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The largest deposit of Lithium in Europe is in Ukraine.... which may or may not be available sometime soon....depending on how things go.

Open standards are about compatibility with multiple systems while also not being encumbered with licensing fees or patents. Displayport is an open standard whereas HDMI is not and requires a license. Making a game with DX limits it to only xbox or windows, using vulkan would allow games to also run on Nintendo Switch, Linux or Android with a lot less work than using DX. Same with Media Foundation, there was no reason for Microsoft to create Media Foundation. Microsoft likes to reinvent the wheel and release proprietary versions of things that already exist in order to lock users to Windows. Windows is data mining cash cow, they're not giving it up anytime soon.

Open standards don't cost devs money. Using Vulkan over DX or open media codecs over Microsoft's Media Foundation doesn't cost anything. Multi-platform may cost more initially, but the customer base is expanded which increases sales. There are more games playable on Linux thanks to Valve, despite what Epic and Microsoft have done by buying Linux game developers, that once existing contracts are fulfilled, will not be making more Linux games. Second only to Anti-cheat flagging Linux gamers as cheaters, Microsoft's Media Foundation codecs have been a major thorn for Linux gaming. Do to licensing, Valve doesn't distribute the means to decode Media Foundation codecs with Proton. Valve has started transcoding cut scenes in games with open codecs so they can be played on Linux.

Two wrongs don't make a right. An action that is anticompetitive can't be used to justify another anticompetitive action. I don't think it's ok for Sony to do it either. Since I haven't owned a console since the original Playstation, and Sony exclusives aren't talked about on PC forums, I have no idea what games are available on Playstations other than the ones that are also on PC's. I'm a Linux user, I believe in multi-platform and open standards.

Rose colored glasses. It's the people that already own a Playstation that are losing out. Encouraging more vendor lock-ins doesn't help anyone. We'll see if it happens. Microsoft-Activision Deal Likely to Face Close Antitrust Scrutiny WWW.WSJ.COM The $75 billion acquisition will have to navigate a regulatory environment that has become less friendly to deal making, especially...

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Distilled with a few drops of biocide isn't any different maintenance wise. Coolant changes would still be at the same intervals.

I have my doubts that any new physical media format would be released. Standards are going in the toilet now a days since people seems to prefer convenience over quality.....and privacy. I'm guessing in the not to distant future there won't be any physical media sold. It will all be subscription/digital distribution. We''ll be told it will be better since we won't have to worry about damaging discs or losing them. We'll always have access to them......as long as we pay our subscription.

Looks like it's not. BeamNG.drive on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything. But the BeamMP mod to add mulitplayer is on Github. GitHub - BeamMP/BeamMP: A LUA implementation at attempting to bring local network multiplayer to BeamNG.drive GITHUB.COM A LUA implementation at attempting to bring local network multiplayer to BeamNG.drive - GitHub - BeamMP/BeamMP: A LUA implementation...

If you want clear coolant, Distilled water is about a $1 a gallon.

Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6 will both be Microsoft platform exclusives, not just timed exclusives. This is an example of anti consumer behaviour. Buying a franchise that was multi platform then after purchase only making it available for your own platform. Imagine if Nvidia bought a couple major game studios and somehow locked the games to only Nvidia GPU's. I'm sure everyone would be singing a different tune. Twitter and Reddit would essentially be DDos'd from the outcry.

The same was said after the purchase of Bethesda. Starfield and the next Elder Scrolls are exclusives.

If games are going to be locked to one platform over another, it's not a win for gamers. I doubt Playstation owners are considering any of these purchases as a "win".

Why would EA consolidating game studios be worse than Microsoft doing it? Neither is good, but Microsoft doing it worrisome. EA doesn't have an OS, a gaming system, a proprietary API or proprietary codecs to use as a vendor lock to shut out any and all competition. Considering what Phil Spencer has said in the past, the likelihood that any of these games will be available on anything but an MS platform is slim. I always see people claiming they want competition...how great things will be for consumers, but in reality, people just want others to view their preferred brands through the same rose colored glasses as they do.

I still do. The quality is much better than streaming. I still buy music CD's too. Everything gets ripped lossless to my NAS.

It gets easier.....If you have a drive that supports LibreDrive, flashing isn't necessary.

AmScope SM-4NTP 7X-45X Simul-Focal Stereo Lockable Zoom Microscope on Dual Arm Boom Stand with light ring and .7 Barlow Lens for wider FOV SMD soldering without a microscope is a pain in the ass. I still want to buy a camera for it.

But that doesn't change anything, your just adding another layer of complexity. You're using the linux native GPU driver since the GPU is now passed through to the guest. So you're still using the the superior Linux OS but now having dirty Windows stealing RAM and CPU processes in the background.

I'm guessing, at least in the beginning, the cars will be built by someone else. Telsa's first cars were built by Lotus. They didn't start building their own till they bought an old plant from Toyota.

What Sony has always done best is build electronics...which they've been doing since the 1940's...I don't think building an electric car is that far out of their wheel house....but we'll see if it works out or not...there's a lot of competition. Sony has it's hands in many things....just like Hyundai. Everyone probably thinks Hyundai only makes cars but they make everything from offshore drilling rigs to RAM and SSD's. (SK Hynix)...though most spun off into individual entities.

Can the current laptop be plugged into a monitor and still be used? That would allow more time to find something good instead of compromising on something you might not be happy with.

Monitors with speakers built in are called TV's.

No hot air station. I have a Hakko FX888D Soldering Station and I have to use a magnifying desk lamp since my eyes aren't what they used to be.

I bought a circuit board so I can build my Nixie Clock. I have a lot of soldering to do.

Your example doesn't seem too bad...as long as buying NFT's doesn't become another form of micro transactions in a "Pay to Win" scenario.