15charlimit

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by 15charlimit 8y ago
For quite a while now, their games have only been made "good" after significant time and effort by the modding community to fix common game-breaking and progress-losing bugs, along with endless quality of life improvements and the
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by 15charlimit 8y ago
Nobody wants a dozen different "movie subscriptions" just like nobody wants a dozen different "streaming service" subscriptions. The value of the early movers/original services is that they gave access to EVERYTHING
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by 15charlimit 8y ago
If you adjust the aspect radio by playing in windowed mode and keeping it full-width while lowering the height, you gain significantly more visibility. I imagine playing on an ultrawide display would have a similar effect. Granted, it wasn&
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by 15charlimit 8y ago
Far more convenient when you consider that Netflix's catalog of reasonably mainstream as-seen-in-theaters movies has been shrinking for years. As the end user I don't care "why" their catalog has been shrinking, I only c
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by 15charlimit 8y ago
Other responses indicate that the recipient/target has to opt into their location being shown via an SMS, so I fail to understand the outrage assuming the same requirement exists for the non-trial version.
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by 15charlimit 8y ago
Just because you "can" use a bunch of memory without issues now doesn't mean you "should" not make any attempts to cut resource usage whenever possible.
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by 15charlimit 8y ago
Fission is expensive to start up primarily due to regulation. Modern designs are extremely safe (fail-safe instead of fail-unsafe) and produce little in the way of dangerous waste. Politics is what killed fission.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
I believe the LTSB Enterprise edition physically does not contain the "windows app store", cortana, and all the other garbage that gets in the way of a normally functioning computer.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
They can claim something is illegal all they want, but that has no impact whatsoever on the actual legality of it. Anti-consumer EULA/TOS items haven't held up in court for a while now.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Because they have been bought and paid for by the existing ISP monopolies, who stand to gain enormously from the loss of net neutrality, at little to no extra effort on their part.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
> There are great commercial ISPs too. Sure, if you're lucky enough to live in an area with "actual" competition, which is the crux of the entire issue. The vast, vast majority of us are stuck with 1 or 2 (if we're lu
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
> Even the fastest computer and the highest-end Internet access can't get you such a huge advantage in performance that it can make the web feel snappy again. Until you install an adblocker and disable javascript. An enormous amount
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Still can't actually opt out of forced updates (non-critical security at least)? Still can't actually kill the extremely invasive telemetry? Still can't get LTSB/equivalent as an individual user to help resolve the afore
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
These "legacy ISPs" have, since they first got started and became entrenched, purchased enough legislation to make it effectively impossible for any real competition to take root. Google Fiber's failure was not a technologica
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Cue massive drops in traffic (again) and news orgs whining about it (again) and blaming the next boogeyman, whatever that is. Probably something something "piracy" etc. Paying/subscribing for general-purpose news is old news.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
> There are some downsides. You can say that again. Just look at the John Deere debacle that's been happening for an exceptionally good example of why this is a terrible idea. Physical good = ownership = full end-user control. Anyth
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Which is exactly why most friends and colleagues have switched to uBlock Origin or similar plugins. Whitelisting is not the solution. Letting the entire industry die in the pit they've dug for themselves is the solution.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
People are being pedantic about the actual meaning of words as opposed to the commonly-understood-and-accepted meaning of words. It's annoying, because it distracts from the immediate issue and causes confusion.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
"Soundcloud is fine and will be around for years, stop backing up all of the music". Didn't the CEO say something along those lines ~2 weeks ago when they forced the archive.org folks to stop pulling down a backup copy of eve
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
"They" are going to eventually realize that one of the primary draws and reasons for the early success of Netflix was the single-source-access to (at the time) pretty much everything. Nobody wants to maintain a dozen different acc
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
But why? It's a browser. All it should do (and do well) is display content. I don't want a bunch of extra garbage tossed in because it sounds good on some marketing slide. Chrome has been and continues to eat FF's marketshare
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
"Nuclear" is not an economic disaster. "Nuclear politics" is, and has been since the technology first appeared. We have the technological capability to build perfectly safe, high-performance reactors that spit out low-ri
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
This. All of my old hardcore MMO buddies were pumped up during the Kickstarter days and during the following development phase. Once Oculus took FB's "dirty money" though, every single one of them saw the writing on the wall,
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Always relevant for informational purposes when chip manufacturing is discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Effectively does not matter if you aren't distributing. Format shifting shouldn't be illegal, regardless.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
I hope they go all-out and produce 51 consoles instead of the 50 NES Classics they managed to scrape together and sell. /s Availability of new systems has never been a strong point of Nintendo.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Does this mean an individual could actually get their hands on the fabled Enterprise LTSB edition and thus actually have control over updates?
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
I thought I was reading an overtuned ELI5 machine translation for a minute. This is awful and significantly more difficult to read than even the KJV, which isn't exactly friendly for modern readers.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
Still no actual control over what data they suck up and keep for who-knows how long and sell to anyone who asks? Still no actual control over what updates happen, when? Still don't care about W10.
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by 15charlimit 9y ago
If Microsoft hadn't burned a decade's worth of "leave auto-updates on to keep your system safe!" public goodwill by force-feeding WIN10 BS to a massive number of people who did not want it, it's highly likely that t

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