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DupaCycki

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  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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  • A lot of, perhaps all of, those games are predatory money extractors that are deliberately designed to be as addictive as possible, just like a casino.

    Sticking to Windows to play them is like saying you need a car, because there are no bus stops near the casino. True, but should you really be going there in the first place?

  • Future

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  • I mean 'we' as everyone collectively, as society. It's just manner of speaking. I wasn't even alive for most of the time frame mentioned, so I'm perfectly aware not everyone was actually able to 'listen' to the warnings.

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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  • Windows losing noticeable numbers of users is a huge net gain for society. Hopefully it continues, regardless of Microslop's actions.

  • Future

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  • Educated people saw the 2020 vision as far back as 1950s. They warned us many times, but we never listened.

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    “This Is Unfair” American A.I. companies say Chinese competitors are copying their A.I

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  • Robin Hoods of AI?

  • American 250 🇺🇸

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  • Yep. The genocide stopped the second the USA declared independence. It did not continue for even a second after that, and there wasn't a single other genocide since then.

    Truly perfect comment to write on July 4th. Uncle Sam would be proud of you. If you also massacred a bunch of children, that is.

  • Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

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  • They love money. AI was good money for a while. Or at least it looked like good money until you looked at it for longer than 3 seconds, which greatly surpasses the average attention span of an executive. And also the average executive's iq.

  • Boycott GTA 6 and be done with it

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  • It's more about personal principles and values, not self control. I make impulsive purchases all the time, but exactly 0% of them goes to scummy piece of shit corporations whose board of directors should be put on death row.

  • Boycott GTA 6 and be done with it

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  • Officially the first account I block on lemmy. Ain't no way this isn't AI-generated rage bait.

  • You will own nothing and you will like it!

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  • Also, it's a plain downgrade from Switch 1 OLED. Inferior screen, abysmal battery life. It's just launch Switch 1 all over again. Except this time Switch OLED, Lite, and improved Switch base exist.

    Nintendo is betting people will buy Switch 2, and then upgrade to a Switch 2 OLED later. So just don't. If you really really want a Switch 2, wait for the OLED model. And ideally for homebrew, but most people don't use it, sadly.

  • Socialist Momentum Grows As Melat Kiros Wins In Denver | A democratic socialist who lost her job for speaking out about Gaza unseated a 29-year incumbent.

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  • It's only the best bet for change short-term. Long-term a two-party system will never work. It might lead to great improvements in the months or years to come, but the same issues are bound to return in decades if the system is not reformed.

  • Socialist Momentum Grows As Melat Kiros Wins In Denver | A democratic socialist who lost her job for speaking out about Gaza unseated a 29-year incumbent.

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  • Leave it to the USA to name two completely unrelated things the same name, because it hates both equally and doesn't distinguish either.

  • PlayStation 6 bill of materials nears $1,000 as RAM shortages worsen

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  • Kepler estimated in March that the PS6's bill of materials (BOM) was approximately $760, so Sony could have conceivably released the console for $699 and recouped its subsidy after selling two or three games per user. However, Kepler now claims that the bill has since climbed by $200, landing dangerously close to four digits.

    Moreover, recent comments from Sony to investors indicate that the company does not intend to absorb the increased costs. Responding to several questions, President and CEO Hideaki Nishino emphasized the company's plan to prioritize profitability over expanding PlayStation's user base.

    So they'll be releasing a base PS6 at $1100+, because they want more profitability over 'expanding PlayStation's user base'?

    When was the last time PlayStation's user base actually grew by noticeable numbers? During PS4's time?

    According to Statista's PlayStation Network MAU the number of users has been dropping throughout all of 2025. Sony claims there was a spike to 132 million users in December, which would make sense. They usually have higher numbers in the holiday season. Still, 132 million in December 2025 is a measly 2% increase compared to December 2024.

    Bro is acting like he has all the cards and everybody wants a PlayStation, while the numbers clearly show otherwise. Especially in 2026 so far. PlayStation just had its worst May in 25 years, and this dude thinks he's getting so many new users he can throw them away.

    I'd like to say that there's no way this will work for Sony. However, gamers have proven time and time again that they are more than willing to pay insane prices for consoles and games.

    I'm guessing this will lead to PS6's sales being even worse than PS5's already poor ones. But PlayStation will probably still earn more money due to more expensive consoles, no physical games, and another PS+ price hike or two.

  • Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals

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  • Not really. They are independent, pre-existing open source projects. Anyone may use the code in their own projects, within the licenses' rules.

    Whereas Google basically started the entire project, benefitted from unpaid contributions, and now wants to close it, after creating a near monopoly, in huge part thanks to it being open.

    Apple isn't closing or restricting BSD-related projects, because they aren't theirs, and they existed before Apple included them in its own software.

    I have mixed feelings about mega corporations using open source code for free, but the licenses allow it and the developers don't mind, so it's not my place to make a fuss.

  • What surprise do you have prepared Nintendo?

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  • And so will all the others, maybe except Ubisoft.

    I think this is about losing fans/customers, not necessarily losing money. Which is still a stretch with Steam. The Machine isn't the best product, but it's not harming anyone.

  • Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals

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  • Apple is not required to share their OS with anyone. Nor is Google.

    The problem is: Google shared it voluntarily, because they knew a lot of people and companies would contribute to its development for free. It was a calculated business move that happened to create an open mobile OS.

    Now that Android has been polished by the community and has a gigantic market share, Google is trying to use that to eliminate any competition, and to close the OS down. It's trying to rewrite the entire agreement, while keeping all of the benefits it received over the years, and giving nothing back. Essentially a bait and switch scheme.

    If Android was never open to begin with - this wouldn't be an issue. But then Android would still be stuck in 2016, and nobody would be using it.

  • Wish in one hand

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  • It's kinda hard not to be depressed and to live without pills when you realize that practically all of the world's problems are entirely artificial, and most could be solved in a manner of years.

    If it wasn't for bloodthirsty, sociopathic pedophiles and mass murderers, for whom the only objective in life is creating as much suffering as possible and raping as many children as possible.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Other people have already explained the topic in sufficient detail, so I'll just leave a quote from a former NASA engineer and a link to their article.

    Taking the NVIDIA H200 as a reference, the per-GPU-device power requirements are on the order of 0.7kW per chip. These won't work on their own, and power conversion isn't 100% efficient, so in practice 1kW per GPU might be a better baseline. A huge, ISS-sized, array could therefore power roughly 200 GPUs. This sounds like a lot, but lets keep some perspective: OpenAI's upcoming Norway datacenter is intending to house 100,000 GPUs, probably each more power hungry than the H200. To equal this capacity, you'd need to launch 500 ISS-sized satellites. In contrast, a single server rack (as sold by NVIDIA preconfigured) will house 72 GPUs, so each monster satellite is only equivalent to roughly three racks.

    Source: Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • We got Musk fanboys on Lemmy before GTA 6.