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The Perplexity-powered ‘Truth Search AI’ tool appears to selectively source from conservative media.

Alternative take: it’s not as much selective as it is driven by licensing costs. Publishers want money for their data and conservatives found little value added compared to what they’d need to pay. Also, Truth Social user doesn’t want to see other sources and it’s a business (or business / grift) after all. It’s effectively the same but has a way different sound to it, doesn’t it?

The Verge is insufferable with how it became a Democratic Party newsletter lately. I still keep them in my RSS reader but have to apply increasing amount of filtering of political content because bias doesn’t even begin to describe it.

They were partially owned by Eurogamer since the beginning. Eurogamer was bought by IGN last year although DF ownership situation was slightly more complex than that. This is the first time DF is truly independent.

AdGuard and Wipr were the best up until now IMO but there are minor annoyances with both that bothered me for a long time. AdGuard doesn’t have a cookie popup blocker, at least in the free version. Wipr has this bug where archive.is/ph backups of Reuters articles display as a blank page. UBOL solves both and is 100% free.

I did feel they went too easy on some corpos, especially nvidia with series 50, but also amd and iirc they barely said anything about the Intel gen13/14 issues.

As someone who’s been following them for ages now, my understanding is that they say what needs to be said and move on when it comes to things that are beyond their control - personal opinions are for their weekly podcast. They could criticise pricing and customer hostile behaviour more but they seem to be very cautious about not contributing to unproductive negativity that’s so prevalent in video game commentary. Ultimately it’s up to consumers to vote with their wallets because talking about things doesn’t fix them. Blaming journalists for not speaking against things enough is not going to fix them either.

Current gen is a big improvement as to what’s expected and what’s delivered on 60FPS front. I really doubt 60FPS can be squeezed in GTA6 even from PS5 Pro given how it looks in trailers. I do hope that 40FPS performance modes become more common though, it’s way more achievable and still quite responsive.

Curious that Democrats don’t really distrust anything other than the most recognisable conservative outlets. Neither side seems to have a healthy view of media bias, especially with where WSJ is on the chart. I haven’t seen any major reporting of value coming from WSJ for ages now but they were genuinely fine before despite being ran by neoliberal vampires because it’s a bias that’s easy to correct for.

I must be living in some parallel dimension where unstable 30 FPS was the standard through nearly the entire previous console generation, even in non-open world games, which was still an upgrade from PS360 days. I wished I lived in your time continuum though.

I'm not sure about Windows specifically

That’s quite an important omission because we’re talking about Windows. Windows won’t run kernel or driver that’s not using expected certificates, what would be the point otherwise?

Can you really sign your own modified Windows kernel or drivers? I don’t think that’s how cryptography works.

Secure boot requires OS kernel to be digitally signed so that’s just another way to prevent tampering. It’s not like those or any other games will be doing anything other than checking if it’s on because there’s not that much else it can be used for. Secure boot is annoying as hell if you use anything other than Windows though.

They also go for autistic people because we love those pokémans. Can’t use children as an excuse to buy stuff but I’m the coolest uncle around.

Oh wow, haven’t seen that because of the adblocker. Fuck Eurogamer, that’s just illegal here. Meta has been trying to pull that repeatedly as well, they got in trouble with EU for that but I guess they feel more confident with Trump getting bribes from them now.