That's pedantry that serves zero purpose to the story. It's an article for layman, and the only reason to even bring up a VPN is to mention Apple listening to the Kremlin. It serves little to no narrative purpose.
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This is Houston posting
it pisses me off to this day what we lost. That platform was, apparently, 15 years ahead of its time. I remember streaming gameplay to my friends. We seriously lost so much when it died.
I could set records with my streaks
I switched to Arch a month ago because of Microsoft forceful integration of their shit AI tools into 11. Easy switch.
The video in the article shows lowered arms flashing. Very visible with plenty of time to stop despite the foggy conditions. It just didn't.
I could see them offering a new console that is mainly for cloud purposes. Microsoft believes the future of gaming is streaming. The only government body that paid any attention to this during their purchase of Activision blizzard King was the United Kingdom. While streaming is still pretty shitty right now for games, I think Microsoft has their sights 10 to 20 years ahead.
It's schmear, we are civilized here.
The screenshot here in this very thread specifically says that they are an expert