*gamer voice* i got into gaming for the games, and the fun, but now its really all about the updating for me. games have stagnated over the last 15 years but updating? updating has gone from strength to strength. i probably update 30-40 hours per week most weeks. update steam. update steam deck. update PS5. update PS4! update nintendo switch. update nvidia geforce experience. update AMD Ryzen Master Tuning Utility. update anti-cheat kernel module. update xbox Sign In To Xbox login system. updat
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*gamer voice* i got into gaming for the games, and the fun, but now its really all about the updating for me. -
as someone who likes to insert new clauses into sentences i've already written, until they're creaking under the weight of their own grammar and are barely readable, the advent of "the ability to edit posts" has been a very dangerous escalationas someone who likes to insert new clauses into sentences i've already written, until they're creaking under the weight of their own grammar and are barely readable, the advent of "the ability to edit posts" has been a very dangerous escalation
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these have so much more character than the modern packaging designsi swear something happened to colours that were used in product design from before the 90s-00s to afterward. barely anyone uses those really rich, deep reds or warm yellows or subdued greens anymore, even people that are trying to invoke a retro feel. that's one of the things you notice when they make a reproduction of a vintage product: the colours are wrong? like they'll come in the same selection of colours but they won't be the right ones or something
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these have so much more character than the modern packaging designsthese have so much more character than the modern packaging designs
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you can definitely see that the failure of the latest few waves of tech investment is kind of a failure of imagination. decades of the same guys with the same stale dreamsthe big trend in tech for the last 15 years especially i've noticed is so far from the "product market fit" narrative you hear about. instead, it's revolved mostly around the complexity and all-encompassing nature of communications and commerce technology itself being used to coerce and herd consumers into exploitative relationships. the objective of the software developer is to design ever-more elaborate traps, or at least produce a continuous supply of delicious-looking bait to fill them with
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you can definitely see that the failure of the latest few waves of tech investment is kind of a failure of imagination. decades of the same guys with the same stale dreamsyou can definitely see that the failure of the latest few waves of tech investment is kind of a failure of imagination. decades of the same guys with the same stale dreams
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told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins.it only gets better
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told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins.anyway, when you see something like this, it's a sign that someone was cheap enough to not buy a fuse 50 years ago, and/or, there's an intermittent short somewhere in the appliance that kept blowing so they just bodged it. the upshot of all of this is that since it's basically an ornamental thing with an additional lamp sticking out of it, I Am Now Decommissioning The Lamp and it will live out the rest of its life as an inert, non-electrical object
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told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins.thinking about the 32 A main circuit going through that
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told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins.it seems it has been like this since before she got the lamp in the mid-1970s
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told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins.told my mum i would replace the plug on a lamp she’s had for 50 years because it has the old-style unsleeved pins. i get it home and holy shit. i actually found one in the wild. incredible
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Just taking a moment here to recommend Nest Bedding's Easy Breather Pillow, which is by far the nicest pillow I have ever laid my head upon. I own several, and when I've talked other people into buying them, they come back and thank me later.@jalefkowit wait. is this really a pillow that costs nine times the cost of a pillow. can i 9x my sleep? and would i even dare to
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the other day i walked past some school, you know those expensive schools for expensive parents to pay for expensive education for their expensive children.the other day i walked past some school, you know those expensive schools for expensive parents to pay for expensive education for their expensive children. all the children were running round outside the school, and the parents were showing up to collect them, and all the parents were driving these gigantic cars, cars the size of freight trains. every one of these cars had menacing eyes, and a radiator grill, level with your chin, snarling, like a great terror monster designed to kill children
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youd be crying too if you found out you were a babyyoud be crying too if you found out you were a baby
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at a protocol level, the internet is only really capable of transmitting two types of data: TCP (True Crime Podcast) and UDP (Unlistenable D&D Podcast)at a protocol level, the internet is only really capable of transmitting two types of data: TCP (True Crime Podcast) and UDP (Unlistenable D&D Podcast)