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  • If China had bodega style subs the usa would be finished by now.

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  • Depends where. Vietnamese neighborhood can go down to like $10. Outside gets up to like $25. Banh mi Vietnamese neighborhood down to like $6-8. Outside up to like $20. One common complaint I hear from restaurants for any food that isn't European is that people expect their food to be way cheaper than European cuisine regardless of ingredient costs and prep/labor/time/etc

    Like it could be worse like Italian restaurants selling cacio e pepe for $20 or grilled cheese/melts for $15. French restaurants selling 8 cracker sized pieces of a baguette adorned with a slice of meat and a pea sized dot of sauce and a small microgreen for $20

  • A 76-Year-Old Gamer Plays Much Better Than Most of You, Takes Out an Entire Opposing Team in Counter-Strike

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  • Looking through the thread, surprised that she's silver 1 with that patient aim and good placement. Most people at silver 1 have a real spazzy aim. She moves the cursor better than silver and way more accurately. Looks like she can hard carry down there

  • If China had bodega style subs the usa would be finished by now.

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  • Took a photo off the internet

    Whenever you try it, the normal version will look like this. I've noticed other places without a major vietnamese population often push mostly hot sandwiches which, not that those don't exist- they're common along with ones that are like sardines, just that often times the hot sandwiches aren't even Vietnamese or Chinese meats. Like I don't see it in that photo, it's common to see cold cut xa xiu in it with slices of different Vietnamese cold cuts

  • If China had bodega style subs the usa would be finished by now.

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  • In the case of Vietnamese banh mi which is a huge variety of sandwiches too, the only places it's cheap and high quality are where there's a lot of Viet people in that neighborhood. Other places suddenly becomes as expensive as an American sub shop, smaller, and often times unremarkable ingredients

  • Probability that the next steam deck is arm based?

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  • A Steam Deck 2, unlikely. AMD and Intel x86 chips are competitive with ARM chips in that 10-15w range. Battery life is great in laptops. They're competitive with Apple at the same power ranges. There's going to be performance overhead translating x86 to ARM along with compatibility issues as FEX is maturing. Deck 2 should be targeting as much performance in the up to 15w range as possible. CPU instruction translator goes against that

    Deck 2 makes most sense to stick with AMD. AMD CPU+GPU. There's no real cost savings getting AMD to integrate in an ARM chip. Qualcomm GPU's have far worse drivers than AMD and unproven to be as hardware feature performance as AMD/Nvidia. Intel still sucks power with their Arc cards compared to AMD/Nvidia at the same performance range. Nvidia ARM+GPU I doubt provides any cost savings. PowerVR and Mali graphics have trash drivers and probably not feature competitive with AMD/Nvidia for PC expectations

    Steam Deck lite down the line sure where an ARM Deck that is stronger than the AMD deck and cheaper/lighter/fanless or maintains the low price of the old deck because inflation. But that should be down the line for FEX to mature and be certain that the ARM hardware is strong enough to make the translation overhead a moot point for something that's supposed to match a gen 1 Deck

    Maybe Windows and Linux consumer ARM really takes off and we start seeing games ship ARM binaries. Then eventually it'll make sense for the high end handheld to go ARM. FEX mature for the older games that never updated with an ARM binary

  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

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  • Most obvious thing to ever happen since ads being added to Instagram feeds. It's a search engine replacement. It was going to end up with basic advertisments eventually. Then targeted advertisements. Then sponsored results as sneaky as they can be in the case of suggesting the best solution/product. Free open source models and stuff like proton and duckduckgo if you really want to use AI search engines

  • Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down

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  • Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it's becoming clear they're giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games

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    I Work For an Evil [Tech] Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

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  • Practically everyone I'm friends with hates imperialism and colonialism but loves the benefits of visiting poor countries that were victims of imperialism/colonialism and feeling special because of the money they bring and the lack of developed domestic entertainment/art industries so that theirs and their countries artist/entertainers are way more competitive there

    Everyone's pretty hypocritical. People that get mad at other people for working for Google are extra and easily ignored. Damn all those Boeing and Airbus employees for working for huge military contractors. When a company gets big enough, I wouldn't be surprised if they're lobbying for something terrible to benefit themselves.

    I'm continuously confused how these standards don't seem to apply to bank tellers, finance in general, large chain retail, fast food, large agriculture companies, fashion industry, film industry, music industry, alcohol, pharmaceutical, ... etc

    Some people fight the most inconsequential battles. If you work for JP Morgan Chase and someone gives you the cold shoulder or lectures you because so, ignore them. It's such a small crowd that's like that that it won't change your lifestyle. It's not like if you quit and struggled to find work and started to teeter on ruin that they'd be there for you. And someone like that probably fights so many small inconsequence battles that they'd be exhausting to be around anyways. And fighting such small inconsequential battles produces so little. Tagging, down with the oligarchy in a bathroom stall or sidewalk day to day. It's small bubble activism

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • Besides myself being on Linux, I used to mix Linux and Windows since like 2010 but fully transitioned like 3 years ago, I'm still regularly using a laptop from 2016 as a zoom calls and internet browsing laptop. It gets too hot to have in my lap and the battery lasts like 30 minutes. That's a dual core integrated graphics chip from 2016. Anyone with a discrete graphics card easily has a solid workstation PC. If you're not gaming or your not doing something that really benefits from strong hardware, you're good. No need to upgrade. If you're not playing new AAA games at 4k maxed, you may be good. This is just same news as how people are holding onto their cell phones longer than before

  • Millions of Gen Zers are watching Hitler and Holocaust denial clips on Instagram—right next to JPMorgan and U.S. Army ads

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  • This is why when I first started hearing the ills of young adults in society being heavily blamed on TikTok when that was only like 2 years old I knew we were a bit screwed. Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram were poison by 2016 yet Facebook only got attention for a short period because of Cambridge Analytica while YouTube and Instagram got to face little to no blowback since we were busy with our ongoing yellow menace/red scare of scapegoating the problems fostered by our own people and companies. Meta/Facebook ran a lobbying/advertising masterclass shifting all attention towards TikTok while Instagram and Facebook had influenced modern American society for about 15 (Facebook) years by 2020

    YouTube is still the worst of all though. Everything people get mad about for social media trends were well practiced on YouTube by like 2015. Only change was boiling it down to super short videos which YouTube was quick to adopt and master

  • nubia RedMagic 11 Pro review - GSMArena

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  • Went ahead and purchased one primarily to tinker with windows emulation. Most excited I've been with a phone in a while

  • Gunmen kidnap 52 students from Catholic school in Nigeria's Niger state

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  • Like the other person, in the west it's being pushed as a Christian thing but it's pretty indiscriminate. Heavily rural conservative Christian pastors, evangelicals, southern baptist, etc - really push the idea of Nigeria as some christian genocide thing to push fear in US christians and probably drive attendance and donations

    These days it's more about tradition nomadic groups vs the settled towns. Similar issues along the Sahel like in Sudan with the janjaweed groups in the past to today's civil war. Nigeria has a significant problem with bandits and those pastoral nomads that come into heavy conflict with their staunch beliefs in their rights to have their animals graze as has been tradition for who knows how many thousands of years.

    I think it's to a degree recognized in law for pastoral rights for nomads but it's pretty non-compatible with modern city/property rights society and they're hyper aggressive to a point where it's probably many taking advantage of historic rights to pretty much be bandits. Nigeria has an insanely complex web of different violent dissident groups throughout the country

    Someday the evangelical Muslims may be the primary aggressor again in the future but today it seems to be the pastoral nomads and generic bandit groups. Boko Haram is way smaller than it was like 15 years ago. Maybe a backseat these days to the ISIS affiliate that's spread around the surrounding countries substantially like if I recall correctly, Burkina Faso and Mali. ISIS in Nigeria isn't to the degree as those two. Not even close yet. ISIS or Al Qaeda affiliates. Incredibly complex and hard to keep up with

  • Valve engineer says Steam Machine performance beats 70% of PCs, and can play all games

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  • What may end up being the best selling console of all time is the first Switch which was maybe about a quarter docker as powerful as a PS4. This will be fine. It's about as powerful as a PS5. It's a strong minipc. Person plays FFVII Rebirth and then try to pickup the game dev hobby with Godot. It's on Steam and Flathub. Play Cyberpunk and then open up Ardour for their music aspirations

  • Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?

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  • It'll be about as significant as chromeos so good for schools while professionaland enthusiast stuck working on them will do so by running regular Linux applications like you do on chromos. I'd say it's a stronger plus for Linux desktops than Android. Google really can't get out of their way with their NIH syndrome for desktops. Like 15 years of attempting to do desktop Linux but in a way users likely won't use the Linux desktop designed and often free software. I'd love to see this introduce people to Digikam, Darktable, Krita, GIMP, Kdenlive at the expense of Google Photos and adobe apps

  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • After Its Disastrous Launch, Cities: Skylines 2 Changes Developers

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  • The size of their staff going from 1 to 2 made no sense to me with how much grander scale of a simulation they spoke of. It seemed unrealistic before launch and to this day they still seem to be struggling with it. Really screwed the pooch. Paradox for being penny pinchers for what could have become their Civilization in regards to beloved hyper geeky but high selling type of game. Colossal Order for not growing up and then trying to play off criticisms with how they're a hunky dory scrappy small indie developer that can't staff up for the AAA scope sequel of a hit of a game with major amounts of DLC. Self infantalization are for your early 20s

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • It's certainly just going to end up being used as an advertising tool. Like the recent hype of trying to get people let AI do holiday shopping for them. Like the AI saw you opened paint, have you considered a subscription for Adobe cloud. You searched for cake recipes on Google and clicked links, why not sub to copilot+. It'll have text to speech AI as well

  • Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.

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  • If it's priced well and idle power usage good, it can be a great home lab. Run all sorts of services on it. Host your own Google Drive/Docs/Photos alternatives with all the automated categorization like face detection sorting. Should be strong enough to run a lot of unrelated services off one machine. If I ever had gigabit internet, I'd probably try stuff like hosting a Matrix server. Self hosted RSS feed.

    Would be great for videos. RDNA3.5 has good AV1 and HEVC encoder and decode I believe. I think h.264 got solid with RDNA3.5. Good for video usually means good for photos too. Probably audio. Blender support for AMD graphics cards continue to improve and game engines have generally always been good. Great for a computer lab to teach something like Godot

    The compact media creation thing would be the big thing for me if I needed a computer and this was substantially cheaper than a Strix Halo minipc. Darktable, Kdenlive, Krita, Ardour, Godot, Blender. I'd have people in mind where a $500-600 just under an ~RX 7600 would be a huge upgrade for their personal art workstation and the compact form is a big plus

  • Don't expect a Steam Deck 2 until silicon breakthroughs arrive, says Valve

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  • Might as well target dates after a projected PS6 launch. For what's available, only Strix Halo handhelds are an impressive upgrade to me and those draw too much power to be viable