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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
My favorite anecdote about Microsoft's Xbox strategy is that the original Xbox was a net loss of about $4 billion, and they considered that to be a huge success because that's just how much money it takes to muscle your way into a
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
Slightly offtopic, but I feel like America's lack of a true public broadcaster like the BBC in the UK, ABC in Australia, CBC in Canada etc. is a major contributor to America's polarization issues. NPR is okay but it doesn't f
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
I remember when Stadia was going to light the gaming world on fire the way Gmail did for email.. The product its self was good and they were maybe the only company in the world besides Microsoft with the resources to deliver it, but they bu
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
I would 100% use Bing more if they offered a "minimal" or "low bandwidth" mode that cuts out all of the pictures, news, weather, etc. and just takes me to the results.
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
The rumour I keep hearing is that it's like the Hunger Games inside Google at the moment. Total chaos and infighting at all levels, investors are freaking out over AI and Bard's middling performance compared to OpenAI and blood is
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
Personally at my work I've been trying to navigate migrating our CentOS 7 production servers to EL8 (Looking at Rocky Linux) and it's been a bloody nightmare thanks to RedHat prematurely killing CentOS8. It seems like there isn&#x
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Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives(npr.org)
140 points by o8o8o8o 4y ago|115 comments
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
There is something charming about the amateurish feel of their livestream, like the money I've given them is going to real people doing real work and not into a bloated marketing budget.
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by o8o8o8o 4y ago
Wow that's the fastest I've ever seen a site go down. Site was vaporized as soon as the announcement was made. I'm still happy with my 11th gen framework. Anybody who's looking into upgrading please consider re-using you