It’s been a painful few decades for consumers having the teeth of unregulated tech titans sunk into them.

That’s a lot of new Linux computers.

Mafia: cops are ruining our extortion business!

Poor mafia.

A lot of people in this thread have a lot of really strong opinions without actually reading the article. The model was cool with it, but she herself also thinks it’s time to retire the photo from how it’s being used in image processing, where it likely isn’t even necessary in the first place. Respect her on that. I seriously doubt she cares if it remains accessible on the web for the pervs worrying about censorship. It’ll still be there if you desperately don’t want to lose your opportunity to take a gander.

Out of the 25 English language reviews of Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s PC version on Metacritic, only two mention the microtransactions.

What the fuck.

…they just couldn’t figure out how to hamper the watch in just the right way to convince users that Android OS was the problem, so they gave up.

Yeah, but Google, Facebook, and other megacorps profit from doing the same kind of thing and that seems to be fine.

It’s a good thing they got that scoundrel off the streets before anyone got hurt… /s

Easy. Game preservation.

Can they teach the adults as well?

I love this mentality. This idea that forcing someone who hates ads to watch a bunch of ads somehow magically makes more wealth happen. The whole thing is a bubble desperately trying not to burst by basically forcing more ads in more places where it actually makes very little difference.

I wonder if creators are actually going to get paid any better if YouTube forces more people to watch ads on their channels. My bet is not.

I keep saying it. Privacy invasive, targeted advertising has got to be barely worth the cost of maintaining it. Why else is Google trying to put more ads in places, kill ad blockers on chrome, force expats out of subscriptions, and experiment with unskippable ads if not to try and invent some kind of additional value to advertisers out of nothing.

Your boomer parents as well, most likely. It is getting back into election season again.

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Why are so many old people addicted to propaganda?

Spencer went on to say that while he personally didn’t like making the decision to close Tango, his job was ultimately to keep Xbox profitable.

Fuck off, Spencer. I can imagine there are other reasons why Xbox is struggling with profitability. Keeping games pass afloat by pushing day-1 releases for one, then spending obscene globs of money to buy exclusivity from massive, globally recognized franchises instead of investing in innovative new studios to foster a stable of great, fresh exclusives in the future.

Just curious, does anyone know which studios bought-out by Microsoft got better after being purchased?

The safeguards, for anyone like me who didn’t know about them until now.

Basically, the guidelines include:

1. Ensuring AI systems are safe before public release.
2. Building AI systems to address issues like bias and discrimination.
3. Using AI to enhance security and protect privacy.
4. Sharing best practices across the industry.
5. Increasing transparency and providing clarity about AI's capabilities and limitations.
6. Reporting on the risks and impacts of AI.

Namely, the fact that Apple charges a "Core Technology Fee" for developers who want to "steer" users to offers outside of its App Store. There's also an additional 3% that goes to Apple if a developer uses its payment processor.

They will still be selling user data whether you opt for the ad supported tier or not, so get used to that.

China won’t attack Russia. They’ll simply start moving there and gaslight that it’s Chinese land.

How about holding an investigation first? You know, just to see where the wrongdoing happened and who actually perpetrated it. (It just might have been a bitter developer or something.)

Also, if people want to use windows, it’s their choice and their consequences. Government and corporate services might do well to consider Linux, but most people don’t even know what a command line is.

I usually let my students keep their devices, but I had one student… I had asked everyone to write 5 sentences about a made up place. The kid was on his phone, showing things to his classmates while assuring me he was doing his work. Everyone finished but him, with nothing. I let every other student share their answers first to buy him time, then when it was his turn, nothing. I took away his phone and he had it done in less than a minute.

Well that’s unfortunate, because Nintendo has a terrible track record for game preservation.

The version of macOS that was released today, 11.0, also known as Big Sur…

Good thing we’re on top of things here on the fediverse.

Thank you for making such a thoughtful response! Out of curiosity, does this mean KDE actually runs on other distros of Linux as well? Until now, I had been under the impression that KDE was just arch Linux itself. Would you happen to know a good way for me to learn more about Linux, and how to put it to good use from a beginner’s perspective?

Ah… IPAs. Good one. Missed the forest for the trees there.

I’m more inclined to blame Microsoft for innovating subscriptions for online multiplayer & MTXs on consoles. As well as advertising on dashboards and everywhere else.

I’m not French, but I am a teacher and I want in on this. Love getting materials sent to me from Microsoft teams accounts that refuse to let me actually access anything. Cute web UI, now can you send me the actual document instead of a picture of it in a browser?

I think they’re complaining about overreaching demands from investors, not the review bombing.

I think you could eliminate all tracked advertising across the internet and the losses would be much smaller than Google would have you believe.

I’m absolutely new to Linux (thanks to steam deck, which I think is arch Linux), what is KDE 6? Is that like a new OS update? Are there any implications for steam deck users?

Imagine all the training they’ll get from random queries off of the millions of Apple users who don’t even know what chat GPT even is yet.

I guess we should expect more political anti-union rhetoric soon.

I might know why Capcom tried to start a war on mods a month or so ago...

I still want to play DG2, but I can afford to wait until it costs a value I think it's worth. It's not like there's a shortage of games to play or anything.

because she works harder than the average ccp member.

I always get a little annoyed when people imply consumers are at fault for what’s actually just shitty economic practices.

I’m no economist, but ad-supported everything just seems like a stagnant bubble trying desperately not to burst by throwing more ads everywhere and calling you the bad guy for blocking them.

Electronic Arts

Found your problem.

It’s IGN. They probably had this score lined up since the announcement.

I get the sense from how they operate that Embracer Group generally likes the taste of cool aid.

Her introduction montage at the beginning, where she was doing all the exercises and training, didn’t do it for ya? Between the two, I thought the guy was less believable given his circumstances.