The one on the very right is NVMe.

I prefer my ice medium rare.

I might get downvoted to hell for this but if we silence fascists then isn’t it just a slippery slope to fascism? Unless people explicitly threaten people then most things should be fair game.

Violence is a founding principle of fascism. You can’t establish a dictatorship without violence. The ideology is an explicit threat.

I’m sure that exists, yes. But you can’t give the voting key to individual voters, because that can be bought. So you’re using the same black-box voting machines with all the same attack vectors (or even worse if they’re connected to the internet).

The only way to make voting machines safe is to have them print out the ballot, but at that point they’re just very expensive pencils.

what do you mean by spell fine?

I mean that when you ask them to spell a word they can list every character one at a time.

And yet they can seemingly spell and count (small numbers) just fine.

Many(most?) older towns did have a town square, many still do in various forms. Though it’s not the town square they’re about; it’s the medium density mixed-use housing.

I don’t know finnish, but from the translation the first page says very little about fabric softeners. Barely a title and 3 bullet points. A recommendation against using it for certain fabrics but doesn’t actually list them all, or why it’s bad. I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t base my decision making on such little information.

The 2nd link is even worse, being primarily about allergies and chronic diseases, their concerns are about skin irritation. The only takeaway you should be making from this is that fabric softener can reduce or cause skin irritation.

Which consumer agencies? The ones I use all recommend against it.

Consumer Reports recommends against it: https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/laundry/why-fabric-softener-is-bad-for-your-laundry-a5931009251/

Choice advises against it: https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/laundry-and-cleaning/laundry-detergents/buying-guides/fabric-softeners

Wirecutter recommends against it: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/how-to-do-your-laundry-better/

They need election reform for that to happen.

Sure, but it’s not more valuable than $30 + regular price increases for 60+ years. That’s what a lifetime membership is.

Lets flip that around: For my own finances $300 is a lot more valuable than $30 for 10 years. So if I’m to expect that the company will go out of business in 10 years or so, I would have been better off paying for the subscription.

Lets also not forget that companies don’t take that $300 and responsibly invest it. It gets reinvested in a risky bid to grow the company and get enough people to subscribe in order to pay for your service going forward.

Lifetime services/updates are always a scam. The economics of this are really simple: Nebula is $30 per year or $300 lifetime. That lifetime membership covers only 10 years of subscription. So what’s the plan after that? There’s only really three outcomes:

• They stop providing you service
• They go bankrupt trying to provide you service
• They grow and stay big enough to be able to subsidize your service for your lifetime. I can’t overstate how unlikely this is.

Buying a lifetime membership you’re gambling that Nebula will grow big enough that other people’s subscription will pay for your service. Your membership is a liability for them.

It’s also bad from the other end. Lots of small software devs will sell lifetime updates but eventually need to abandon their products because they simply run out of money.

A service continually costs money to provide. You can’t pay for that with a single payment. Lifetime services are simply incompatible with running a business long term. It’s a bad idea and someone is always getting screwed.

Please provide an example in street view or otherwise. I’ve seen lots of people make this claim that cyclists won’t use cycle paths but every single time they provide an example it’s plainly obvious why it’s not being used. Bicycle infrastructure is frequently built to shockingly poor standards by people with a clear disdain of its users.

Reducing the height of the hood would also significantly reduce fatalities. It’s hilariously sad that they’re testing this system on an SUV, where the kids and shorter adults hit by this thing won’t make it to the windshield.

Support for 2015 macs ended 7 months ago. Forget 10 years ago, my 2015 mac doesn’t run like it used to in Big Sur.

thanks to the founders that gave us compulsory, preferential voting

Not sure if sarcastic or not, but it made me look up when these things were introduced. Preferential voting was 1918 by Billy Hughes Nationalist Party. Compulsory voting was a state thing, starting with QLD in 1925 and ending with SA in 1942.

Sounds like great fun! We did the same thing to play battlefield 2 over LAN (If you played on LAN you could bypass the online DRM, as we only had one copy).

Yea Halo Combat Evolved (Halo 1) only had internet multiplayer on the PC version, but the Xbox version could do peer-to-peer multiplayer. One person would have zero ping as the host and the rest would go over the vpn. Any kind of latency would have been annoying due to Halo CE’s lack of lag compensation :D

I also don’t believe you, and here’s why:

Halo CE didn’t have lag compensation, so with 2 seconds of latency you would have to lead your target by 2 seconds. Shooting anyone who wasn’t standing still would be a complete guessing game - I think you too would also classify that as unplayable (source).

Halo 2 seems to not be well documented - it looks like it’s using some form of rudimentary rollback, which can deal with higher latency but you’d need it very stable to avoid opponents teleporting constantly. It’s also unclear if it would handle 2s of latency, as that would increase both CPU and memory utilization of servers. If you’re getting a variance of 700ms as you claimed this most certainly wouldn’t be playable. High ping being stable is also hard to believe, naturally the higher the latency the higher the absolute variance.

Halo 3 uses synchronous lockstep networking with a ~300ms window (source). If you’re not in that window your actions are rejected, so quite literally unplayable at 2s. I think this is more evidence that bungie would’ve had a <2s maximum latency in their earlier title.

My best guess is you’ve either misremembered the latency (130-200ms is about what I’d expect from rural internet at that time), or you were playing peer-to-peer with your friends and so internet latency didn’t matter. I myself have played plenty of multiplayer games at over 100 ping and while it can be annoying I’d certainly call it playable, but not 10x that.

Hold my beer while I connect multiple displays to the steam deck, a keyboard & mouse, xbox & playstation controllers and wii motes.

Every time I install windows I needed to use the terminal to bypass microsoft’s online login requirement. Clearly Windows is not ready.