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Potholes are just inverted speed bumps.

They’re very useful, but just for certain things. The problem is that every corpo idiot out there thinks they’re useful for everything, which they’re most certainly not.

Adjacent to video editing, do you have any interest in visual effects? Lots of really sophisticated CGI and other VFX in film can be done from consumer-grade GPUs like yours.

Pineapple and jalapeno.

You can’t get up come on get up with the sickness, though.

Mainly just that you need to maintain a fairly high seed ratio to keep access. A lot of trackers will limit how many concurrent torrents you can have, based on your seed ratio. And depending on the tracker and the media that you want to download, you sometimes run into situations where just nobody else wants what you’re seeding, or where the torrent has so many seeds that you barely get to contribute.

Last time I was on a private tracker, I was one of only like 3 other users who were downloading episodes of Doctor Who. I could seed those for months, and never go above 1.0 because there just wasn’t interest in that.

I’m not sure if this is considered a good practice or not, but what I ended up doing was occasionally torrenting something that was really popular, even if I had no interest in it, just so that I could seed something. It definitely helped to keep my ratio up, and as far as I can tell it’s overall a net benefit to the network as a whole, so I don’t think tracker admins would have issue with it. But it just felt weird, to me.

Kinda crazy to think that the mascots behind a wildly popular children’s vitamin tablet also sold cigarettes.

Careful with thoughts like that! Just a week ago I was thinking “It’s been a while since Kanye’s done anything crazy”, and now look where we are.

Their problems, despite their claims to the contrary, do not stem from other people not liking them. Instead, their problems stem from them not liking other people. If you put a femcel and an incel in a room together, they would just sit at opposite corners silently wishing death upon the other.

Okay, this “$1 trillion” metric is a bit of a reach, and seems to be based on an arbitrary value assigned to an estimated amount of data Google has collected, and not actually $1,000,000,000,000 in revenue. It does not appear that Google has actually made a trillion dollars from CAPTCHA data.

I do that, and I wouldn’t consider myself old. I get called so infrequently that I don’t know what my ringtone even sounds like. Any phone ringing within earshot could be mine.

And your ears dynamic range is literally from a needle drop to a chainsaw at full throttle.

As long as you don’t spend a lot of time with that chainsaw, that is.

“stealing” a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you’re stealing from a store is infinitely copyable.

What if it’s a physical Blu-ray? Those are infinitely copyable.

Sounds like it would run for president.

EDIT: I just remembered this is basically the plot to a Black Mirror episode.

Patching a console game? Digital only? get the fuck out of town.

What?

Man, I loved PSO. Played it for years by myself on Gamecube, and then rediscovered it again on PC several years later and got to actually experience multiplayer.

Does PSO2 manage to capture any of the original game’s magic? I haven’t dipped my toes into it yet, but I wasn’t super impressed by some of the newer Phantasy Star games after Ep 1/2.

It’s poorly written. The writer is all over the place. The article starts and ends with discussion about a video series from 2004 which is in no way related to the main story, the primary source is a paywalled article in Italian that we can only hope they’re translating accurately, the very first paragraph seems to suggest that there’s no proof to anything else specified in the rest of the article and immediately contradicts the headline… I feel like I learned nothing and wasted time by reading this.

ARE there actually honeypot sites being set up by Italian police? I don’t know, and apparently neither does the author.

Plenty of kids I grew up with also called Nintendo and Atari cartridges “tapes.”

Our household referred to NES cartridges as “tapes”, as well. I think for our family, it came from us frequenting a local video rental store, usually once a week. We’d pick up some movies and some games every time we’d go. It started with just movies, though, because our local store didn’t carry games at first. But once we started renting games there, we just kept called everything in the bag “tapes”.

Person Of The Year isn’t an honorable title. Hitler, Trump, Nixon, Reagan, Bezos, Giuliani, Zuck, and Putin have all received the same title.

Most phones do, to a certain extent. The percentage it gives you is just an estimate because you can’t really tell how much energy is in a battery until you discharge it all; you can only tell how much is going in and how much is going out, and make an educated guess from there. Generally, that guess is close enough to reality that it doesn’t make any real difference, so the percentage still serves its purpose. I’m grossly oversimplifying, but that’s the gist.

Most phones these days will usually only charge up to like 95% of the actual capacity of the battery, and will call that 100%.