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by bluescrn 3mo ago
Especially those who planned to use a random password generator to come up with their brand name
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
> “We aren’t including this book because we don’t think it’s appropriate for kids to learn about trans people.” <—- censorship Removing books from public libraries (not just schools) because we find criticism of certain ideas around g
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
I cancelled Game Pass when the recent price hikes quit. Then realised just how few games I'd actually bought this generation. Game Pass was a mistake, or at least putting big AAA releases on there on day one was.
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
Yet the biggest selling console of all time, the PS2, sold 160 million units.
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
How do those stats look 5 years later, when one is stuck with a degraded battery, and the other has had an easy battery swap?
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
5 years later, after a battery swap, the model with a replaceable battery has a longer battery life than the one stuck with a degraded battery.
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
Replacing a Switch 1 battery really annoyed me. No problem with tiny screws and fiddly disassembly. Big problem with the truly excessive amount and strength of adhesive holding the old one in place, and having a real struggle to remove it (
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
It's not about games consoles. It's about reducing the mountains of e-waste. We shouldn't be throwing away laptops, smartphones, or consoles - or soon, entire EVs, just because the battery has degraded.
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
My day 1 Switch battery was definitely significantly degraded when I did a DIY battery swap a couple of years back. Battery longevity varies based on usage patterns and likely other factors (temperature?), but it's normal to notice a s
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
The Switch 1 is almost 10 years old. Batteries don't have that much longevity. And it was unnecessarily hard (actually dangerous due to fire risk) to replace it with a 3rd-party battery replacement due to excessive amounts of strong ad
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
All the effort put in to stopping drivers distracting themselves with phones while driving, then we get big distracting touchscreens with apps front+centre in many new cars, and apparently that's OK.
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
The original 80s Darda cars were great fun, with enough power to get around great big loops. One of those childhood toys I wish I'd took more care of and kept hold of... They did still produce a version relatively recently (looks like
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
Chilling effect on insurrections.
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by bluescrn 3mo ago
> Free dental care is considered "extemely left wing" now? That's just bizarre tbh. No more bizarre than the idea of free speech being ceded to the right. Apparently even air conditioning is now a left vs right culture war
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Motor vehicles are very dangerous too, including higher-power e-bikes. Lock those out too unless you can provide digital ID (and a high enough social credit score) each time you attempt to start them.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
That's like saying you can build a competing railway network or a competing power grid. Natural monopolies are a thing, and chip production has become pretty close to one with the vast resources and timescales required to attempt to co
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Or the winners of the AI race will make enough money to buy up the majority of global production indefinitely... But even if things recover in a few years, Apple makes a lot of money from massive markups on RAM and storage and not allowing
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Prices are never going down, even if the shortage eases. The era of cheap high-end computing is likely over. And it'll be used to pressure people into switching to thin clients and ever-more subscriptions High-end desktops were already
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Requiring a sodding Copilot advert on the keyboard too, in the case of laptops..
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
The huge markup on memory/storage upsells are were they make all their money
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Yeah, for a few short months Apple had a really nicely priced entry-level machine. Now so much with a 20% price hike on an 8GB machine with soldered RAM
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Bring back upgradeable RAM and storage.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Of course the vast majority of people opposing this bill have zero interest in manufacturing firearms. I 3D print as a hobby, mostly items related to retro computing/gaming and things like Gridfinity storage boxes. But I value my priva
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
They can cross state lines, take a trip to Vegas, visit the casinos and makerspaces...
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
And China wins the AI race
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
How long until people get police showing up at their door because they tried to print something harmless but gun-shaped (like a light gun for retro games, or Nerf-style toys) and were flagged by the AI 'firearm detector'?
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
Yeah, if it was the UK cracking down it'd make more sense, but IIRC the US already has more guns than people. And in places where guns are tightly regulated, most people couldn't get hold of ammo even if they did build a printed g
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
They're inexpensive and you can learn the basics of using one in a few hours. (But doesn't the bill also cover subtractive manufacturing?)
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
They'll also have to ban motors and microcontrollers. As they can be used to build 3D printers and drones. Maybe they'll ban Github, too - as it hosts unregulated open source software that can power these scary tools.
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by bluescrn 4mo ago
In the US I believe there's many metal 'spare parts' for guns available, including the barrel, so don't need to print the whole thing. So they're usually not talking about entirely printed guns. A pure plastic gun s

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