nukul4r

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[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Religion is also the means. Are you an ancient Egyptian ruler, who is fed up with having to deal and align with all the temples? Just introduce monotheism, insist you are sent by god, and voila: almost unlimited power.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't there supposed to be sequel? I remember watching some kind of dev log videos ages ago.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

Since they already sell physical products directly on Steam (Steam Deck, Index, etc.) wouldn't it make sense to integrate it?

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry Hitler, no idea.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 188 points 1 year ago

The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought...

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

...and that's how you learn about Poe's Law.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

The best part is still too come, clicking through the 10 or so questions, where the preselected option is the always the bad one regarding privacy, and the "good" one is a compromise at best.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was posted three years ago. My guess is that the recent replies made it show up in "hot" again. I see a lot of old posts with new comments recently.

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://superuser.com/questions/908824/why-does-my-laptop-have-two-graphics-cards

It's not uncommon. The main use is running the powerful GPU only in games and such, while using the other one the rest of the time, to reduce power consumption, heat and noise.

See also Nvidia Optimus:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus

[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

For an excellent writeup how Google used this to kill XMPP read this (and an explanation why this is a real concern for Mastadon/Fediverse):

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

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