I think adblocking is the best thing I’ve done for my children.

It won’t even fix their car.

He stepped back from running his company and got into philanthropy. That’s what all billionaires should do.

Once you’ve taken enough, you’ve gotta work on how to give it all back.

Fun fact: There’s two places in the world where Coca Cola is not the leading drink.

Irn Bru outsells Coke in Scotland, and Iced Coffee outsells Coke in South Australia.

Good effort = They performed well.

I swear Robe in SA is one of those places where it’s a 1 hour drive to the next town, across the most arid coast you could imagine. I’ve only been in the area once.

The Australian government would have you believe that we’re in the middle of some kind of CP endemic and everyone needs to suffer for it.

This will catch precisely nobody, as the criminals will immediately move to a different platform, of which there are many.

I host my own mail. If the AFP want to inspect it, they’ll need a warrant.

I go wired. I use a pair of Sennheiser HD497 headphones I’ve had for 20 years. They still sound decent with a USB-C adapter at one end. It gets used daily on the train to work, and at work for zoom calls.

Everything about wireless annoys me. The price. The futzing around to pair it. The constant recharging. Having to “prepare” them before going out. The awful encoding artifacts. Radio interference. Walking around looking like an autistic kid with noise-cancelling earmuffs…

It would be server-side.

I just kept Linux on my PC and bought an XBox because Windows isn’t good for much else.

At this point, they’ve invested more in not supporting Linux. This is after Linux decided to support Fortnite instead.

I ignore the “top 3” brands because they’re full of ads, and practically a wiretap at this point. Surprisingly, the mid-tier brands don’t invest in selling the consumer as a product.

You may get a decent experience from a top-tier that’s kept offline, and using a media box that you have more control over.

I’ve found that response times are an important spec. TVs now are mostly < 10ms (about half a frame at 60Hz). I have older TVs where it’s > 150ms and audio goes out of sync and video games are unplayable. I suspect the cheaper TVs fare well here too. They don’t do as much postprocessing.

Fortnite.

Well, it works until the server kicks you off.

As long as you choose AMD. If you look at the Steam Hardware Survey, Linux users have very different purchasing patterns.

I was thinking “she should be able to” … “ask one of my friends to figure it out”.

As long as she knows what the passwords are, a tach savvy friend will figure out the rest.

Well, I’d also take the option of just downloading it and keeping it on my hard drive.

My backup solution is hard to setup and maintain, but shouldn’t be terrible for someone else to recover from.

All the phones sync to nextcloud when on wifi and charging. My server has alternating encrypted backups, and one is always off-site.

If I go, my wife can plug it in and punch in the password. Hopefully that’s enough.

Sony should invent a way for people to buy a movie, own it, and be able to store it on a shelf or something. Maybe we can even lend them to friends or start a library.

Even if it was only useful at the rear, it would allow the battery to be moved further back and produce a better weight distribution. Most cars are front-heavy.

You get banned retrospectively too. I got banned from Adsense in 2003 and magically got demonetised from YouTube in 2006.

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