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  • AMD wasn’t quite “happy” to sell their fabs, it was necessitated because they were facing bankruptcy. People forget but the prevailing opinion was that AMD was going to bankrupt within a few years.

    Their pre-Su CEO, Rory Read, often gets shit online for being there during a bad period, but he made some difficult and necessary decisions that saved AMD. Part of that was the GF selloff.

    I highly doubt Global Foundries is even in the position to buy Intel, they’d most likely want to give them a cash infusion in exchange for tech or for selling fabs (which intel would probably accept, since their fabs are currently under-utilised… in other words they have too much capacity, and yet are still building more because Chips Act says they have to). That would be good for GF.





  • Why on earth would they bundle gamepass into Office365? Office365 is pretty much used for business and educational institutions. Everybody else is a rounding error.

    The overlap between Office365 owners and Xbox gamers is extremely small.

    You’d just end up pissing everybody off by combining them

    • “They’ve added how much to the price by adding this gamer nonsense?! I don’t need that crap, I want office software!”

    • “They’ve added how much to the price by including fucking PowerPoint and Outlook?! I don’t need that crap, I want to play games!”

    And not to defend MS, but a 43% increase isn’t nearly doubling. A 100% increase would be doubling.


  • Reminder that the UK is actually fairly lax in comparison to other countries when it comes to showing your drivers licence to police. Most countries require you to have it with you when you drive, the UK does not.

    If you don’t want to show your license, don’t. Say you left it at home.

    They can request that you come into a police station with it within 7 days, but in reality they probably won’t because they can trivially search for this information anyway.

    Certainly don’t hand over an unlocked phone.