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A camera and GPS are two very different technologies with distinct capabilities that do not overlap.

In modern x86 CPUs, POPCNT is implemented as part of the SSE4 instruction set. For Intel’s chips, it was added as part of SSE4.2 in the original first-generation Core architecture, codenamed Nehalem. In AMD’s processors, it’s included in SSE4a, first used in Phenom, Athlon, and Sempron CPUs based on the K10 architecture. These architectures date back to 2008 and 2007, respectively.

That effectively bars mid-2000s Intel Core 2 Duo systems and early Athlon 64-era PCs from booting Windows 11 at all, not that they officially supported it in the first place. This means the change should mainly affect retro-computing enthusiasts who spend their days making YouTube videos in the “we installed Windows 11 on a potato, let’s see how it runs” genre rather than users of actual systems.

You can check if your CPU has SSE 4.2(Intel) or 4a(AMD) but it sounds like unless you’re running some real old stuff you shouldn’t have to worry.

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If you read the article, they usually just shut down and disappear.

If you’re lucky some dedicated archivist records the story sections before it goes down.

Printing like to dead trees?

You could just use the system print dialog instead of Firefox’s if that works better for you, I think it’s possible to set it as default.

The push to live services, online DRM, microtransactions, DLC and other such things is because they have identified that there is more money to be made as a ‘server operator’ than a ‘game developer.’

They don’t really care about getting paid for the game, they’d rather give it away for free if they can make more money off controlling the servers.

They have sold two ‘tiers’ of kindles for awhile, the one with ads on the lock screen is discounted.

It’s not my favorite thing but iirc the lock screen is supposed to be the only place with ads.

Usually a remote is standard issue with a TV, most(all?) of them have a mute button.

They can pry the mute button from my cold dead heads.

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https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Generally people are worse with computers than you think.
A computer preinstalled with Linux is definitely more likely to confuse than you imagine

Tesla’s reasoning for going away with a method universally used for signaling turn for decades is that it enables them to remove a physical part, the stalk, and it believes activating a turn signal will soon be unnecessary with the advent of self-driving.

Spit my drink up a bit when I read that.

people still lose access to Minecraft for what they do in private worlds that are “friends only.”

The chat reporting help page also lays out that reports must be initiated by a player and will be reviewed by the moderation, which should hopefully limit the false-report problems sometimes associated with more automated moderation systems.

If that happens I guess your ‘friend’ reported you.

It’s in the system requirements but even games that list an SSD as required there still sometimes work fine on a hard disk.

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It’s from the earlier days of computing/portable devices where almost nothing had the sort of inter-connectivity we take for granted.

You’d download apps or music onto your PC and then ‘sideload’ them onto your PDA or MP3 players.
Sometimes this required both proprietary cables and software. (This is why some of us still get excited by simple USB ports)

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a word for such things is ‘dark patterns’
it’s not designed to be liked but to keep the player returning habitually and upping so called “retention.”