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- Comment on I aM tHe DeVeLoPeR wHy Do YoU AsK 4 months ago:
Also: Move stuff, don’t delete it. It’s faster to restore from a renamed folder than from backup.
- Comment on Children suffered 'burning stomachs' and 'tingling hands' after restaurant allegedly served insect repellent, not juice 4 months ago:
Maybe they need to stop reusing old Sunny D jugs for storing insect repellent.
- Comment on 'Furiosa' Edges 'Garfield' in Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995 5 months ago:
This is sad to see. It’s a great movie except for the inherent spoilers due to it being a prequel (instead of going “oh shit” you go “ah, this is where she loses her arm”), and it deserves better than bombing. I hope it recovers in the next couple of weeks, but at this rate they’ll probably cancel The Wasteland.
- Comment on MFA 7 months ago:
YubiKeys have almost every imaginable form factor these days. Here’s the USB-C version without NFC:
- Comment on MFA 7 months ago:
They’re talking about operationally. They don’t want to configure and distribute a bajillion dongles to users.
- Comment on pull with both hands and spin around four times and text your mother good morning and blink si 7 months ago:
It is in fact often intentional. It’s basically the same business model as printers. They make money from the refills, not the machine. Obviously people want to save money with generic paper, so they make sure the dispenser only works right with their paper.
What the dispenser manufacturer doesn’t consider is that whoever orders the paper doesn’t use the dispenser, so they don’t give a shit whether the dispenser works well or not. In fact, it not dispensing well saves even more money on paper!
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 7 months ago:
I never claimed you did. I just clarified which plan you were on, and added how their other plan works. This could be nice for others to know. I don’t know why you’d take that as a personal attack, but I certainly didn’t intend it as one.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 7 months ago:
I can’t be bothered to research every plan to answer this question, but Mint Mobile was dirt cheap while using T-Mobile service. They probably still are, but it arguably doesn’t count anymore since T-Mobile acquired them.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 7 months ago:
This is the Unlimited Plus plan. Their Simply Unlimited plan throttles you after 5 GB of hotspot usage, but phone data is unlimited.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 7 months ago:
They absolutely can, several carriers who use other carriers are cheaper than who they lease service from. They won’t be paying consumer prices to use those towers.
It all depends on what margins they have, what extra services they provide, and whether they have other ways of monetizing you. They might even be reselling at a loss to boost their initial market share. In Google’s case, it’s safe to assume they want your data and sacrifice some margins to get it.
- Comment on Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever - IGN 10 months ago:
Did you store your content on physical hard drives? That follows the spirit of the statement.
- Comment on Hop in, boys, we're going on a roadtrip. 10 months ago:
Fun fact: Poo Poo Point is not named after poop, the natives named it after the sound a train makes.
- Comment on "Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!" 10 months ago:
I don’t know, but my guess would be people gaming the algorithms. Search results have also gone to shit after everyone SEO-ed them to death, and this is probably the same.
My favorite optimization is this restaurant in NYC called Thai Food Near Me:
- Comment on Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update 11 months ago:
It was running on a pretty old engine. It was based on the Quake 1 engine, but some features of the Quake 2 engine got tacked on along the way. There was some more eye candy added as well, but something with that basis isn’t going to be as power hungry as Unreal.
- Comment on I'd sure like to block everything from nsfwlemmy and pornlemmy, but can't seem to find the option to do that. 1 year ago:
Boost also supports filtering instances.
- Comment on Forbes' kiss of death 1 year ago:
The secret ingredient to get on the front page of Forbes is fraud.
- Comment on why host your own files when someone else can do it for you 1 year ago:
They’re suggesting that they copied the HTML file, but that the archived one had modified references pointing to archive.org, which they did not notice and therefore didn’t change. So now the file fetches resources from the wrong place.
- Comment on nooooooo 1 year ago:
Oh no! I have a hard enough time changing diapers now, can’t imagine how hard it will be when I’m 109 years old!
- Comment on nooooooo 1 year ago:
While potty training, my daughter held her poop for over a week. We had to cave and let her use a diaper, because she was at risk of permanent injuries. Then suddenly one day she decided diapers were for babies and started pooping in the toilet.
