WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:18.780 Windows 11 has overtaken Windows 10 in desktop market share on StatCounter for the first 00:00:18.780 --> 00:00:21.980 time since launching nearly 4 years ago. 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:26.300 Just when everyone was actually starting to like Windows 10, it was the perfect time. 00:00:26.300 --> 00:00:31.660 Now StatCounter isn't a perfect measurement, but Windows 11 did already overtake Windows 00:00:31.660 --> 00:00:37.740 10 on the Steam hardware survey back in September 2024, so it's not far fetched to assume we 00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:43.420 are awake. And this isn't some gruesome nightmare, it's really happening, oh god I thought we 00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:50.520 had more time. Ironically, Microsoft recently threw Windows 10 diehards of bone in the form of free extended 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.300 security updates for a year if they simply sign in to a Microsoft account and sync their 00:00:55.300 --> 00:01:00.460 PC settings. But I wouldn't count on Microsoft's generosity long term. 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:06.180 They have the high ground now. And if Star Wars taught me anything, it's that in this situation you should absolutely 00:01:06.180 --> 00:01:09.860 not try to attack, just play dead. 00:01:09.860 --> 00:01:13.780 Actually I forgot that Obi-Wan jumps up and beats Darth Maul in episode 1. 00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:19.060 The message of Star Wars is actually just Obi-Wan always wins, don't f*** with Obi-Wan. 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:24.140 Gamers formed an angry mob this weekend over a recently discovered clause in Ubisoft's 00:01:24.380 --> 00:01:29.780 End User License Agreement that says if the agreement is terminated, the user must destroy 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:33.300 all copies of the product, in this case, the game. 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:38.420 The story picked up steam due to the renewed popularity of the Stop Killing Games Initiative, 00:01:38.420 --> 00:01:44.260 which, if I understand it correctly, calls for the practice of game destruction to halt 00:01:44.260 --> 00:01:50.340 entirely. There's just one problem, while many repeated the claim that the destroy clause was a new 00:01:50.420 --> 00:01:54.540 addition to Ubisoft's license agreement, it's not new. 00:01:54.540 --> 00:01:59.700 And it's also an extremely common clause in gaming license agreements across the board. 00:01:59.700 --> 00:02:06.700 As pointed out by The Gamer and Redditor Aemon274, such game destruction in the event of license 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:12.500 termination is required in all sorts of game license agreements including Square Enix, Sega, 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:18.380 and even Precious Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios, you were the chosen one! 00:02:18.420 --> 00:02:23.780 So I guess legally we collectively have not been destroying nearly enough games, we better 00:02:23.780 --> 00:02:30.300 get to work. Or at least that may be how Video Games Europe feels the industry association spoke out against 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:35.460 the Stop Killing Games Initiative saying that requiring games to have some kind of end of 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:39.700 life plan that doesn't involve permanently blocking players from ever again accessing 00:02:39.700 --> 00:02:44.820 a game they paid for is just impossible, I'm sorry. 00:02:44.820 --> 00:02:49.140 And it's not because Video Games Europe is a lobby group for AAA publishers with a financial 00:02:49.140 --> 00:02:54.620 incentive to keep things the way they are, they're gamers, they're video gamers from 00:02:54.620 --> 00:03:00.180 Europe. Samsung is gearing up to unveil new folding phones on Wednesday, so it must be embarrassing 00:03:00.180 --> 00:03:08.380 to have all of their specs leaked beforehand. Winfuture writer Roland Quant posted official Samsung promo materials with specs for the 00:03:08.380 --> 00:03:16.300 Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Flip 7 FE, revealing that if a Z Fold 7 with 16GB of 00:03:16.300 --> 00:03:21.820 RAM and 1TB of storage is what you want to spend your money on. 00:03:21.820 --> 00:03:29.500 No one will be able to stop you, sadly. There was also a leaked video showing off the Z Flip 7's massive front display, and 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:35.700 they even leaked the new Galaxy Watches. The Watches, Mark! 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:41.060 There's a spec table on deal Labs, hopefully you can read French, I have no idea what that 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:46.020 says. We'll have all the official confirmed details on Wednesday after Samsung's unpacked, which 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:51.500 is happening just days after Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said his company dropped its lawsuit 00:03:51.500 --> 00:03:54.980 against Samsung, having apparently reached a settlement. 00:03:54.980 --> 00:03:59.660 Very cool, the only thing that could make a Folding Flip Flop 7 more exciting is having 00:03:59.660 --> 00:04:05.420 Fortnite pre-installed. Yeah, so that happened. 00:04:05.420 --> 00:04:12.660 It was all before the quick bits. Intel is planning to launch a refreshed lineup of Aero Lake CPUs in the second half of this 00:04:12.660 --> 00:04:19.940 year, according to ZDNet Korea. The chips will reportedly feature higher clock speeds and an upgraded NPU that could 00:04:19.940 --> 00:04:26.820 qualify them for the extremely prestigious and highly sought after co-pilot plus PC designation. 00:04:26.820 --> 00:04:33.100 No matter how good they are though, they won't have 192 cores and use 500 watts of power like 00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:39.300 the flagship chips from Intel's upcoming Diamond Rapid Xeon lineup, so I'll be disappointed 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:45.620 either way. ByteDance is working on a new version of the app for US customers to replace the old one 00:04:45.620 --> 00:04:51.620 if this deal to sell TikTok to new American owners ever actually comes to pass. 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:55.860 Getting all American users to switch to a new app may present some technical challenges 00:04:55.860 --> 00:05:00.820 according to some analysts, but that's all contingent on China approving the sale. 00:05:00.820 --> 00:05:05.740 When asked if he's got a deal ready with China, Trump recently told the media, pretty 00:05:05.740 --> 00:05:09.580 much, making everyone feel good about spending time on that interaction. 00:05:09.580 --> 00:05:14.260 Lawless Scaling, the extremely popular Windows app that adds modern upscaling and frame 00:05:14.260 --> 00:05:19.900 generation to unsupported games, is being ported to Linux by a developer named Pancake 00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:29.460 TAS. The GitHub project's titled LSFGVK, which I know stands for Lawless Scaling Frame Generation 00:05:29.460 --> 00:05:36.860 and then Vulkan maybe, but I read it as LES F***ING GO, VIKRUM. 00:05:36.860 --> 00:05:40.380 All I know is you better appreciate the devs' labors because they say they went through 00:05:40.380 --> 00:05:43.500 psychological torture to make this project work. 00:05:43.500 --> 00:05:52.340 Which makes sense, because it's Linux. Look at this little USB-C flash drive designed to look like a real life macOS folder. 00:05:52.340 --> 00:05:56.820 Designer David Della Huntie worked with Super Fantastic Toys to bring the folder drive to 00:05:56.820 --> 00:06:04.440 life and it is cute. It's okay to admit that, Windows people, although it's a drive, so it should have been made 00:06:04.440 --> 00:06:14.220 to look like the macOS drive icon instead of a folder inside a drive. 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:18.020 But I won't be fine unless you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. 00:06:18.020 --> 00:06:22.900 I'll be here, worried sick that you're out there getting into trouble with a crew of 00:06:22.900 --> 00:06:27.180 hooligans touching grass and getting dirt in your fingernails. 00:06:27.180 --> 00:06:30.300 You know worms live in dirt? I just learned about this.