How about this (not OP): most things people attribute to planned obsolescence are not planned obsolescence.

SSL operates after name resolution. It’s one way that information about your browsing habits is not protected by application-layer encryption; the domains you’re visiting are available to your DNS server.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/petrol

The erosion of free speech in the UK continues, though it’ll be interesting to see whether the far-right (who claim to want to protect women and girls, don’t forget) will care about it.

I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that “from the river to the sea” isn’t antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don’t think they’d do the same nowadays.

I didn’t leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I’d been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there’s always some shit about how you should ask if you don’t understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn’t receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.

The irony is that here I’m usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.

Plenty of phones only charge at 25W which is why I picked the figure :P

More efficient sensors mean better battery life, which is more likely what this is about.

Relating this to carbon emissions is absurd. Your phone’s maximum power consumption is about 25W, of which sensors are a tiny, minuscule fraction. Running your phone at 25W for an entire year would allow you to drive a typical petrol car doing 40mpg for 250 miles on the same energy budget.

Reducing sensor power usage is good, but not for this reason.

This backlash prompted Microsoft to postpone its rollout.[2][4] Microsoft changed the feature to opt-in and provided instructions for how to remove it.

Not something “forced on everyone”?

Uh, sorry, we don’t allow sane takes here. Get out.

“usually”?

Not where I’m from (which isn’t NYC)

A calculator app is also incapable of working with letters, does that show that the calculator is not reliable?

What it shows, badly, is that LLMs offer confident answers in situations where their answers are likely wrong. But it’d be much better to show that with examples that aren’t based on inherent technological limitations.

Saying “it’s worth trillions of dollars huh” isn’t really promoting that attitude.

Mmm, no, I think plenty of people are annoyed by pointless comments on discussion boards.

r u ok hun

Do you understand why your original comment was annoying?

OP here had a response to the opinion expressed in the meme. All you did was say “I disagree”.

You don’t have to have a take but if you’re going to go to the point of writing something, not having anything to contribute is annoying and that’s what I’m complaining about. Understand?

Good, now go back to downvoting everything you disagree with, like everyone else does.

Hopefully it’s obvious that when I talk about a communist state or other state initiating huge state-run enterprises like game studios, the current US adminstration is not of much interest.

Sexualisation is not the same as sexual content. Widowmaker in Overwatch is a sexualised character, because she is portrayed as sexually attractive, seductive and generally in such a way as to have her viewed as a sexual being. There are other characters who are not sexualised.

At least they had a take, unlike you.

Exactly. The alternative to most companies setting prices dictated by what they can get away with charging is some kind of state involvement in setting prices, or even in production - you can imagine that in a communist state, there might be a government-run game studio, for example, and it would put out games at a certain price point calculated to be acceptable to the government’s goals and ideals.

I think this could actually work just fine, and think it’d be a great way to solve the problem of copyright. But we also shouldn’t kid ourselves: the government isn’t going to take vast amounts of money it could allocate to healthcare, transport, etc and allocate it to non-essential entertainment like video games. Look at government expenditure on the arts nowadays. So there would be fewer video games coming out in that system, and fewer opportunities for a Hollow Knight to come out of it all.