Apparently (one of?) the official Nvidia seller(s) in Europe gave put special links to selected people so they could order their cards ~1h before the official launch. Some scalpers got their hands on that link and simply bought all of them. Kinda insane to Honor those sales tbh if that story is true.

I have ally information from this yt short, didn’t verify because I don’t care enough about this situation: https://youtube.com/shorts/4HmKACYFdw8

Hate the game, not the player.

Why not both? Of course it’s the companies not giving a shit about who buys their stuff and those idiots who actually buy cards for 3x retail prices who enable this kind of behaviour. However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. I think it’s highly unethical to exploit regular people like this. Of course, if you buy the card you’re a moron and part of the problem but that doesn’t mean I don’t think scalpers are scum.

I think companies should do more to stop scalpers from buying too many high value items because…

Apple sells a piece of cloth for 29,99 and people wait in line.

…people are idiots and need to be protected from themselves.

Realistically though it’s not a problem that is going to go away anytime soon. Companies aren’t going to do shit because why would they and there’s always going to be sacks of human garbage who

Exploit the weaker

From what I’ve heard scalpers bought basically the entire European stock of 5090s because they got early access to the sale from nvidia. Fun times we live in.

The news article is posted here a bit late. Republic day was yesterday, holocaust remembrance day is today and at least for me the doodle is already gone.

Yeah, that’s totally fair. Besides denuvo that was my other concern. I only buy like five games a year though and never at release so I thought I’d treat myself xD

I’d probably recommend to anyone who hasn’t sunk hundreds of hours into any of the other civ games to just buy 6/5 and play that until 7 is on sale with a dlc or two. Seeing as how notorious civ is for being worse than the predecessor without dlc.

After thinking about it for weeks I think I’ve finally settled on buying it, assuming day 1 performance is good. No preorders. I’m not installing that denuvo garbage on my pc though so at least civ 7 has finally made me switch to Linux last weekend.

Skill issue

The company said that it is working on zero-knowledge architecture so the master password users use to unlock their Cloaked profile never hits the startup’s servers.!

Lol. That should be there on launch. Thanks but no thanks. I’m not trusting a company with all my passwords and other secrets. Especially when it’s based in the us where companies generally don’t give a shit about privacy.

• Star Trek Strange new worlds
• Oblivion
• Hunger games
• upside down
• the adjustment bureau
• Contact
• A quiet place (horror but not that bad, rated pg12)
• Ready player one
• Love and monsters
• pitch black (might be rated 16 or r)
• Cloverfield (horror but fairly tame, rated pg12)
• Looper(2012)

Not sure about the horror movie ratings, I think they’re rated 12 but I think they should be fine. Maybe watch them by yourself first and judge. Star Trek is a TV show but really amazing and peak sci-fi. The new movies are watchable, too. Doctor who is a great sci-fi show too but it’s a bit weird on where you should start watching, the first doctor’s (of nuwho, so 9, I believe) series are a bit tough to watch at times so I’d recommend skipping them at first and coming back to them later.

Is it coated with anything? If it’s just bare metal then scrub it with steel wool and some water, any burns & stains should come off without much effort.

If it’s coated then I’d try to soak it in soapy water over night and then gently scrub. Keep in mind that anything you put on there you’re probably going to eat with your next few meals so before you use any aggressive chemicals just buy a new tray.

Inb4 local Discounter süd because customer accidentally ate microchip

F.lux is a windows app that adjusts screen brightness based on time of day

Yeah, I totally agree. I suspect that some people use it as an excuse because they don’t actually want to publish the code.

It is not open source. Apparently the creator is considering making it open source once he’s cleaned up the code a bit. For whatever that’s worth.