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Does Amazon really think anyone out there wants a PC with AI bloatware on it?
  • Good morning sir/ma'am I'm here to tell you about our Lord and Savior Linus Torvalds. He sacrificed his wallet to bring you a free and open operating systems. We don't judge what flavor of Linux you use. As long as you agree that Linus saved us from Bill Gates who stole ancient secrets from the ruins of Xerox Parc and has since embraced the evil that is bloat ware.

    Through Linux you can be saved!

  • Windows 11 is now the most popular OS for PC gaming
  • Haha, for non-gaming I already have. The main gaming PC has always been Windows ever since trying gaming on Linux over a decade ago. Been having no issues though lately on my laptop I use for travel. So it's probably time.

  • Humble Books Bundle: Patrick Rothfuss' The Kingkiller Chronicle by DAW Books
  • The first was simply amazing. Yeah the second got a bit cringey with him just all around perfect and banging everyone. But we do have a flawed narrator so I'm hoping it was something like that. Really just hate that not only will we probably never get the ending but Rothfuss seems to be an ass about it. Even blowing off the charity chapter, and then always being super aggressive/angry when people call him out.

    If we get something I'll read it for sure. But 100% doubt we'll get an ending as good as the start. Which is probably why Rothfuss is stuck

  • Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
  • Not a lot of need for the app. But it's horse crap they're ALSO removing Bluetooth.

    As someone who owns a bunch of their products I'm bummed that it's another company to not buy from anymore. It's like every good product gets ruined by a greedy CEO

  • Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill | CNN Politics
  • There's a lot of issues with our shitty 2 party system. No doubt.

    But I think you (and a lot of folks on lemmy) are vastly over estimating how liberal most Americans are. The country as a whole is fairly moderate (and compared to the international world, pretty conservative), and when both parties allow themselves to be controlled by the fringe edges (right or left), most Americans will lean away from the party unless they're a brainwashed group of idiots without the ability to critically think... And those type of folks already have their orange champion.

    Abstaining from voting is only going to help one group of people, and unless you enjoyed Jan 6th, that isn't ok. I agree whole heartedly that this situation sucks. We've got a wanna be dictator with a real shot at the presidency and our only other choice is Joe Biden.

    But there's only been one president in the history of the country that has promoted and pushed for an overthrow of democracy, I'd vote for anyone running against him to prevent that shit from happening again. Meanwhile I'm voting for any representative and senator or local politicians who work towards a ranked voting solution. But if you abstain then you're helping Trump get elected, you're absolutely stupid if you think the 2 are the same, Biden is not my ideal candidate by any means, but at least he isn't actively trying to destroy our country or literally offering to sell our future to big oil.

  • "Thought-Terminating Cliches"
  • It's still accepting a shitty situation because it is what it is. While it might show empathy or at least understanding of the situation, it still is just accepting it that way without digging into it further, or trying to change it.

    That line is usually the end of the topic. "Yeah, us working folks sure get fucked over, but it is what it is". Doesn't continue the thought or conversation. It terminates it

  • Sarah Bond Confirms Every First Party Game Will Still Launch on Game Pass - Including Call of Duty
  • They're the 3rd largest video game company and the current highest valued company (by market cap, so yeah not a perfect metric) in the world.

    They became that big of a video game company by using their ridiculous amount of money to buy up a bunch of other game companies, reducing the competition but hoarding the IP. While they might not be the "only" company in town I think it is safe to say that they're doing the most buying and consolidating

  • Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings - Bloomberg
  • That was my take too. "We're spread too thin".... Then why the fuck did you buy up all these companies? Sure sounds like they just gobbled up all the good IP to hoard like a dragon on its pile of gold. Or to make sure those IPs don't make it to Sony exclusives, wish the FTC would hang them by the balls since they've basically done opposite of what they promised during the mergers.

  • Change your Steam review
  • Good reminder. Was happy I got to update mine. And for folks saying "future buyers should know about this bullshit", leave the original content, just update the rating and add some commentary.

  • Tesla plans to charge some Model Y owners to unlock more range
  • Looking forward to the lawsuits on this going forward.

    Not really sure how you've bought a car if they can paywall physical features. otherwise folks should ask for pay for hauling /storing "tesla's" extra batteries around

  • Books @lemmy.world tux @lemmy.world
    Cradle Animation Kickstarter!!

    I am so, so excited. I've talked so much with my friends before how awesome it would be to have an ATLA style anime of Cradle, I really hope this is awesome.

    Love this series, literally led me to read every book Will Wight's written.

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    Will Wight Kickstarter for Cradle Animation!!

    Will Wight's cradle series is one of my all time favorites. It got me to then binge read every other book the man has written.

    The best part of this Kickstarter (IMO) is while reading his books the first time I just kept thinking how AMAZING the series would be as an animation and even talked with my friends about how we really wanted something like ATLA for this series.

    But if I'm honest, if that show or movie was made by the normal folks who always seem to destroy my favorite pieces of literature when adapting them to film, I'd be sad. So I'm really glad that this is being done straight by the author.

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)TU
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