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The World Economic Forum is famous for saying people will own nothing by 2030 and be happy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...

If you want that you won't want this steam machine, HDMI 2.0 can do 4K60 HDR at 10-bit, but only with chroma subsampling (4:2:2 or 4:2:0) (not full 4:4:4).

The specs for this steam machine say HDMI 2.0, in the past I used a pulse8 HDMI CEC USB dongle with a computer which was also HDMI 2.0 iirc. I was using a 1080p projector with it b…

The government told me to.

This is the result of campaigning by an Australian group

What's your take on the government drone striking American citizens without any sort of trial?

It looks like the power button was moved to the bottom of the new Mac mini, maybe to make this experience worse.

Then why does Moraes need to censor people on Twitter? If the argument is ironclad, shouldn't it be able to defend itself from speech?

Really, a third food analogy? Is this satire?

I don't think you understand my argument as you are making a second food analogy (first coke, now steak). Please read my response to your first food analogy as it applies to both f…

There is always a free source with the answer somewhere. The trouble comes when the free sources are pushed far down in the results by legacy brands. When this happens, I will cont…

No, I don't want to read their content. I want to find an answer to my search query. If the search results are full of paywalled articles that claim to have text relevant to my que…

No I don't, I disable JavaScript and read what they served google in the first place. If I went to a public water fountain and found that someone had turned it into a coca cola dis…

I want to research a topic, so I do a google search about it. If 100% of the search results are readable to google, so that they are indexed, but unreadable to me, due to paywalls,…

NES Tetris has a weighted randomizer where it is less likely to get the same piece twice in a row (if the same piece is going to be served twice, the second is rerolled one time). …

Unbanking someone isn't the same as charging them a fine.

>The American people were misled by government claims about WMDs and handwavy connections between Iraq and 9/11. But that doesn't permit us to retroactively declare that "well, if …

How could this be unclear? They are both narratives. They both have characters. Why wouldn't a concept about characters from one map to the other? Do you think fanfic characters an…

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue

>I'm not sure anyone watched the three or so TV series about John Carmack and John Romero Which series were these? I'd love to watch them but can't find any information. From googl…

The title of this post is "Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See", the article is about China getting a say in what happens in the US.

I am not sure this is (still) correct - I am able to call into a .NET framework 4.8 library from .NET 7.

I've been covering my eyes with the palms of my hands for a few minutes when I start noticing eye strain coming on, it helps to some degree: https://seeing.org/techniques/palming.h…