and miss. There's a website called protondb that is trying to categorize game compatibility but even good rankings (gold / diamond) usually require some small amount of fiddling with settings.

    Overall, if you want to have a single-click to launch games experience, you're sadly still bound to Windows most of the time. But if you have the patience to experiment and learn new things, there's way more tools and possibilities than ever before. Just be prepared to troubleshoot some things.

  • Just a dad helping out

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  • The irony of some dude trying to prove a point that a website doesn't need to be bloated and burdened with all the design and fancy scripts, just for other people to incrementally built on top of that idea, one-upping each other in the process, mimicking the exact evolution of the modern bloated website as we know it.

  • Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News

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  • I've recently made the switch over to LinuxMint and I was shocked. Installing a popular Linux Distro is EASIER than installing Windows 10/11 at this point. Seriously. The Linux installer is super noob friendly, very quick and straight to the point, it doesn't need you to create an online account and you don't need be wary of accidentally giving any corporation the rights to steal your data.

    And all the software I use (Steam, Discord, Spotify, Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) were all downloadable from the GUI Installer and worked right away OUT OF THE BOX. No fiddling in any Terminal was required.

    Seriously, it's easier than installing Windows at this point.