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2y ago
As I said in my post below, Jobst went a step too far and inferred that he was responsible for somebodies death. That is a lot worse reputation than a cheater at video games and a serial lier.
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2y ago
Twin Galaxis purposely created a seperate 'legacy' leader board to put his scores on, so that they were able to give him back his scores as part of a settlement without actually reinstating his score on to the proper leaderboards.
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2y ago
He was known as a dick and a cheat before, Jobst went a step too far and inferred that he was responsible for somebodies death. That is a lot worse reputation than a cheater at video games and a serial lier.
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2y ago
Make sure to follow up with the much lesser known Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade It covers a lot of the same material but gives a much wider context about that whole retro gaming scene which is shown in King of Kong
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2y ago
He has posted so many cocky videos about how Billy has no chance of winning the lawsuit. Im really looking forward to his post court update video.
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2y ago
I asked the local appliance repair man which was the best brand for kitchen appliance reliability and he said Bosch.
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2y ago
So why are the smb shares on my linux file servers full of millions .ds_store files but zero thumbs.db files? I have to run automated scripts to remove them regularly, and try to run the commands on the macs to stop them writing ds_store fi
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2y ago
Considering how pushy Apple normally are when it comes to forcing their customers to use new things so they can obselete old ones, I am very surprised where Apple have drawn the line in supporting older systems.
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2y ago
> which is to stick this information in the executable This is neat, shame they went completely the other way with file metadata. It forces a hidden .ds_store file in every single folder a mac touches just to store info like access time.
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2y ago
> The big selling point of Google Chrome is the seamless integration with all the other Google services. People keep saying this, but everybody I have spoken to dont care about that. They are just used to pressing the coloured circle ico
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2y ago
No Im saying that a big company decided to piss off another big company by offering their main product for free, just because they had infinite money and could. Thats disruption not competition, and you can be sure if Chrome is taken away,
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2y ago
People only know the name and logo, they dont care whos behind it. 99% of users just click that little coloured circle to open 'the internet', they know nothing past that. They will continue to download Chrome for many years to co
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2y ago
> the web withers It really doesnt. The current pace of new web standards and browser features mean frameworks and code need to constantly be checking if each browser supports the new thing, and not releasing said feature until enough ve
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2y ago
A Browser with 65% share of the worlds web access can be leveraged to do a lot of things.
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2y ago
Microsoft have always made a point that they can never compete with Google on price of office apps, therefore they try to compete on service, support, and included bells and whistles. This is why when you buy an O365 license you basically g
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2y ago
Elon Musk
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2y ago
It doesnt need to be sustained at the level Google is pushing it. Development could slow down considerably and it wouldnt harm anything, in fact it would do just what the DoJ wants and make it a fairer playing field for other browsers to ca
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2y ago
Browser development doesnt need to go as fast as Google is pushing it. Its OK to slow down and not push new features and standards all the time. It doesnt need to be as expensive as Google is making it.
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2y ago
Xbox is now a cross platform brand, and arguably bigger on PC than in the console market.
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> Browsers won't suddenly flourish when Google cannot finance browsers anymore, they'll just turn to shit. Maybe what will happen is there will be a slowdown of new browser standards as Google wont have the muscle to push thing
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2y ago
99% of Windows users use a microsoft account these days, so this method is trivial for most.
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> It is still the case that some major sites don't work with Firefox either. This comment keeps popping up. Every time I ask the commenter to show me some sites that dont work with Firefox. Nobody has ever shown me one. I think peop
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2y ago
> “Buy this super cheap home automation product” Surely thats a risk with buying any of the cheap chinese IoT gadgets on amazon or alibaba and plugging them into your home network?
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2y ago
Thanks for the explanation
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As I understand it, standard emulation is not dynamic recompiling or jit, it is emulating and converting system calls in realtime. So the game calls a system function unique to the original platform, the emulator sees that call and makes a
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But you can still turn it off in the settings right? I dont think theres anywhere in google chrome that you can turn off tracking telemetry to google.
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2y ago
Can you show some examples where Apple have got bad press in the mainstream media?
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I dont agree with shittier hardware. The flagship phones of companies like Oppo and OnePlus are incredible, easily on par with the construction quality of the best iPhones, with often many more features. On the software side at least on And
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> When a new major version of macOS is released macOS developers seem obsessed with quickly releasing a new version of their apps that will only run on the newest operating system. This is encouraged by Apple to help with their planned o
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2y ago
Are those reports backed up in the automated backup tool which posts an encrypted backup to your icloud which only Apple can decrypt and view?
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