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Cake day: Aug 03, 2023

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I see this same sentiment online all the time. So when it comes to media streaming, monopolies are a good thing?


Don’t forget the subscription to be able to start your car from your phone, or if you have really poor taste in vehicles the subscription to heat your seats or unlock other already-built-in features.


Nowadays? Mobile games have always sucked. All the way back to snake on your old Nokia. That game sucked too. It’s just now the games suck and they’re packed full of microtransactions.



When looking at these it seems I can only find models with “EU plugs” even though I am shipping to a US address, all the items with “US plugs” are greyed out. I assume the only difference is the wall socket, right? Are the sockets on the power supplies universal?



Even my 68 year old mother can tell the difference between 30 and 60hz while scrolling Facebook so I think maybe you have some other medical issues or you’re just in denial.


and sometimes we do care about successful delivery but need to handle that ourselves

Am I right to assume this is generally carried out by the users’ torrent client which is why we prefer UDP for torrenting?


Both of these deals strictly applied to older titles without a “new release” sticker, meaning they are not applicable in this context.


What are the advantages to running it as a daemon outside of the obvious malicious ones?


Likely what happens is that while the existing options are fine for the masses, a power user has a specific use case that is not covered by said options, so they create their own program to fit their specific needs. Eventually this new program evolves into something that is also useful to the masses, and that’s how we get to where we are now with several good FOSS options.



Cuphead is absolutely gorgeous, it’s just hard to appreciate because you’re constantly trying not to die.

I grew up with Felix the Cat and Popeye and Betty Boop on VHS, not because I’m super old but because we were poor farmers. Cuphead is the only game I’ve ever played that has recreated this ancient animation style and it is done so incredibly well. It’s a masterclass in art style and gameplay at the same time.