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- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 7 hours ago:
If I remember from my USB product design days, as long as they don’t include any of the official markings on the product or packaging, they’re in the clear.
- Comment on That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. 4 days ago:
That’s me with United Healthcare. They charged me $80 for an annual checkup that was supposed to be free. Part of that checkup was a $14 cholesterol screening that was literally listed among the free things that came with my plan.
I contested it, they said that they reviewed my case and found nothing wrong. I escalated, which involved writing and physically mailing an appeal. They sent me the same response back that they reviewed the case and found nothing wrong.
So yes. “Fuck it” as the article says. $80 is not worth it.
- Comment on Who turned on friendly fire? 5 days ago:
Zoomers are prime draft age for WWIII and it’s a popular haircut among them.
- Comment on Who turned on friendly fire? 5 days ago:
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
McDonald’s specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.
We’ve all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.
- Comment on 2017 called 2 weeks ago:
MJ Should be way more bloodshot/glossy
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
As someone who boycotted the TSA for like 5 years and only took Amtrak, the tickets are not always cheaper. I mean sure, you can get across the country for like $100.
Even when I was doing Boston-Baltimore on the Acela, it was routinely slightly cheaper to fly.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 weeks ago:
There were so many issues
- Final boss was lame and level leading to it was slow and tedious completely killing the momentum
- Camera system was wonky
- Rocket nozzle barely got any play
- Jet nozzle was too difficult to control to be useful outside of specific racing segments
- Pachinko machine physics were fucked
- The lily pad level was unfairly difficult
- There was no way to track which blue coins you found. Like even a grey coin marker for already collected coins would have been super helpful.
- The reward for getting blue coins was pathetic
- Yoshi was criminally underutilized. The whole juice mechanic was used like twice.
The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 weeks ago:
Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not so much overheating as dropout. Batteries lose both energy capacity and power capacity over time. If you draw too much current from an older battery, its voltage will drop significantly and possibly prematurely shut down the phone.
Lowering peak current (by slowing down the phone), can prevent your phone from shutting off while it still has like 20% capacity left.
Considering Apple was doing battery replacements for like $60 (before bumping to $100), and this was a setting that could be turned off, I think the only real crime was enabling it by default and not properly informing users.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 2 weeks ago:
This is the kind of equipment you need to fix your problem.
A lighter does not have the precision to do it unless you are insanely lucky.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 weeks ago:
Some people don’t have access to decent tasting tap water and bottled water is expensive.
Tip: If your water tastes like chlorine, just fill a pitcher and put it in the fridge. Whatever chemicals they use will off gas overnight and it’ll taste great in the morning.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 3 weeks ago:
Or is it yet another example of social decay, that parents can’t even discipline/raise their kids well enough to allow them outside without leashes?
From what I’ve heard, the expectations of behavior for children in public spaces has gotten a lot more strict. People generally have very little patience for your kid’s antics. Also fewer mothers are dedicated homemakers, and when time and energy are tight, a leash might be a good bandaid.
- Comment on kiwis! 3 weeks ago:
Packed very tightly. I believe the mother can’t eat for the last few days of carrying the egg.
- Comment on kiwis! 3 weeks ago:
They also have one of the largest egg size to mother size ratios of any species of bird.
- Comment on New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc 3 weeks ago:
I feel like I remember someone doing this like 10 years ago. Can’t find a link.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
See also: Iron Man 2
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 4 weeks ago:
I wish the whole streak paradigm was time weighted. Like I got over a 1 year streak on my Apple watch over Covid. That’s basically never going to happen again. I wish there was some kind of “this is your longest streak in the past <time period>” or something. It all just feels so all or nothing.
- Comment on Avocado 4 weeks ago:
cleanpenis.fart
- Comment on Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm having trouble scrolling on lemmy.world 5 weeks ago:
It started happening on other sites too. I think it’s the “Yet Another Smooth Scrolling WE” I had installed in Firefox acting up. Disabling the plugin and scrolling has improved.
- Comment on On trees... 5 weeks ago:
Yo momma so fat she sat on a binary tree and swashed it into a linked list in O(1) time.
- Comment on On trees... 5 weeks ago:
Something poetic and quaint about a link to a Wikipedia article titled “Tree”
- Comment on Why do bikes have a solenoid? 5 weeks ago:
Is it because the amps are high
Yes. I don’t know about for motorcycles, but in a car, it’s like hundreds of amps. That’s a lot of fucking amps.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a conundrum 5 weeks ago:
You’re used to seeing your mirror image. You aren’t perfectly symmetrical, so your reflection looks slightly different than your image in a camera.
- Comment on The first ever earthquake fault rupture captured on a security cam in Myanmar 1 month ago:
No thank you to the Earth.
Seriously though kind of wild how simple the whole thing is. Like less dramatic than its portrayal by Hollywood by a long shot.
- Comment on What is the most "Indie Feeling" game that is definitely NOT from an Indie Studio? 1 month ago:
Little Bit Planet
- Comment on Night shift ER visitors 1 month ago:
A little insensitive to mock the people who fell backwards in the shower on a bottle of Pert.
- Comment on Just a pic of two besties 2 months ago:
Lesbian fist jab
