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- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
The news feed can have ads, but the poorly designed feature itself isn’t about showing ads. It’s just showing the top item of the news feed.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
This was a survey. They weren’t gathering data without consent.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 2 months ago:
By the comments I’ve seen, it seems like no one read their previous announcement where they said they were delaying the feature while they continued work on it. We already knew they were still going to ship it.
Just having it disabled by default is a massive improvement. It’s crazy that they initially considered releasing it with no encryption and it on by default.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
It would be interesting to see the Supreme Court try to enforce that on the person who has the ability to suspend habeas corpus and have them all arrested.
- Comment on Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11 2 months ago:
The build a pc tutorial is a huge outlier when it comes to their site. They’ve been pretty consistent in quality compared to most tech news sites. They’ve got a strong ethical standard and they fact check the things they publish.
- Comment on Golly-gee, what possibly could have caused you to stop using your account? 2 months ago:
The description in the post mentions that they canceled it.
- Comment on A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’? 3 months ago:
This is the judge who ruled that Google has a monopoly and abused it. If Google is paying them, they didn’t pay enough.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
It’s just nearly $600. Practically free.
- Comment on Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? 4 months ago:
Most EVs do put on the brake lights when you lift off the pedal and the regen system kicks in.
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 4 months ago:
The thing that got me was the lighting. I’ve been camping and you just can’t get a good photo of your tent fire. Not as well lit as this at least.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 months ago:
They did change one thing. You used to be able to get electricity at wholesale prices from certain providers. When the rates went crazy during the 2021 storm and people’s crazy bills for turning on the lamp blew up on the news, they shut down that option.
These rate surges do hurt customers, but now it’s in the form of rate increases when their contract expires.
- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 7 months ago:
I don’t think you’ll find a color laser printer that size. They use pretty large drums to hold the toner. It’d be hard to find a mono laser printer in that size.
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 7 months ago:
It’s not mentioned in the filing, so we can only speculate.
…on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims.
That’s all we’ve got to go on.
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 7 months ago:
It basically is a tweet. It’s a quick post, which is designed for The Verge writers to write a quick thought or link to a story using a website they control instead of posting it on Elon’s website.
- Comment on Not hiding it 8 months ago:
It’s weird. It’s usually the people who don’t understand how primaries work who are the ones to think the popular vote picks the president. Glad to see you understand at least one part of the electoral process.
- Comment on Not hiding it 8 months ago:
The DNC didn’t select them, those picks won the primaries. The voters picked them.
- Comment on Tesla recalling another 2.2 million vehicles for warning lights that are too small. 9 months ago:
You don’t need to take it anywhere. The car will download it using its own antenna and then prompt you to schedule the update the next time you get in the car.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 10 months ago:
That’s basically CES in a nutshell. Nearly everything shown off won’t be useful for years.
The headline seems to be targeted at dedicated Verge readers who know that AI is the current big buzzword at CES, they are likely a bit tired of it, and are interested in something that’s not AI.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 10 months ago:
The article is about how new products are getting support for Wifi 7, so probably none of your current devices.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 10 months ago:
There’s no way Chick-fil-A does it. I got a few bites into the Popeye’s sandwich and then realized they weird, off putting flavor was a pickle brine. I order all chicken sandwiches plain, since I have a really sensitive tongue and can’t stand the taste of pickles. The only time there was a hint of pickle flavor in a Chick-fil-A sandwich is if the person who bagged the sandwich had pickle juice on their gloves when they grabbed the patty.
I think they just salt brine their chicken and the common misconception that they pickle brine comes from the fact that pickles are a vile vegetable whose juice soaks deep into whatever they touch and most people order them with pickles.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 10 months ago:
People like to compare them, but they have such a different flavor when you order them plain like I do. The Popeyes ones are pickle-brined, so they have a faint taste of pickles with every bite. I can’t stand the flavor personally.
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure there chicken is not actually pickle brined. I can’t stand the taste of pickles and I order every sandwich without them. I can’t eat the Popeyes chicken sandwich because I can still taste the pickles they were brined with, but I don’t get a hint of pickles from chickfila’s sandwiches.
- Comment on KFC be like... 10 months ago:
That’s individual fast food restaurants, not fast food chains.
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
The author complaining about Threads defederation from spinster was a pretty big red flag. It’s on every mainstream mastodon blocklist I’ve seen.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition | Free on Epic Game 10 months ago:
It does include the DLC.
- Comment on The 'ol 1 2 11 months ago:
You heard about Pluto?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off the level of optimization achieved for the Xbox Series S port, which bodes well for future PC updates 1 year ago:
The series S is the lowest spec console that they are targeting. In order to get the performance they want out of it, they are trying to optimize as much of the game as they can. Those optimizations have decreased the amount of RAM, VRAM, and CPU load the game is using and those optimizations affect the PC version as well.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
I actually had a whole paragraph about junctions being a limit and then deleted it since i didn’t feel like it added to my point. I also was going to add a point about how much space the lanes take up and that even if more lanes added capacity, it didn’t necessarily mean they were the right option.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
It does increase the capacity of roads. Two lanes holds twice as many cars as one lane. Four lanes hold twice as many cars as two lanes.
You’re probably thinking of induced demand, but that’s related to traffic congestion and not capacity. More lanes ultimately means more cars are getting places, but any individual car will see that congestion is just as bad as it used to be.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ 1 year ago:
I don’t know about the other two, but I know one of them is SimAnt.