That showcase was genuinely great. I’m not a usual Xbox fan but I do subscribe to gamepass from time to time on my PC.

Doom - The dark ages looks incredible

It wouldn’t be so bad if i could just launch the app and type a query…

Duck duck go have just launched an AI chatbot that acts as a middle man between the LLMs to try protect your privacy. duckduckgo.com/chat

Learn bangs!

95% of my searches, DDG is fine and I’ve learnt where it might struggle and I just end the search with !g

This then searches Google, yeah I’m still using Google for 5% of my searches but it’s better than 100%.

Or use !start to search startpage.

I installed Linux mint on my Framework laptop because fuck windows.

I had to move back to windows, it didn’t feel ready and couldn’t get it working easily how I like.

Heres some of the issues(any pointers would be great)

• 120hz just wouldn’t work on one monitor, it detects it but won’t apply. (Works fine in W10 and Ubuntu).
• Scrolling on the touchpad is unbelievably fast and makes it unusable.
• Fractional scaling is a joke, my laptop screen needs around 125% but everything becomes a blurred mess.
• The mouse is a bit jittery and can’t explain why (usually using a Logitech gaming mouse when docked).
• Governor cannot be different on battery and AC. Defaults to max turbo.
• Fingerprint sensor doesn’t work (works fine on Ubuntu and w10).
• Unsure how to get hardware accelerated disk encryption working?

Some stuff is better but a combination of these just brings me back to windows. It just loads and works?

You could probably sell a 1gig service to 200 users on a 50gbps line. That’s how GPON works and mostly people don’t have issues.

Not that it’s feasible, but they themselves won’t have the bandwidth for a few 50gbps users 24/7.

My 1gbps service is a 2.5gbps GPON split between 32 other users, i’ve always seen 1gbps. But theoretically it would only take 3 of us to max the connection out

Didn’t it say “launched”? So you can continue to sell an older design. The same reason apple are selling the iPhone 14 still without issues.

Embarrassing they launched it and released a statement before release date saying issues will be patched at a later date.

Was genuinely excited for this months ago…

Does some of the payouts need normalising? Some of the bigger content creators make absolutely bank for hardly doing anything with little overheads.

Does it? It’s a fantastic service that works really well, whether it’s worth the price or privacy is a slightly different conversation

Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search

I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

I switched my parents group chat to RCS from whatsapp after pestering them for ages.

Over the span of 2 months we had 4-5 inconsistencies where I would recieve a message from my mum or dad in the group that would be in another language or clearly not be written by them. It wouldn’t show up on her phone but my brother and dad would see it.

Here’s the proof of the last occassion it happened. They’re never going to switch now…

Even if you selfhost, having a cloud provider can still be a good option to maintain 3-2-1 without hosting a second server offsite (at parents or friends etc).

I backup to backblaze b2

People need to stop “pretending” they can afford all this shit, it’s not needed and noone cares, who are people showing off too?

New iphone? Don’t need it

Maybe if we stop buying shit these companies will actually try

Yeah it’s insane. I bought a 1 year old Hyundai and knocked tons of depreciation off an already cheaper brand.

At my work people be driving around in leased Range Rovers/AMG Mercs. Then they will take the piss out of my car.

Seriously? I now have more disposable income because i’m not wasting it renting a car and also I own my car… It should be me bragging

Subscriptions need to fuck off. I made a stand a few months ago. I will not subscribe to anything at all unless i’m getting INSANE value.

Cancelled streaming, random apps, patreon etc. I now have usenet and backblaze b2 for about £3 a month each. Saving me a fortune 🏴‍☠️🦜

I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

Idk why, linux mint doesn’t feel finished to me:

• 120hz won’t work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
• Touchpad scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
• My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
• Can’t seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
• Fingerprint doesn’t have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
• Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn’t feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

I’ve seen you post this elsewhere so assume you aren’t just interested in gaming only:

Here’s some that I follow:

• Anandtech^[1]: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better
• Chips and Cheese^[2]: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.
• More than Moore^[3]: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.
• igor’s Lab^[4]: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.
• KGOnTech^[5]: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.
• Krebs on Security^[6]: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities
• EE Times^[7]: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech
• Techspot Featured Articles^[8]: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc

No.

I meant the article and writing the article as if apple are considering when it’s not even true.