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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • except ads are blocked everywhere when you have an adblocker.

    and people have adblocking because ads are cancer

    Because as are everywhere.

    and they carry malware.

    and they are obnoxious, if not straight pornographic.

    Moderating the advertising would do far more for making adblock useless, than starting a petty dickslapping war they wont win.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • The fact that google also tracks and monetizes/exploits every single thing you do should be more than enough payment. Considering thats how they got to be where they are in the first place.

    Besides. If google moderated its fucking ads to begin with, people wouldnt have overwhelmingly adopted adblocking, since google adsense is like the biggest adserver on the internet.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • or do some back end trickery where they can buffer the video for longer than youtube allows, then selectively clip out the ad parts so you can continue to seemlessly watch.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • Have a sneaking suspicion that google is doing the classic spend 100 dollars to save 1 cent type scenario, cause all the money they've dumped into this anti-adblock shit? theres no way its less than what they've not made from adblockers.

    Especially when all this money could have been spent on improving their ad service so people don't have to view 2 hour ads, or malware laden bullshit, or just blatant pornographic advertising.

    but why spend money moderating their own service, when they can spend 10x the money trying to force their open septic tank of a service on everyone.

  • RFK Jr. wants to send people on antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
  • and i'm sure those farms will be loving, and full of support, and address peoples issues and help them over come them.

    and totally not be full of brutalization and forced labor in a desperate attempt to make up for a lack of migrant labor, that will be in the news weekly for new, tragic, and horrific deaths.

  • Man accused of stabbing transgender teen 18 times at Miami airport
  • I've never been in an airport that didnt have at least a food court, much less several branded restaurants, available in the general pre-security areas.

  • '"Walmartwifi" isn't compatible with iCloud Private Relay' | Store demands privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building
  • No, I just don't have any interest in continually slamming my dick in the sliding door of someone elses willful ignorance and stupidity.

  • '"Walmartwifi" isn't compatible with iCloud Private Relay' | Store demands privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building
  • No, cause you have an expectation of privacy in a shower. You don't have an expectation of privacy in public.

    No reasonable person has an expectation of privacy on a public wifi, hell most people wont even connect to a public wifi because they dont want to take the unnecessary risk. Especially with a public wifi provided by such stellar companies like Walmart.

    Which is why the entire argument is as stupid as getting angry at people looking at your junk when you're running around naked in public.

  • Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’
  • Hes just being a pissbaby because the pissbaby whose cock he's been sucking said mean things about EVs.

  • '"Walmartwifi" isn't compatible with iCloud Private Relay' | Store demands privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building
  • complaining about a lack of privacy on a public wifi node is like complaining that people are perverts for looking at your genitals when you run down the street naked.

  • NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
  • cant you just use a DP to HDMI adapter to get hdmi out?

  • NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
  • I mean, doesnt display port carry an hdmi signal? so its very easy and cheap to have a passive adaptor go from dp>hdmi?

  • Two lifelong Republicans leave the GOP in support of trans grandchild
  • Saddens me that people like you exist in society, coldly and sociopathicly indifferent to, if not actively complicit in, the suffering of their fellow humans until it personally affects you, and that you think its not only completely normal, but base human conduct.

    but why concern yourself with others when you can project at others and clutch pearls.

  • Ohio GOP Senator Says 'Civil War' Needed If Trump Loses.
  • Goddamn democrats and their violent rhetoric! Why cant we have reasonable, peaceful, level headed men like this?! /s

  • Body-cam video shows Illinois officer fatally shooting Black woman in face
  • its not consequences until hes convicted.

    until then its just vacation

  • Two lifelong Republicans leave the GOP in support of trans grandchild
  • poor idiot think they got me in a gotcha, when all they are doing is revealing that they don't give a fuck about horrible shit until it happens to them.

  • "Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest"

    www.pcgamer.com Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest

    "It became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together," says former lead quest designer Will Shen.

    Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest

    ""We were finally at a state in the project where we could play through the whole [game]. And it became very clear that we were missing the large final location that was going to tie the story together and have a satisfying action-filled payoff," Shen said. "I was both implementing the main quest and leading the quest design team, so I had absolutely no time. The entire quest design team was already overbooked.""

    The quest design team being overbooked and not having time certainly explains a lot.

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    The Creator of Suikoden died on Feb 6 due to complications from an ongoing illness.

    I am immeasurably bummed to hear this, and worse still that he passed with so little fanfare that I am only finding out now over 2 weeks later.

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    Anyone got a good list/collections of "essential"/Recommended mods for Cities Skylines 1?

    Essential as in pretty much everyone agrees are good and worth having, I know no mod is essential in the literal sense, and opinions will change whats essential to each individual.

    Looking for a bit of a list/collection cause otherwise I'll go down the rabbit hole and end up modding my game to much to be playable.. Which I wish was a joke, but that happened last time I got my itch on for city building, lol.

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    Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere?

    As far as I know, the big damage from Nuclear Weapons planetside is the massive blastwave that can pretty much scour the earth, with radiation and thermal damage bringing up the rear.

    But in space there is no atmosphere to create a huge concussive and scouring blast wave, which means a nuclear weapon would have to rely on its all-directional thermal and radiation to do damage.. but is that enough to actually be usful as a weapon in space, considering ships in space would be designed to handle radiation and extreme thermals due to the lack of any insulative atmosphere?

    I know a lot of this might be supposition based on imaginary future tech and assumptions made about materials science and starship creation, but surely at least some rough guess could be made with regards to a thernonuclear detonation without the focusing effects of an atmosphere?

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    Steam Link broken on linux? Anyone have experience?

    I set up Steam Link on my raspberry pi to try and do some couch gaming over the holiday.. but its no bueno. I am on a 5600x/6700xt with wayland on linux, and steam is up to date.

    I get a black screen with a mouse cursor.

    I try launching steam with the -pipewire command as i've read elsewhere, and I can see big picture mode, but its horribly slow.. But the weird thing is, its only steam/games thats slow. The mouse runs in real time without lag, and any sounds run in real time without lag or hiccup. But the video is like 1 frame per minute, so I can push left on the d-pad and have to sit and wait forever for the selection on the TV to move (even though its moved over immediately on the desktop).

    Games are the same issue. Game runs fine on the desktop, audio runs fine on the streamed TV, but the video is just like..slide show.

    I've tried running it at the lowest possible image quality settings. at low bandwidth, at high bandwidth, at the max the network test suggested, tried turning all the settings like hardware video encoding and stuff off and on. Nothing makes a difference.

    Is steam link just completely screwed or am I being an idiot and doing something wrong?

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    You get 3 wishes. No monkey paw twisting it to hurt you mechanic. What do you wish for?

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    Suikoden II's intro music continues to be one of the greats of video game music to this day.

    And it does such a magnificent, beautiful job of evoking and condensing the emotional roller coaster of the story down into just about 2 and a half minutes of music.

    Starts out low, drawn out, tense. Quickly becomes heavy, evoking a sense of dread and conflict before dumping you off the edge into the uncertanty and panic of conflict and war, building up to a great horror before mellowing out to give you a moments rest..before a massive tonal shift that becomes hopeful, uplifting, an anthem of brighter days ahead. Then it gets more complex, more deep, adding new instruments that represent the new recruits and the growing of the liberation army, before finishing off in a beautiful and powerful crescendo as a triumph over the dark trials earlier in the music.

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    Anyone else reconsidering buying the game with the performance issues now being revealed? Or the lack of Workshop support?

    A lot of people who have had hands on experience with the game thus far (certain modders, City Planner Plays, Biffa, etc) have made note of its terrible performance, even top of the line rigs with 1500 dollar video cards.

    Like, 15-20fps levels of performance on top tier cards.

    Granted, that's on high settings.. but its a freaking city building game, not a AAA hyper realism ray traced first person VR experience. It shouldn't require a nuclear power plant to play a city builder!

    And you shouldn't have to run the game on low settings just to get a playable framerate with a decent rig, modern rig.

    That, and the lack of workshop support? I mean, I get them wanting to host it themselves, but that just means it'll be alive only for as long as they want to host it, vs steam which the workshop will be there until valve goes out of business.. and I'd wager CO goes under long before steam does.

    I was excited for CS2.

    But these two bits have really pushed the game off the shelf for me into that "Well, Maybe I'll buy it in a year or 2 when its on sale for 5-10 bucks" territory.

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    Is the 6800 non XT worth the price increase over the 6700/6750xt?

    I'm currently running a rx580 (with a 5600x and 16gb of ram), and its finally starting to show its age and not be able to run at the settings i would prefer, at the frames I would like.

    This is a card I'll probably, barring its sudden demise, be sticking with for the next 5-6 years, So keep that in mind too. I know vram demand in games is on the rise too, even for 1080p, which is why I have not considered any 8gb cards like the 6600 or the 7600.

    I've narrowed my choices down to the 6700xt, 6750xt and rx6800 (non-xt). Which will be used almost entirely for 1080p gaming (maybe 1440p if my current monitor dies and I'm forced to replace it)

    6700xt is attractive simply because its the cheapest. 6800 is attractive cause its more powerful, which I would hope means I'd get a bit more extra time out of it.

    6750xt is kinda stuck in the middle.. -100ish bucks cheaper than the 6800, but also 70-90ish bucks more expensive than the 6700xt, and from all the reviews I've seen, it seems like it only averages around a 5-8fps boost over the 6700xt which doesn't exactly seem worth the investment?

    This is where I need the advice of those who are more experienced/knowledgeable than I am.

    Would the 6800 have enough horsepower to be viable long enough after the 6700xt/6750xt hit their limits to be worth the price jump, or Should I save 100 bucks and get the 6750? Or should I just go straight with the 6700xt and save almost 200 bucks?

    My gut is telling me 6700xt, but I'd like some outside, hands on experienced opinions, if you'd be so kind to give them, before I can quash the debate in my head.

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    The truth of life.

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    Outer Worlds Spacers Choice Edition: Horrible, Nausea inducing texture/model flickering. Please help?

    I am trying to get Outer Worlds: Spacers Choice edition working, but it has horrible texture flickering, regardless of the proton version of in game graphic settings.

    And I dont mean like, color strobing or anything, World Textures and NPCs both flicker rapidly in and out of existence, to the point you can see through them to whats behind them. I have never had an issue with flickering lights or anything before, but its so intense its even causing me nausea to look at it.

    I have tried many combinations of in game graphic settings from low to ultra, with no effect whatsoever.

    I have also tried several different versions of proton ( Experimental, 7.0-6, 8.0-2 and various versions of GE Proton from 7-20 to 8-6 ) None of which has altered the behavior in any way.

    I'm on Ubuntu 22.04, Using Wayland, and my MESA drivers are up to date. I have a RX580 and a 5600x CPU, with 16g of ram. Edit: I am also on kernal 6.3, not an older one.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thank you.

    edit

    Changed video cards from a rx480 to a 6700xt and it worked fine. game must have had some issue with Polaris.

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