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    Ubisoft Will Prevent Third-Party Digital Stores from Selling "The Division 2" after Release

    First one was the same 30 minutes on repeat. Same guns, same enemies, same environment, same everything. It was amazing just how little variety and content was in that thing. I was ignoring the sequel even before all this BS.
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    Google Fiber Ends Service in Louisville

    Google and abandoning services go together, I'm extremely hesitant to try anything they come out with.
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    Here Is the Metro Exodus - Uncovered Trailer

    Epic has launched a more successful PR campaign against Steam, they were able to get some blood in the water where EA was not. Also, strictly from a public perception perspective(alliteration win!), Epic at the end of the day made its bones with Unreal with roots in PC Gaming and EA is of...
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    Here Is the Metro Exodus - Uncovered Trailer

    Also pretty much every game on my Steam Store page is an Indy game, so I don't know about the idea of them not getting visibility.
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    Here Is the Metro Exodus - Uncovered Trailer

    I understand that, though I wouldn't go as far as to call them a Monopoly(there is significantly more stores than Epic, many quoted in this thread). It's just irrelevant. It's 70/30 now, did it used to be more in line with Epic? Or was it 70/30 back when Steam was getting credit for sparking...
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    Here Is the Metro Exodus - Uncovered Trailer

    It's less having to install multiple clients and more having to manage multiple game libraries in disparate locations, all of which may have significant dollars invested in them. It's the downside of digital distribution I suppose. Origin, Steam, Epic, Microsoft, Battle.net. Each one has...
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    R.I.P. Billy "Wicked" Wilson - Dead at 33 :-(

    I very specifically remember how proud your Dad was of you, the light shined through all the posts he spoke of you. He was a great guy, a pioneer, a leader and unique person. All this is especially more apparent in hindsight, as the net has changed and I've matured. I was a little...
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    The Supply of Steam Link Hardware Is Almost Gone

    Also, Shield's great, I have one so I could play Atmos audio(no one else had an offering). I just consider it extremely expensive for what it does and wasn't pleased that I couldn't' find a cheaper alternative. Basically paying $150 above a Roku/Fire/Chrome/whatever for Atmos and ability to...
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    The Supply of Steam Link Hardware Is Almost Gone

    I bought one for $2.50 when it was on sale, very happy I got it and I use it all the time. Generally I'm playing with my wife, I'm in the decked out home theater and she's streaming off my office PC to our relatively decked out living room. I always wanted one, but couldn't justify the $50...
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    Treyarch Banned Battlefield V Designer from Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

    This. Obviously he's damned good, but for the most part he puts himself in a situation where he only needs to aim horizontally, he always snaps back and keeps the crosshair at head level. I used to read about people putting tape on their monitor to designate the height where the heads are at...
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    Baltimore to Pay Consultant $176,800 to Help Police Department Maintain Lotus Notes

    Answer to this question has been provided rather in depth in this thread. In short, Notes is more than just a messaging system and generally has a significant amount of custom code written for it, there is no clear cut product replacement and even once identified there is a significant...
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    Baltimore to Pay Consultant $176,800 to Help Police Department Maintain Lotus Notes

    Having run a professional services team for a consulting company, I can confidently say this is not correct. But there are a lot of factors. Hourly or fixed pricing, full time or contracting. Benefits. Your ability and willingness to negotiate, your skillset, customers budget, customers...
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    Baltimore to Pay Consultant $176,800 to Help Police Department Maintain Lotus Notes

    I'm sure people maintaining the software do not want to change ever, what job security. But if you have a 1 out of a 100 skillset while the 99 out of a 100 would get the job done. Sorry, keep your skills up to date and deal with the change. Not even getting into your apparent...
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    Baltimore to Pay Consultant $176,800 to Help Police Department Maintain Lotus Notes

    I didn't even pick up on it being over 2 years, unless this is part time, that's desktop support wages.
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    Baltimore to Pay Consultant $176,800 to Help Police Department Maintain Lotus Notes

    So 90 bucks an hour for archaic skills? I sell those for 250, sounds like a bargain. Yes, of course they should be planning the move off Lotus, but some people in the thread seem to be under the idea that this just means standing up a new empty solution. Instead of, you know, what is likely a...
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    Bethesda: The Elder Scrolls VI and Starfield Are “Gonna Take a While”

    Loved Fallout 4, but next to Witcher 3(and now likely Cyberpunk), it was clear the tech desperately needs a reboot. I'm ok waiting.
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    Amazon Web Services to Enter Networking Equipment Market

    Google has long since exited the aggressive cornering the market phase and entered protection mode. So maybe quieter, but no less dominant. They just want to protect the status quo. Amazon took over the distribution market, but there's very little profit there, it does however position them...
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    Amazon Web Services to Enter Networking Equipment Market

    As someone who sells networking equipment that competes with Cisco, I don't think they are shaking in their boots. People buy Cisco because they are infatuated with the brand or they are the safe choice that won't be questioned if something goes wrong. There's been cheaper alternatives that are...
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    Shenmue 3 PC Requirements Released, Needs 100GB of Space

    I'm actually surprised how slowly game storage requirements have risen the past few years. While 100gb is a lot relative to other games, I believe storage prices have been dropping significantly faster than the gaming requirements have been rising. Good shock number I suppose, but in reality...
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    Cyberpunk 2077 was Really Real this Year

    I didn't realize people were doubting this game. These guys made the Witcher series, including one of the best games ever made in Witcher 3. Not to mention the Blood and Wine DLC, which by itself would be a Game of the Year contender. Now these guys are working on a game set in a Cyberpunk...
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    "No-Log" VPN Turns Over Logs on Kiddie pr0nist

    PIA, tested a few times in court now, passed each time. Latest: https://www.vpncompare.co.uk/private-internet-access-no-user-logs-policy-tested/ Not bulletproof, but good enough for me to stay with them.
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    HuniePop and Other Adult Games Facing Removal From Steam Store

    Granted it's a fuzzy line, but I think people here are confusing graphic pornography with nudity or a little skin. This seems to be about selling a censored game and then releasing a patch to show some 15 year old with massive tits take a 20 inch dick. Not some softcore thing like Witcher or...
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    Cornering the market and then jacking prices is not some new strategy or recent development.
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=rcxsubs_details?ie=UTF8&node=15283820011 Plus another 5% from Amazon cc. Prime nets me 10% subscribe and save.
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    Guess I'm not sure of your point. Maybe it deserves a big "no shit"? Amazon, as a for profit company, did the math and knows they will make money. They lay out there what you get for $120 and by and large meet or exceed those expectations. You can then make the decision to pay $120, not pay...
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    I put all that stuff on subscriptions, once a m I put them all on subscribe and save and forget about them. Tweak the frequency every now.
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    And of course if you are judging prime based on your ability to buy a few big ticket tech items every year, yeah, don't use prime. Waiting more than 2 days is probably not that big of a deal to you and finding the absolute lowest price is. However if you get dog food, baby formula, diapers...
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    Unlike the cable company you can get all of Amazon's services and products from numerous competitors. Unlike the cable company, Amazon understands they need to provide value and customer satisfaction or they will lose customers altogether, not just for prime. So stop.
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    PSA: Amazon Raising Prime Annual Price to $119

    Since I've had my kid I've shifted over almost all my household and baby items to Amazon's subscription service, which gives 10% to 20% off all items which were already priced low. It saves me $200+ a month over going to the super market. Don't love the hike, but still nothing compared to the...
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    Most Facebook Users Should Assume Their Public Info Has Been Scraped

    I don't quite understand why all these recent Facebook stories are news to anyone. I honestly thought this was all common knowledge, guess not. Love them or hate them, this smells of a corporate smear campaign.
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    Amazon Will Stop Selling Nest Smart Home Devices

    Nest as hardware devices are great, but they don't play well outside the Nest ecosystem. I have them running with SmartThings with a custom device handler and app(protects and thermostats) . All intelligence for thermostats is handled 100% through webcore in smartthings and is completely...
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    PlayStation 5 Forecasted for 2020 Launch

    I assume it will be this. Titles are just marketing. If it made sense financially they would have called the PS Pro the PS5.
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    Go Big or Go Home Plex Server

    From everything I've read in this thread, Kodi is significantly more complex than Plex. Plex just works out of the box, hardest part is the remote access, but that's just some port forwarding on the firewall. You can of course run Plex on the server and Kodi client side. Simply being an added...
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    PUBG Adding New Cheater Reporting Feature

    The player base is just really shitty. It's no where near as bad as whiners would lead you to believe. Also some people are just more prone to falsely yell cheater, PUBG by its nature likely draws this out of people. It certainly can be frustrating playing a round for 20 minutes only to get one...
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    PUBG Adding New Cheater Reporting Feature

    I think it's pretty clear they are not going to investigate 1-off reports. If there's high trend of reports against a single player, that will be checked out. Like every other game with any type of reporting feature. Christ, can't please some people.
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    Why Hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop Happened Yet?

    So you truly can't see how an average end user would find a GUI more intuitive than searching for a conf file located in a gobbly gook meaningless path(again we aren't talking about Hard users) and modifying or entering additional lines with syntax that can only be gleaned by a Google search...
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    Why Hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop Happened Yet?

    Right, you tell someone in accounting that. Which is representative of the target demographic of this discussion. No one is saying Linux sucks, we are saying it sucks for non techies. How are you people really this dense?
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    Why Hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop Happened Yet?

    Now you are just flat out lying.
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    Why Hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop Happened Yet?

    Here I was thinking we were talking about mass adoption, not the users on this site. Shell script, lol. You are a parody of the problem.
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    Why Hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop Happened Yet?

    Every year I try the latest Linux distribution that is the new hotness for mainstream use. They all inevitably have you dropping to a command line to do simple shit and running through dependency chains. Linux is a good OS, those that know it and use it, great, good for you. I completely...
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