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Bethesda Softworks to close Arkane Austin [Redfall], Tango Gameworks[Hi-Fi RUSH,The Evil Within], Alpha Dog Games[mobile games], and Roundhouse Studios [remnants of Human Head Studios: Prey,Rune] (www.gematsu.com)

Chainsaw Democracy - Argentina in Crisis Faces an Authoritarian President (unicornriot.ninja)

Paradox Games on Steam Deck in 2024 – Crusader Kings III, Hearts of Iron IV, Victoria 3, Europa Universalis IV, and More Tested (toucharcade.com)

Remedy Entertainment cancels premium co-op multiplayer game ‘Codename Kestrel’ (www.gematsu.com)

Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns (www.engadget.com)

WTF - Rest in peace… I hope no one has to pay any legal fees. Wish you all the best!

Liberal icon Bernie Sanders is running for Senate reelection, squelching retirement rumors (apnews.com)

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced Monday he will run for reelection this year, squelching speculation that the 82-year-old progressive icon might retire at a time when the Democratic Party is anxious about the advancing age of its top leaders....

rollin' coal (yiffit.net)

Anyone remember Rad Mobile the first Sonic The Hedgehog game? (lemmy.world)

Rad Mobile is an arcade Sega racing game from 1991. It was the first appearance of Sonic the Hedgehog… as a windshield ornament! The cars were sprites. Later they released the game retitled Gale Racer for the Sega Saturn with polygon cars....

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Scientists Warn against Treating Forests as Carbon Commodities (www.scientificamerican.com)

The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified (www.wired.com)

The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....

The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate (www.salon.com)

Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts (medium.com)

He may try to sleep with you (lemmy.world)

Lemmy has taught me that Firefox is the way (startrek.website)

(yes, I also see that it says Chinease)

What is your go-to app for IR remote?

I find the only app in F-droid very lacking, and the couple I tested from the PlayStore lacked many of the technically available controls you can see on IRDB, Global Cache, JP1, etc....

Revealed: UK military has flown 200 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel (www.declassifieduk.org)

UK military has flown 200 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel...

Dear diary, today the cat decide to climb a tall tree...

Difficult to say how tall the tree is for those wondering, but quite tall. It was another black cat that scared her up there… Been waiting for her to come down for one hour now… 🙁...

Xi Says China Will ‘Never Forget’ the US Bombing of Its Embassy (www.bloomberg.com)

[Trailer] Quest Master (It's basically Zelda LTTP Maker) (www.youtube.com)

Demo available: store.steampowered.com/app/2094070/Quest_Master/

Testing if VRR is active and working

I recently updated to fedora 40 and enabled the experimental setting to get VRR running. But I am an idiot who has been playing at frames rates between 30-60 on screens without VRR for almost all of my life so I can’t even know if VRR is actually working or not. Is there some rest I can run to see if VRR is functional¿? If...