They own Hot Topic, Box Lunch and Torrid, and at least 2 or 3 more smaller companies.

There are completely different rules when you are that rich. Look at Trump, he bankrupted how many businesses and banks STILL lined up to loan him money. At the very top, your trading favors and power.

The thing that bothers me when people say “oh its unrealized gains, it’s not real money” is that they use those unrealized gains as collateral for loans of real money. They effectively ARE that rich.

I have come to realize this and have declined all the T&Cs except for like 3 that you just have to accept to make it function.

There was a time when they did try to listen. Since 11 was being imagined, it all was downhill. I used to work for them and all messaging changed once 11 was being worked on

Kind of like cpus and gpus perform radically different depending on what’s fed into it.

We say that about every tech capacity. No way anyone could ever use more than 1.44mb, oh man 2mb ram will be all I ever need etc.

When I read Paxton, I knew it wouldn’t be good for the people

Guess I’m either stocking up a couple extra 502 mice now, or I need to find a new mouse. I’m not looking forward to trying to find a new mouse, the 502 is perfect in my hand.

How to kill even more traffic to Reddit

Twice I have come across links to lemmy, definitely not the norm though.

Damn. First Asus did weird things, now MSI?

What are legit brands these days?

Honestly, Windows is my only gripe. I did choose knowing it because I wanted not only Steam access, but xbox cloud/gamepass and any other launcher. When using the built in Armory Crate software, which is their custom gaming software, it runs great, almost flawless. The software toggles for framerate limits, refresh rates etc is really well done.

Hardware wise, it’s light which I love, the screen is really solid and audio actually is impressive. I know fully cranked specs will drain the battery quite quick. So far though with stardew valley and Xbox cloud, I’ve been surprised at battery life, and haven’t felt a need for an external battery yet.

Plus I paid less than the cheapest Steam Deck despite me getting the 512gb version too.

Just bought a ROG Ally. It’s my first forced use of 11 and the device is great, however Windows has never been more of a pain in the ass.

I’d love to run just Linux, but I don’t want to hassle with dual boot for the couple of competitive shooters I do play.

It sucks because all the other games I play would run without a problem.

It’s the multi-player side that is still an issue though. The anticheat software is a pain.

I think AI has its place.

That place isn’t shoved down the throat of the consumer.

I was the mj of basketball at one job. Still got let go.