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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is there any electronics made only for the UK? What for example?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Ruined Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Windows have always been trash. Windows 9x were the worse.

Windows NT was better, Windows XP was trash at release then got better with updates (the service packs).

Windows Vista was a shitshow, then 7 was better. Windows 8 was horrible, the 10 was a bit better.

Windows always oscillates between trash and acceptable. There is not much to “ruin” to be honest.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98% compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If a game doesn’t run on Linux I can’t even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98% compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
XBOX must have 100% of games available on Playstation. Otherwise nobody will ever switch.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There is no emergency that can’t be handled by the adults of the school.

I can understand needing a phone for the commute, but at school it should stay in the bag turned off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are arcade cabinets so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won’t work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it’s not worth it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
OK, it’s 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.

And you might say “let’s have trains run at least once per hour then”. That means running empty trains all day, not sure it’s the best way to spend public money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Trains suck if you don’t have frequency, and because of the population density with a good frequency more than half of the trains will be completely empty and the rest almost empty.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s from Valve, they’ll make sure it works on the Steam Deck.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Reading the article, it’s not the content that caused the ban but sharing it to too many people (her beta readers) she was seen as a spammer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do mobile games suck nowadays?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Survival of the fittest. As is, the type of game that makes the more money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The problem is that the Steam Deck plays PC games, that were designed for a big screen. You can’t make the screen much smaller than the current Deck while keeping it legible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The Game gear and GBA played games that were nothing like the home console games of their time.

This is what the Switch brought to the table. Breadth of the Wild was a great home console title, and you could play it handheld on the go.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In his video, he shows that the more common answers are actually 42 and 69.

I discards them because they’re picked for a reason rather than a human genuinely trying trying to pick a random number, but they’re still way more common than 37.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great question Michael⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Enterprise can afford more than individuals and all businesses always find a way to make enterprise customers pay more.

For example when you buy a plane ticket, it’s much cheaper if you have a weekend between your onward and outward trip. Because business travelers will travel during the week.