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Given what happened the other night, should Nintendo release Jake Paul's Punch-Out?

On the one hand, fuck the Paul brothers....

Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] (www.pcgamer.com)

Steam store page | GOG store page

Elon Musk's xAI raises $6B to build more powerful AI supercomputers (www.tomshardware.com)

"Bonjour" (lemmy.world)

Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description? (fedia.io)

Genuinely would love to see a list of Steam games that don't rely on that premise.

FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling (arstechnica.com)

Peer-to-peer serverless decentralized social media protocol built on The IPFS (lemmy.world)

Plebbit is a selfhosted, opensource, nonprofit social media protocol, this project was created due to wanting to give control of communication and data back to the people....

Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US (apnews.com)

UFO destroys two Israeli Iron Dome missiles, then jets away at Mach 30+ (rumble.com)

Google has developed an AI tool that generates fully playable 3D worlds (www.gamescensor.com)

Retrotink 4k CE Announced and Mini Restock (www.retrotink.com)

The CE is a lower power version of what is now called the 4k Pro. It is priced at $475, which puts it more in direct competition with the morph paired with a analogue bridge (I think that bundle would be $350ish). RetroRGB has a nice break down of the differences (link in the article).

Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide (Talk from 38C3) (media.ccc.de)

9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)

I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.

X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder (techcrunch.com)

One NZ launches nationwide D2C texting service with Starlink (www.rcrwireless.com)

Mastodon Annual Report 2023 (blog.joinmastodon.org)

Direct PDF link

Misskey Has Reached 1 Million Registered Users! (fedidb.org)

Fan Made Dreamcast Port Of GTA 3 Steals The Show (hackaday.com)

Are PC Hardware Companies Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems? (www.scottrlarson.com)

Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)

when did you stop using dial up internet?

for me it was back in 2012 i think

what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites

microblogging is something used on a much more personal level while i think forum style social media is mostly for looking for answers and posting things you do, but microblogging social media sites are for that too. also, this is not meant to be offensive, but i think that since mastodon has been in the works for like a long...