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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Google might soon make it slightly less scary to install sideloaded apps.

    Today:

    Your phone and personal data are more vulnerable to attack by unknown apps. By installing apps from this source, you agree that you are responsible for any damage to your phone or loss of data that may result from their use.

    Your phone currently isn’t configured to install apps from this source. Granting this source permission to install apps could place your phone and data at risk.

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    Sean Hollister
    HP’s leaked OLED monitor has practically every feature I want.

    Part of an upcoming crop of 32-inch 240Hz 4K OLED panels — this one’s got a powerful KVM. Plug in a USB-C laptop to get a 2nd monitor, peripherals, and 140W PD charging, then switch its many USB ports over to your desktop via DP 2.1 or its pair of HDMI 2.1 video inputs instead. Plus, it’s got a small square base: I hate the big V-shaped ones.

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    Sean Hollister
    Lego Polaroid vs. real Polaroid.

    Here’s my video TL;DR on the new Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep set and how it compares to the real thing! And here’s my exclusive story about how Lego designs such a set.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Netflix will have 86 games by year’s end, nearly 90 more in dev, 10 of those in-house.

    By year’s end, we’ll have 86 games available —all included with every Netflix membership without ads, in-app purchases or extra fees. And with nearly 90 more games in development, we’re just getting started.

    Axios reports 10 are developed in-house, and that “it’s going to be a while” before Netflix streams games broadly (as opposed to download). One of the upcoming games is Sonic Mania:

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    Sean Hollister
    Epic juror confirms Google’s deleted chats were a factor in the verdict.

    Xu Yuan, a friendly courtroom reporter for MLex that I sat with regularly during the trial, managed to obtain an interview with one of the Epic v. Google jurors — who confirmed that Google’s deleted chats affected their decision.

    That same juror found Tim Sweeney “very honest” and more credible than Google’s CEO.

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    Sean Hollister
    Fortnite on Steam Deck? Sweeney says Valve needs “tens of millions of users” to justify it.

    A tidbit from my interview:

    Why is Fortnite still not playable on Steam Deck?

    If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.

    Epic’s own Easy Anti-Cheat does support Steam Deck, though — and both Valve and Epic agreed the anti-cheat part should be a simple matter in November 2021.