If you ever want to make a greybeard feel old, find a floppy disk in his cupboard, hold it up and say, “Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!”

For games that aren’t fast moving, you don’t need 240fps in the first place.

I played an MMO at 40 FPS for years. With a freesync screen that matches the frame rate instead of stuttering or tearing, it still feels fine.

The benchmarks are against vanilla Wine. A lot of people are using the fsync patches, so ntsync is more about accuracy - things that didn’t work under fsync should work under ntsync.

Instead of choosing between accuracy and performance hacks, ntsync should do it properly.

Yeah, but manufacturers abuse that to deny liability regardless of what the cause of the failure actually was. So we have laws against just assigning liability to the user.

Bigger, more powerful fusion gear isn’t going to also be more expensive?

Lots of generation technologies scale, and costs fall as they do. That’s not something unique to fusion power.

We can already massively increase generation to meet the needs of those industries whenever we want. They’re impractical due to the cost of meeting their energy requirements, not because it’s impossible.

Unless fusion power plants are going to be free to build or last forever, they have the same practical limit as every other type of generation - they have to be paid for. It isn’t clear that fusion would be a huge step forward in cost per megawatt-hour.

Yeah, but there’s no prizes for producing way more power than we use. We’re not running out of space to put solar panels or batteries.

It seems like it’s probably too late.

Even if we crack fusion power today, I can’t see it being deployed cheaply enough and quickly enough to compete with solar/wind+batteries. By the time we could get production fusion plants up and ready to feed power into the grid, it’d be 2050 and nobody would be interested in buying electricity from it.

• Try to log in to my ISP’s website. “Username not found.”
• Try the password reset link and put in the username just to see what happens. “Password reset email sent.”
• Email turns up. Click the link. Type a password. “Password reset successfully.”
• Try to log in to my ISP’s website. “Username not found.”

Edit: to be clear, I didn’t put in my email address, I only put in the username. The system looked up the username and found the email address by itself.

(arguably they should have just let the phones stop working instead of blocking them outright). The allowlist they used was missing hundreds of 4G capable phones and was missing just about every overseas model of phone

IIRC the issue is that phones must be able to dial 000 if there’s any mobile coverage at all. A bunch of VoLTE-capable phones either force 3G for 000 calls or aren’t compatible with Telstra’s custom VoLTE implementation, and there’s really no way for telcos to know these things.

There’s no way for the owner to know, either. A bunch of 4G+VoLTE phones in the wild that people think are fine either can’t call 000 or can’t call 000 on Telstra’s network. So a phone on Optus might work fine on Optus VoLTE, might call 000 fine on Optus VoLTE, but wouldn’t be able to call 000 if there was only Telstra network coverage.

And there’s no way for Optus to know which specific modem firmware your phone has, so even getting the same model phone and testing it isn’t a reliable solution.

IIRC the pop up even did scummy bullshit like continuing with the update if you closed the popup by clicking the cross in the top right of the window, you had to actually click the cancel button.

They’re called window rattlers for a reason.

You know, I’ve heard that quote a lot and it never occurred to me to ask before. What’s the difference between a rape and a legitimate rape? Is there a form to fill out or something?

Pretty sure I remember this guy on a Linux gaming discord server a couple of years before Steam Deck released asking people who were gaming on low end PCs how well things were working for them.

Looking back, I think I know what that was about now.

It’s not just computing power - you don’t always want your device burning massive amounts of battery.

FTFY

Only some Pixel 4a phones are affected, apparently.

You know… the stuff they’re doing to some Pixel 4as - reducing charging speed, limiting charge level, etc - those are the same things EV manufacturers do when they’ve got known faulty batteries catching fire and are trying to work around the issue with software.

Doing it to certain devices which you can look up by IMEI, that sounds a lot like something you’d do if you had a certain batch of batteries catching fire and knew which devices had those batteries.

More than a year after end of life, Google suddenly decides “stability of battery performance” is such a big issue that they’re going to pay compensation to people? That isn’t suspicious at all.

Yeah… One of my great great grandmothers, nobody was ever allowed to know how old she was while she was alive. It was this weird mystery.

Turns out if you knew her age you could easily count backwards and work out that when she got married she was 13 years old and about four months pregnant.

I only get told to pull forward when there’s a queue, and they want to get the person behind me to the window.

is it always running, looking for barcodes in all the photos you take?

Has Google’s camera app added that yet? If not it’s only a matter of time.