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1965. Integrity tips the launch of Windows 11 last week was plagued by a
number of issues including a bug that caused degraded performance in AMD's
ryzen processors well Microsoft's newest
OS had its first Patch Tuesday this week and while it addressed some of these
other issues it actually made the AMD performance issues worse luckily AMD and
Microsoft say they've already developed a fix but those will be arriving on the
next Patch Tuesday it can't come any
earlier Tuesday is the only weekday
where the dimensional membrane in between the worlds and ours is thinnest
they don't have electricity Best Buy is facing backlash this week after
customers discovered that certain limited Supply Tech products like the
PlayStation 5 are being locked behind a 200 paywall last week the retailer
launched its total tax service which charges
199.99 a year for peace of mind thanks
to Round the Clock tech support two years of product Protection free
delivery and installation and exclusive
access to some of the season's hardest to find products that last part was
discovered by many customers who tried to buy the PlayStation 5 when it was
restocked last week only to be redirected to a sign up page for the
total Tech program now to be fair it is
well within Best Buys rights to do this and the program may actually make sense
for Best Buy's repeat customers I mean you can basically get free Apple Care
with it but in a tech landscape that is dominated by scalpers it just hurts to
see Best Buy basically scalping with
extra steps on the other other hand how are you
really going to know who wants a PlayStation 5 unless you charge two
hundred dollars to find out like who really wants it
and without much fanfare AMD launched the Radeon RX 6600 today a mid-range
graphics card targeting 1080p gaming launching at an MSRP of 330 US Dollars
the same price as the RTX 3060 on paper
which is worth about as much as the paper that you would write that price on
the reviews are saying that the card is not a great value for the price
especially considering that you'll probably be paying much more than 330 US
dollars for it and that's not even factoring in the total Tech membership
fee but there is some light on the horizon for Budget Gamers new leaks have
emerged relating to NVIDIA's rumored RTX 3050 and 3050 ti so those might be
arriving in the near future and Intel's Arc gpus are also on the way and
according to Roger kaduri they won't ship with any cryptocurrency mining
limiters so at the very least you'll be able to offset the purchase cost by
mining coins for the rest of your life
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HTC's new buy flow ad set what has
leaked a day before the company was set to announce it and it looks like a
lightweight consumer-focused VR AR model that may or may not be designed to work
without a PC there's a cord attached to the headset in most of the press images
but more importantly it makes the wearer look like a giant bug so it's already
got like Mondo points in my book watch out though the magic Leaf 2 is on its
way next year and both of these headsets will almost certainly suck I'm sorry to
be the bearer of bad news most Roblox players are children whether
that be physically or mentally so the game's develop
ment okay I did not write that Riley so the game's developer has now banned
romantic content including animations of
kissing hand-holding or other romantic gestures in a romantic context as well
as Banning in-game events like weddings dates and honeymoons they even think
about how this would affect any Roblox weddings that are already scheduled
the most money I mean good luck booking another venue at this point and freaking
Captain Kirk himself William Shatner has
been rocketed up to the edge of space and a giant penis by Jeff bezos's blue
origin at 90. Shatner is the oldest person to
reach space making this a space industry Milestone although at first glance I did
think this was a scene from a new Star Trek movie where Bezos is the bad guy he
would make an excellent board time to stop this episode before we're all
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