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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Extracting money from horny young men with an illusion of intimacy/friendship just doesn't seem ethical. Or good for society as a whole. Especially when you've got streamers using sites like Twitch, aimed at younger gamers, p
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
> Tahoe is a macOS mis-step on par with Windows 8 or Windows Vista Not even close. It's taken a few steps in the wrong direction, but nothing compaered to the user-hostility of Win8 (attempting to move users from 'real Windows&
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by bluescrn 9mo ago
Note that it's always a claim of Russian (or maybe Chinese) propaganda. Never middle-eastern propaganda. The level of radicalisation over Israel/Gaza really doesn't look organic, when compared to the reaction to other conflic
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
Seriously, why are touchpads not a solved problem yet? Why are so many machines (including some fairly high-end models) shipping with worse touchpads than Apple were shipping over a decade ago?
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
Most flash drives and wired mice/keyboards are still USB-A. And people have huge piles of charging cables that are USB-A to micro/mini USB or USB-C.
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
I think I've still got a Compaq iPaq in my collection of obsolete gadgets, but last time I tried it the battery wouldn't hold a charge at all. More disappointingly, other gadgets of a similar era - such as a Creative Labs Nomad Ju
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
> Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one. The Amiga was not just an OS. It was all about the custom chips that added such interesting and powerful capabilities to an othe
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
It’s about actively blocking police and other emergency vehicles while allowing a new class of problem vehicles, illegal e-motorbikes, to pass unimpeded. As a motorist, the war on cars (and milking of motorists for tax revenue) would be les
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
And the delivery drivers were probably paid more than they are now…
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
LTNs and pedestrianised areas are great for criminals on illegal high-powered e-bikes. Purpose-built getaway routes.
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
Linux isn’t much use if you can’t get hold of (non-locked-down) hardware to run it on
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
Can headphones that stick to the spec actually play nicely with multiple devices? - switching quickly between phone and laptop like Airpods do?
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
A decade in computing used to mean revolutionary improvements: - from the C64 to the Pentium - from the Playstation 1 to the Xbox360 - from the Nokia 3310 to the iPhone 4. Each of these in roughly a decade. But 2015-2025 in terms of desktop
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
It not really about kids. It's about reducing online anonymity for adults, isn't it.
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
The very people with the most to gain from silencing dissidents or suppressing certain viewpoints given the power to restrict access to selected social media platforms while encouraging the use of others. None of this recent crackdown on so
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by bluescrn 10mo ago
And who gets to decide which platforms count as 'social media'? This is a problem with Australia's attempt to ban kids from it, where there's some surprising exemptions from the restrictions.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Easily replaceable batteries would certainly extend the useful life of many devices, though.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Many people drive older cars worth less than £4000. Sticking to old/cheap cars seems like an increasingly good option with so many scare stories about the pain and extreme expense of getting modern cars, particularly EVs, repaired. And
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
It's an interesting case study. They're essentially another 'App Store middleman' raking in a huge 30% cut for selling games digitally. But they do enough really good stuff to keep both gamers and developers generally ve
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Starting to make Apple's RAM upsell prices look competitive...
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Might almost be a good thing, if it means abandoning overhyped/underperforming high-end game rendering tech, and taking things in a different direction. The push for 4K with raytracing hasn't been a good thing, as it's pushed
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Not holding out much hope for a good Win12 given the priorities seem to be to wreck the UI/UX, remove customisation options, turn things into advertising billboards, and force AI into everything (even bloody Notepad).
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Meanwhile in Windows world, Win11 has been out for what, 4 years?, and we’re still clinging to Win10
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Yelling 'racist' at Farage for over a decade hasn't got rid of him. Maybe 4 more years of doing the same thing will do the job? Can't see the Tories bouncing back in a few mere years. Labour are heading rapidly into the
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
The UK is perhaps less competent at it's authoritarianism
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
For those who don't like the source, also reported here by the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvrnnvzo
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Depends whether you're considering the total useful resources of Earth (diminishing, e.g. fossil fuels), or total accessible resources (increased by technology). Or either of the above per-capita...
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Capitalism is flawed for sure, but nobody's come up with anything better yet. Burning the system to the ground for another attempt at communism would be insane.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
In the UK, it seems that it's mostly spent letting the boomers live long and relatively luxurious retirements that younger generations can only dream of.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
It's not the food, it's the exercise. Kids don't play outside and ride bikes for miles like the used too. They just stare at screens.

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