a turret seat ian del luar
well the teleprompter's upside down how am i supposed to read them the tech news
that's the challenge apples officially launched their
self-service repair program in the u.s this morning which for the first time
allows regular old joe schmo average schmucks like yours truly to purchase
and even rent genuine apple parts and tools you don't even have to be a genius
like they require to work at their stores they're so smart it's amazing
however in true apple fashion the service has a
catch or two as pointed out by ifixit
first off in order to purchase a part from the self-service repair store the
customer must enter the device serial number or imei so you can't just go
ordering replacement iphone screens willy-nilly i mean you don't want people
to become addicted secondly the prices for repair kits are
barely cheaper than what apple charges you to repair the device themselves at
an apple store unless you also mail the broken part that you are replacing mail
however however while we love making fun of apple as much as the next banana this
setup actually kind of makes sense as it will incentivize people to return parts
to apple for hopefully proper recycling
instead of throwing them into the garbage there are other problems with
apple's repair program but at the end of the day it's progress
now if only apple would fix the magic mouse charging port because that's still
[ __ ] ridiculous forget about that twitch is considering changing its
partner program according to a bloomberg report which would cause creators to
make less money while running more ads
i mean twitch is a good and healthy platform we're making it better and
people familiar with the plan say that the proposed changes would make it even
happier and healthier at least for
amazon shareholders haha so twitch creators who are currently
making 70 of subscription revenue could
be dropped down to 50 but the good news is that they would be
released from exclusivity agreements allowing them to simultaneously stream
on youtube or facebook and then they would also be incentivized to run more
ads which i guess is supposedly supposed to make up for the smaller cut
but that's not really great for the user experience this news coming out was a
perfect opportunity for the head of creators at youtube gaming to tweet that
their platform still has a 70 30 rev
share model and no exclusivity agreement and never did oh yeah and there's always
facebook so that your mom can watch your streams we can't help but theorize that this is
happening because amazon owns twitch and
maybe jeff bezos feels weird about elon musk being the world's richest man and
like buying twitter and stuff frankly i kind of get where he's coming
from and sega is pulling a nintendo with the announcement that the standalone
versions of classic sonic games that are included in the upcoming sonic origins
anthology game will be delisted from game stores after may 20th one month
before origins launches on june 23rd why would you need them you could also call
this pulling a george lucas have we not learned from our past
mistakes as a society more jar jar
obviously the people hurt most by this are the ones who don't want the entire
anthology and just want one of the games but now have to buy the entire
collection instead fans are also frustrated by the fact that sonic
origins uses the much hated not to mention easily bypassed the nouveau drm
system i i think sonic would disapprove quite frankly and super sonic
would super disapprove i want to make more references to sonic
characters here but frankly i can't think of any i can't make heads or tails
of their cast that's terrible that was a bad joke you
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butt quacks aren't something you feel there's something you feel wait what huh
what NVIDIA is testing a flagship rtx 40
series graphics card according to reports that could draw an insane
900 watts of power according to regular leaker of such
things copper87 kimi on twitter although
kopite noted that it's unclear whether this card is a predecessor to a real
product or simply a prototype to test extreme power draw the leak comes after
other rumors pointing to a 600 watt GPU
so it's time to put down your pitch forks about GPU shortages and pick up
your space heaters and then sell them because you're not
going to need space heaters anymore
after announcing the discontinuation of their pc game launcher bethesda is now
allowing users to initiate the process of transferring their games to steam so
you might want to get on that if you haven't already bethesda said that the
online transfer tool will remain available for the foreseeable future
but i feel like all bets could be off if we get into a real-life fallout
situation and you're going to want some games and you're hiding in your vault
things things could get real weird down there real big racks sony has now
enabled variable refresh rate technology on playstation 5 consoles and some users
are reporting that they can use the feature in officially supported and
non-supported games even without updating their machine
so congrats console players the pc community loves to see that you guys
also don't need to apply an update to have a feature that we've had for years
without needing an update for years it's heartwarming we really do only want the
best for you guys enjoy and pixel watch
pixel watch we've seen a lot of pixel watch leaks lately but now the internet
is being treated to images of google's flagship wearable on somebody's actual
wrist it's a beautiful wrist where we can see it more clearly than ever and it
basically looks like a round version of an apple i mean that i mean
it was always going to be a watch what was it what was it gonna be more
square with little buttons under it it's gonna look like a watch i mean i kind of
wish it did because those are cool i don't know about that all right so no
more pixel leaks until it comes out in may we're done and buzzfeed news has a
great story on the crypto project called metadocs which promised to give buyers
of metadocs nfts access to real
celebrity doctors with a social media following
but then now a bunch of said doctors have left the project since it doesn't
have the necessary licenses to operate as a telemedicine service meaning that
the doctors can't legally give any medical advice or information to the nft
holders but you know what that's just it's early
days and when the glorious web 3.0 revolution comes these problems will all
be sorted out vaccines will be nfts and then everyone will want them you have
hexagon vaccine okay
and then you can stick your magnet to it i want to keep going but our license to
give tech news just ran out with that magnetic vaccine [ __ ] so come back
on friday we're going to have it renewed by then i just got to i got to go talk to my crypto guy riley you know wait
what no let's talk for nfts i got a really good deal yeah you just nfd
connect what is that