Humanius

I used to have YouTube Premium.

The main reason for paying for it was that I don’t like having to sit through ads. A nice benefit of Premium over ad-blockers was that a part of the revenue from YouTube premium goes to creators in lieu of advertising revenue. YouTube gets money for running the service, the creators get money for making videos, and I don’t have to watch ads.

I stopped my Premium subscription not because it was getting too expensive, but because YouTube is an American company. Ever since Trump got elected for a second time I have been progressively working on cutting out products and services by American tech giants from my life, and YouTube Premium was a very easy one to cut out.

These days I just use an ad-blocker. If the creators want revenue from my view, they can upload to a platform that isn’t YouTube.

I can’t point out where it went wrong without breaking rule 2

The dumbphones being released now should all work on modern networks. The connection being 4G / 5G doesn’t mean the phone must have an internet browser and an app store.

That’s when you acknowledge that you are both walking in the same direction and that it’s a bit silly. And then you say goodbye again when you split ways

That’s why he’s starting now, so that he can actually ride his work elephant by the time he is able to get his elephant licence.

Luckily software like Teams has noise cancellation, so keyboard sounds generally get filtered out.

If they take issue with you disliking Musk (since I presume that is the political belief you are talking about) then maybe they are not great company to keep.

Walled slop shop

The prospects for China are not looking particularly good. Decades of a one-child policy seems to have helped normalize one child per couple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

China has a fertility rate of 1.02 children per woman.
For comparison, in the US that rate is 1.62 children per woman and in Germany 1.46.

A “healthy” fertility rate, where the population remains more or less stable (not accounting for immigration), is roughly at 2.1 children per woman.

The West is going to have issues with their low birthrates, but the looming Chinese demographics crisis is looking to be much worse than what the West is going to be dealing with.

10 Mbps up in the year of our lord 2026?..
I swear to god, I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.

The first time I saw a black person as a kid, I was staring… as young kids do… The guy notices and engages by showing the palms of his hands and saying something along along the lines of “Look. Not all of my skin is black.”

Apparently that scared the crap out of young me

My mom still likes to tell that story sometimes

Turkey has been at it longer than the US has with Trump. I’d argue the US is doing a Turkey speedrun

They only have three models of laptop. The Framework 12, 13, and 16

Within each model they might upgrade the specs, or change some things around, but there is no break in compatibility from generation to generation. If you buy a Framework today, (assuming they don’t go bust) you will be able to buy the upgraded parts a few years down the line and slot them into your existing laptop.

Por que no los dos?

Some people like collecting vinyl records, others like collecting music on CDs.
To each their own, live and let live.

A bunch of politicians and government institutions for some reason…

Edit: That is also why the journalists are there

I did a quick Google, and apparently GTA 1 came out on PC before it was released on PlayStation, and GTA 2 was released on PlayStation five days before it was released on PC (according to Wikipedia)

I guess I should have specified every release since GTA III

Did anyone expect this game to be released at the same time for consoles and PCs?

Rockstar has literally never released a GTA game simultaneously on both platforms. The PC release has always been delayed by several months if not years.

The simplest explanation to me is that this way they get to double dip, since there will be people who buy it on Playstation, who will then also buy the PC version.

I travelled to the UK back in the 2000s, and they confiscated a bottle of lens liquid I had mistakenly put in my handluggage rather than the main luggage.

From the reviews I saw the U3 really only has macros.
In my opinion the activities are necessary for it to be a full-fledged Harmony replacement.

I’d love it if they’d release a base station-less version with activity capability. I see no reason why that wouldn’t be possible (other than potentially cannibalising their own sales with a cheaper and similarly capable model)