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Here's Why Microsoft Buying Valve Is A Terrible Idea (www.thegamer.com)
2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)
NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting....
Silicon Valley county becomes first in U.S. to declare loneliness a health emergency (www.nbcnews.com)
A mountain of research has linked loneliness to an increased risk of dementia, depression, anxiety, heart disease, stroke and early death. The Board of Supervisors of San Mateo county, which includes part of Silicon Valley, passed a resolution on Tuesday that declared loneliness a public health crisis and pledged to explore...
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
A Louisiana teen traveled to the West Bank to learn about his roots. He was shot dead. (www.nbcnews.com)
YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug (arstechnica.com)
That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.
Get Humble Choice and other package titles for cheaper
tl;dr: key shops… use https://gg.deals as a finder...
Male players: Why do you play female characters? (kbin.social)
Got the idea of posting this when I watched this YouTube video that talks about reasons men love playing as girls....
Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)
Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days (www.eurogamer.net)
Prices soar in Argentina after Milei’s currency devaluation (english.elpais.com)
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
German prosecutors charge 27 over alleged far-right plot to topple government (www.theguardian.com)
French parliament backs proposal to ban vapes (www.theguardian.com)
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 (peertube.wtf)
Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Evernote is about to seriously limit its plan for free users (www.theverge.com)
Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues (www.theverge.com)
Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users (www.theverge.com)
Nothing Announces "iMessage on Android" (us.nothing.tech)
“Nothing Chats, powered by Sunbird, allows you to directly message other phone users from your Nothing phone via blue bubbles.”...
Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.
In case you’re out of the loop, the old Steam Deck had Philips screws that screwed into self-tapping plastic holes. This lead to occasional stripped threads and often stripped screwheads....
Bought my first Steam Deck after seeing the deep discounts on refurbs...what should i know as a first time Steam Deck/PC gamer?
As title says, once Valve announced the OLED deck, I saw the refurbished originals go on a deep discount and figured it was time to buy in. So I ordered a refurb 512GB and I’m so excited for it to arrive! Been in a gaming rut for a long time now and, having never been a PC gamer, I’m look forward to checking out a bunch of...
18+ Rockstar plans to announce Grand Theft Auto VI as early as this week and will release a trailer in December, sources tell Bloomberg News. (www.bloomberg.com)
Title and link taken from reddit. (Don’t kill me I don’t have a Reddit account anymore)...
WhatsApp head confirms ads in the messaging app are still in the works (www.theverge.com)
isn't it weird how newer games manage to look more realistic than older ones? - GST Channel [5:32] (www.youtube.com)
Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank (www.theverge.com)
'Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands. (www.nbcnews.com)
Oh the money I could make if I didn’t have morals. It turns out some people really are that dumb.
Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?
I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....