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The grand prize
Assuming that's about 5x5', and going by the price of the first tungsten cube found on Google, this would be worth about 15 million dollars. Decent prize of you could move 150,000lb.
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The grand prize
Assuming that's about 5x5', and going by the price of the first tungsten cube found on Google, this would be worth about 15 million dollars. Decent prize of you could move 150,000lb.
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now I know why
Gnome does some questionable things, and some are just personal preference, but there is at least one thing that they do that makes zero sense regardless of how you use your system...
The AppIndicator extension SHOULD be default. There is no reason for it to be an extension other than pure stubbornness. There are applications that literally require it in order to function at all.
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iPad rule
These things were NEVER fucking left open at the park near me. Could wait there the entire day and the same fucking kid would be using it the entire time, completely oblivious to your attempts to get him to move.
I swear, I probably only touched the thing once when i was a child. I came back with my daughter a few years ago and nobody was giving it a second glance. Used my kid as an excuse to finally get to play with the thing...
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Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
All of this anticheat bs is still making the baseline assumption that the problem needs to be solved at the expense of the players.
It's illegal to steal someone else's property. We don't enforce that law by cutting off everyone's hands preemptively so that there is less demand on police to solve a problem that hasn't happened yet...
If people are assholes and go against the wishes of society, you police and moderate them. If they can't moderate their platform, that isn't the fault of the community - it's a failing of the corporation. It's such a ridiculous mindset. It's a fucking video game...
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California's 'click to cancel' subscription bill is signed into law
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You underestimate the capacity for corporate pettiness
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Billy believes in adblocking
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I'm guessing you missed the time period where opening the wrong page would give you an infinite loop of un-closeable pop-up windows with background music.
Ads were never really non-obtrusive. If advertisers could force you to listen to their slogan at max volume every time you opened your browser, they would do so without hesitation. If you ever saw an easily avoidable ad in the late 90s-early 00s, it wasn't for lack of trying. They simply hadn't personally figured out more annoying methods yet.
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Male birth control gel is safe and effective, new trial findings show
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As with any invisible or otherwise difficult to monitor birth control method, this is really only for people in dedicated relationships.
It goes both ways. A man shouldn't trust a women he just met to be on birth control. A women should have the same reservations.
This is for people who can trust a long term partner, and who wouldn't be destroyed by the failure of the product. And that's still a huge market.
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When WSL2 first came out, some losers on /g/ were cheering that it would "make Linux obsolete". Four years later, I think it's safe to say they were kinda missing the point.
I don't understand the pointless hate over wsl. Sure, it doesn't replace Linux. It also doesn't have to... Just having access to basic nix functionality from a windows desktop is still a useful feature. It makes stuff like putty mostly obsolete. It let's windows users unpack tarballs without 7zip. It let's developers play video games while "compiling". It's just an all-around convenient tool to have.
Maybe Microsoft wanted it to replace the Linux desktop, but since when has anyone really cared about what Microsoft wanted :P
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The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January
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For daily use, sure - but it completely excludes itself as an option for road trips in the US and parts of Canada. There's a stretch of interstate road near me with nearly a 100 mile gap between service stations.
I know that this isn't the purpose of this battery, but it's a valid reason why a lot of people might be hesitant to buy one. Many people can't afford multiple vehicles for different purposes. You have the car you drive to work with, and if you happen to go on a trip you just use the same thing.
Maybe 99% of use occurs within constraints that this battery can handle, but if you can only afford one vehicle, then this is still a pretty suboptimal option. That being said... it could still be cheap enough to not matter. I didn't see any mention of price in that article.
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Lord of the Rules
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11 out of 24... I would have done better just clicking randomly
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Win95 to Vista destroyed our logic of solving software problems
The whole point of doing a separate partition for your home directory is to do just that... The fuck is this even supposed to mean.
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the internet is worse.
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Yeah, that's completely untrue... The reason we can't just create a new youtube is the same reason there aren't more ISPs. The infrastructure cost is too high.
You can't just build a site that allows video uploads and playback, throw it on a Pi and release it to the world. You need scalability, and that costs money.
Maybe the end solution is a distributed system, but that's not something you can easily sell to the average Joe that doesn't give a shit about the "how" or "why" with Youtube, and simply wants to watch videos.
I'm not saying that Google isn't the scum of the earth, but there is currently no feasible way to recreate what they've made/bought without an absolutely stupid amount of money.
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Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News
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Simple solution is to not pay Netflix and just pirate their content. They go out of their way to make the experience worse for paying customers on a regular basis. Sonarr+Jellyfin on an old computer with no video card and you've got a better Netflix where your content doesn't just magically disappear or fail to play on some devices.
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Nintendo battling rising development costs with creativity, says Shigeru Miyamoto
"Creativity" was actually just a poor translation. What they meant to say was "enhanced legal department". Easy mistake.
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Trickflation
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I mean... I'll regularly go to the grocery store and see soda prices vary by 200-300% week-to-week. Sure, it's all based around "sale" value, but it amounts to the same thing. If it's $9 for 2 12-packs one week and then $11 for a 12-pack the next week, it isn't an invalid markup because you had to buy 2 to get the first price.
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Honestly, 24MB is way too much for this setup
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What else are you going to use your RAM for if not generating advertisement revenue for shareholders.
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How to make any building look better and feel nicer. Add plants.
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It's Japan. They'll just knock it down and start from scratch in 10 years anyway.
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Republicans admit they plan to implement Project 2025
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Have you seen none of the flyers/banners that popped up this election? The fact that he's a felon is celebrated. The fact that he's a rapist is celebrated. The fact that he openly speaks against overtime pay is celebrated. Fuck, even his divorces are celebrated. He could literally shoot someone in the face at a rally, and it would just boost his support.
He's Homelander, but fat and without superpowers.
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How Working From Home Changed My Life
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A 5 minute commute still necessitates putting on pants. Can't win there.
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PlayStation will not delete Discovery TV shows after all
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Yeah this really makes no difference in the final outcome. You're still being robbed. They've just given you more advance notice of the day they'll break your windows... and somehow this is still considered "okay" and reasonable.
It's been said a million ways by this point, but it needs to be said every time this comes up. If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing.