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  • I mean there’s no sources cause (as far as I can tell) Microsoft isnt planning on nuking their market share.

    But with 365, you get the cloud subscription. So that means OneDrive and Office files/emails being accessible in the cloud. Which, to be fair, is largely a really useful thing and besides OneDrive being a piece of shit program I don’t hear any complaints about that being available.

    Then when you install Windows it grabs a bunch of hardware IDs. This is things like what memory, CPU, graphics, drives, etc that you have installed and creates a “hardware key” that allows you to activate windows. When it does this, it sends that information off to Microsoft. According to Microsoft, it’s to stop you from using a license key multiple times. But in my experience it doesn’t really matter anymore.

    But theoretically (and I really can’t stress how far fetched this really is) Microsoft could mark your account as inactive which would cause you to lose access to all of your cloud files, and could theoretically (again, i can’t stress how unlikely this is) brick your OS install. Then if you try to reinstall, it would already know your computer and prevent the installer from continuing.

    And again, I know I’ve beaten this horse, but the chances of this happening are so close to zero, they may as well be.






  • They also pay off in a lot of ways besides the pure “dollar in/dollar out” kind of way that I think people forget about a lot. Things like soft power, economic growth, and cultural alliance are all incredibly powerful things.

    Its a shame the current administration is trying to gut the last 80 years of work the US has put into those things.





  • I’ve used pretty much all of the headsets on the market. I still haven’t tried a Big screen VR headset though :(

    For popular headsets I’d rank them kinda like this

    1. Valve Index - it’s just really old and really expensive now, don’t buy one unless you get a hell of a deal on it used
    2. Quest 2 - Still very very good, screens are getting a little dated now
    3. PSVR2 - its a little janky on PC but it works fine and the OLEDs are sublime
    4. Pixmax Crystal - Money not a problem this is the best headset I’ve tried. The FOV is crazy, displays are beautiful, and tracking is damn near perfect. Its just like $2300 for the whole lot
    5. Quest 3 - Overall the best headset on the market. Its $570 (just get the pro strap, trust me) and gets you so close to the big boys in screen quality, plus it’s wireless, plus it has crazy good passthrough (I use it a lot, most people don’t), and streams PC games perfectly.

    PSVR2 has really really really good looking displays, but it has some other downsides which really bring it down in the rankings. I’d stay away from it unless you get a deal on a used one, then it would absolutely be worth it.