Oh no, this is not gonna be good for my productivity

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I miss when there were genuinely good posts on 4chan

I don’t think it’s a lie, it’s objectively true that shit SD cards would have that effect on performance if used as adopted storage. But I do agree with you that it was a convenient excuse, as I wrote at the end of my original comment.

It’s not the users saying it, it’s the OEMs. Back when this was a new discussion, I at least remember Google saying this as justification for why it stopped including them in their devices after the nexus 4

Not that I think it was a good reason for ditching them whatsoever, but one of the main reasons given has a tiny bit of merit:

Allegedly, a lot of users often cheaped out on SD cards and then used them as adopted system storage where they moved all their apps to. This had the effect of completely tanking phone performance and then they would often get corrupted after a bit of use taking user data with them. This then generated a load of negative reputation about the devices being slow and unreliable, when the problem was the choice of SD card, and generated a load of wasted money in supporting these users when that happened (think unnecessary RMAs, etc).

Personally I think they should just have restricted it to A1+ SD cards, and sucked up the people complaining about their bargain bin Scrandrisk SD not working. But I guess they saw an opportunity to have their cake and eat it by just removing it and charging a premium for larger storage skus.

The comfortable one is unfortunately an ultimate feature that we don’t get in our plan

I still don’t know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

Someone should fork the last GPL version and pull it into libretro

Can’t really see how it’s worth anyone else contributing to this version of the project anymore with such a hostile-to-open-source owner

Tbh I unironically like most lettuce in the right context

Crunchy freshness

Does it taste good?

I feel like that is a bit part of the article missing

The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.

Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more

Well given the targets still exist, surely this has to result in greater investment in renewable energy sources?

Like no one sensible is gonna let them get away with “Welp, we can’t do net-zero now because AI” when there’s the simple solution of building more renewable energy sources.

I think the borderlands games take the award for the quantity of egregious pop culture references

This is a good little roguelike indie game, most runs are done within half an hour and there’s enough of a metagame to keep me interested enough to come back IMO

No, people are just super predictable, that’s why it feels like it has to be spying sometimes.

No one has ever managed to prove this is actually happening and people have been paranoid of this for over a decade now. Someone would have 100% found some evidence by now.

I forget where I read it but yes, future cyberpunk and Witcher titles will be built on unreal engine.

They’re not going to keep maintaining the engine if none of their future titles are using it, the engineering cost alone would be very high for no benefit.

Interesting they’re still adding stuff like this given they’ve already signalled they’re not adding any new content to the game and abandoning their engine for the next project.

I wonder if something has changed behind the scenes or if they’re just going above and beyond in maintenance support

Nah the argument is that most of those people shouldn’t have needed to make the journey by car if the town was built properly.

FWIW I’ve always intuitively held the same distinction. Streets are walkable and have stuff on them, cars optional but at low speeds if they are there. Roads are not walkable and link up areas for car use.