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FabledAepitaph ,

There is still much for you to discover lol

FabledAepitaph ,

I've had two ASUS gaming laptops, and both of them began having issues within a year, and the second didnt last more than a couple years total.

The first laptop was one of their enormous ROG 17 inch gaming laptops that looked like it had jet engine exhaust. The hard drive died and the power port broke within the first year, and I had to send it in under warranty. The power brick also died, and I ended up having to replace it myself around the 3 year mark.

Thinking it was a fluke, I ended up buying a smaller, more portable ASUS gaming laptop next which had more of a standard form factor. Maybe six or eight months later, that one suffered some issue that required being sent in for service as well. It began experiencing the same issue about four months later, I'd sent it in for repair a second time for the same issue, and they apparently fixed it.

I got to use that laptop for maybe 1.5 years total before it was completely unusable, in spite of two RMAs.

My current gaming laptop is an HP Omen 17 from 2017, and has been completely stable and reliable up to this day. I love to hate on HP because of their dumb printers, but I'm pretty impressed. I'll probably end up buying another one, because I will literally never own another ASUS product ever in my life, and there are only so many manufacturers out there who I'd consider for a laptop purchase.

FabledAepitaph ,

I always ask myself who will buy the products these companies produce if all the workers have been fired. Maybe inflation is just the natural ramp up to McDonald's charging 5,000 dollars for automated chicken nuggets when there are only billionaire left with money lol.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

FabledAepitaph ,

Time to go back to books, fellas. This party is done.

FabledAepitaph ,

Same

X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)

X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

FabledAepitaph ,

I used to joke that Republicans were Russian sycophants, bought and paid for by Putin himself to destroy America. But it's not actually, and maybe never was, a joke.

Yeesh

FabledAepitaph ,

If you're talking about the latest gen sports car, then maybe. But if you're looking at an older car thats had a lot of work done to it, you're just being ignorant of the amount of effort, skill, and commitment it can take to keep something running. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean there isn't value.

FabledAepitaph ,

I can get behind this if everything is processed locally. Let my computer do the computing and stop harvesting my data, internet

FabledAepitaph ,

797 partners? Might need to get tested haha

FabledAepitaph ,

Hilariously, Texas is all about giving people the freedom to freeze to death with their substandard electrical service in the name of "freedom from government oppression", but they can't just let trans people decide to transition because it could be a mistake and they might regret it? All while supporting child labor where kids could get crushed or heinously injured in massive industrial equipments? Amazing.

FabledAepitaph ,

Had to ask myself what kind of bars they even had on Dubai. Apparently they don't take the alcohol thing as seriously as I thought.

FabledAepitaph ,

The FBI has the power to arrest you tomorrow for all sorts of reasons. The Chinese government has the power to do what to you, again? Sneak in some propaganda in the ad feed? I'll take the propaganda lol

FabledAepitaph ,

Jesus Christ. Can't you just read between the lines for two minutes? Every one of us has some government agency that reigns supreme in our respective geographic areas. Just fill in the blank, please.

What does a nuclear power plant have to do with tracking my Google searches? You think TIkTok on someone's phone is going to allow them to disable power plants? That's much more of a stretch than what I was getting at. The FBI, and probably whoever you would deal with, are specifically buying personal data for this exact purpose--to build profiles on people and to use it against us for whatever purpose they desire.

FabledAepitaph ,

Another way to look at this, is that we were all shoved in to a society with a financial system that basically requires the expenditure of money to get along. If I'm not entitled to the media, why are they entitled to my money? At the end of the day, none of us asked to be here. Since the dawn of time, people have been taking what they've wanted and what they've needed--be thankful we're in a phase of society that were taking pirated media and complaining about pricing, instead of taking eachothers lives for survival (which isn't even universally true yet lol). I would also argue, but not with any conviction, that we need to consume at least -some- of this media to be able to participate maximally in society. Everyone loves movies and media, and if you're the one person not consuming it, you're an outcast. Outcasts proverbially die alone away from the warmth of the communal fire. It's just human nature, tbh

FabledAepitaph ,

Yeah. The risk of piracy is just the cost of doing business, imo. If you want less piracy, all they have to do is improve price and ease of access. But they've already run the numbers and determined that the current price point is where they will see maximum profit. It's like they've approved the "theft" themselves haha

FabledAepitaph ,

This person is proud to pay extra money for no reason lmao

FabledAepitaph ,

Seems like you have really strong opinions on something you want people to think you don't actually care about. Also, I'm probably way hotter and have banged way more babes than you ever have, so you can keep your neckbeard comments, bud. :3

FabledAepitaph ,

Agreed. China isn't going to put together a bogus profile based on poorly researched correlations and throw me on a list with no ability to defend or appeal the decision. And if they do--who cares? I'm never going to China.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

FabledAepitaph ,

The last game I bought was Outer Wilds in 2022, on sale, for like ten bucks. Maybe I bought Firewatch in 2023 as a rebound, but I don't remember. After that, I decided to finally play through the MCC for most of 2023, which I'd bought years earlier for like 50 bucks, maybe. And how much would I have to have paid to keep acces to these games for so long with a subscription model? Well, just to keep acces with Ubusoft would have cost me nearly 300 dollars since late 2022, for less than 80 dollars worth of games. Of course they want us to have subscriptions.

FabledAepitaph ,

What if kink shaming is part of the kink

FabledAepitaph ,

I would be cool with chill people setting up tents for a day or two or at night or whatever. But who's going to be picking the used heroin needles up out of the grass and wrangling the drug dealers and gang members when they start showing up? The reason peole don't want tent villages is this, not because they simply hate the "unhoused".

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