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Wired’s YouTube channel has a fun video with a trauma surgeon discussing all of the injuries from the first 2 home alones.

https://youtu.be/qgd_V5WqLjg

A while back a few of us at work erected a festivus pole in a separate area and had the airing of grievances. It was somewhat therapeutic and boosted morale.

Genuinely curious, what are they using to access the Internet? I’m struggling to believe they brought smartphones with them that are universally compatible with the cell networks? Do they have PCs in the barracks and the dudes are just huddled around having the time of their lives?

Sounds like Qualcomm finally got a taste of FAFO

Wouldn’t the fine be in £ at that point?

And the constant one-upsmanship to make them more and more ridiculous

Remember when tech companies wanted you talking to your phone for everything out loud. Hey Siri, eat a boiled dick.

That’s how some people found it, but it would disappear when someone would login to investigate.

Amusingly as I was reading this comment thread my room service arrived and it had shrimp with the tails buried in pasta.

Even phones have been available with more than 8 gigs of ram for ~5 years

It’s really sad that this needs to be an actual headline.

I like using perplexity because the ads aren’t in your face and it’s pretty good at providing concise answers… And it doesn’t fuck with my news feed every time I look up some random thing

I installed one of these new displays this past weekend and it looks fantastic in Linux. Granted I’ve only tried Plasma so far on Wayland but that’s because I really don’t find Gnome usable. It looks good at 200% though and a similar scale to 150% on the old display.

Vista was absolutely the slowest thing imaginable. They reduced the requirements as part of a marketing campaign for “Vista-ready” PCs, but PCs that ran it “well” were few and far between. Even after 7 came out if you went back to Vista it was noticeably slower.

Does fast charging reduce the lifespan of a battery like this? The headline is bothersome because my suspicion is it won’t last 20 years if you fast charge all of the time and whatnot. I realize that’s not a typical case but it’s good to understand the trade-offs.

Speed Queen for the win. I recently replaced a couple of trusty machines that had finally given up after decades of abuse. Went for speed queen, no regrets.

After seeing how at&t manages their systems, their app, their stores, and talking to tech support… This doesn’t surprise me at all. This all from the viewpoint of a layperson who has used them for service for 15 years or so. Unfortunately I also have a Verizon account and they seem to also be utterly incompetent. I think it’s rampant in the telecom industry to just have absolute shit for a back-end. A race to the fucking bottom. Fuck these execs that enable this shit, send them all to jail.

It’s really unfortunate they kinda screwed over threadripper customers so bad in this way, but they’re still the lesser evil by a country mile.

Not only Asus, it talks to general ways to understand warranties and rights across the industry.

Not to mention the charging infrastructure is one of the reasons some people haven’t made the switch yet. Anything holding back charging expansion is a disaster in my view.