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I asked and they said "no" and "get out" and "it's 3 am" and "this is HSBC" and "put some pants on" so that's you told.

I love to hate to love that film. The Stephen King short story it was based on was about a man who saw that his landscaper was working in league with a demon and ended up being hunted for his discovery. The movie was an absolute assault of mid-nineties cyber-slop. VR! SGI CG! Hollywood OS! Gyroscopes are cool! But, one of the characters did have a lawnmower. Fucking brilliant. Did you know that Stephen King sued the movie makers to keep his name off the project, twice, and won, also twice? Love it.

I'm sure they'll be devastated, but I'll let them know.


"Yoooo bro your ping is fucking dog water. Fix it."

We had a bunch of laptops at work with ARC GPUs in them. The vendor supplied one of them as test units saying they were ideal as portable 8K video editing machines, to which I replied - in exactly these words - "oh, fuck off". But then we tested them and they're honestly excellent and run a lot cooIer and longer than the AMD/Intel+Nvidia equivalents. I had to apologise. I got to test the Claw side-by-side with the Steam Deck playing RDR2 and Forza Horizon 5 and that sealed the deal. And when the ARC GPU does start groaning then, like I said, it's eGPU time. The ARC is probably never going to bother the top-tier GPUs from AMD and Nvidia, but for portable and, I dare say, midrange desktop gaming it's ideal.

USB-C docking station mater race.

I completely agree. I passed over the Steam Deck and went for the MSI Claw 8 instead. I was willing to pay the extra for a waaaay better CPU/GPU combo and - the killer feature IMHO - not one, but two Thunderbolt ports. Long term, this means I can expect a longer life out of my MSI than the Steam Deck is likely to get, but also means when the GPU does start to chug I can connect an eGPU to it's dock.

To be clear, that doesn't mean I don't rate the Steam Deck - I really, really do - and it's level of capability and price-point will act as a stabalising point for the wider industry, but I paid more for a better device and got my money's worth.

480 would be NTSC. PAL was higher resolution. But, yeah, the latency was basically imperceptible but the fan noise was real.

I agree. I think the problem with it is that it was just too complicated. With most Nintendo system what you see is what you get - with the Wii, those people having a good time swinging around their little Toblerones really are playing a game; the Switch really is a home console grade portable handheld thing; the WiiU manages to look like both those things without being either.

Yeah, man. Taco Tuesday tomorrow. Can't wait.

Well, I've got to say: I wasn't convinced by this argument at all until that diagram appeared. And now, wow, I'm sold. Holy shit. Looks, there's shapes and everything. Truly, if something is shown in a diagram it MUST be accepted as fact.

Edit: Oh, wow, look, I found another diagram:


"Bully News: Nerd's Lunch Money Probably Being Spent On Dorky Shit."

So, yeah, a story from a Russian government mouthpiece quoting a Russian government spokesperson spouting Russian government talking points that - deary me, oh my days, can you believe it, bless my soul, what are the odds, well I'll be - paints a negative image of the country the Russian government illegally and unjustifiably invaded. Or, maybe the oligarchy are just pissed off that the warlords aren't buying their weapons from them any more?

Exactly. That's why it's so good, and also why the advertisers are trying to confuse people by whining about cookies. This is nothing to do with a specific technology, and entirely about respecting privacy.

As always, it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the grifters running the show. Cookies are great for remembering what's in a shopping basket, language settings, etc before you sign in and if those were the only kinds of things the sites were using they wouldn't even need the Cookie banner. Remember the Cookie Banner is nothing to do with Cookies, and everything to do with commercialised mass monitoring.

Okay, so I'm going to copy-paste an answer I got from someone I know who works in a legal department:

Basically, Legitimate Interest lets them track you as if you clicked Accept All, then subsequently they can decide if they think you would benefit from the tracking by their own metrics, which includes things like targeted advertisting which, of course, they do. So "Legitimite Interest" really means "Reject, But Actually Accept".

Not just "as easy" but "*at least* as easy". The assumption should be that the user does not consent. And there have also been a few cases where the courts have - quite rightly - rules that "pay for privacy" offers aren't good enough.

How is this a problem with the legislation? Do you honestly think your privacy was respected before the law demanded that websites tell you about how they violate your privacy?

Web browsers DO have this as a universal setting, Do Not Track, but websites choose to ignore it beacuse it doesn't benefit them to respect your right to privacy and treat you with the respect due to a functioning adult.

The legislation was a massive win for everyone except the predatory manipulators.