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Logitech Faces Stock Price Drop and Troll Reviews After Titan Sub Disaster
  • Spending less money doesn't necessarily mean you "cheaped out". Spending more money does not guarantee reliability.

    You may not have liked it and it may not have been great but it likely got the job done perfectly fine.

  • Logitech Faces Stock Price Drop and Troll Reviews After Titan Sub Disaster
  • I see nothing wrong with using a Logitech controller for this purpose. They kept spares so even if they died somehow, you could just swap in another. And even if the batteries died, and you were a complete asshat and didn't bring any extras, you could likely just plug it in.

    It's just hilarious that people are constantly talking about this controller and not the myriad of other legitimate safety red flags.

  • Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries
  • Does this really need an explanation?

    1. Non-replaceable batteries provide zero benefits.

    2. Swappable batteries allow you to just carry extras instead of being tethered to a charger. I used to literally never plug my phone in. Just swap batteries one or twice a day.

    3. It's the first component to die in most phones, and people can't be bothered or don't realize you can have them replaced, so they just throw them in the garbage. That's why they started doing it in the first place.

  • Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'
  • ...is Discord trying to do federation? I'm confused.

    Someone is in charge of Revolt, doesn't matter if it's a company or someone else. Someone is in charge of the servers. What's stopping them from ultimately selling the company? Reddit didn't start out as a corporation. Nor did WhatsApp, but after creating a trusted userbase they were sold off to Facebook to be exploited for data.

    IT people love to talk about how "easy" it is to create and run your own server, but this is simply not true and they just lack awareness.

  • Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'
  • No it isn't. The default is to be hosted on Revolt servers. I created a "server" and I didn't set up any kind of server, so it's not running on my server. I don't really know all the technical details, I just signed in and saw a message that said the "server" was removed.

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social RosalynKirk @kbin.social
    Some suggestions for improving Kbin:

    I know you have a lot going on right now, so I'm gonna cut Kbin a lot of slack. The simple ability to search, view, and subscribe to "magazines" is the best feature. But I have notes:

    1. Move OP reply box to the top of the page. Took me forever to figure out how to reply to the OP.

    2. Remove pages. Just put it all on one page, please. This just causes unnecessary loading.

    3. expand "magazines" to show what instance they are located on.

    4. Eliminate the new vocabulary. Nobody knows what a "magazine" is. Nor do they know what is an "article" in this context. The + button should just be "submit new post" and then you should be able to type text, upload media, or post a link from there.

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