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- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 5 days ago:
I modified my 2600 to have compositie output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 5 days ago:
Nice, still in use? Show the front too, these are pretty receivers.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 6 days ago:
Those are modern! My audio equipment used DIN plugs. And the tv only had an antenna input.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 6 days ago:
Seems Dutch. The price includes all taxes including VAT as is mandatory in Europe but still it’s very expensive. Price seems about 3 times too high for a novelty beer from a small brewery. My guess is that this photo is taken not in a shop but in a drinking establishment, such as a bar or food court.
- Comment on The perfect date 1 week ago:
However for countries that adopt dd-mm-yyyy, it’s also completely natural to say it out loud in that way (20 April 2026). So by that reasoning we will never end up with a universally accepted date format.
- Comment on The perfect date 1 week ago:
The Spanish would write Ago
The French would write Août
The Greek would write Αυγ
Arabic speaking would write أغسطس
Using words doesn’t seem as universal as numbers.
- Comment on The perfect date 1 week ago:
Epoch is signed though, that 1970 date is the midpoint
- Comment on Sony's PlayStation Profits Rose 37% – Powered by Tariff Refunds, Not Game Sales 1 week ago:
I understand that Americans suffer under this and that many people are actually against tariffs. We don’t have to disagree there.
However this article is just about the Sony PlayStation. No one forces people to buy a PlayStation. And Sony, a Japanese company, is also not affiliated with the US government.
- Comment on Sony's PlayStation Profits Rose 37% – Powered by Tariff Refunds, Not Game Sales 1 week ago:
The prices went up, and customers accepted that price. Bargaining after the deal is made generally doesn’t give you a strong position.
The American definition of a voting majority is not relevant here. What matters is that Americans put Trump in place, knowing he would impose tariffs, making foreign products more expensive. Just because millions didn’t vote for him, doesn’t exclude them from the consequences.
- Comment on Sony's PlayStation Profits Rose 37% – Powered by Tariff Refunds, Not Game Sales 1 week ago:
Let me play the devil’s advocate.
The question is, how do you legally know that they passed all that cost on to the customers? After all, customers did not pay the import fees directly. It will be a hard case to make.
Also, a majority of Americans voted to introduce tariffs. It was a big part of Trump’s campaign from the start. The reason Sony received this money in the first place was because of errors made by the American government, making the tariffs illegal. It was the US government that is responsible for this money, not Sony.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 1 week ago:
In my experience it’s more common in industrial (plc) and embedded software. Where people don’t have to work in large teams.
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 1 week ago:
They do cover rescue costs, but only up to a certain limit. You can get a temporary (and affordable) travel insurance for special activities such as thrilling mountain adventures possibly leading to a helicopter rescue. If you don’t have such an insurance the cost will not be as high as in the US, but can still be thousands of euros.
- Comment on German Fokkers 1 week ago:
Anthony Fokker was a Dutch guy and he built the first Dutch airplane in 1910. He started production in Germany in 1912 and moved the company to the Netherlands in 1919. Fokker continued to build airplanes until 1996, 76 years later.
Messerschmitt was founded in 1938. So at he at the time of this newspaper, Fokker was very much Dutch.
- Comment on The only one country 1 week ago:
However the goal is still to provide everyone with healthcare. If you cannot avoid the insurance you will get a subsidy or even an exemption in most countries.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 1 week ago:
Tried Ecosia but they want you to turn off an adblocker as they are ad supported. I don’t like ads as they contribute to overconsumption.
Tried DDG and it was solid but it wasn’t very good in local search results (I live outside of the US).
So I’m using Qwant for the time being.
- Comment on Carenheit 2 weeks ago:
Wish everyone just followed the ISO norm. It dictates that you can either use a period or a comma as decimal separator. And for the thousands separator don’t use it, or use a space.
- Comment on RAM crisis averted 2 weeks ago:
1000 TB is 1 PB AI uses around 500 PB worldwide Breasts are not big enough
- Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets? 2 weeks ago:
A small magnet doesn’t do any harm.
Even in a modern phone there are devices that can be influenced by magnets. Such as the digital compass and autofocus/image stabilization. But the effect is mostly temporarily - Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 2 weeks ago:
Long filenames were introduced in Windows 95. It was done by means of an extension to the filesystem (VFAT). The long filenames were preserved when you copied it to another computer but didn’t show up when you used older DOS versions.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 weeks ago:
You mentioned:
This intentionally misses the point.
It’s physical and digital distribution.
You now mention:
Where do the GAME files come from? Disc or cartridge? Physical. Internet? Digital.
So is the definition of digital/physical related to the distribution, or to the medium? My original comment was that it was related to the medium, which is in line with your last comment, but it doesn’t match with your initial reply.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 weeks ago:
Did you play it or install it from a physical medium? Physical.
So you agree that it’s related to the medium then. Not to the distribution.
As you mention, a distributed box without a disc counts as digital. A distributed box with a disc counts as physical.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 weeks ago:
How about we ship a box with both a digital download code and a disc? Would you classify it as digital?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 weeks ago:
It sounds logical. However, by that definition, game boxes with download codes would be physical as well… Yet Sony isn’t killing those.
To me it’s clear that it’s not about the method of distribution or the way data is processed, it’s about their business model in general.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 weeks ago:
Discs are just as digital as internet data piped through fiber optics. It’s a deceitful term which doesn’t cover the true change: perpetual license vs time limited license.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ideally you want the OS to be updated, because old OS are vulnerable when the computer is networked. In fact most IT departements require every PC to have an up to date OS.
It’s not always a matter of bothering - many applications are customized and made for a specific purpose. An application could have been sold to only one company as a one off. Want an update after 20 years? Sure, after paying another invoice, provided that the developing company still exists and is still willing to support such old tech.
It is just a given that many companies are stuck with some old software somewhere in their process. That explains the policy for Windows.
Windows: “if we stop shipping this 25 year old library 5% of corporate users will experience problems which will cost us money and reputational damage, so we keep it compatible.”
Linux: “we are going to replace X with Y because it is better. Things will break and it is up to the community to solve it.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What is the application you had issues with?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What is the problem of running 10-30 year old desktop software locally? This is actually very common in some sectors, such as governmental infrastructure or industrial use. It’s not like those applications are reachable from the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not sure what you mean by old.
10 year old Windows software? Will definitely run.
20 year old Windows software? Will run but might require admin rights or compatibility mode.
30 year old Windows oftware? Might run but probably need a VM.
For Linux the focus is more on improvement, less on compatibility. That’s a deliberate decision.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 3 weeks ago:
Europe doesn’t use split phase.
US split phase uses a local transformer to split a phase voltage in half. We don’t have such a complication. We use just the three phases that are transported all the way from the power plant.
The phases are 120⁰ apart. The voltages between the phases is 400V and the voltage from any phase to neutral is 230V (all voltages ± 10%).
380V is a decades old standard from the time when different European countries still had minor voltage differences
- Comment on In this day in age is it still hard for a person to "come out the closest" ? Or do we need the boomer generation to go away until it is so acceptable it becomes laughable for both parties? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the country and their social circle.
Boomers have little to do with it. Boomers normalized contraception, were among the first generations to discuss sex openly and played a significant role in changing attitudes toward homosexuality, from being widely criminalized to becoming more socially accepted in many countries.
Even if boomers die there will unfortunately still be conservatives and religious people of all ages that oppose anything other than being straight.