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  • BlizzCon is cancelled again after last year's first in-person event since 2019

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  • People who still like Blizzard, they're very much the same kind of people who can't let go of Disney.

    I watched the linked video and thought about the "Whales" and immediately my stomach sank. Thinking about a fully grown adult standing at one of these machines just cranking away for hours on a journey to empty them out and horde what's inside is only made worse by the fact that there are more people in line to do the same thing.

    It's just gross.

    Good video!

  • The end of movie-web

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  • Is there an alternative way to register a domain that cannot be seized? It seems like domain seizure is the one thing that enables internet censorship. Is there some sort of block chain base registrars out there? I'm genuinely curious.

  • Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case

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  • Please reiterate your statement but instead using the "goose chase meme" format.

  • Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon

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  • Abso lutely

  • 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

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  • Depends on the usage. That's the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?

    That's 240$ for three drives without warranty though... Nevermind I'd prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.

    Sometimes you get what you pay for ... Sometimes

  • Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon

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  • I don't know what to think about the rushed inclusion of Copilot. It's so very very flawed.

    The only thing I can think of is that users are training it by using it and therefore Microsoft is getting free labor from you (as well as search/advertising revenue through their lock screens, dynamic as based backgrounds, live tiles, etc).

    I think we're the product here guys.

  • Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

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  • No bueno

  • Hollywood Believes The Time Is Ripe To Bring Back SOPA

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  • I wonder if this age of consolidated net access if Google, Facebook,Twitter will be for or against this.

  • Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

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  • Time to invest in some foreign VPNs.

  • Will China flood globe with EVs, green tech? What's behind latest US-China trade fight

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  • It is unfair, it's just not "suddenly".

  • Will China flood globe with EVs, green tech? What's behind latest US-China trade fight

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  • I don't think it's about EVs. My understanding is that it's about protecting American auto manufacturers from "unfair" overseas competitors. There is a history here.

    :: incoming semi-coherent rant::

    Volkswagen was one of the first auto manufacturers to come to the US back in the 1950s. The us government set up a framework that allowed foreign manufacturers to establish themselves in the states. This was supposed to help the economy by making sure the cars sold here were manufactured here and abused by a set of standards the governing bodies set up.

    Well eventually the Japanese got into the game and when brands like Toyota established themselves as cheaper and better than anything you could buy in America, the American car companies lobbied against it and won. This put a soft limit on how many cars could be imported from Japan (which in turn hurt Japan's economy). At the time there was a lot of sentiment going around that the Japanese were taking people's jobs so it actually was a very popular decision at the time (which seems weird because everyone was driving their cars).

    Furthermore in the 1980s, people started importing and selling used cars from Europe. This hurt the auto manufacturers deeply as they could not compete with used luxury cars like Mercedes imported from Europe at those low used price points. This is why the auto manufacturers lobbied for a 25 year ban on the import and sale of cars (though they claim it was for safety, it was really to kill the grey market for imports).

    The Truth is that a lot of other countries also followed the US in these Bans. Canada has the 20 year import ban and Europe has their own set of regulations.

    Chinese cars and EVs will come to the West Eventually but first they'll come under the names of brands that are already here like Volvo. You won't see a Geely branded vehicle for a while unless they open up a Geely of America branch and begin shipping their parts here for assembly. This however will prevent them from having as much as a competitive edge in the US because labor is more expensive in the states than China and South East Asia.

    Do they want you to transition to EVs? Yes. Do they want it to be cheap? No.

  • Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

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  • Correct

  • Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

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  • I really hate having the taskbar permanently affixed to the bottom of my screen. I've had it on the left side for decades now. They are really throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

    Someone at Microsoft "Customization is the enemy of progress!"

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    best device for avoiding transcoding?

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  • Are there alternative firmwares available for shield?

  • Unsmart a smart TV

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  • Jeff Geerling did a whole video about you can just use a professional display. It has the option to install a raspberry pi because it's meant to be a display for a store window. This would be a good alternative but $$$.

    https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/m551

    Note: the reason TVs are cheap now is because they collect data about you. Your data is subsidizing the cost. So if that's the case how much money do they make off you that getting a non smart display costs 4k?

  • Unsmart a smart TV

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  • I 'member

  • Unsmart a smart TV

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  • Probably not but you can buy digital signage. You will pay upwards of $4k potentially based on your needs.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • Same as it ever was.

  • Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple

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  • Big companies with no vision of the future are often ripe for disruptive tech to harvest. We'll see what happens. The apple "visio pro"" is not the future of the company.

  • What if public libraries...

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  • This is the design