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If you're trying to say that Microsoft implemented a method of delivering specifically malware executables to every PC, I've got a bridge to sell to you.
Let's not diminish LG's part in all this.
Surely you mean Linux security model (not relevant enough to be targeted by big tech)?
It's a complex/murky matter with lots of allegations in every direction that's hard to summarize properly.
The absolute barest bone / neutral summary is that Filian is very popular (3.2 mil subs on yt, 1.3 mil subs on twitch, although she may be retiring currently, or is doing an extensive publicity stunt as her channels and socials are wiped clean). Two years ago, the model's creator announced [0] that Good Smile is making a nendo based off his model for an unnamed vtuber, and that they were not informed beforehand, let alone credited or compensated. They were trying to contact Good Smile and said vtuber to resolve the matter. After a few days Jingo posted an extensive message [1] that the situation was resolved and the parties are cooperating, further noting, among other things, that "free to use in VRchat" does not mean "free to do anything without any credit".
Note that this was not the first time Filian made merch off this model, and it was not stated clearly why Jingo took steps only at that point. Possibly because they never heard about Filian and only realized what's going on since Good Smile is a well known Japanese company.
It's not 2018 anymore, so that's not quite true. By now free models have been there forever, and indies have been using them for as long. I mean, Filian has already been using one over 4 years ago.
Which caused some problems with merchandising, but that's a different can of worms.
That's a bit... late to the party. I can't find when the article was published, but the phenomenon "went worldwide" several years ago by the means of COVID. These days the vtubing as an industry is in a somewhat stable state, if not a possible decline, going by viewership hours over the same period. Many big EN and JP names have already retired too.
now explain to the class who uploaded it to Windows Update service
The monitor should absolutely take the major part of the blame by being the source of the malware and poisoning the system for everyone else.
The wallpaper is definitely busy, I couldn't say how many people even used wallpapers in that era over flat color.
I mean, "back in the day", I used to set my own custom WB disk to boot in 8 colors on an ECS system, which caused extra lag on many things (visible redraws ahoy), and it was more or less acceptable. Paradoxically, if I actually had one of the beefier systems, this extra lag would probably bother me a lot more than it did.
Nah it was just the default server in the dropdown list. Out of the box it also supported UnderNet, IRCNet, and more.
Apples and oranges.
MSN was aimed at, well AIM, to the point where AIM used protocol flaws to block MSN clients. And it doesn't track that they'd just abandon IRC considering it was a period of absolutely massive growth for the protocol. It's more likely there was no intent to EEE IRC.
To me the pinnacle of icons was always the MagicWB [0] / MUI [1] style, even though I never really had MagicWB on my systems. Maybe strange choice of colors (pale blue, pink, orange?), but nice dithering and color interplay to create neat 3D illusion built nicely upon the OS 2.0 look.
So where's the extinguish? You can't stop proving your point halfway through unless you're implying you did not actually have a point.
Social Media allowed ordinary people to challenge on a global scale the oficially-sanctioned narrative.
Hasn't been true for a while. Now it grants people with money and state actors unprecedented control over what ordinary people are allowed to see and mold them to desired narratives.
These charts are seriously out of date though. Five years in the current economic climate? Might as well be ancient history.
Damn, it's the same as on my luggage!
There's a lot of space in air, and yet we have multiple midair collisions every year.
There's a multitouch function
At least they made the trains run on time! /s
For whatever reason idsoft has not been licensing their engine for a long while. AFAICT it's not that "nobody's buying", it's that "they're not selling".
only for a given value of works
Too little too late. Xbox is dying and PS won.
Seems like currently PS is too determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Tim S. has this doohickey for Unreal where you tell the AI what game to make and it makes the game! Totally out soon and to be beloved by everyone around /s
Good Ol' New Nintendo 2DS XL naming scheme.
Release a single player game day 1 on freaking gamepass, and then wonder why the sales numbers aren't happening. Galaxy brains over at MS are something special.
Yeah, cool, but right now they're axing idsoft, which was anything but "artistic vision over fun gameplay". What they did also pretty much kills idtech as a viable engine.
Consoles are a significant investment, to only be able to buy content from one source creates monopolies.
It used to be that consoles were generally the cheaper alternative to a gaming PC, which was subsidized by the price of games, which in turn stimulated the second hand market as people tried to recoup their investment in games, not the system itself.
But now that it's no longer really true, and system prices keep going up for little in return, it's really the worst of all worlds: expensive systems, expensive games, no way to resell, and two of the big three are acting increasingly worse (the jury's still out on what will Nintendo do next, but their ridiculed key-on-a-card system at least allows for reselling).
And this is on top of Sony outright lying about the reality as various leaks and scraps of that indicate that physical sold very well, better than digital.
Ah but now you're just imagining things when it's simple to check. OP is, or at least claims to be, a midwesterner in his own comments.
Even not touching the laughable sample size for both studies - almost halved sample size between 2025 and 2026? Sounds like a massive selection bias, and not in the way they're implying.