Colton have faith what he keeps on telling me he's bad at heckling come on
you can't swim you can't do this do it stop you're heckling me say something
mean the news cycle has been dominated by
russia's invasion of the ukraine and the tech world has been a big part of that
we already reported on russia blocking facebook but meta has fired back by
restricting and demonetizing russian state actors while microsoft has
followed suit by targeting outlets rt and sputnik by removing them from
microsoft start and banning their ads twitter is slapping labels on any tweet
from russian state media and youtube is demonetizing a number of russian state
channels connected to putin and the regime and Intel and AMD have both
stopped selling chips to russia after the country was hit by the import
sanctions of course it remains to be seen how much of this will curb the
russian aggression but the chip restrictions will definitely be something to keep an eye on as the
kremlin will definitely be missing the chip imports if more hardware is needed
for applications such as military use and supercomputing the steam deck was
released last week to great fanfare but just as everyone was getting their
reservations in it appears that valve has already been thinking about a
follow-up steam deck that has improved specs slow down there guys in an
interview with ign gabe newell laid fears of some gamers by stating that the
current steam deck models will not increase in price but that higher end
models would definitely be on the table you all pointed out that in the pc space
it doesn't take long for computers to either become faster or cheaper and so
the more expensive steam deck with faster storage and higher capacity
actually outsold the cheaper base model even in this economy with those factors
in mind you'll said it would make a lot of sense to keep pushing the platform's
performance but no word on when we might see a steam deck pro or steam deck 2
deck harder it's my favorite one like a nice hard deck golden yeah i do okay
remember those old-school computers where the system and the keyboard share
the same chunky chassis like a laptop well it looks like apple might be
bringing that idea back into the modern age but instead of it looking like an
old apple 2 which was large and could
place a crt monitor in it a new recently filed patent shows that a small light
wedge-shaped keyboard that contains a full desktop pc with just one cable for
data power and display out that's pretty cool actually the idea appears to have
something you can throw in your bag take with you and just plug into a display
anywhere just add a mouse and track pad apple is already promising quite a bit
of computing punch with its high-tech door stop so we expect it'll have apple
silicon like an m1 or m2 at its heart we're not sure when this might hit the
market but hopefully for apple it'll find a real use case as you could always
you know just use a laptop that's what i was saying why would you have a keyboard
without a display and a trackpad when you can just yeah anyway now it's time for quick bits
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if you're still trying to buy a graphics card pricing is out of hand and very
hard to stomach but tom's hardware just reported that prices on ebay are down an
average of 11 this month compared to january but even with the drop cards are
still going for well above msrp the 3070
originally released at 500 is currently selling for an average of
988 ouch but don't worry you can make it all
back by using the card to mine crypto
oh that's a boo boo yeah thank you Colton
tiktok is known for having rather short videos but bite dance is actually
extending the max length of the videos from 3 to 10 minutes
this follows last year's update which allowed 3-minute videos from the
previous 60-second limit tick tock says it wants to give creators more
flexibility and allow them to post things like tutorials which require more
than 3 minutes personally i'm hoping to see someone take advantage of these new
rules and create the next 10 minutes of mayo scene from rocco's modern life i
don't understand that reference do you Colton nope i just want 10 minutes of shrek's a phone yeah
do you have an ipad and you're wondering why there's no dedicated instagram app
there isn't meta has finally come out and gave us a reason not enough people
want one what that's a terrible reason the information was revealed after the
head of instagram replied to marquez on twitter this weekend instagram's team is
apparently focusing more on adapting to how users are interacting on the
platform specifically how users are sharing more content on pms than
publicly apparently they do hope to get to it at some point but uh lord knows
when that'll be and maybe it's right around the time we'll see half-life 3.
speaking of valves they haven't accepted cryptocurrency for payments on steam
since 2017. we're just finding out why now turns out it's not because gabe noel
is just hates twitter crypto evangelists
it's because half of the bitcoin transactions on steam were fraudulent
and valve didn't want to have those people as customers yeah no crap that's
very fair newell didn't give more details on the nature of the fraud but it's clear
you'll need to go somewhere else to spend your hard mined crypto with your
988 3070 dick and the next pair of games in
the main pokemon series were just announced pokemon scarlet and violet oh
come on the colors aren't even across each other on the color wheel and anyway
as a tradition you'll find the new starters water fire and grass and a new
region which this time appears to be based on southern european locales such
as italy or spain the games are due out late this year so you might as well
start compiling christmas lists right now dude how many of these things do
they make it's like four or three a year i don't know two more or something too i
can't keep track of it i haven't even finished the last one and that's our
show so come back on wednesday for more of Colton heckling maybe hey yeah
you suck i'm just kidding i love you okay thank you appreciate you