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It's a genre that keeps fascinating people who like that genre - what possibly twisted mind could do such horrible things? It's indeed an often taken and explored trope of fiction,…

Many instances of media are giving a spin on horrible historical events for the sake of entertainment. These are never meant to be "tasteful". Does Wolfenstein condone the holocaus…

How did you come to this conclusion? In Germany survey after survey shows some deep mistrust. Between 40%-60% depending on where and how the survey took place describe mainstream m…

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They are where form and contour matters, which you can't always deduce from a orthographic 3 Panel view. In my current case the form and thickness variation of nerves in Parkinson'…

This is very interesting, the amount of rendering complexity they pull from volume data is nothing short of impressive. Having never ventured beyond Orthogonal projections for pseu…

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Lovely news! This is my next CPU after many years of my trusty FX8350@4.8 GHz. Last time I waited for the second revision of the architecture to avoid the usual launch hurdles. Chr…

Ye, it is not as smooth in scrolling as GMaps, though more feature rich. If this bothers you, there is an app called Maps.Me. it is minimalistic, has smooth scrolling like Gmaps bu…

On Android there is OSMand and Openstreetmap in general. The only problem being that address search is not great and there is no context search. You can get an app called Addressto…

"or if they are a custom ROM user (such as with LineageOS 15.1) then they will need to enter their Android ID at this page in order to be white-listed." How about no? Thank God I l…

True, it's a bit of a fight to go full open source on android, but in recent months this got easier. Many apps that replace the whole google apps suite have been updated to be a gr…

Different legislations. The EU has no real power over those companies. Basically they said please be nice, please pay us 1B.

Yeah :/

In the wakes of Edward Snowden's revelations (where Merkel's phone was tapped, they lied to the public that it was not and the next day it was confirmed that it was indeed being ta…

Going lineage OS with F-Droid for your APP needs has been quite the positive experience for me. Everything has a nice FLOSS alternative, that is sometimes better than the Google-Ap…

Thx. You are not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.

There are great guides on how to lower power consumption by turning HDMI off, under clocking, even going as far as turning off the status LEDs. Killing off many of the autostarting…

heh, yeah

Barely a story, devoid of proper information. Microsoft has 125 employees world wide, they would never risk a PR nightmare by going too soft on a proper investigation. >108 complai…

Getting some real Doom 3 vibes here: "It is rumored that at some point the drilling rig began to vibrate unnaturally, as if someone were jerking for it from below. When the well re…

To be fair, the Source of the benchmarks is Intel itself, aka the one place you should not take the numbers from due to conflict of interest, no matter if they actually are accurat…

The screens used don't support variable refresh rate and double buffer everything. If you drop below 90fps you are getting a 45fps lock with Asynchronous Warp cheating Frames to re…

C++ programmer who switched from VS to Sublime here. That was the hardest part for me. Was a very hard learning curve with finding setting it all up and getting SublimeGDB and the …

Well, it IS definitely future proof though...