https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor

If I was a government intelligence agency I’d probably sell my soul to get access to these…

I get that they have legitimate use cases for corporations, but why are there virtually no consumer grade CPUs without that stuff ? Surely they would be less expensive and no one would miss the features on their home computers.

Add ~1800 hours of LoL and ~800 hours of Minecraft

I have not touched LoL and TF2 for years, and only play dota and Warframe sporadically now. I’d still recommend all of them except LoL though.

A sucker

Like it or not (personally I don’t) lots of brits care about them. And a surprising amount of non brits too

Tbf, the early games industry was notoriously bad at crediting people

Ok, thanks, this gets me one step closer to finding the “missing link”.

Do you occasionally play videogames ? I’m asking because my parents are younger than you (they are in their early 60s) and tech literate but for some reason it never clicked with them, nor did “internet culture”. Like, I would be extremely surprised if one day they started expressing interest in stuff like Reddit (let alone Lemmy) and I’m trying to understand why. So I guess my followup question is how did you get into Reddit ?

I just had one today

“Do [registry edit that won’t help]. Alternatively, try [setting that does not exist] Anyway this is not supported anymore as of [very old version] (actually still works)”

And in true windows fashion, the thing just needed to be disabled and enabled again. After it was broken by a windows update, of course.

Also in the main story. At least in the “canon” ending

Because they started building that up in The Witcher 3 nine years ago ?

I’d like to be completely non violent but headlines like this make it really hard

Seal of quality

I was taught that the consensus amongst historians is that it would have happened regardless

I will forever try to look like that when opening double doors

quietly removes Egyptian pound bill from wallet