you consume tech news every day but do you really know what it's doing to your
mind oh because we don't we need some more studies
to never publish the internet already called out best buy when they locked the
ability to purchase a ps5 or xbox series x behind a paywall but apparently best
buy just don't care and they've added gpus
to the list of in-demand items which is to be fair and accurate
representation gamers are absolutely starving for
friends out there you see they recently restocked various GeForce rtx 30 series
graphics cards but to actually buy one you had to have paid 200 for a total
tech membership which has perks like two-day shipping extended product
protection oh right and the right to actually buy anything at best buy
apparently now that's all fine for existing members
who managed to buy up all of the available inventory but it's less fine
for people who signed up only to miss the drop as they waited for best buy to
confirm their shiny new expensive membership they've already been a member
i mean the way i see it sure they don't have a graphics card but they're part of
something bigger now and that is truly priceless
valve steam deck is proving to be quite popular among pc gamers who have pined
for a switch of their own and gpd maker
of Windows gaming handhelds would like everyone to take a step back for a
second alright in a post on chinese social media
recently translated by users on the steam deck subreddit the company points
out that actually the steam dex hardware contains nothing outstanding and that
its overall performance is actually not as good as gpd's win 3
and win max 2021 to be fair there aren't many benchmarks
directly comparing those just yet so that's just like their opinion man
but it's probably wrong gpd goes on to say that if you're hoping to install
Windows on a steam deck to get around the limitations of steam os well
you are just naive and do not understand the logic of capitalists
do you see they're trying to make money while gpd is making a handheld steam
game console for the people they're gonna break it up and everyone
will get a piece i call it d-pad it's our console
and gamer's next has posted an update to the new egg being a scam lord saga which
despite newegg's attempts at damage control actually makes the whole
situation look even worse
turned out that newegg received a damaged motherboard from a customer and
asked Gigabyte to fix it Gigabyte said the fix would cost 100
dollars which newegg declined to proceed
with and instead sold the board to gamers nexus who ended up not actually
needing it so they've returned it unopened at which point knew it was like
yo this board is broken way to go idiot newegg has now refunded
gamers nexus the 500 and sent them the board after being added on twitter by an
influential account so i guess the system is working exactly nothing to fix
here definitely watch steve unbox that board and maybe watch paul's hardware
talk about his experience working as an rma tech at new egg when times were
simpler back then back then
back then
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they're sensitive there was a nintendo direct on wednesday
right as we were posting tech links which is pretty rude i think but there
were some interesting developments if you guys were willing to wait two days because who would actually watch the
nintendo direct event you get all your tech news here right right exactly
instead of mario kart 9 gamers are getting 48 new tracks for mario kart 8
which are all actually remastered tracks from older games which is pretty much
what a new mario kart would have been anyway there's now an actual wii sports sequel
called switch sports a new mario strikers is on the way and fire emblem
is getting the superhero on the battlefield warriors treatment
plus portal and no man's sky are coming to switch but most importantly
kirby car nintendo aligato gozaimasu
watch out for spiking SSD prices by the way in the days to come thanks to a
containment issue at western digital's nand production facilities that's right
the alien embryos they were storing there broke free of the
capsules and they i hate face hugs no what actually happened was that at their
nan production facility they lost somewhere in the neighborhood of six and
a half exabytes of flash
that is 6.5 billion gigabytes do these
companies know what's going on down here on the ground there's no gpus
i've resorted to copying files back and forth between my drives for
entertainment i feel it man i can't do that anymore either i'm right there with
you spacex was already having a bad week thanks to the loss of 40 starling
satellites that it had just freaking launched due to a geomagnetic storm
caused by a solar flare and now it's even worse nasa has said they are
re-evaluating whether launching tens of thousands of satellites into already
crowded orbital spaces such a good idea after all elon musk
also said the company is having some difficulty executing on its starship
plans but revealed a really cool animation of what starship would look
like once it actually launched so it's basically star citizen now
and twitch is continuing its attempts at detoxifying its site with new
restrictions on what usernames can look like account names that reference sexual
content or hard drugs what about hard content or sexual drugs
those are fine those are fine okay are going to have to change to something
else going forward meaning that everyone from 369 to
gamer and even lover 420 is gonna have to get creative about a new name that's
really a shame because those names really roll off the tongue
especially ball's face you know just rolls stop it stop it and a russian 16
year old has been sentenced to five years in a penal colony on charges of
training for terrorist activities the kids crime messaging with his friends
about blowing up a virtual representation of the fsb the modern
incarnation of the kgb that the teens had built in minecraft
um to be fair this might be an example of really bleak russian humor not
everything translates well but if it's not russia um
what child i don't think i can take any more tech news today so you're gonna
have to come back on friday for more until then it's probably smart to take a
break we still really aren't sure about the long-term effects
i had a tech news overdose