Do we really need to define things in terms of what the average person is capable of? Especially when the biggest barrier seems to be “willingness to put a small amount of effort into learning a simple process”?

A surprising number of big names on there.

They said that in the broader context of saying they don’t think American cheese deserves the hate it gets. It was qualifying their defense of American cheese by saying they aren’t just blindly defending any criticism of America but honestly like the cheese.

From my POV, there isn’t a difference, other than a CCG gives you physical objects so wotc can’t just up and decide that they don’t want to run magic anymore and make all of that loot disappear.

But from the gambling perspective, it’s exactly the same. Oh, actually one other difference, electronic gambling can fuck with the odds in real time while physical cards need to be determined when the pack is assembled. But it’s still based on false scarcity.

Yeah, I think this would be a useful feature for games out of early access, too. It’s not as important (because not all games need updates) but it would be a nice plus to show how long it’s been since the last minor and major updates.

Maybe also add a standardized spot for possible features with various levels of confidence and ETAs (along with history so it’s easy to see when a feature has been “promised soon” for years). Devs could address common complaints in reviews this way, rather than replying to a few and hoping those are the ones people see, plus the nightmare of updating those replies if things like timeline change.

I’m curious how effective those bans have been. Is free porn difficult to access in states that have added verification laws or has it only affected the larger players that get attention while the ones that most people don’t usually think immediately of fly under the radar?

Does grapheneOS have paid devs or is it all volunteer work? And if they do pay devs, how do they get the money to pay them?

And as a follow up question to this, are there any container apps to run those apps that won’t work in a way that they think they are running on stock android?

It’s a safety issue. You need to find a urinal buddy to help protect you from any perverts that might enter the bathroom while you’re pissing.

Remember the whole secret code involving narwhals and bacon that some of Reddit leaned into while others cringed? And a good portion weren’t even aware of it despite using Reddit.

Though that’s more like 16 years ago now I think.

Yeah, I’ve wondered if the ones that come with heat sinks really need them or if it’s just a gimmick to make people think the performance is better.

I want one of those heat cameras some use in hardware reviews. I don’t need one, but Iwant one lol.

Passive cooling could be enough. Even a bunch of ssd chips wouldn’t take up all of the vertical space, so top of the case could just be a heat sink. Though it might need instructions to only install it in an enclosure that has a fan blowing air past it (and not use the spots behind the mobo that don’t get much airflow).

A lot of motherboards come with metal styling that acts as a heat sink for nvme drives without even using fins, though they still have more surface area than a 3.5" drive and only have to deal with the heat from one or two chips.

But maybe it isn’t realistic and that’s why we don’t see SSDs like that on the market (in addition to price).

Yeah, nvme drives show how little space the storage takes up. Just stick a bunch of them inside the 3.5" format, along with a controller and cooling, and that would be great for a large/slow (relative to NVME) drive capped by SATA speeds.

I don’t miss the noise hard drives make, plus it’s nice to not really worry as much about what kind of magnetic activity might be going on around it, like is my subwoofer too close or what if my kid somehow gets her hands on a powerful magnet and wants to see if it will stick to my PC case.

Not to mention the selection of games available is pretty paltry.

And those buying the ads would love to know if who sees their ads are bots or humans.

I was one of the “got game pass, usually forget to use it” subscribers. I ended up canceling when games I was playing were no longer available when I did remember about it so I couldn’t finish them anyways, plus the price went up.

Last thing I did was go through their games and add ones that looked interesting to my steam wishlist. And after I cancelled, when one of the games I had been playing went on sale, I realized another thing that I didn’t like about it that I hadn’t even known: they don’t advertise what games use invasive drm or anti-cheat software like steam does.

Though the main driving factor was wanting to divorce myself from as much reliance on MS/Windows as possible.

Yeah, it’s kinda like asking your mail deliverer when something you pre-ordered will arrive.

At which point even the ones who it does help will no longer be able to use it because it probably depends on an online connection for no good reason.

This is different from the old man angry at change meme. The change isn’t the problem; personally I like change and seeing evolutionary and revolutionary improvements.

The problem is that so many of these changes are for the benefit of the corporations involved in the product at the expense of anyone who ends up using it or is near enough to be affected collaterally.

The idea of a smart TV is nice. Except they put the underpowered hardware in it that struggles to display a menu. Maybe because of all the data it is gathering and sending home or the time it spends making sure the latest ads are downloaded.

Smart appliances are also a nice idea. Except most just want to connect to some proprietary web service so they can middle man every interaction to sell your data or a subscription.

A smart car also sounds cool. Except they are also designed to just make more money either via more expensive repairs, possibly even forced to go through a manufacturer approved mechanic because they use security features to protect them from competition, or by the usual selling your data and ads. Oh and also they can save money by sticking a bunch of controls into the software and not needing to make physical buttons. Also they save even more by also using underpowered hardware and probably not even bothering with UX design. Maybe even deliberately because bad experiences can be upsellers. Oh they also want to sell subscriptions to whatever they can, including to things that don’t even benefit from going through their services.

It’s all just rent seeking.

My favorite so far has been Enshrouded. Voxel world that doesn’t look like it’s made of cubes, plus souls like combat (though not nearly the same difficulty).