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Amazon has canceled its $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot due to opposition from European antitrust regulators — marking the first time it has ever been stopped from buying another company.
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hm, nope, the security update doesn't wanna download at all, great

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yay, windows 10 apparently deferred downloading security updates until I told it (again) that I didn't want windows 11

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Live by the sword, laugh by the sword, love by the sword

"light rail" is a misnomer, the rails are actually still made of steel and very heavy

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Man goes to Windows. Says thing is not working. Says he's getting a strange error. Says he feels lost and unsure what to do. Windows says, "Solution is simple. Administrator is in the office today. Go and see him. He should know the answer." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But Windows... I am Administrator!"

can firefox maybe use the information that I have multiple mobile firefoxes synced to my account and stop advertising the mobile version to me

I've replayed the first few levels on TR1 on so many platforms and to me this "remaster" perfectly illustrates why full path tracing is just a fancy tech demo

also omg I just realized they made enemies' features glow red instead of, idk, lighting the levels

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what's interesting to me is that using lighting to enhance a level's feel is a thing in the classic tomb raider engine (later than TR1 afaik), with torches being a consumable item you could use to light up dark corners – a classic trick is using the infinite pistols for light instead! Looking at the IGN footage of the mod, the dev put two bright green lights into the very first secret in the game, completely missing the point of a secret

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someone made an "RTX remix" pathtraced version of OpenLara (the free Tomb Raider engine) and wow does it not work in this one, everything looks like shiny plastic, rooms are either way too dark or for some reason super foggy and also Lara's face is a super bright flashlight now

and they replaced all the enemy textures for some reason

btw, if you like Metroidvanias at all or played any of the past games in the series you should pick up Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, it's really good

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Danke an alle fürs Teilen und die Antworten. Hat heute Morgen geklappt. 🤞

how is Apple's calendar syncing with Exchange a better experience than the one in Outlook

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Did you hear the news? 📰

Our friends @rawrlabgames announced their FREE* #GodotEngine port for #NintendoSwitch!

Details here: rawrlab.com/godot_nintendo_swi

What a win for the community 🪙 Are we going to see an increase in Switch games made with Godot soon?

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A fun bot in the Fediverse is @VoteChess where everyone gets to vote on the next move against a computer opponent.

Recently, there have been only two or three people voting. If you like chess, help us beat the computer!

wrist rests are weird, here's a slab of acrylic, now your keyboard is more pleasant to use

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gonna see dorian electra in cologne today, someone had tickets left over, let's gooo

I bought candy in "american style" flavors, they're popcorn, cranberry and salted caramel

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