There are a ton of working class Trump supporters but the voter data is right there. A ton of his support, including a lot of his most passionate support, is non-college educated upper/upper middle class whites.

yeah, it's unfortunately the one place where the 8GB apple silicon laptops can struggle. safari is better, but mostly you've got to close your tabs regularly. but hey, new laptops soon which means decent trade-in offers from apple!

oh i assure you being on east coast time meant *nothing* this time.

i think it predisposes people to view a publisher more negatively and when you have an at-best neutral image, big grifty social media pile-ons can really hurt you.

a growing concern of even the slightest hint of antitrust enforcement. even if a government agency couldn't force changes at valve, an investigation/subpoenas could be embarrassing.

yeah but you know it's tough getting leadership to walk away from what they feel like is free money with low lift. it's been hard for execs to get past the "they'll pay anything" mentality across the industry. this does make me wonder if they worked out a more favorable cut with steam.

i think the comps for the original window are way, way stronger than they anticipated - it seems like a big call of duty year, veilguard is previewing very strongly, and the ps5 pro could draw a lot of spend away from software. that's a scary window to drop a game with toxic chuds hanging on.

the verge write-up is whiplash-y as fuck on this topic.

honestly it was basically silent before that, this is mostly to protect from cats.

At the post screen it didn’t detect anything on the CPU fan header so I think that’s as close as I’m going to get.