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tb_ , 2 months ago to news in Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard

Boeing is under increased public awareness, any issues get picked up and amplified by the news.

tb_ , 2 months ago to technology in Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch

Remember when they made fun of the charger being removed?

Me neither.

tb_ , 2 months ago to news in Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

And push their values to impressionable children while they’re at it.

tb_ , 2 months ago to steam in The Rogue Prince of Persia devs clarify that a Ubisoft Connect account will not be mandatory even after early access. Anybody believes that ubisoft won't do it?

Ah, I missed that.

tb_ , 2 months ago to technology in Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down

It may summarise Wikipedia articles in your search results, though you can turn that off.

tb_ , 2 months ago to steam in The Rogue Prince of Persia devs clarify that a Ubisoft Connect account will not be mandatory even after early access. Anybody believes that ubisoft won't do it?

Did Steam offer refunds to those who had already played Helldivers? I don’t believe so.

They only offered refunds to pre orders.

tb_ , 2 months ago to world in Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory

The Soviet Union was – claimed to be – communist. That is not the case for Russia.

Much like China now has incorporated many capitalist systems.

tb_ , 2 months ago to technology in Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option

I made an autohotkey ctrl+shift+v script, no need to worry about which apps do and don’t support it.

tb_ , 2 months ago to technology in World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht Embodies Eco-Conscious Luxury

Yeah… Germany has so much renewable energy they’re bringing coal plants back online.

Good guy Norway on the renewables though. Definitely not one of the largest crude oil exporters either.

That said, I do like the idea of converting excess energy to hydrogen. If only there was an energy source that wouldn’t cause global warming, would be a great base load next to more fickle renewables, and which could be diverted to generating hydrogen when demand for energy is low.

tb_ , 2 months ago to android in OnePlus 12R update just now received.

Even so it might get you a few more years out of your phone

tb_ , 2 months ago to games in The Witcher 3's REDkit mod tools launch May 21st, enabling a new era of ambitious overhauls

I keep avoiding RPS links for that reason.

Oh, you want to withdraw consent? Have fun disabling them separately for each individual partner.

tb_ , 2 months ago to technology in Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website

This video by TechAltar is great and goes into why Bing/Google are often the backend for alternative search engines, such as DDG (Bing), Ecosia (Bing), and Startpage (Google).

tb_ , 2 months ago to gaming in 'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players

The TPM is a feature of the motherboard, not the CPU (generally).

You can even get separate TPM modules to plug into your MoBo, if I’m not mistaken.

tb_ , 2 months ago to technology in Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2

Pellegrino is owned by Nestlé :c

tb_ , 2 months ago to world in Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate

Perhaps, just maybe, those two things are said by different people.