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  1. Not defending China here, but they don't ban anything outright all the time. Their stance has mostly been, "Comply to our rules or GTFO", similar to what the US is doing here. It is the individual companies that choose not to do so. Edit: They do ban stuff when you stoke the ego of the CCP, but hey US isn't a free market champion either.
    8 points
  2. iFixit gives Microsoft's Surface Duo a poor repairability score

    This comment is so ignorant on so many levels that it is better to ignore such a comment was ever posted on the Internet than argue about it.
    7 points
  3. This is ######ing stupid, this is like saying every movie or tv show on netflix has to be listed. but its Apple so it makes sense
    7 points
  4. iFixit gives Microsoft's Surface Duo a poor repairability score

    The device has a poor score in general so no surprise here. Sorry, I'm bitter.
    5 points
  5. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    That's the problem right there. Brand loyalism is a useless construct that almost always ends up hurting the customer. You should buy based on the quality of the product itself and what it offers. I bought a PS4 two years ago, and the main reason wasn't sony but the fact that they released nice exclusives after their lackluster early titles. If I don't like PS5's exclusives, then no purchase from me. P.S. there are horror stories on the MS side too.
    4 points
  6. Destiny 2_xCloud Destiny 2_Stadia ?
    4 points
  7. Also, what's the App Store experience supposed to be if 2, 3, or more different cloud streaming services offer the same game? Is the same game going to be listed multiple times? This isn't a theoretical question: Destiny 2 is available on xCloud and Stadia today.
    4 points
  8. TV shows and movies aren’t interactive. They’re also not actively asking for microtransactions… Yes they are now, and there are also non-streaming purchasing options, just like micro-transactions BTW microtransactions need to be reigned in, and yet here is Apple screwing over partners and developers to push them even more.
    4 points
  9. Has anyone ever noticed that the only people who talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome are the Faux News suckers projecting their own derangement in support of this textbook malignant narcissistic, infamous charlatan, and proven pathological liar? They are also the kind of people who confuse truthful criticism of this utterly incompetent and despicable ignoramus as somehow "defending" the object of his childish tantrums of the day, rather than actually being informed on the topic and understanding why President Pretend is specifically targeting this one company, amongst all others, just to assuage the perceived slight to his impossibly fragile ego. As for me, I like it when the ignorant, gullible, and cowardly self-identify for all of us to see.
    4 points
  10. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    OK, bye. Have fun with your new M$ toybox, Judas. Brand loyalty for the sake of a brand is stupid. Judas....LOL.
    3 points
  11. Apple must clearly know how ridiculous that is. Makes me wonder if Apple are developing their own game streaming service and stalling for time until its ready, to then change the rules. Possibly to stop Google or Microsoft becoming the dominant game streaming platform on iOS before Apple's service has even launched. Either way by that logic Netflix should have an app for every series and movie they wish to stream.
    3 points
  12. Microsoft is just going to trash it anyway, like they did with Skype...
    3 points
  13. It's 2020 and these repair scores are dumb. You don't repair this stuff, you take it back and the supplier gives you a new one. The supplier then does whatever they do to get it refurbished or broken down into parts to recycle and reuse.
    3 points
  14. iFixit gives Microsoft's Surface Duo a poor repairability score

    Yeah, watchin a few vids, it seem to go from "hiccups" to "it gets worse..." I hope a lot of the issues get fixed out through updates at least. Hopefully they're already at work on improvements too on a v2.
    3 points
  15. Using the same logic Apple could also require to review every single website you access via browser.
    3 points
  16. Kena: Bridge of Spirits has been delayed

    Well, this game is my main reason for getting a PS5 so I guess I'll be delaying that purchase until they finish the game... Oh well!
    2 points
  17. Xbox Series S press briefing that never happened now leaked

    Well, there hasn't been much art in EA games for many years anyway.
    2 points
  18. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    As a loyal Sony customer for many years, after a disastrous experience with Sony customer support regarding an online purchase, I'll be buying an Xbox Series X. The guy effectively said - with the amount of stuff you've bought, there is no way you'll move away from the Sony platform; I'm not helping you. Wrong! Love it when a monopoly goes bad!
    2 points
  19. While the Chinese are ######, this fact is irrelevant to Trump's latest presidential temper tantrum. He's selectively applying rules he just yanked out of his fat ass because the users of TikTok epically trolled this idiot regarding the Tulsa rally and he can't go after thousands of teenagers. Trump specifically made it clear that his "order" doesn't affect all of the other computer related businesses these Chinese parent companies do in the USA, from video games (re: Riot, Activision/Blizzard, etc.) on down, so that makes it really obvious what his agenda really is here. Any judge is going to injunction this arbitrary nonsense until after the election. But instead of selling out on his whim, the Chinese could just shutter TikTok for a few months until Biden can clean this mess up too. I'm all for an adult examination of our relationship with China. But the idiot Trump isn't even capable of understanding the scope or nature of the problem. Better for the adults in the room to handle this next year.
    2 points
  20. Says a country, who bans pretty much every product from a companies residing in another country? Hypocrisy much ??
    2 points
  21. Apple revises App Store guidelines to allow game streaming apps, but with caveats

    No problem with what you just said except that all browsers on iOS are using WebKit so realistically if Safari didn't support something no competing browser could. You're ignoring some performance penalty that comes with using browser as a game interface though I doubt the performance would be substantially better in an app.
    2 points
  22. lol. At just a glance of my watch, I can see a litany of information... next calendar event, weather in the next 30 mins, set timers, toggle routines, log activity, etc... way easier than taking my phone out of my pocket, unlocking it, and launching the respective app to do whatever I could just tap immediately on my watch screen. The health implications of an Apple Watch are also beneficial... i.e high heart rate alert when not doing anything, EKGs, etc.... Gym is also great... can leave the phone in locker/home... and for things like working out, I love not having my phone flopping around my gym shorts or tied to my arm on a the treadmill and yet still can listen/control music.
    2 points
  23. Trump did the usual and spat his dummy out. Kids pranked his campaign. They did this through the Tick Tock app and it was a huge embarrassment for Trump. He was boasting of record 1 million (I think) numbers for the Tulsa rally. Shortly after that, Trump suddenly had a problem with Tick Tock. There is no way this was a coincidence. I bet Tick Tock wasn't even on his radar before that.
    1 point
  24. NVIDIA'S RTX 30xx Series (rumors, teases, etc)

    Updates for: -3080 NDA lift date/time -3070 release date. Nvidia
    1 point
  25. Looks like a good one, I like that it includes both M.2 and standard magnetic drive out of the box, it's nice to have a fast drive for certain things and expanded storage for others. Full arrow keys too. The sticker on the laptop says RTX and it's a 1660? I think you mean 2060 right as per your review?
    1 point
  26. SoftMaker FreeOffice 2018 Rev 1.0.4890

    Why not call it FreeOffice 2020?
    1 point
  27. This just shows that Apple isn't for any hardcore gamer. They want people to sub to their crappy arcade option. They are not for gamers. End.
    1 point
  28. It's weird that you can use PS4 remote play for all of this, switching games within the remote play app and not having a separate store listing for each of your games. Somehow you can't use xCloud for the same thing. You can use the remote play interface to purchase a game through the PSN store without a cut to Apple. You can subscribe to PSNow through the iOS remote play app and then stream PSNow to your iOS device. Somehow Apple thinks one is OK and the other is not?
    1 point
  29. iFixit gives Microsoft's Surface Duo a poor repairability score

    News flash: plenty of people have the money to burn on something like this. If that’s not you, that’s fine but it isn’t anything to bag people about. their money, their choice.
    1 point
  30. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    I'm sure the PS5 will be successful and Sony will recoup any hardware losses via subscriptions/software and hardware accessories very quickly, their user base is far too large for them to fail as long as they match the price of Series X.
    1 point
  31. Yeh I love my iPhone at this point...tried several times to switch back to Android and I just can’t do it. But this is definitely the last one I’ll ever own. Hopefully devs will start pulling their apps as a form of protest. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, snapchat etc.
    1 point
  32. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    I'm as anti-Sony as they come, but how exactly are they a monopoly?
    1 point
  33. An egotistical, petulant, ignorant, lying president VS. an authoritarian, human rights violating, historical revisionist, propagandist, censorship and indoctrination loving single-party regime.
    1 point
  34. iFixit gives Microsoft's Surface Duo a poor repairability score

    Isn't it interesting how corporations love "sustainability" and "going green", but then keep churning out this e-waste? Unless legislation forces them change, nothing will happen. EDIT: Something I forgot: Low repairability score also means the device is unlikely to get properly recycled. Since it's glued together, it's nearly impossible to disassemble, and it won't get broken down into its component parts by a recycler, and it will probably just go in a landfill as-is.
    1 point
  35. iFixit gives Microsoft's Surface Duo a poor repairability score

    I agree with you.. to an extent. That's definitely how the world works for many people. That said, it would be nice to have a world when things are more easily repairable; we consume and throw away so much.
    1 point
  36. Exactly. But what's worse than the teens trolling Trump.... is that the Trump campaign believed it. Trump has held hundreds of rallies... have they ever got a million requests for tickets? Ever? Hell no! But Trump's team actually went on TV and bragged about it... and got extra seating because of it. They believed that a million people were gonna fit in 60,000 seats. Pure lunacy!
    1 point
  37. No problem with what you just said except that all browsers on iOS are using WebKit so realistically if Safari didn't support something no competing browser could. You're ignoring some performance penalty that comes with using browser as a game interface though I doubt the performance would be substantially better in an app. WebKit is just the rendering engine, which supports streaming video. The controller is the input device, which could be used by the browser to send commands. If there's a performance penalty for that I'm not sure what it would be but they should try it. It's possible to play more complex games on the browser with good reaction time despite whatever limitations webkit has so something simpler like this should work well.
    1 point
  38. Tiktok users probably aren't voters anyways. neither are trump supporters. They just like trump because he hates what they hate. That doesn't even make any sense. Most trump supporters *are* trump supporters because they voted for him. Point is, if I have to be more clear for you, trump is a racist. And racists love the fact that he is a racist. Nothing beyond that matters. But again, nothing about him or his supporters make sense. Moreover, if President Obama was responsible for the deaths of 190,000 PLUS Americans and found out he LIED about its severity the entire time, not even democrats would support President Obama. I can promise you that. But trump supporters still support trump in spite of fact that he used the US military on Americans and said nothing when told another nation is targeting American soldiers for money. And that makes no sense.
    1 point
  39. A cheaper Apple Watch could be announced next week, to come in two sizes

    heavily disagree. i was once in the 'never apple' camp. but after the fall of WM10 i dipped my toe. Have had the watch for about a year and a half. super convenient.
    1 point
  40. Disagree. I just got one and I love it. Had an Android wear watch since the Moto 360. It's great when you get a text message or email. You can just look at the watch and see what it was.
    1 point
  41. I'm not saying it wasn't china before but I am saying if you actually watched Trump got drastically harder on TikTok after that rally incident, it was almost over night and even his own people complained about it on camera when asked why no one really went to that rally... not saying that was what happened to cause it to suddenly increase, just odd how it did happen right after In the end of june that happened, even the NY Times ran a story called "TikTok Teens Tank Trump Rally in Tulsa" just a week later Trump said he would probably ban it, a couple more weeks he said he definitely would ban it, before that it was just proposed... it's just odd timing... Precisely. Trump suckers can pretend this is actually about "Chiynah", but Trump isn't actively bashing any other Chinese companies these days, let alone selecting them for this ridiculous "you aren't allowed anymore" blackmail crapola. And his temper tantrum ban explicitly excludes all of the gaming companies and countless other investments of the parent companies which could be just as problematic if this was actually about spying concerns. The specific choice of TikTok is obviously because he got epically trolled in Tulsa by teens using the app and he can't go after the teenagers who actually did the trolling. It hurt President Malignant Narcissist in the feels and that's why he's throwing this latest childish temper tantrum. Now, why anyone here is ignorant, gullible, and cowardly enough to still be defending this utterly reprehensible pathological liar, textbook malignant narcissist, and infamous charlatan is not really the matter at hand.
    1 point
  42. Whoa hold up now. I thought Flight Sim 2020 was for Windows 10 only, because of DX12... or something. Now you're telling me it's a DX11 game, but is simply "banned" from running on Win 7 because MS hates people who didn't take them up on their free downgrade to Win 10? more like; mainstream support for Windows 7 has ended so why would Microsoft's own game development team be required to officially support it? It's as simple as that. Because the vast majority of current games do support it, and something like 30% of the world still runs it, because it's better than Windows 10 in many ways? Most new games do not support it anymore, especially games that are using engines designed around DX 11.x+ features that are impossible or only 'approximated' in software on Windows 7, instead of fully working in hardware. Guess what, It also doesn't run on Windows 3.1 or NT 4 or CPM. They don't support the frameworks or hardware technologies. Microsoft makes this look easy with compatibility of NT that spans generations. If this was OS X or PS4 or Linux or anything other than Windows, people wouldn't even consider demanding everything runs on old crap.
    1 point
  43. "This is such an ugly, poorly-designed device that is, for all intents and purposes, a solution in search of a problem. I'll laugh and shake my head at anyone I see carrying one of these." - Painfully_Candid, Aug 2020. You've made your dislike for this product clear, but what I don't get is your bullying like behaviour around anyone who likes it, or as you said above, actually has one. Just because a device doesn't fit your needs doesn't mean it's not useful for others, or even yourself. Your behaviour looks like you cannot think beyond yourself, and stuck in your ways of how you do things. If your current devices work for you, that's fine, but try a bit of imagination and try see why others may find a use.
    1 point
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  45. Hey Trump, you are not a king. So you can take your decrees and shove them. Tyrant. I hope one day he is rotting in a 24 hour solitary confinement cell in ADX Florence supermax prison along with other traitors.
    1 point
  46. NFL will virtually bring fans into stadiums via Microsoft Teams

    yay just what we need... more screens... just play in an empty stadium and be happy you are playing
    1 point
  47. Sony reveals the design of the PS5, PS5 Digital Edition, and more

    LOL, that was funny!
    1 point
  48. Can you write your name using symbols?

    |3 |2 I /-\ /V 13 12 1 4 17 - hard to read :) brian
    1 point
  49. 21 Years in Prison for an HIV Positive

    you kids realize AIDS doesn't equal "death sentence", right? a person living with AIDS can lead a normal life, under the proper care and medication. it's wrong he did what he did, but you'd be crazy if you thought he's the only one doing this kind of thing. many people know they have the syndrome, yet continue to have unprotected sex, and you don't see them incarcerated because of it.
    1 point
  50. 21 Years in Prison for an HIV Positive

    He should be killed and the corps burnt to avoid infecting inmates. Infact every criminal with HIV should be killed and burnt for that matter. And wtf is up with stupid women? Why do people still not understand the importance of protections?
    1 point