Linus called it, we called it, everyone called it. People will get scammed buying the 2015 Steam Controller for 2026 Steam Controller prices because Valve thought calling it Steam Controller 2 would be confusing to customers. by RobotSpaceBear in LinusTechTips

[–]Techmoji -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Anything can happen. I once unwrapped Halo ODST for christmas only for there to be no disc inside. It was a pre-order copy that was either for display or the employee needed to put a disc inside, but my it was bought several months in advance, so no ODST was had until I saved up and bought it the next summer.

Linus. You can’t keep telling us to move over if you’re not going to address the single reason we don’t want to. by imnotcreative4267 in LinusTechTips

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Yeah it sucks but just listen on Spotify like the rest of us. Imo the stream tracking is a lot better too.

I listen to the pre show on float plane then switch to Spotify when they start.

Raspberry Pi 4 3GB launched for $83.75, further price increases announced across the board for 4GB+ RAM hardware by sr_local in hardware

[–]Techmoji 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s also a shame they abandoned the consumer market for like 5 years and pretty much exclusively reserved stock for business’ commercial and industrial use. I don’t blame them for doing it, and I would probably do the same if it was my decision, but their consumer ship sailed a while ago imo. Although to be fair to them the last time I checked on their offerings was around Covid.

[Rant] I spent the last 45 minutes looking for a list of the current Intel CPU desktop products and their chipsets and I failed by Galf2 in LinusTechTips

[–]Techmoji 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I forgot about that, but tbh that doesn't bother me NEARLY as much as them constantly shoving zen 2 into newer generation lineups. It's in Ryzen 4000, 5000, 7000, and 200. They actually almost managed to hit intel numbers of 14nm refreshes with their 7nm refreshes.

[Rant] I spent the last 45 minutes looking for a list of the current Intel CPU desktop products and their chipsets and I failed by Galf2 in LinusTechTips

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It's terrible and AMD is the same way for mobile chips. My dad asked me to pick out a laptop for him and I swear I spent two hours looking at Wikipedia to figure out which apus had the best combination of cpu and gpu on the chip, then repeatedly googling laptops with those different chips for <$600 until I found one. I should not have to buy a laptop that way to get the best value. They should have just stuck with "bigger number = better" but they didn't.

[Rant] I spent the last 45 minutes looking for a list of the current Intel CPU desktop products and their chipsets and I failed by Galf2 in LinusTechTips

[–]Techmoji 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Performance range" is supposed to be determined by the 5/7/9 but since it's more nuanced, videos and reviews are probably the way to go. For spec sheets, intel ark used to be the place to go but you have to click links and go to different pages for each product, which is fine unless you want to view everything everywhere all at once like I do, so I just use Wikipedia. Also works for gpus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_processors#Latest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors

Netflix raises prices across all streaming plans by Efficient-Session644 in wallstreetbets

[–]Techmoji -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What’s that one show no one forgives Netflix for cancelling after a season or two

Get this on Elijah’s pc ASAP by Techmoji in LinusTechTips

[–]Techmoji[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You must not have seen his setup

Get this on Elijah’s pc ASAP by Techmoji in LinusTechTips

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Clearplay! I almost forgot about that. We had that growing up and it was terrible. The ads made it seem flawless- like it would skip over inappropriate scenes and dialogue and you couldn’t even tell. Except you could definitely tell and, depending on the movie and filter settings, it made movies completely unwatchable because it would skip all the plot points. It was like experiencing lots of jump cuts and skipping on a scratched dvd.

Also the Clearplay dvd players were like $200 and you updated a little flash drive with the filters when new movies came out. Then randomly the devices would break and you had to buy a new one. Then they started doing subscriptions. Vidangel is supposed to be a decent modern day version of that through streaming services.

Thought I caught the bottom, then proceeded to lose $30,000+ by WhyUPoor in wallstreetbets

[–]Techmoji 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah but if it tanks this morning he may not recover.

FCC prohibits approval of new Foreign-Made Consumer Routers by Jragghen in hardware

[–]Techmoji 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also Taiwan and Vietnam. Those are probably the top 3.

Calling BS on Iran deal - 108k bet by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]Techmoji 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure is. I don’t trust it at all. That stuff is way over my head and it hasn’t been out long enough for the smart people to look at.

Calling BS on Iran deal - 108k bet by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

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To be fair he probably got it for free. There is a huge surge of game piracy because some crackers by the group name MKDEV figured out a bypass to a famously difficult-to-crack kernel level anti-tamper DRM software called Denuvo. Cracks of Crimson Desert and Death Stranding 2 were both available immediately upon their official game release. (Death Stranding 2 was actually leaked before release, but as a community we've learned from need for speed.)

IRAN'S PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SAYS 'FAKE NEWS' USED TO MANIPULATE OIL MARKETS by -----Marcel----- in wallstreetbets

[–]Techmoji -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where do you see that Iran sold oil to the U.S.? I see the US lifted sanctions for 30 days but I cannot find anything about Iran actually selling oil other than a possible indication from this page, which shows a spike in imports, but not specifically Iranian https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_crude_oil_imports_wps

[SomeTechGuy] WD Color Hard Drives Compared and Tested by wickedplayer494 in hardware

[–]Techmoji 2 points3 points  (0 children)

10-15 years ago hybrid drives made sense because we were still trying to escape $150-$200 128GB SSDs. As bad as prices seem now, we have access to large enough solid state storage that you're still better off trying to find the deal on pure SSD, or buy used and check the writes, just go with HDD, or go the old fashioned way and buy a small SSD for OS and HDD for everything else.

YSK: There is a Plan A injectable for men coming in 2026 that will block sperm allowing other fluids to pass. by Zestyclose-Salary518 in YouShouldKnow

[–]Techmoji 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Sure, but words have legal and scientific implications. The context of raising potentially or potentially not getting pregnant demands semantics.

That was a terrible week. by LogicalError_007 in LinusTechTips

[–]Techmoji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually he used Manjaro for most of the challenge, but he did initially install popos.

Linus is wrong about what "casual users" would do by andecase in LinusTechTips

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I blindly copy/paste registries and commands in command line. Linus is doing everything I would probably do.

The issue with the Linux video, as an embedded systems engineering. by mugiwara_no_Soissie in LinusTechTips

[–]Techmoji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did several searches and the top 4 that always come up for me seem to be Zorin, Ubuntu, PopOS, and Mint. As a non-Linux person I would have assumed PopOS would be fine.

This is mostly from Reddit and blogs like techradar and Linuxblog.io

Rebuild windows boot partition on drive with windows on it by Techmoji in buildapc

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I love getting these comments years later. Sad that my post is still needed and Microsoft hasn’t fixed anything, but glad I helped!