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by hbn 11mo ago
I'm happy we stumbled into in a state where you can buy a controller and plug it into your computer and it'll likely work hassle-free with basically all of your games. And I think that's what most people care about, more than
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by hbn 11mo ago
Until the 2010s, PC gaming was fairly niche in US/Canada. Growing up I didn't personally know anyone that gamed primarily on a PC. I feel like it was when Minecraft took off that people started investing in gaming PCs, kids were a
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by hbn 11mo ago
Every few years at WWDC they'll make some mention of some upcoming new gaming features. A couple years ago they showcased that their new iPhones could run the latest Resident Evil game. Hell, they brought out Kojima one year to announc
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by hbn 11mo ago
> Sony is not doing much better considering almost all of their former exclusives are on steam these days. I still can't wrap my head around why they decided to do this considering they were in a pretty killer position coming out of
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by hbn 11mo ago
Even before they muddied things with reusing the S and X names for completely different things, "Xbox One" was bad enough I worked at a pawn shop when that console generation kicked off. One day a guy called in and asked if he cou
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by hbn 1y ago
> The very first thing I saw from Apple that, IMO, Jobs would have vehemently stopped was the two-toned back on the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 was revealed a year after Jobs stepped down as CEO and his death shortly after. The design was alm
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by hbn 1y ago
GP did say it was just in reference to whether the winter will be warmer or colder than the last one, which is 50/50 In which case if they're 40% accurate, you can get 60% accuracy from them by assuming it'll be the opposite
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by hbn 1y ago
AI slop has tarnished the one remaining pure thing I do on the internet which is watch videos of cute animals. I've spotted a good amount in my Instagram feed lately which I only happened to notice it was fake at the last second. I&#x2
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by hbn 1y ago
I figured something like this didn't need to be stated but then Microsoft added Copilot to Notepad No this is not a joke. Notepad has a giant always-present Copilot button now
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by hbn 1y ago
> alt: "Diagram with two rectangles. The first is labelled 'Tagged PDF'. An arrow points to the second, labelled 'Accessibility'" Not trying to make any statement but I'd love to see how this level of a
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by hbn 1y ago
"If VisiCalc had been written for some other computer, you'd be interviewing somebody else right now!" - Steve Jobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqD602G90o
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by hbn 1y ago
I also remember Fuchsia being Google's new be-all-end-all OS within the company that was being taken very seriously and then nothing came of it Completely directionless
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by hbn 1y ago
> My money says this goes the way of the Pixel tablet. I need to do a Google search every time to recall their history with tablets. I remember the Nexus tablets which came out for like a 3 year streak. Then it was the Pixel C in 2015, t
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by hbn 1y ago
If you go to Help > ChaptGPT Atlas Help it'll link you to some docs[1] and under "Setting up the Atlas browser"[2] it opens with > Atlas is OpenAI’s Mac browser built on Chromium. If that counts for anything. [1] https
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by hbn 1y ago
I find browser history used to be pretty easy to search through and then Google got cute by making it into your "browsing journeys" or something and suddenly I couldn't find anything
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by hbn 1y ago
If the ads are just brought in as a stream of text from the same endpoint that's streaming you the response you're wanting, how can that be blocked in the browser anyway? Another local LLM extension that reads the output and deter
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by hbn 1y ago
After skimming the product page I'm still not sure what extra data exactly everyone is so confident is being gathered/used in a way that Google wouldn't already be doing in Chrome. As far as I can tell, most of these features
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by hbn 1y ago
I don't care about whether it's Chromium because of browser wars, I care about whether I can block ads.
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by hbn 1y ago
A few days late but the cheapest, base model iPhone, the 16e runs Apple Intelligence too (Unfortunately... only Apple Intelligence right now...)
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by hbn 1y ago
I know Postman has kinda gone to shit over the years but it's hilarious my local REST client that makes requests from my machine has AWS as a dependency . I found that out about Plex during an outage too.
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by hbn 1y ago
Your answer is right in the article, it shouldn't be that baffling. No one is campaigning to get rid of the beautiful modern 4k OLED displays and return to CRTs for everything. But for low resolution content (retro games and computers)
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by hbn 1y ago
I started playing Policenauts recently, and when I first booted the game I was straining my eyes trying to read the blocky pixelated text. I only recently started using RetroArch, but I did some digging and figured out how to enable a CRT f
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by hbn 1y ago
On the other hand, no one has figured out how to make money providing AI yet, and everyone's operating at a loss. At some point they're going to need to monetize, and the cost/convenience compared to alternatives may not be w
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by hbn 1y ago
You're worried about Safari in the browser space? It's the only browser that's holding back a near 100% monopoly from Google at the moment. If Apple gets forced to allow other browser engines on iOS, it's game over. Goog
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by hbn 1y ago
> Google requiring JS even for its own search engine This has been annoying me personally because sometimes I'll "bookmark" something I want to come back to like a movie or a video game by Googling it and leaving the tab o
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by hbn 1y ago
> If you previously stored your data on 10 drives and now you can store the same data on 5 drives, that reduces the probability of failure of the system as a whole, right? Well it also means in the case of failure you get 2x the spread o
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by hbn 1y ago
The only example of that I can remember was "HD sunglasses" but I don't recall that ever being a widespread fad. I only saw people ever joke about that. HD as far as I ever saw it used generally referred to 720p and soon afte
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by hbn 1y ago
What "HD craze" was there from 2015-2020?
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by hbn 1y ago
He created Apple, and then came back to save them from bankruptcy and made them profitable within months which none of their other CEOs leading up to his return could. The way he got the notoriously staunch record labels on board with their
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by hbn 1y ago
No desktop OS works as well with a touchscreen as iPad OS. It's a touch-first OS, for better and for worse. Anything else it was tacked onto a UI/UX made for a keyboard and mouse

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