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by bluescrn 3y ago
Google aren't exactly a struggling small business
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They killed their most reasonably-priced ad-free option (without bundled music service): https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23889917/youtube-premium-...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The battle for general purpose computing (as opposed to locked-down content-consumption devices) is already lost.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Few people had a need for it, so few people used it, so Google didn't care. That's just changed as they try to bring the hammer down on ad-blockers and people are scrambling around looking for new ad-avoidance methods. Having mult
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It costs more than Netflix in the UK, and you still get some ads (sponsors in many videos). (If there'd been a £6.99 Premium Lite option, I'd probably have paid. But then again, I've been on a subscription-cancelling spree th
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Yeah, it's also used for drugs, cybercrime, and gambling/speculating
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Waging war on cars is waging war on the economy. The economy is our life support system. Aggressively pushing bikes as the only future of transport is kind of ableist. Fine for healthy young people, in flat areas, on dry days. But not for t
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Short term gains, long-term destruction of beloved franchises
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Nah, might have helped give it a bit more life for another year or two, but even if the Amiga (and Commodore) survived the era of Doom (386/486s), it was never going to survive the arrival of Quake and Pentiums, let alone the arrival o
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The Amiga really struggled to handle Wolfenstein/Doom clones due to the layout of it's video memory making if even harder for the already-slow CPU. The chips that made it great at 2D games held it back at 3D. This new engine is an
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Steam could take 90% and the 'gaming community' would probably defend it (and therefore developers don't want to be seen criticising the almighty Valve) Epic got a lot of hate for merely trying to compete, to weaken the Steam
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Playing on an original Asteroids cabinet with vector monitor these days is an interesting experience. I was surprised by the brightness/dynamic range, it seemed way beyond what you get from an LCD. Its like it's got an bloom effec
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by bluescrn 3y ago
High DPI screens give more options for exact integer scaling too, before putting shaders over the top. The other often-forgotten issue is running 50Hz PAL games smoothly. This should be getting easier, with more screens able to run at 100Hz
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Reducing suicide to a 'guns issue' is unhelpful.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Depression -> comfort eating/alcohol -> weight gain -> depression. Doesn't matter what initiates the cycle, but once you're in it, it's very hard to get out. You're not likely to manage to 'just exerci
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Being severely obese can make you feel suicidal. Many users of these drugs will likely be familiar with those thoughts before they start. And a measurable drop in weight may be give them more hope than any antidepressants could do. (Antidep
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Covid fizzled out, then we were told we were amidst an imminent climate apocalypse. Good time to make that end to unnecessary commuting permanent, right? Didn't last long, did it?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Ad-blocker-blockers are becoming a lot more common. We need ad-blocker-blocker-blocker tech now.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
This seems about the most ridiculous way possible for a homeless person to charge a phone. If phone charging is really something that's been overlooked by the many organisations trying to help the homeless already, it's just a mat
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's the right approach to making money. For the big tech companies.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's cameras literally everywhere already. If you leave your home, you get recorded. That's just the world we're in now. If somebody wants to record anything covertly, there's surely better options out there already -
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by bluescrn 3y ago
How many people actually use a 'naked' iPhone, I wonder? A case of some kind is almost mandatory, not just for scratch/drop protection, but to add some grip, and so it can lie flat and not rest on the sticky-out cameras.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Given how ads tend to be louder than the content, you could probably detect it based on the average audio level without any fancy AI
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Gives me a good reason to cancel Prime. Haven't been getting so much value out of free delivery as I'm not buying much physical media any more. Between Prime Video and the occasional delivery, it seemed worth keeping it. But I won
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by bluescrn 3y ago
You're literally saying 'we should inflict more pain on the relatively poor'. And it's not just about transport. With ever-rising energy prices, people are literally forced to choose 'between heating and eating&#x27
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> The bottom rung of society is going to lose their transport. And in many cases, they're also going to lose their jobs. Politicians are incapable of thinking beyond the M25, so are probably expecting everyone to just hop on the Tub
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by bluescrn 3y ago
That relies on actually being able and willing to construct infrastructure rather than just letting it decay. (And maybe, just maybe, we should create viable alternatives before pricing vast swathes of populations off the roads and out of
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I learned to code in the 8-bit days where you'd count to 1000 in a BASIC for loop to create a significant delay. I guess I've not got out of the mindset that doing anything 1000x is quite a lot (particularly when you're aimin
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The usual solution for something like this is just to spread the work over multiple frames. Most game enemy logic doesn't need running every single frame. Update 10% of your bots every frame. Also consider whether 360 rays is really ne
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The question is whether there will ever be an affordable used market for EVs (comparable with the used ICE vehicle market), due to the high price of new vehicles combined with battery degradation. Will EVs have the multi-decade lifespan of

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