TheRealKuni

Yeah. Apple is plenty evil but not having ads is, generally, part of their “premium feel.” There are exceptions to this, unfortunately, especially recently.

But I definitely don’t regret doing a factory reset on my LG TV and hooking up an Apple TV.

Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.

It’s because he was unstuck in time. Slaughterhouse V was actually autobiographical.

That’s an encyclopedia’s job.

So they said, “Nuh uh, we’re gonna lock it down so you can’t!” Or am I misunderstanding?

Wow, what happened to OnePlus? They used to be so cool. Hell, the first one ran Cyanogen.

Yeah, the advertising stuff always bothers me. NordVPN is not unique in that sin, but it’s still a sin. Since I know why I want a VPN that misrepresentation doesn’t affect me. I sought them out, not the other way around. But if they want to build a large audience of people who don’t, like, pirate content or use public WiFi or want the Meshnet, they have to come up with bullshit to scare them with.

I’ll check out your link, thank you!

NordVPN

Genuine question, how is NordVPN complete garbage?

I did some research before re-upping, and they consistently test well. They don’t keep logs. Meshnet is awesome.

As far as I can tell the worst thing they do is lie about how a VPN makes using the internet “safer” which probably isn’t true for most use cases. But all of the VPN companies do that, it seems.

True, you make a good point.

I did know I was referring to an apocalyptic scenario rather than an emergency one. The giveaway was that I was replying to this comment:

Yeah… if I am trying to reach people tens of miles away during The Apocalypse, I am already dead.

🙂

What about after surviving the initial disaster? During the rebuilding? Or the ongoing survival?

Long-distance radios are useful as hell in stuff like The Last of Us.

They really should anyway. The Switch showed almost a decade ago how popular the handheld form factor can be when powerful enough, and the Steam Deck has capitalized on that beautifully. At this point a significant component in my purchasing of games is looking for that “Steam Deck Verified.”

I have a personal domain I use for email, with an address set up as firstname@lastname.family

Most people understand this just fine, but sometimes forms don’t work with .family as a TLD. EVERY NOW AND THEN, though, someone cannot comprehend an email address that doesn’t end in Gmail.com.

When I arrived to have some work done on my car recently the person on the phone had recorded my email as: firstnameatlastname.family@gmail.com. Like, the actual word “at” was in there. I had never said anything about Gmail. And when I corrected it after arriving at the shop, their form had no issue with the .family TLD.

I think some people genuinely don’t understand that Gmail and email aren’t synonymous.

I mean…better that than Skydance…but also maybe let’s stop consolidating properties.

But fsck (file system check) instead of fuck is a Unix joke. I think it’s fine.

Otherwise I broadly agree with you. It’s why I’ve adopted the swearing from Stormlight Archive for use around audiences that I shouldn’t swear around.

My understanding of volume is awful. 3.8L sounds so much bigger than the volume described by 16.2 x 15.6 x 15.2cm. Like, my brain goes, “that’s almost two 2L bottles and those are huge!”

The cube is smaller than it looks. It’s a bit bigger than the GameCube. 3D print a handle for it and it’s as portable as a machine gets!

Edit: I mean, obviously not as portable as the Deck, but that’s a handheld.

Edit 2:
Steam Machine is 16.2 x 15.6 x 15.2 cm.
GameCube is 15 x 15 x 11 cm.

1080p looks fine on a 4K (2160p) screen especially if whatever you’re using to display it (be that your machine, receiver, or the TV itself in the case of “smart” TVs) is good at upscaling. Worse case scenario it looks the same as 1080p content looks on a TV of the same size, since 2160p is literally just 4x the pixels of 1080p.

1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

🤣😂🤣

Weird how I never once said metric horsepower was part of “The Metric System” and how I also gave the kW value in my very first post.

It’s not that I don’t know what you mean, my friend, it’s that I am not using the word metric the same way you are. That’s the whole point. You can say colloquial all you want! I never disagreed! You can talk about by and large all you want! You’re not wrong!

Metric horsepower is a metric unit, it’s in the name. Whether it’s an SI-unit or part of “the metric system” is completely irrelevant. I am technically correct, the best kind of correct.

I am shocked we’re arguing about this. Again, I apologize for trying to have fun on the internet, I promise it won’t happen again.

I’m not ignoring your point. I’m saying your point is irrelevant. This is a unit in use today, with “metric” in its English name. I don’t care that it isn’t part of what is colloquially called “the metric system.” That wasn’t the point.

But don’t worry, next time I think to myself, “I could reply with a fun bit of trivia I know and make a comment that is both correct and also not at all what the person I’m replying to means or expects,” I’ll first ask myself, “What would Dasus say?”