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- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
When I was a kid and Facebook was new, I remember everyone wanting an account. The way I see it, Facebook just kept those users who wanted it when it was new. Who’s to say that the same won’t be true of TikTok later?
- Comment on Tesla Sold Only One Car in Korea in January 4 months ago:
And I see a lot of them driving around too! But the impression that I get from Koreans is that the idea of Tesla and especially Elon Musk really appeals to them. In my anecdotal experience, people idolize Musk here. In my own conception of things, it makes sense given the control that companies like Samsung have over the population here. It’s so natural to be under the rule of companies that when words like “world’s richest man” get thrown around, people can’t help but throw themselves at him
- Comment on Tesla Sold Only One Car in Korea in January 4 months ago:
Koreans love foreign brands and consume the most luxury brands per capita in the world. These luxury brands are more important here as status symbols than anywhere else I’ve lived. I’m surprised by this stat because I work in a very wealthy part of Seoul and see many many teslas each day. It’s honestly baffling how many teslas I see. But I’m with you: why not buy local? Why buy a Tesla at all?
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 4 months ago:
I live in Korea and I see the Samsung foldable phones in the hands of like every 5th person, so yeah I’d say they sell
- Comment on Ultimate List of FOSS Android Apps (300+ Apps, last updated 2024-01-08) 4 months ago:
Just peeking at the list and saw a QR code scanner with the note, “My personal QR code scanner because Android still don’t do that in their native camera…”
Does it really not? I have a Google pixel 6 and the camera provides a clickable link when a QR code is in the frame. Is that maybe a firefox thing? Idk I thought it was the camera app
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 5 months ago:
Nvidia shield is what I got instead of Roku and holy shit it’s so much better. It can be flashed with another OS as well.
- Comment on Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam 5 months ago:
X-files theme
- Comment on I hope this ship holds together! 5 months ago:
Like the vents start blowing hot air or the ac shuts off temporarily? If the former, then your ac probably just can’t keep up with the extra heat in the engine
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 5 months ago:
Yeah this was a big change for my parents who always complained about slow wifi speeds. I spent a summer wiring the walls with cat6 and plugged everything I could directly into a big switch I got for them. Printers, desktops, start tvs, the lot. Then I set them up with multiple access points and voilà, the wifi is suddenly fast again without upgrading their plan
- Comment on Gilbert's gripe 6 months ago:
Mon chat 😭
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 6 months ago:
x = kiss
- Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home 6 months ago:
Yeah
- Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home 6 months ago:
Booo. Orson Scott Card took that term from Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 7 months ago:
Most likely with the language the monkey’s paw would be that you can’t speak any other language. I imagine you’d also be unable to learn any other language again. At any rate, linguists would still celebrate and you’d just have to make friends with people who want to learn that language for some professional, academic reason
- Comment on bro pls 7 months ago:
It’ll pay for itself with the electricity bill savings!
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 8 months ago:
I think they were wondering what service you use
- Comment on Share with those less fortunate 8 months ago:
Venmo is an app used to send cash with a little note to describe what it’s for. It’s owned by PayPal. When someone asks for someone else’s Venmo, it normally means they want to send cash. The person with $1 remaining must have given their Venmo info out hoping to get some help, but instead the person who asked for it requested their last dollar.
That’s an explanation of what is happening here. I can’t tell you why it’s funny as requested, but that’s because it’s really not that funny
- Comment on Fell asleep while wife was driving home last night, she went above and beyond by remembering how important this was to me... 9 months ago:
That’s insane. My Subaru is approaching 200k which I thought was pretty good.
- Comment on Fell asleep while wife was driving home last night, she went above and beyond by remembering how important this was to me... 9 months ago:
How about 180k?
- Comment on Still tugs on the heartstrings 9 months ago:
Alright fair, though I wouldn’t say that this is a stereotype. I read the meme as being men don’t cry/yes they do
- Comment on Still tugs on the heartstrings 9 months ago:
The meme is going directly against the stereotype. That’s it’s point.
- Comment on The mist Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke 9 months ago:
It’s not rude. I say youse.