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Microsoft’s repairability push now extends to Xbox controllers, too (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a wierd time. In the last 2 months I've cheered for Microsoft and Meta. WTF?

[–] dinckelman 6 points 1 year ago

Don't get too excited. Both of them are still not your friend, and will rob you any chance they get

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did Meta do something good?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open source LLM models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried llama 2 yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, and at least one variant. It's pretty decent.

[–] Zoness 2 points 1 year ago

Okay this is a genuinely good move from them. Unfortunately nobody I know really owns modern Xboxes anymore, but I hope the rpessure forces Sony to consider the same.