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Re:'Supercharger on wheels' brings fast charging to you on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:39PM (#40461640)
i believe that's just a plug in hybrid
tone indicators are wonderful and i highly recommend them when theres any doubt as to your intent due to the tone agnostic nature of text :) /gen
Re:People who won't give up floppy disks on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:44PM (#40349439)
Free_Cupholder.exe
they do and people lie. regardless, i strongly dislike the idea of an ML model being used to try to guess this. can't wait for one to hallucinate that i'm 10
i know the feature you mean and... it only sends it to people who are in that server. i dislike it because a ML model is looking at my text and trying to regurgitate it, but theres no expectation that the people who get those notifications were never able to see. people lurk all the time, and discord messages arent ephemeral
the fact that it doesnt have analog triggers is so annoying because otherwise i LOVE the switch pro controller
but you're using a vpn at the coffee shop for privacy reasons, and the compromised dhcp server will allow a malicious actor to read all of your packets anyway
indie is literally a shortening of independent though, the term i believe originated from musicians who would release their music without a label to publish them
Re:Square Enix to record extraordinary loss of 22.1B yen on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @06:52PM (#40217431)
i vaguely follow? and i think final fantasy <number> denotes a new series, with then any words after <number> being different entries in said series?
Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down on Sunday April 28, 2024 @09:10PM (#40193380)
lightning was brilliant when it was introduced, but now its just USB-C but nonstandard
Re:The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:46PM (#40193028)
especially if you just buy a single pro license and keep it across all your pc upgrades. i havent paid for a new windows license in years and all my copies are legal, dont keep nuking and buying new keys and its not expensive
Re:A New Era for Mixed Reality on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:09PM (#40127047)
if i want to play a map of alkatraz, which is a song i own, i cannot do so without modding because beatsaber will never release demondice tracks
Re:A New Era for Mixed Reality on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:01PM (#40127001)
i mean, its an android fork and some ios derivative so thats exactly what it is :D
schools should not cost $100k/y, that is a fundamental problem
when your mum's angry at you and needs to make it known
Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:19PM (#39937413)
are cards that dont have paywave or whatever really that common in the US? my bank cards have both had it
because the reason beef chicken and pork are popular is because they are high volume and therefore cheaper than other meats, we have an ample supply of chickens/cows/pig/other livestock. it makes more sense to go after segments where they can get higher margins until they can optimise processes and get more volume to keep up with the livestock industry
Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:29PM (#39911975)
bimetallic strip doesnt necessarily mean magnetism, i believe in this case it simply deforms to flip a switch
Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:02PM (#39910816)
discord has forum channels too so ephemeral chat isnt just what it is anyway
> There outta be a law against registering people to vote if they want nanny-states.

hard pass. what nations need is more participation in democracy, not less. i agree that a law that makes the bar culpable for patrons actions is probably incredibly stupid, but a law that makes it illegal for people to vote because their opinions are different from yours? what?

not to mention blitz charging a battery isnt ideal for it's health, if you want to maximise the life of your batteries you should be charging them more slowly where possible
boeing whistleblower probably
Re:F-35A's Beleaguered 25mm Cannon Is Finally "Effective" on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:57PM (#39834210)
amazing progress on a weapon thats entirely redundant on a modern battlefield, if the f35 is ever in a situation where it can get guns on an enemy, many things have gone horribly wrong and it would honestly be much better to chuck a 9x at the target or, even better, have lobbed an AMRAAM at them at 40nm

there's a reason that the B and C variants don't have a gun

that ring is already someone elses property, i presume this law affects only "unclaimed" falling rocks i would assume
people keep talking about drivers being uninsured but i have to ask, is that not part of what car registration is supposed to cover? where i'm from there's mandatory third party insurance which is bundled in with your rego, its impossible to drive a car that is registered unless you have insurance, is that not the case in the US? what do your rego fees go to?
Re:Would you pay for a phone built for you? on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:37PM (#39822996)
the only reason doing so with things like PCs is because of everything being standardised, PCIe, ATX, SATA, DDRx
Re:The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:48PM (#39822606)
> and hopefully a more general prohibition on kids having them at all

sounds like one to me :)

i misread your intent then, to me at least "gambling apps with game skins" and "fun games with predatory monetisation" are distinct :>
genshin is fun on its own but a friend of mine spends so much money on it that it's honestly terrifying, puts me off of playing it all that much. i would love it if it were $60 and everything was unlockable with a reasonable time investment, or even if it were a sub model like a lot of MMOs
a gamer would wind up with worse power efficiency from an intel CPU because of how much wattage they draw under load, there's a reason i'm on ryzen and not core atm

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