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  • I find my problems by brute forcing everything!

  • Uhm

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  • truth

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  • "I am alive and well, says the lying dead horse with Tuberculosis."

    • Ancient Greek Proverb
  • Perfect.

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  • I switched from Spotify to Qobuz a couple months back. No regrets. Migration was easy, and the quality boost is actually noticeable. Plus, y'know, it's not Spotify.

  • The important thing about glass for me is that it's probably the best material to send to landfill. I mean, ideally it's reused or recycled, but glass is extremely inert. Once the sharp corners are ground down it's basically a rock.

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  • Another updoot for Qobuz. Very happy with it, and the migration process was even better for me than as you describe it. Also, I didn't think I'd give a shit about it the higher-quality codecs but they're actually amazing. Big fan, A+++, would Qobuz again.

  • The Lawnmower Man

    In the book, an unassuming everyman stumbles upon the fact that a local landscaping company is actually a front for a demon who has an arrangement that involves making human sacrifices of those that discover his supernatural nature.

    In the movie, a Cyber Virtual Reality 3D Battles ON 3D CYBERSPACE Stunning Effects 3D Internet Pierce Brosnan Warfare Nineties Futuristic VR Headset Technology BATTLE In 3D Mind Expanding Guns, and one of the characters is a man who has a lawnmower.

    Edit: Shit, okay, I just read this on Wikipedia and nearly wet myself:

    A feature film, The Lawnmower Man, starring Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan, was released in 1992 by New Line Cinema. This film used an original screenplay entitled "CyberGod", borrowing only the title of the short story. The film concerns a scientist, Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Brosnan), who subjects mentally challenged Jobe Smith (Fahey) to virtual reality experiments which give him superhuman abilities. The film was originally titled Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man. King won a lawsuit to have his name removed from the film, stating in court documents that the film "bore no meaningful resemblance" to his story. King then won further damages in 1993 after his name was included in the home video release.

  • We had a bunch of laptops at work with ARC GPUs in them. The vendor supplied one of them as test units saying they were ideal as portable 8K video editing machines, to which I replied - in exactly these words - "oh, fuck off". But then we tested them and they're honestly excellent and run a lot cooIer and longer than the AMD/Intel+Nvidia equivalents. I had to apologise. I got to test the Claw side-by-side with the Steam Deck playing RDR2 and Forza Horizon 5 and that sealed the deal. And when the ARC GPU does start groaning then, like I said, it's eGPU time. The ARC is probably never going to bother the top-tier GPUs from AMD and Nvidia, but for portable and, I dare say, midrange desktop gaming it's ideal.

  • I can only imagine the impact that had on the end result's impact. Probably didn't have the impact they wanted on the readers who were unimpacted by the message.

  • Right? How hard is it to remember that it's an arrow that points at the biggest number? /s

  • I think I was fifteen when my maths teacher took me aside and told me my less-than symbol didn't need a plover bird.

  • Silly Old Harry caught a herring trawling off Anglesey.

  • I completely agree. I passed over the Steam Deck and went for the MSI Claw 8 instead. I was willing to pay the extra for a waaaay better CPU/GPU combo and - the killer feature IMHO - not one, but two Thunderbolt ports. Long term, this means I can expect a longer life out of my MSI than the Steam Deck is likely to get, but also means when the GPU does start to chug I can connect an eGPU to it's dock.

    To be clear, that doesn't mean I don't rate the Steam Deck - I really, really do - and it's level of capability and price-point will act as a stabalising point for the wider industry, but I paid more for a better device and got my money's worth.

  • I lived in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire up until a few years ago. Of the dozen-plus places I've lived around England, I've never, ever, ever lived anywhere worse than Ashfield. I've lived in poorer areas, areas with higher crime rates, areas with less greenery - fuck, areas that are all three of those things - but I've never encoutered a population as vile and beligerent as the regressive, inbred cretins of that area. I wasn't at all surprised when they fell for Reform's fairytales at the last election.

  • I've not even read the article, but I already know I'll agree with, let's say, 95% of what Guy Singh-Watson says in it.

  • Well, I'm just gonna leave this here.

  • So as I understand this - which seems to be totally at odds with everyone else commenting - this will actually make it harder for people to drive these things on the road in the EU. Currently you can import those things without them being subject to EU categorisation and safety requirements if it's a one off (to quote Not Stanley, "I ain't no serial killer! I killed a bunch of people but they were all one-offs!") but now these will be categorised and controlled the same as EU vehicles instead, and subject to the same standards for safety, emissions, licensing etc. It's worth keeping in mind that even in the US these aren't categorised as cars, so why would they be in the EU? So someone with a car license (normally limited to 3.5T GLW) couldn't drive one, even if they pinky-swore that they wouldn't fully load it as is the case at the moment.