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I feel like this is a good initiative for reducing waste from the europeans that they made Apple install USB-C ports in the iphones to reduce the waste and standerdize the ports for all new phones that are coming out but i feel like in a year of two they are gonna get rid of the port and keep it wirelessly charged.

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YouTube just recently added an update for their free users to stop them from viewing videos if they have ad blocker extensions on their web browsers. I mean it's a good thing for YouTube to increase their ad revenue and in the end we're back to being annoyed by ads or just being forced to buys the YT premium subscription. What do you guys think about this and what would you do to stop getting ads?

Last month, my son came up to me and asked if he could use my a credit card to register for a Fortnite tournament it was only $50, and he played that game quite well. I loved gaming when I was his age as well, so I was supportive of it. A week goes back, and he paid my back and said I won the tournament and to my surprise when he told me his winning prize it was a PS5 with a cash prize of $7,000. Like what! This was amazing, like a kid from anywhere can compete in a tournament and win prizes from the comfort of their home. I guess this is a booming age for the E-sports industry in my opinion.

When ever there's a game I'm hyped about it and make my man cave ready to watch the game as if people are gonna come over when it's just me, my wife and our dog. In the end I just need to feel special I guess. Does anyone else do something like this or is just me lol?

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2 years ago Apple only had the intel CPUs in them which were a pain, they over heated and were the reason most macs were expensive and had CPU issues and a lot of fan noise all the time when you asked it to put some power to do tasks like render videos and all, but since apple made it's own CPUs the M series every mac that has them is far superior to any intel chip mac that's even speced out to $50,000 just would be defieated by a simple $1,200 mac mini with a M1 Chip in it.

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