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    Why does MacOS cost less in support in businesses than Windows

    This is what sound a bit strange, that make sense, it is the other scenario of the all Macs shop deciding to go all windows and see the cost explode.... Reflex is that the all mac shop would not transition to windows if not for a special need (and said special need would probably explain the...
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    After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

    My guess, would be, no one mind that actual scenario and would never take active step (with a human involved against it). Having a system to take care of it officially is a pain (and getting it in writing with the publisher) that verify it is a legit gift down (like the complicated process of...
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    Microsoft set to announce DirectX DirectSR (Super Resolution) at GDC 2024

    That prediction was not far off If I understand correctly what they are trying to do... that part seem being the nice one: Game developers need not integrate vendor-specific SDKs or package vendor-specific libraries with their titles. When FSR-DLSS-Xess get an update every game get the latest...
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    After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

    Asset compression technology gained ground over time, install size versus installer size can differ a bit, Ac Valhalla (launch version) installed was from 63GB (Xbox one) to 77GB (PC-PS5) with the updated version, but the size of the installer was quite similar to Odyssey and Unity, apparently...
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    After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

    Maybe a subset could (via publisher that accepted for them to do so for game so old they are now "abandonware" and free of copyright...), no need for any will going on just a feature of the give all my can be transferred content to account X and the people that got it as a gift got the password...
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    After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

    Over the amount of time being talked about, if we are lucky it will be with the equivalent of DosBox now (which has not a bad success rate for popular title) Once you need directx-gpu access stuff (npu) it can get more complicated, but maybe by then playing in translation mode will be strong...
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    Best HDD for long term storage solution?

    If you use a pre-made for you NAS solution like Synology it will come with Raid option, they even have a Synology Hybrid RAID(SHR) that will do some best option for your number of disk type of setup (if you 2-3 drive will go for a 1 disk failure, if you 4 or more 2 disk failure)...
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    Samsung 980 SSD shown in BIOS but not Windows 10 (on MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING motherboard)

    you can try removing the GPU and use the Intel HD 630 igpu of your 7700, but usually the M2_1 would be the slot that is not affected by anything else, but if that the issue.... the pci->m2 adapter should be able to work fine.
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    Considering the power and cooling system, Nvidia themselves could have thought that and been wrong, to latest node process are a bit of magic-alchemy that simulator can be wrong about. Rumors are for more memory module (16 module instead of 12-512 bits, 32 GB) but quite dense configuration...
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    After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

    Historically transferring 65 years old physical game would have been harder with a lesser success rate than writing down an user name and password in your will, game on 50 years+ floppy disk ? Did parents collection of VHS-8 tracks-small tape have been used a lot by their descendant ? CD-DVD...
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    Another day, Another Rumor of Valve being Acquired

    When Windows 95 launched, was it special ? Win 95 could just run on recent powerful PC and just launched. This is dismissed, but Gates himself make an ads about it and Direct X was started significantly before the launch of Windows 95 because of the game running better on Dos than windows (or...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    If the card do scale poorly in the power band like lovelace (we imagine that was discoverd late), could be a good way for Nvidia to save money. Cooling get better each generation and would a 350watt 4090 have been much weaker ? With how much the take can be driven by efficacy in mind and...
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    Epic Games Store

    Epyc: 2 hours of play / less than 2 weeks of purchase return policy. Ubisoft: 2 hours of play / less than 2 weeks of purchase return policy. Xbox: 14 days, not played a lot of play time Rockstar: 2 hours of plays / less than 2 weeks Seem to be quite the standard, vendor have no obligation to...
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    After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

    that would work, but we can imagine child/grand child that would care about game would already have a steam account and now you are juggling with 2 of them (maybe it is easy to install all a library than pass to your own.... I never tried, maybe more on a issue for itunes and more streaming has...
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    Choosing the game of the year from 1981 - 2023 and beyond...

    1988, I was really young so many title was about watching my big brother and friend play complicated games (twitch ancestor), did not speak english either at the time. Manhunter New York Police quest 2 Pool of Radiance Hard to beat Mario Bros 3 in term of game of the year, but mine would maybe...
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    Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone - happens on both clean installs and reinstalls

    And considering it would depend on what you decide: 10-25... or 150GB or just 0GB because it is set to off, quite up to the users. If it is the mention that the device need to have at least 256GB of harddrive, no device can be called Copilot+ and have that can be sold to people with an...
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    Another day, Another Rumor of Valve being Acquired

    A ok yes that was the typo missing. (exactly like i said), you were not talking about Linux but some smaller subset... even then it is so popular in the workplace... not so sure about that. Android made it usable to billions, valve made it for a couple of millions, NAS device made it available...
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    Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone - happens on both clean installs and reinstalls

    what does this mean, copilot tend to be quite "cloudy" no ? Depending of what you are talking about it is just a webapp that launch. Do you mean recall ? That take as much place as you want (i.e. how many days back you want to keep) and obviously purely an option, Ubuntu recall would also take...
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    Samsung 980 SSD shown in BIOS but not Windows 10 (on MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING motherboard)

    You can always make some basic step (that maybe you already did) Made sure the disk is perfectly connected, shift the 1-2 slots, etc.... - Run an troubleshoot hardware and device. - Launch diskpart in your terminal (typing diskpart and pressing enter) and type list disk to see if it show up
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    Samsung 980 SSD shown in BIOS but not Windows 10 (on MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING motherboard)

    Many scenario remove sata 1 with both m.2 slot working at the same time, it seem like you are not trying to do one of them, but that would be a quick test, can you unplug the sata drive or put in in one the 6-4-2-3 always on slot ? It would be normally m.2 sata that would remove sata drive but...
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    The last game that gave you a lasting impression?

    Still remember the ending of Mafia or of the Gabriel Knight saga. I imagine many that played Papers Please still remember putting their kids drawing on their workplace wall or not. I think I still remember some Mortal Kombat move sequences (and for sure all character names), watching Dune 2...
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    Biology Teacher Quits due to Cellphone Addiction

    I would have assumed phone ban was for students, not staff. And in that example, they just need to tell the person that will walk with the child (or look the class while the teacher walk with the I imagine very young child) to come here, they do not need to tell out loud why.... details were...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    What it strange is that it kind of does. Often after getting an answer from those AI models, asking them if they are sure, is it right, etc... they will say, a no sorry that was a bad answer, here the actual answer. It is strange in that regard in the compute world, it will rarely give the same...
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    $2,500 RTX-5090 ( 60% faster than 4090 )

    It is a bit strange to plan to upgrade or not to me (but I imagine and I get that, that the hardware and the upgrading are made for it) depends of what the next-gen will be, depends what the game will be. Say that the 6000 gen launch in 2027 and game harder to run than Avatar at Ubnotanium...
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    Choosing the game of the year from 1981 - 2023 and beyond...

    It was probably more 16 shades of greens I just remember we said as a joke, really dark green, dark green, green and light green.
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    Another day, Another Rumor of Valve being Acquired

    What does any of this have to do with Steam ? If you mean by jumped off Xbox to go to the Windows PC that not that big of a lost and in good part because of steam success. Do you really think the most important thing to Linux would be remotely linked to gaming ? There is many billions of Linux...
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    Choosing the game of the year from 1981 - 2023 and beyond...

    I experienced such different game than looking videos of them now, 4 shade of green CGA monitor, pc speaker, etc.. This is more the memory of gaming on a PC in the 80s... thjat really not how I remember say test drive or King Quest1 It was more like this: , but all shade of greens. There...
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    Biology Teacher Quits due to Cellphone Addiction

    classroom and school always had a long list of banned items and actions, it would be strange that many teacher do not ban them in their class (at least to be on the student and not a box at the door if they want to keep an eye of them and not leave them in a locker to be stolen) outside some...
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    Another day, Another Rumor of Valve being Acquired

    There must be some typo-qualification missing here. Valve has probably been one of the really good thing for Microsoft dominance in the PC market... not sure they are a bigger nuisance than Apple-redhat-Canonical-amazon-google, etc... when a school-goverment-entreprise leave in part or fully of...
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    Disabled gaming

    Microsoft has a good array of well priced offer in that regard: https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/accessories/controllers/xbox-adaptive-controller https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NLc_2D7XO24 LTT trying them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwYTLiXI6zY If you are still have full usage of...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    yes that will always be a question for people outside the loop, but according to microsoft-openAI they currently still see nice improvement with larger compute at the moment: GPT focus has been vaslty on speed and cost, in practical turn, how much better it does at something if you let it...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    Chess and Go are closed with clear rules, how a protein will fold, how to make a gene editing protein or what the meteo will look like in 5 days at a gps location, I am not sure it counts has being a closed environment one of those is planet earth climate level of openness. They I imagine had a...
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    Another day, Another Rumor of Valve being Acquired

    Microsoft, have been acquisition genius, but for something like Steam they would be walking on such fragile eggs among all relevant regulator that they would need to play it extremely clean for a good amount of time. This sounds a 2 way a terrible strategy: - Make it certain for the acquisition...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    Google just used generative AI : https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07487-w https://www.pharmavoice.com/news/google-alphafold-3-drug-discovery-pharma-buzz/716496/ The “Nobel Prize-worthy invention” could...
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    Google walks back AI search results

    It can link to reddit page yes (at least bingGPT) in the example above google link to some quora answer which is quite a direct reddit competitor. One possible trick is asking a question about an recent event/discovery that must have happened after its training to see how good it can be a...
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    Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone - happens on both clean installs and reinstalls

    But wasn't only on fresh new install, not on update that it was predicted to happen ? Not on simple update ?
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    Google walks back AI search results

    I think google is more of an example of being forced too and scared a lot (they are taking a lot of time, Google is by a good amount the most advanced AI in the world with probably the most data, would they have been excited about this it would have launched it years ago but it is a direct...
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    US to Resume Tariffs on Graphics Cards Assembled in China

    Should start to call them US consumer taxes.
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    Nvidia ACE, generative AI dialogue in games

    The 2023 demo sound already quite bad and really slow versus the Gpt-4o. Gpt-4 since launch apparently got 12 times cheaper to run and 6x time faster for the request/first token response time.
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    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

    Or at least (even if we remove the workforce challenge of making them long) like short movie vs movie vs long tv series, the less short it is the less intense and artisticaly bold it need to be (like food savor, music and everything), 80 hours or highly depressive-charged imagery..... A long...
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