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PC graphics cards to get more expensive again "thanks" to AI boom
  • The AI boom started last year, it's the reason prices are already high. So I'm skeptical that they are going to get higher, seeing as this whole AI thing feels like a bubble.

  • Barbenheimer Memes Provoke Angry Backlash in Japan
  • Some of the backlash cited in the article seems out of touch, this in particular:

    User @akishmz tweeted: “Summer to remember that to the Barbie film team and to Hollywood more than 200,000 death by the end of 1945 (and half a million so far) by two atrocious bombs are something they feel comfortable joking about to promote their precious summer blockbuster.”

    I must have missed the part where these memes are making jokes about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • Windows 11 is getting multiple monitor refresh rate improvements
  • Have they? VRR support in Linux is still a total crapshoot in my experience. VRR doesn't work at all with multiple displays in X.

  • Ubisoft will delete inactive accounts — Digital Media is temporary and we should push for physical disks and copies once again.
  • How is this false story still getting pushed to the top?

    We literally just had a thread about it earlier this week. It was debunked.

    The same story came up years ago, and it was debunked then too.

    People will just believe anything these days.

  • British people increasingly recognise Brexit is a mistake – so why the silence?
  • So what exactly should a community titled /c/brexit talk about if not brexit?

  • NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁
  • None of these problems are really dealbreakers for a consumer-oriented file system in 2023. Not even ext4 supports CoW. Now that everyone boots off an SSD, things like file fragmentation no longer matter, and most of NTFS' continued slowness has more to do with Windows itself than the actual file system.

    ReFS is Microsoft's new file system meant for more advanced use cases. It supports many but not all of these advanced features. Starting with Windows 11, you can actually boot off a ReFS drive, though I'm not sure that is a recommended configuration.

  • Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws prides itself on not being an 'unfinishable' 300-hour RPG
  • The only game I've played that actually has 100+ hours of quality content is Persona 5.

    Every other single player game trying to give me more than ~30 hours of stuff to do ended up being a chore.

    I think part of it is that there is an ideal time commitment for story driven games and it is between 5 and 30 hours. It's similar for movies, where the ideal range is 90 t o150 minutes. There can be exceptions, made by particularly skilled people, but just because I enjoy the 4-hour cut of Return of the King does not mean I want the next Marvel or DC movie to be that long.

  • Whistleblower says U.S. recovered 'non-human' biological material | UFO Hearing
  • They're just people looking for attention.

  • Barbenheimer is cinema’s most seismic moment in a decade
  • Some random personal favorites of the last 10 years off the top of my head, in no particular order

    • Everything Everywhere All at Once (I know, I already mentioned this one, but it really liked it)
    • John Wick
    • Zootopia
    • Midsommar
    • The Grand Budapest Hotel
    • Mad Max: Fury Road
    • Arrival
    • Blade Runner 2049
    • Parasite
    • Isle of Dogs
    • Your Name
    • The Green Knight
    • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Struts to Record $26.1M Monday for Warner Bros.
  • By these rules, Gone with the Wind likely wins.

    But it's still not a good comparison because of other factors. First off, movie theaters didn't used to compete with television, cable, video games, DVDs, streaming, or social media for your free time. The industry was also a lot smaller, meaning there were fewer high profile movies dividing up that whole pie. The lack of practical home video also meant popular films like Gone with the Wind would get frequently re-issued and continue racking up ticket sales.

    It is essentially impossible to accurately compare the popularity of any two movies separated by more than a decade or two.

  • Barbenheimer is cinema’s most seismic moment in a decade
  • Not hard at all. I can already tell you I liked Everything Everywhere All at Once (this year’s BP winner) way more than Dances with Wolves.

    1991 is a uniquely weak year for the Academy though. You might have had a stronger argument with 1994 or 1995, but I can still think of plenty of movies released in the last decade that I would rank up there with Schindler's List or Pulp Fiction.

  • T.J. Miller, Jon Heder to Star in Web3 Animated Comedy Inspired by Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
  • Not to defend the scumbag or this scammy “web3” nonsense, but working for studios not part of the AMPTP during a strike does not necessarily make someone a scab. If the studio in question has their own contract with SAG then it’s 100% kosher.

    This is why a lot of “indie” productions from studios like A24 are going forward while the rest of Hollywood is stuck doing nothing.

  • Bungie Pulling Back on Destiny 2 Reddit Responses Until 'Everyone Can Feel Safe Again'
  • I don’t really like Destiny as a game, but the way Bungie has been handling their community is top notch. I love their low tolerance for bullshit. Other developers should be taking notes.

  • Help
  • It's like Dvorak. You can be ~5% faster once you get over the turly enormous learning curve. The problem is, for most people, that 5% does not justify the huge initial investment.

  • Help
  • Assuming you can find one that actually does what you want

  • 100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
  • It will have all the same deficiencies your eyes do. If you can't see through a wall, then neither can "Li-Fi".

  • A new app to rule them all!
  • Memmy is an iOS app so no Google needed.

  • A fate worse than death
  • The entire design philosophy of GNOME drives me up a wall. Who in their right mind decided we don't need minimize buttons on our windows?

  • I can't post hardly anything on Reddit anyway
  • The whole reason for this big migration is Reddit taking away mod tools. If you think Lemmy isn’t going to support things like this then you are in for a bit of a surprise.

  • Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry?
  • I don’t like having cavities.

    I don’t want to lose most of my teeth and have to wear dentures in my 60s.

    The cleaning I get every 6 months is able to remove crap that regular brushing and flossing doesn’t.