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  • Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable

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  • Your Pixel

    Limited to Pixel 8 and newer devices and no 4k yet.

    Oh, so your Pixel, but not my Pixel.

  • The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘You think we can actually come back from this?’

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  • You act like that shit isn't happening right now under Trump. I am pretty fucksure we are all well aware of the dangers.

    The point is not realizing if they didn't break some rules to stop him, Trump was gonna stomp all over every rule and has literally turned the DOJ into his own grievance chasing law firm.

    So yeah, it's literally happening right the fuck now so why should I give a shit about someone breaking the same rules to STOP this from becoming the norm. It sure as fuck is the norm now.

  • Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader

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  • Yanis Varoufuckass, former Greek finance minister and economist in residence at Valve studying digital markets leading up to the loot box explosion.

  • Disney/Pixar's "Hoppers" is now Certified Fresh with 96% on Rotten Tomatoes

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  • After the RT reviews of Melania came out it became impossible to argue that they aren't gamed to hell and back. No way to trust their reviews anymore. I would trust even Plex reviews over these.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • Absolutely, it was at the height of the "software as a service" phase and they were doing rolling updates for the Windows Insider program. For a hot minute they absolutely planned on it just being "Windows" from then on.

  • Do you still remember the layout of all the houses/apartments you've lived in? Are there any other places where you still have a "map" of in your head?

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  • Vaguely, for most of the places I've lived, but the memories aren't super clear, but I'm also probably between a 2 and a 3 on the aphantasia levels. So it not being super clear but a general idea of layout makes sense.

    Places like work are a lot less distinct, as are shared living spaces where I spent more time in my space and didn't go into other people's rooms. I worked in television for a long time, and I remember how the studios and control rooms for filming were generally laid out, I don't remember the organization for the rest of the building that I barely went into. I remember basically nothing at all about the first station I worked at, because they switched buildings and moved into a new space about a year after I started working there. I have a vague memory of the control room and studio, but it's a lot less clear than the others, which are also vague.

    I remember the layout of the park and pool that I worked at clearly, but that was one of my favorite jobs ever, so it tracks that I'd have a lot of memories of it. Also I worked alone so I had to cover the whole area instead of having areas that I wouldn't go into.

    I remember vaguely street layouts from places I've lived, but I usually have to go look at a map for a clearer picture in my mind how everything in the area was connected.

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    How to use an M3 Macbook air?

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  • Lucky, what I wouldn't give to get my hands on a Mac with an Apple silicon chip.

    I don't have any suggestions, just...

  • Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

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  • I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • For sure, it's a vast improvement, but there's still so much you can't do with it.

    Mostly because unlike Bash and DOS, which are CLIs that get GUIs slapped on top, PowerShell is a CLI slapped on top of a GUI.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • And they still haven't even finished making PowerShell anywhere near as functional as Bash or any other Linux shell environment. First version of PowerShell came out exactly 10 years after the first version of NT.

    I don't outright hate PowerShell but it's clearly a hacky afterthought after realizing Linux was eating their lunch in the server space via quick rollouts to thousands of computers at once through Bash scripting.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • Right, but that's just it, they're basically pulling another Vista if they release Windows 12 later this year.

    It’s not clear whether Windows 12 will welcome any non-NPU processors. More likely, PCs that don’t meet its system requirements will lose some functionality.

    As the article reasonably posits, it's way more likely that they'll just degrade the experience for people without NPUs, which in other words means decreased performance on older hardware, a la Vista on non-compliant hardware. Yes, Vista fucked up rollout by claiming that some hardware was Vista ready when it wasn't, but basically the same could happen here regarding lack of NPUs.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • They're already fucking this up with vibe-coding Windows 11, so if they seriously go all-in on this, Windows 12 will be a bigger disaster than fucking Windows Vista and Windows Millennium Edition combined.

    ...and frankly, I think they will. They've bet the farm on this AI shit, and they need to force it into everything to justify it's fucking existence even though Copilot is the most dogshit out of all these dogshit generative AI systems.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • Windows 10 arguably became passable for stability about 3 years after release... but you still had to cut out the advertising bloat, spyware, and all which undermined any gains of stability because that shit was just fucking annoying.

  • Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades

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  • Dude, they're still struggling with Windows 11 adoption because of the unreasonable requirements of a TPM 2.0 capable motherboard/CPU... and they are asking people to upgrade their CPUs again?

    They only started seeing real growth in Windows 11 numbers as of January of this year. Windows 11 finally hit 73% last month while Windows 10 is down to 27%. Linux continues to gain marketshare, and there's no telling if the reason that Win 11 is finally gaining marketshare is from people dumping Windows entirely for other options. Mac and Chromebook shares have been growing as well! It took Microsoft four and a half years from release to break 50% Win 11 adoption and they want to release Win 12 on year five while forcing more upgrades when half the people who got in just upgraded?

    This on top of trade wars, actual wars, and an AI arms race that is making buying PC parts obscenely overpriced... and they think people will fucking go for this?

    The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds. Even businesses won't want to upgrade this soon after many only just making upgrades to meet Windows 11 requirements just recently.... because businesses are also facing the same increased costs due to the above issues!

  • Rubio Admits That America Is Fighting Israel’s War

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  • On top of the threat of Epstein, Trump has spent a lot of time talking about whether he will get into heaven lately. Coupled with the news that military leaders are saying that the strikes are to help Trump usher in the Christian Armageddon end times, it's also reasonable to think that Netanyahu coaxed Trump into thinking if he "helped God" he might actually get into heaven despite the child rape and murder.

  • 'This is dementia': Trump sets off fresh concerns by mixing up his father's birthplace

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  • The media will keep acting like dementia claims are new and just a "maybe" until he's fucking 90 and unable to speak actual words and babbles like a newborn and they'll still be like "Is it dementia? Trump aides say no, everyone with a brain says yes. Tonight we'll have a roundtable with nine Trump aides and one person with a brain to discuss..."

  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • Well, like I said, I honestly think public transit doesn't make very much sense for remote areas. I think it makes far more sense to give people the types of transportation that work best for their use case, and in remote areas: that's cars.

  • Lots of blood these days.

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  • (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.

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  • Especially since public transit is usually locally funded (at least in the US), in areas like this the tax base doesn't exist to be able to functionally fund public transit. We would need to completely rethink and re-organize how public transit is funded and rolled out for this to functionally work in remote areas.

    Or, you know, we could continue lettings cars be a thing for remote populations kind of like how in some far northern territories people use snowmobiles to get around part of the year because there's simply too much snow to try to use another type of vehicle at all.

    I think the latter, having specific types of transportation still be a thing in places where they're needed, makes a lot more sense, honestly.

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    Plex Announcement: Important Notice of Security Incident

    forums.plex.tv /t/important-notice-of-security-incident/930523
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    Call Before You Dig

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    They Might Be Giants - Your Racist Friend

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    They Might Be Giants - Your Racist Friend

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    Primus - De Anza Jig

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    Primus - De Anza Jig

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    Flower Face - If I Beg You (Official Music Video)

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    Flower Face - If I Beg You (Official Music Video)

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    Squarepusher - Terminal Slam (Official Video)

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    Squarepusher - Terminal Slam (Official Video)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Get the cheese to sickbay!

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    Tom Waits - Crossroads

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    Tom Waits - Crossroads

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    Vampire Weekend - Pravda (Official Visualizer)

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    Vampire Weekend - Pravda (Official Visualizer)

  • Political Videos @lemmy.world
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    Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk, Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'

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    Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk, Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'

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    Local H - What Would You Have Me Do?

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    Local H - What Would You Have Me Do?

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    Randy Newman - Short People (Official Video)