Apparently (one of?) the official Nvidia seller(s) in Europe gave put special links to selected people so they could order their cards ~1h before the official launch. Some scalpers got their hands on that link and simply bought all of them. Kinda insane to Honor those sales tbh if that story is true.
I have ally information from this yt short, didn’t verify because I don’t care enough about this situation: https://youtube.com/shorts/4HmKACYFdw8
Hate the game, not the player.
Why not both? Of course it’s the companies not giving a shit about who buys their stuff and those idiots who actually buy cards for 3x retail prices who enable this kind of behaviour. However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. I think it’s highly unethical to exploit regular people like this. Of course, if you buy the card you’re a moron and part of the problem but that doesn’t mean I don’t think scalpers are scum.
I think companies should do more to stop scalpers from buying too many high value items because…
Apple sells a piece of cloth for 29,99 and people wait in line.
…people are idiots and need to be protected from themselves.
Realistically though it’s not a problem that is going to go away anytime soon. Companies aren’t going to do shit because why would they and there’s always going to be sacks of human garbage who
Exploit the weaker
From what I’ve heard scalpers bought basically the entire European stock of 5090s because they got early access to the sale from nvidia. Fun times we live in.
Cool motive, still nepotism
Ads etched into glasses. Maybe tiny screens if that’s possible.
I looked into it and tried it myself just today. For the most part it’s fine but you’ll have to be prepared to do some tinkering here and there. Most of the games I wanted to play are listed on proton as works but with some issues.
I set up popOS yesterday and tried to install satisfactory today via steam but it wouldn’t let me and when I filtered my games lost for Linux it shrank down to a very small list. Iirc it was listed on proton as gold or even platinum so there must be a way to get satisfactory to run but I honestly couldn’t be asked today so I set up dual boot and went back to windows for now.
I think that’s the way to got for a newbie. Set up dual boot and whenever you have the time & patience to try to get something to work on Linux go for it but when you just want to relax and play some games (or multiplayer) boot up windows.
I think Linux for everyday use is just fine even though popOS could use some UX designers.
Even just going off the article you posted “helped” is a strong word in regards to distributing malware through their framework. It appears that their framework had simply been hijacked by hackers to distribute malware and they had no involvement in that.
I’m not saying they’re trustworthy but the situation isn’t nearly as bad as this biased summary suggests.
The same website has rated express VPN as one of the most trustworthy vpns in their most recent review. Based on the high amount of independent audits the company is performing.
https://restoreprivacy.com/vpn/reviews/expressvpn/
Definitely do more research. I’m going to look into it myself but I’m paying until June anyways and I don’t think an immediate switch is necessary.
Again? Hasn’t changed for me since they started doing that in November. YouTube is quite annoying to use for me these days, the site takes forever to load and only starts loading when I switch to the tab. Best thing to do is adding everything to a queue, videos load normally then for some reason. As a result I’m using YouTube less though, so not necessarily a bad thing.
I won’t trust a tech company with my most intimate secrets. Human therapists won’t get fully replaced by ai
Oh my god I should do that. Just hire some actors and rent an Airbnb.
There is still a difference between basically nothing and literally nothing. Spotify is better than pirating and CDs/vinyl/digital directly from them is better than Spotify.
You’re not hurting the companies, you’re hurting the artists. I’m not saying don’t pirate at all, especially from artists like Taylor swift. But maybe if you’re listening to a small artist, especially if they’re independent, consider buying their cd.
It’s a free account, what’d be stopping you from just creating a new one?
Well, there’s your problem
The company said that it is working on zero-knowledge architecture so the master password users use to unlock their Cloaked profile never hits the startup’s servers.!
Lol. That should be there on launch. Thanks but no thanks. I’m not trusting a company with all my passwords and other secrets. Especially when it’s based in the us where companies generally don’t give a shit about privacy.
Yeah, for me it always helped to think about what I was actually doing with my phone and I quickly realized that I really have not mich use for the most expensive phones. A camera like I’d get on the new iPhone for example would be nice but that alone isn’t worth paying almost 1k more. And aside from camera I don’t think there’s much difference for the average user when you compare a high end and a low to mid-range phone.
Bringing a spare is a good point. Less of a hassle than a power bank (although still not ideal). Battery life is pretty much the only thing I care about aside from longevity. Fairphone has longevity covered, maybe the review I read just made the battery life seem mich worse than it actually is. I’ll have to look into it some more, thanks
Lately I’ve really been enjoying the bazaar. Not even sure how to describe that game. You choose one of 3 heroes and then spend your turns buying items for your board to defeat your opponents in autobattler style fights. The goal is to get to 10 Wins. It’s still in closed beta but the gameplay is in already pretty polished.
https://www.playthebazaar.com/