I think cars should not be dependent on a touch screen for ANY of it's functions (or really have one at all). They are more difficult to use than tactile buttons, distracting, and do not receive long term support from the OEM.

What do you do with a 10 year old car that runs but the touch screen nuked due to age, firmware bugs or mechanical damage? Ford isn't going to be selling replacement units 10 years later and I have yet to see an 'infotainment' system that has aftermarket replacement considerations.

Pretty much, most of the gen x I work with are indistinguishable from boomers at this point.

kids don't want to work these days

people need to just save more money

immigrants are taking all the jobs

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Arch, I want to get some work done not save 3 extra CPU cycles on boot.

Microsoft explains that Call of Duty doesn’t have to be on every console, because it isn’t that important to the video game industry.

I feel like they should not be the ones making that judgement when deciding if some company is going to be buying up large portions of an industry.

Fear mongering, anti-nuclear, luddite propaganda.

sigh

In industry there is something called "multi-phase flow" where you have a pipe that contains a mix of two or more states of matter like steam and liquid water, water and trash, sand and air. Handling multi-phase flows can be a real pain because you need to separate them but you don't always know how much of each phase is present and they may be very well mixed. In steam pipes, separators are used to remove any liquid water from the gas flow, in flows with solid components filters or screens can be used to allow fluids to pass but in all cases there are complex parts or consumables.

And so the butthole is an absolute marvel of engineering, with only a single moving part it can separate a multi-phase flow into it's constituent parts regardless of it's orientation in space (most of the time).

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok. Most people I work with think I'm totally out of touch with reality because I don't use any of the big social media platforms and then they watch the same 12 ads and 3 videos on 5 different apps.

influencers

Anything that can cut down on the ability to monetize a platform is worth it.

I repurposed my 2008 ThinkPad as a server, saving it from the trash for yet another year!

They could easily set up a permanent library of ALL previous titles for sale along with emulators for each new console they release. Nintendo could re-sell you every game they have ever made every time they drop new hardware, but nope, just a big fuck you.

The are a requirement for distributing a document that has to look the same on every device. I don't love them and Adobe can go take a flying fuck but if I NEED to make sure that my boss doesn't alter a document it has to be a PDF.

the pair’s private chat history

There is no such thing as a private chat on a platform you do not own. And even if you DO own the platform it is only as private as the participants decide it to be. Hopefully people start to realize this before complete non-privacy becomes the accepted norm.

Ya, he's a dad now.

SELFHOST! No matter how good the deal is, no matter how free or expensive it is, you can not trust a cloud service to last as long as you need it.

Average users view the web raw, this will go totally unnoticed by >90% of users. If web-drm becomes a thing then it will be easy enough to block those sites and add them to the list of media that is morally acceptable to pirate.

When plastics were first introduced to consumers it was sold as indestructible, it will never wear out, never degrade! People were actually concerned at the time, why anyone buy disposable products that never break down, won't they just pile up forever?

After much lobbying the concept of recycling plastics was introduced to help consumers stop worrying about all this indestructible waste and help push the sales of cheap plastic products. Your mom has the right idea, not buying it in the first place is the only way to drive demand down.

Shit, I just realized my NAS is less powerful than a modern Pi. It's only a dual core, 1.6GHz Atom with 1.8GB ram.

unwilling to stick it out at a toxic job

Thank fuck. It's going to take a while but maybe this is the end of diskless middle management generating endless bullshit work to justify their own existence. Almost every job has been mired down with so much box-ticking, pointless, ass-kissing, ego-stroking, bullshit that the actual work like nursing or construction governing a country has become secondary.

When I to a 5 min repair job at work I have to hand write a report, make a photo copy, give the report to another person who then types it into a system to which I do not have access. This was implemented by, and is strictly enforced by, the boomer and gen-x management which has seen the factory floor for less than 40 hours of their entire career.

I can't wait until the bulk of the boomers end up in understaffed, under funded old-age care and can't figure out why nobody wants to work any more. It'll make for some funny Fox News.

Electrician here, came to upvote, realized I should be posting. My formal computer training ended with Java and qBasic in 2003.

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When using solar directly to heat water how much more efficient can you get than a black container?