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Comment · 2 years ago
That‘s the fault of capitalism. Which the right supports even harder than the democratic party (which also completely supports it).
Comment · 2 years ago
I think people don't actively notice most of these things. But they sure as hell notice when you take them away after. A good example of this is ProMotion. People don't notice high refresh rate when they first get a Pro. but they do notice when you use it for a few weeks and then go back to 60hz. Same for a lot of other things.
Comment · 2 years ago
They use both. Especially for their cloud customers. They offer Cloud GPU as well as Cloud TPU as a service on Google Cloud.
Comment · 2 years ago
I‘ll take it. Even offline backups would be an improvement.

For people worried about having not consented to other peoples backup. They could implement ephemeral-only chats, or backup-excluded chats where both parties have to agree to changes.

Comment · 2 years ago
Nice. Now please finally give us iOS cloud backups before i break or loose my phone and years of conversations get evaporated.
Comment · 2 years ago
Or auto-reject.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Passkeys are not cross-vendor transferable!

They are when using a third party password manager like 1password or dashlane. At least in they are device agnostic. Haven‘t yet tried to export a passkey to another manager.

Comment · 3 years ago
> people will just change it back to Google in the settings

No they wouldn‘t. A lot of testing and (probably?) research has shown that a massive amount of regular normie users will never change any defaults of any kind. Many would probably not even notice what search engine they‘re using. Defaults are incredibly powerful. They would easily accept a marginally worse product.

Comment · 3 years ago
Would be cool once they would allow geforce now. Plug in phone to display, connect mouse/keyboard and play AAA games at 4K60+.
Comment · 3 years ago
For some of us usenet never died. Use cases might have changed though. Iykyk.
Comment · 3 years ago
A media player like nvidia shield or apple tv is just a lot more performant and gets updated for ages. TV firmware mostly gets abandoned when the next generation releases. The interface gets laggy and slow very quickly.

Also, some people have Plex/Kodi setups with a NAS. Not fun to try to play UHD Bluray remuxes on a TV directly.

Comment · 4 years ago
It‘s really a pity. Unfortunately the gaming market is so difficult to penetrate. It took MS decades and endless amounts of money. And it’s really shitty for cloud gaming prospects. Likely MS will take it all over the long term and there will be a lack of competition in the space.

Stadia was so far ahead technically. They just needed to invest 15 years and 100 billion in studios and a sub model. Gaming and cloud will be the future. And now they lost one them. I get that it’s really difficult to justify loss leaders for that long but you kind a have to in this case.

It’s funny that Google became so risk averse over the years while MS is just taking massive gambles and spending like they don’t have a care in the world. And MS seems to be doing the right things for them somehow.

Comment · 4 years ago
Exactly. Wealthy residents should at some point realize that culture and entertainment venues/options are (often) created by lower income residents. If that disappears you get soulless places which are dramatically less fun to live in. Not to mention the service industry workers, who also need to come from somewhere.
Comment · 4 years ago
On iOS you can use adguard or blokada and integrate it into Safari.
Comment · 4 years ago
I never had this feeling. Especially in the first one. You basically have the Balin‘s tomb scene and Amon Hen at the end. It never felt drawn out to me.

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