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ColonelPanic

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  • Healthcare solved rule

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  • All it really takes is one person with a now terminal illness that has previously been denied lifesaving healthcare to decide they want to take someone with them on the way down. I'm sure there are quite a few people in the US in that situation.

  • They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution

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  • They still make them. Still metal too. My 3 year old has a few and loves them. I have some old ones and they still work, albeit not as fast as they used to.

  • Does anybody here still wish the Fediverse just had more people?

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  • I do, but only because the UX around federated entities isn't great at the moment. There's no doubt that it could be made way more intuitive and streamlined for the average user, and that more effort could be put into migration between federated entities so that it doesn't feel like as much of a chore to jump between instances. The average user won't care about federation, and they just want to quickly get some content.

  • Guess I'll fry

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  • 10°C. Coats out, heating on.

    Never know what it'll be tomorrow though. Might be 28 and sunny, might -15 and snowing. Maybe even the sun will make an appearance.

    Regardless, it'll cause disruptions to the trains somehow.

  • The mark

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  • I'm in the UK. We drive on the opposite side, freckle in the exact spot on my left arm, nothing on my right.

  • YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

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  • Money.

    Also I imagine the ads will be silent but animated, like a regular website ad but full screen, essentially turning whatever you're watching it on into a giant billboard.

    It's just another thing to block I guess.

  • Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week

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  • It does also work for them that they retain employees who are more likely to put up with their bullshit. They can cull the truly lazy ones at a later date as required, either by firing them or finding a similarly bullshit change that they're likely to be adverse to.

  • Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

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  • I've not looked into it much other than seeing it in this video by Jeff Geerling and making a mental note for next time I'm in the market for a TV but it may be of interest to you.

    I'm sorry I can't provide more details than that, but it's basically a digital signage TV designed to run 24/7 for years, and as such is actually built without the absolute bargain basement parts that go into consumer units.

  • Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

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  • Get a non-consumer TV if you can. They're more expensive but are actually built to last, have way more features and you can swap in whatever compute board you want so you're not stuck with an underpowered Android TV board.

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • It's not just large amounts of money. It's chasing more and more money each quarter, and when it starts slowing down panic sets in and they start trying to find any and every possible avenue to keep profits up. It's how we've ended up in subscription based hell and it'll only get worse.

  • Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers

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  • This coming down the line finally got me off of my incredibly lazy ass and forced me to switch a few months ago. It was easy, and I don't know why I didn't do it sooner.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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  • It might even be a bit simpler than that, as YouTube's going to have to mark segments as adverts somehow so you can't just skip past them.

  • Cheap, OpenWrt compatible routers with WiFi 6?

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  • The BPI-WIFI6 is currently half price and good value for what you get imo. Not sure on true performance yet as I need to rewire my house but it's way more reliable than any of my other routers at least.

  • Grindr faces massive fine for allegedly sharing “sensitive” user data

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  • Pretty sure it's a Nexus 4 from 2012, and that shipped with Jellybean so it's highly likely.

  • Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

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  • Yeah, you can plug it into a few external services like OpenAI or even use a local LLM like LocalAI. Not used either, but I know it's possible.

  • A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

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  • That would also explain why Aldi in the UK also has these while other stores don't.

  • Cheap, but reliable SSDs?

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  • They did. Cheap and reliable

  • Fallout London's project lead is not taking the surprise drop of Fallout 4's update well: 'That has, for a lack of a better term, screwed us over'

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  • How do you prepare for an update when Bethesda don't tell you what is changing? It says in the article they had literally no correspondence from Bethesda until the update dropped, so the only thing they could do was keep developing and hope not too much broke in the process.

    That being said, from what I understand is that the script extender broke, so they're just waiting for an undefined time until that gets fixed for the latest update.

  • Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return

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  • The index is better overall and I love mine, but I can't help but feel jealous that someone can just grab their quest, put it on and get into VR immediately. I have to cart my PC downstairs, turn the base stations on, find the index and wire it all up, troubleshoot why Windows has decided to mess up the drivers and now nothing works, and maybe half an hour later finally get into a game or completely give up and try again another time.

    The quest gains a lot in portability and ease of setup, and that does result in a lot of other features being sacrificed but to most people the downsides don't matter as much.