halcyoncmdr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo apologizes as Switch 2 demand overwhelms supply in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo, like many Japanese companies, only produces what they know with 100% certainty they can sell. They purposely underproduced the Wii so it constantly sold through retail and absolutely no stock stuck on shelves for long. They don’t actually care about complaints of supply issues, that is intentional.

  As a side effect they also get to constantly stay in the headlines as their constant lack of supply keeps being reported. So they get free marketing as well, just by operating as they always have. And with current global supply chain conversations, they get a free smokescreen with the general populace going out of their way to blame someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are my friends looking out for me or just ableist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These are classic signs of abusive relationships, regardless of autism.

  Trying to control and limit your interactions with others. Convincing you to abandon other friendships because those relationships pose a threat to their control over you. Preying on your own insecurities to further increase their power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s entirely likely. That site hasn’t changed a bit in over 2 decades. .

  While publicly known external security vulnerabilities may have been found and patched over the years, having the source leaked means a look behind the hood at new weaknesses and a field day with exploiting them.

  If 4Chan does come back, I think it will look significantly different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The window for a convincing UFO video has closed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on your description of development. Socially, economically, etc we have reverted and are doing the same things that failed 100 years ago. But there have been breakthroughs elsewhere.

  Cas9 gene editing through CRISPR has opened a ton of incredibly valuable medical options around that time. The same with mRNA vaccination breakthroughs leading into the COVID era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hottest Star Trek character?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is of course Neelix. That’s just objectively obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please may be useless. Thank you isn’t useless. That tells you that the prior response gave them the answer they were looking for. No response at all could mean that, or that they gave up, or any number of other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why bother with that? That’s gonna be $1000 just for the box alone, and still lock me into the Synology ecosystem.

  I can build a NAS with more capability for less than that. Like taking a Jonsbo NAS case and have the freedom to do whatever I want with it, with plenty of space to move everything else I’m running over to that as well. Even their N5 would likely be less expensive, and I’d have room for 12 HDDs and 4 SSDs then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had been considering upgrading, my current 4 bay Synology is physically full, and running out of space. Moving that to a larger Synology box and adding drives is easiest.

  But now instead I’ll probably just switch to a more traditional NAS instead. Run TrueNAS, or maybe give HexOS a look. If I’m going to have to convert from my current proprietary Synology filesystem anyway I might as well rebuild from scratch. As it is I’ve shifted all the services off the Synology and Docker to a dedicated Proxmox box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they were saying the car software wouldn’t add artificial distances to short trips, where it’s more obvious. Not that the real world measurement is difficult or anything like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair the bagging area issue is usually caused by a bad configuration, and usually weight based, not camera recognition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is the teacher doing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You can’t put your hands on the students”

  “Okay”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think are some strategies trumps Russian handlers use to get that bafoon to do what they want?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They just tell him what Putin would like to happen. No leverage necessary. Trump admires dictators, it’s clear he wants their approval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The advertisers are paying for the opportunity either way. Clicks cost them more money than just displaying the ad. Useless clicks cost them money for nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the type of thing that law firms will send without consulting their client first as soon as they were made aware as a default response, without considering any context to verify proper action. Which in most cases would be fine, but in this particular genre, because of shitty companies like Nintendo, can cause direct reputational harm.

  It is Wizards of the Coast though, historically they’re not much better, so this would be 100% believable coming from them on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind how the US tends to split when voting. Both sides of the country tend to separate from the middle, where land votes.

  I’d bet you can get 10 consecutive states from Canada on both sides through Washington/Oregon/Cali and New England down the coast a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two kinds of people that think our healthcare system in the US is great.

  1. The rich who can just pay for whatever they need.

  2. Those that never utilize the system at all in any form beyond maybe basic checkups.

  Absolutely anyone else can tell you the entire thing is a shit show. Especially those that work within the system. There will always be some living in denial, just like there were pro-COVID nurses and doctors, but the vast majority will tell you the system is broken by design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand what the possible motivation for this is. Most of the other actions are clearly tied to Russian interests or general interference and destruction of US power.

  Going after Greenland doesn’t really assist either of those goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They already added a subscription.

  Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they’ll still end up net negative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.

  To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren’t following the “rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do” approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HA SEE THAT LIBSSSS! CHEAPER EGGS!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair… A year ago they were very close to the same price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked in retail phone repair for 15 years, both for a major US carrier and privately… A lot.

  I saw water damaged phones every single day, and I’m hundreds of miles from an ocean, sea, lake, or any major body of water. That’s just from mistakes near things like backyard pools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rise! We protected the group from wild animals for centuries as they slept! We allowed them to sleep peacefully, without fear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said it was impossible. I said it was harder to both make them replaceable and water resistant. And they won’t bother to do both for 99% of models, they’ll just drop the water resistance to comply with replaceable battery requirements. There might be a few that they bother and then sell at inflated prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true. It’s possible, but more difficult to design and much more likely to fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could say the same about Facebook, and Google. Yet they don’t have any issues funding talent.

  Money makes the world go round, at least most of the time. And enough of it can make just about everyone shove their principles into a box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite what he may say at times. He’s not necessary for SpaceX operations. Gwynne Shotwell runs the day to day company, and they aren’t public so no need to say anything publicly for headlines like he does with Tesla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes to review social media of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's Executive order.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed this was already part of their process. Surprised it wasn’t to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Inkjet is great, for photo printing regularly. For absolutely every other situation a laser printer is better.