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