Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps
1d 11h ago in linux@lemmy.ml from www.tomshardware.comIt's like that era of putting pink ribbons on everything for breast cancer that also signaled you were a supporter of women. Commercialized activism. Be real. This will sell very little. We'll get some news articles about how it's trending with Gen z that are rejecting technology and always online culture. It'll actually only be a small amount of Gen z but you know blogspam going to blogspam.
It's a crappy product. We need a Linux phone that would actually be a halo product for people to not feel like they're ripping themselves off to get away from Google and Apple
Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off.
2d 6h ago in games from www.bloomberg.comShould have just gone the route of abandoning the hardware business and being a video game software company. Spin off from Microsoft
Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games
2d 7h ago in games from www.eurogamer.netEA to my knowledge just has shitty business practices. Ubisoft at a minimum had a culture of sexual harrassers, possibly assaulters. Blizzard certainly had rapists. Ubisoft also with the pioneering always online DRM for single player games getting back to the games portion of their evils
How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
2d 14h ago in technology from www.theguardian.comIt's real hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. And all this outreach to children we always talk about on the left has seemed pretty crappy for results in the last 40 years at least. Conservatives speak to teens just as well if not better without shying away from trying to get adults of all ages on their side
Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal
2d 15h ago in technology from variety.comAlready switched to an Android box since Roku was getting crappy fast. Projectivity launcher. Still need a fork to go mainstream to reign in Googles app developer shenanigans. If memory prices weren't so screwed up, would have been a perfect time for Steam Machines to push regular Linux as an HTPC closer to mainstream
Starmer to unveil social media ban for under-16s
2d 15h ago in technology from www.independent.co.ukI knew we were screwed back when all the CCTVs went up and became normalized. The spirit of it was nothing new. Just the over the top visibility of it and it not shattering the public's perception of the western worlds viewpoints on our being some sort of example of a free world
UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
2d 18h ago in technology from www.gov.ukApple is already locked down. Googles already inching at locking down Android phones and governments seem primed to facilitate that. Clamping down on VPNs can be a driver for that. Being way more restrictive on routers too like the US and it's foreign router bans
Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make
16d 6h ago in games from www.youtube.comThey're just like Hollywood blockbuster execs. They'd rather one game that copies what they've identified as popular from other games and media to formulate a game that can make hundreds of millions in profit if not into the billions rather making a bunch of smaller games that can make smaller profits. Single to double digit million dollar profits. It'd take a large amount of smaller hits that they can't imagine managing to accomplish to equal the profit of one mega hit so go big or go home. Unless you're Nintendo, they churn out smaller games and they have a brand/game identity that people generally don't seem to be let down from. They're consistent
Go from the summer blockbuster equivalent holiday AAA graphics bonanza game where the rest of the year was filled out with cheaper bets to any month is a month for a blockbuster/AAA game. Well, graphics don't sell games like they used to so you get these multi hundred million dollar budget games struggling to sell any better than AAA games made in 2007 that were made with a fraction of the modern AAA team size and made in like a third of the time to development
AMD Announces Socket AM5 Longevity till 2029
17d 2h ago in hardware from www.techpowerup.comWhen I went AM5 when that was new everyone was like DDR5 is overpriced. Stick with AM4 and buy a better GPU. 2029 AM5 at least now. I'll be on AM5 until at least 2035. Really I want to take it to 2040
Rivian Software Chief Says Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Are Redundant in the World of AI
17d 6h ago in cars from www.thedrive.comSomehow the old guard boring car vehicle brands, not GM - maybe not any American brand, are becoming desire brands/models. At worst, never sign up for a car subscription and teach the younger ones that haven't experienced a car phone mount. They're better today than in the past. Instead of finagling with clips, they have magnets
Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11
1mon 1d ago in technology from www.windowslatest.comExclusive: AMD preparing Radeon RX 9050 desktop graphics card with 8GB VRAM
1mon 7d ago in hardware from videocardz.comNext Dragon Quest and more to be announced this month
1mon 9d ago in games from nintendoeverything.comNext-generation TCL NXTPAPER aims to fix everything that's wrong with OLED
1mon 14d ago in android from www.androidcentral.comGreedFall Developer Spiders is Reportedly Shutting Down
1mon 20d ago in games from www.vgchartz.comProton product roadmaps for spring and summer 2026 | Proton
1mon 23d ago in protonprivacy from proton.meBethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left, Starfield's 'communication breakdowns', and how he wanted The Elder Scrolls 6 'to be The Empire Strikes Back'
4mon 1d ago in pcgaming from www.pcgamer.comFast food price creep: The chains that have gotten the most expensive
5mon 8d ago in fastfood@piefed.social from www.consumeraffairs.comIntel Arc B770 “Big Battlemage” Graphics Card Based on Top BMG-G31 GPU Has Been Listed
5mon 14d ago in hardware from wccftech.comI turned my flagship phone into a powerful retro gaming console, and you can too
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