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disingenuous for the developer to pretend this was a surprise

Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.

Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.

The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.

The game is really quite fun, this is one of the first Battlefield launches to be devoid of any major technical issues or controversies

There’s plenty wrong with Microsoft and their messaging around this transition, but IMO Windows 11 really is more of the same, it just has some cosmetic changes and under the hood security features (related to TPM 2.0) that bring it up to speed with MacOS.

ads being introduced to the OS

“Ads” for first party Microsoft products (365, Game Pass) were present in 10 as well. Not aware of any ads for third party stuff, other than maybe the placeholder app icons for stuff like TikTok and Facebook on a fresh install - in both 10 and 11.

shedloads of telemetry

Also in 10

constant UI changes (Start menu, Settings app)

Not sure what you mean here, these things have remained pretty consistent since Windows 11’s launch in 2021

nags for OneDrive

Trivial to disable, and I’ll never be against reminding users to have some kind of backup. Ultimately, Windows 10 was also like this.

I do wish the article mentioned Linux as an alternative to upgrading / buying new hardware. Equally irresponsible is the omission of Windows 10’s ESU enrollment option, which currently delays this whole ordeal by another year.

The game is running at less than 40fps, they’re using the 3X Frame Gen mode

Granted, that’s at 4K and seems to alse be with most of the settings cranked to “Badass”

Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

Whoa holy shit what

[…] the update triggered storage failures that cause drives to disappear, making them and their corresponding SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) unreadable by the OS, according to a new report. The issue purportedly surfaces during heavy write operations to certain NVMe SSDs as well as HDDs, especially when continuous sustained writes approach 50 GB on drives and exceed 60 per cent controller usage. This could potentially lead to a “high likelihood of file corruption when symptoms occurs” adds the report (Translated from Japanese by Grok AI).

… oh

Why always with the clickbaity headlines?

Don’t forget to run Memtest ti make sure it actually works rather than just “works”

Creeping corruption is a bad time

a USB stick is enough

No, it’s really not. In addition to failing abruptly and often unpredictably, flash based media will suffer from bit rot when left unpowered for extended periods of time.