I’m not upgrading anytime soon with current RAM/storage prices, which means I’m stuck on 16GB of RAM for now. But eventually that won’t be enough. For somebody who doesn’t already have a halfway decent computer and doesn’t have a ton of time to game, I can see this being a much better deal than owning your own computer (provided your internet latency and bufferbloat are good enough). For the amount of time I actually use my computer for gaming I know it would be.

Ya at current memory and server gpu prices it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they aren’t even making any money at 40c/hr.

As a former Kansan, Missouri is way way better for any urbanist. Their state government allows cities a significantly higher degree of autonomy than on the Kansas side. And they have Branson which even single-handedly would make Missouri better than Kansas.

Seriously. At least back then their Android app was basically unusable. I haven’t tried it since, but suspect that because ads I’d probably hate it anyways. It was an unhealthy addiction.

Educated computer nerd here. AI has fundamentally changed how you do CS in industry, it’s completely unavoidable at this point and not using it in some capacity is doing yourself a massive disservice. It’s able to catch edge cases we’d never have caught otherwise. The important part is indeed understanding what it’s doing and keeping contributions organized/concise.

That doesn’t make it any less scary from an ethics and model oversight perspective, but from the perspective of the project it is fundamentally just another tool. Linus appears to feel this way too. Frankly I’d be more concerned if there weren’t people using AI on Linux, especially to validate kernel level security.

The crazy part is that the US can already see exactly how this path goes by looking at Austrailia. And unlike Austrailia the US can’t rely on high rollers from Asia where gambling is largely illegal.

As a cheapskate who likes casino promos I’m personally pro-gambling, but we need incredibly strong regulations to prevent self destructive levels of it. The stuff you see in the assistance line while adding promos to your players card is crazy. The casino workers don’t even question it when people ask for a cash advance on their credit cards.

Ya, they’re sequential. So if you have a devastating loss you can’t just immediately delete your account, you need to cool down for 24hr before they’ll even let you request a full 90 day self exclusion. And finally only after that can you actually delete your account.

Even free streaming services like Tubi often use DRM for large portions of their library. So in turn nearly every paid streaming service also uses DRM.

I wouldn’t really blame the PCP. It’s not as predatory as it sounds at first, especially considering it uses the wording “balloon payment” for one of the options at the end of the term. The horrible value you’d get on a PCP is nearly the same as the depreciation plus interest you’d have on a normal car loan over the same ownership period if you were to sell. Meanwhile traditional leases are far less flexible, often not even offering a buyout option, let alone one at a price guaranteed by contract.

The bad value is in wanting to drive a new vehicle. There’s practically no upside to buying new over used, even if it’s only 30k miles or so on it.

For EV’s specifically people also drastically underestimate the battery lifespan based on early gen Nissan Leaf’s and similar early vehicles lacking a true battery thermal management system. There are excellent deals to be had for 3-4yr old EVs.

Yes, the entire crater is surrounded by a fence and on private property. It’s not worth the admission price just to see a crater imo. It’s a national landmark, not a national/state park. Unfortunately that designation means very little other than the owner being eligible for some tax breaks so long as they keep it preserved. I find it insane that such a landmark wouldn’t be taken over by the state for preservation.

From my social circle at least college seems to be by far the most popular place where couples met eachother. Nearly every couple we knew in college is still together almost a decade later. It’s followed by Hinge, but we only know two couples who met there. We also know two couples who met on discord, so that’s also definitely a good option if you’re already into some hobby which isn’t heavily dominated by one gender.

We already have the developer option to allow apps not verified by Google. You can do the 24hr wait now to preemptively enable unverified apps, and then nothing will change whenever they choose to actually start enforcing signatures. I’ve already done it and although a bit annoying it’s far from enough a roadblock for me to get rid of my phone. We need better Linux phones, or banking apps that can actually work on graphene without the constant cat and mouse game of passing play integrity in the Google space. Even if we had a great Linux phone many mobile websites just try to redirect you to their app rather than build a real mobile website, so it would be tedious to use for many functions. Graphene is great, but the number of Android apps that refuse to run without play integrity passing is far too high for me to risk buying a compatible phone and going all in on it. Perhaps the new Motorola partnership will be able to help this in some way, but I won’t believe it until I see it.

Given Debian’s slow development and focus on stability above all else I doubt this will make any practical difference to contributions that actually end up in releases. And honestly at this point every OS or piece of software needs to have AI reviewing its codebase for vulnerabilities, even if it’s not making any code contributions.

I just saw this in theater and was very impressed. It’s super ironic that Warner Bros tried using it for a write off considering its message. I also found it quite satisfying knowing that my ticket purchase didn’t go to Warner Bros.

Hopefully it will have legs in the coming weeks. It’s genuinely great and definitely the closest thing we have to a spiritual successor of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I’m kind of surprised it ever got made in the first place, adults don’t tend to go to animated movies with children’s characters and court battles aren’t exactly prime children’s content. At least in the theater we went to the audience was made up entirely of adults.

With RAM prices what they are the push for snaps may already be this… On memory constrained systems snaps already have a huge performance penalty.

Allstate is a horrible insurance company. I was hit by someone running a red light who had Allstate, and the way they handled their insured party’s non-cooperation was terrible. Both my dashcam and a police camera recorded the collision. They called the driver but got cursed out and hung up on. I don’t think they tried anything else before denying the claim.

Wait I’m confused now, if you play a legitimate game online using a switch which has previously had a flash cart used it can be banned? I was under the impression that as long as you didn’t go online it was fully undetectable, allowing you to use legitimate games online as you want without needing to switch between emummc and sysnand. Nintendo probably doesn’t care about the homebrew software in the same way they do piracy, but unfortunately for them that’s all the flash carts can do, hence why from their perspective I say every version is cracked.

I’m not up to date on switch modchips but last I checked you needed to solder a flex pcb such that it made contact with pads under a BGA chip. As it goes that’s quite intensive rework for a hobbyist. I’m an electrical engineer and use professional BGA rework equipment at work regularly. Our success rate for BGA rework is like 80% for ICs that have been desoldered and resoldered before. Sure you don’t need to remove the chip to get the flex PCB soldered, but the risk of shorting balls and needing to remove it on an expensive piece of hardware is too much for many hobbyists.

We have legal precedent that the police cannot use GPS trackers. A similar case was opened for the APLs in traditional speed cameras, but they were determined to be constitutional since you have no expectation of privacy on a public road and a camera can’t be used to track you like GPS. The networked APLs accomplish the same result as GPS trackers just without technically using a GPS tracker.

This is just what they want no? Fewer foreigners visiting the US is good in their books I thought.

And there are flash carts that work on every model now. They don’t work for online play of course, but neither do traditional modchips/softmods.