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  • Spotify Wrapped 2024 controversy explained — what you need to know

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  • I use a self hosted playback tracker.

    The top 3 were matching for self hosted and Spotify, but the last two in the top 5 were completely different. No matter which way I sorted it (time vs plays), the self hosted tracker was correct.

  • Xbox Fans Plead With Microsoft: 'Don't Forget About Us Physical Gamers'

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  • Call of Duty was one of them. Disc contained less than 100mb of data. You still had to download the entire game. If you bought it to only play a campaign offline, too bad.

  • Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

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  • This is so far from the truth.

    The real reason is cars are heavier. The more weight, the more wear on the tires. You can only make a tire compound so hard before they become uncomfortable rolling chunks.

    In the 70s when the fuel crisis hit, cars were very inefficient. Heavy steel and heavy engines that guzzled field. As the technology has progressed we use composite materials to make them lighter where we can. Some of these materials are more expensive than others, so you won't find them on all models. Magnesium and Carbon fiber for example. We started to make cars lighter.

    Then there's features, creature comforts, etc. We started adding more and more fancy features over time. These all add up. Heavy sound deadening pads are placed all over the bare chassis. Rip up your car's carpet, underneath you'll find them. They're in the door and behind the dashboard. There's even foam in the A, B and C pillars. We figured out that we can make cars quieter. Now that we can make them quieter, let's add a lot of creature comforts. Power, heated seats and mirrors. Power windows, powered lift gates, and anything else that's powered. These require electric motors. Not sure if you've ever seen these electric motors, but these are actually quite heavy little things. A few speakers is now almost a dozen in many models. Lots of trim pieces that make the car more aesthetically pleasing add weight.

    Safety is a huge factor as well. One or two airbags has turned into about a dozen. Extra beams that are used to dissipate energy around you in a crash. My car has 8 alone for just the front driver and passenger.

    Got a hybrid or an EV? These absolutely demolish tires because the additional components adds a lot of weight.

    Even though we got better at making composite materials and reducing weight where we could, our need for creature comforts and advancement in technology has caused the overall trend for a car's weight to go up. This information is readily available if you'd like to search the Internet.

    A set of tires wear endurance has only gone up over time. But because of a car's weight, it reduces its ability. Your driving habits also greatly impact how long your tires will last. Do you have a Rivian or Tesla? Go easy on the acceleration and showing off with the spirited driving. You can make your tires last less than 10,000 mi. Do you add additional weight? How long is that additional weight being hauled around? In other words, if your trunk is full of stuff, clean it out. You're increasing fuel consumption and increasing tire wear.

  • Help Us Hack The Software Industry!!!

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  • Client is enabled by default too. Only server is disabled.

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  • Except it's not perfect for gaming. If you happen to have titles purchased through the Xbox/MS storefronts, you won't be able to play them. The version of windows you speak of lacks three critical system packages that allow UWP based games to work. Xbox Identity Provider, TCUI, and speech to text (some games rely on that for accessibility). If you file any bug report or ask for support from the development, they'll discard your ticket when they look at logs (unsupported OS). You also gimp yourself on feature sets.

  • Premium Ads

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  • This reference will never get old tbh.

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  • Interestingly, that site is owned by ESPN and at some point in time it was archived by ABC. Why it was put to use for this is strange.

  • Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 (Must-have)

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  • Very easy for a majority of people.

    As an alternative, for those who want to dive in or have more control: Self host PiHole or AdGuard Home DNS. Either use WireGuard VPN and set the DNS manually, or setup a DoT/DoH service. Either way works.

  • Not allowed to work from home

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  • Most IT positions are salary so this makes sense and is reasonable for critical systems. If you're not salary, yikes.

  • Sorry Ubisoft

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  • Sorry Ubisoft

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  • The Crew server side is being reverse engineered so you can eventually play it in the future.

  • Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert

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  • I was under the impression that Tahoe translates to "big water" which is funny.

    But "Tar pit Tar pit", "Way Way" and "Desert Desert" are indeed infuriating.

  • Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements from Lifetime down to just three years

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  • Adobe used to house all the licensing mechanisms in a single file named amtlib.dll. The people who cracked it just nulled out the function. And since it was the same for every piece of software, just repeat the null process for each one. Bam, the entire suite for free.

    When Adobe switched from CS to CC subscription, it was cracked in 24 hours. Largely because they didn't change much.

    Adobe then axed the crippling DLL file and baked the mechanism right into the executable. A patcher tool was released that could crack each one. The upside is you could install and keep them updated from the CC Desktop and just run the patcher each time. Sometimes you had to wait for an update to the patcher. So before you clicked "update" you had to double check to make sure it worked.

    To stop the free trial abuse (which is how people installed anyway) Adobe started requiring billing information during setup before you even get to downloads.

    Later on, Adobe prevented users from updating apps if there wasn't an active subscription.

    The patcher eventually stopped working because it was abandoned (this around 2019 when I gave up using it because Resolve and Affinity were more affordable and met my needs.) Months later someone else picked up the patcher development. There's also pre-cracked versions you can download and install.

    I've not touched Adobe since and find Resolve to be significantly more stable and at $300, much more affordable. The Affinity Photo and Designer apps are great and affordable too at $170 for the bundle.

  • Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim

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  • An out of the box OS should include a browser. Microsoft takes a ham-fisted approach, however, Apple makes it entirely possible to uninstall Safari. You do have to jump through the hoop of disabling System Integrity Protection to remove it, but it's simple as trashing the app and deleting the data. I speak from experience. Very easy to do.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • Absofuckinglutely not

    Looooool.

  • EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it

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  • Even if you live in an area where busses are, they're slow and limited routes. Times are often inconvenient to work schedules. 1h 30m by bus, 50m biking, 3h 10m walk. A drive to work takes me 15 mins on average.

  • ‘It scared them off’, Kansas City shoppers report less crime thanks to security robot patrolling strip mall

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  • Someone made a mistake here. It's not getting your IP address. An IP address is assigned by the gateway when you're connected to an access point. An IP address is not an identity. They are always changing and can be shared. This has already been tested and upheld in court.

    It's actually collecting your MAC address. Which is exchanged when your phone or tablet scan nearby WiFi points or Bluetooth devices. However, this can already be defeated. By default iOS and Android both have the option to randomise the MAC address in intervals. Making it extremely difficult to prove anything. This feature exists because the devices real MAC address never changes. It is unique. Alternatively, users can disable WiFi and Bluetooth scanning entirely. However, your device no longer participates in the Find My Devices program by Apple and Google, location does take longer to acquire in some scenarios, and accuracy may take longer to triangulate.

  • 'All good here': Last messages revealed from Titan submersible before implosion: Coast Guard

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  • The hubris the man had was so perfectly demonstrated in his interview.

    "There's a rule you don't do that. Well I did."

    And now he's dead.

  • 'All good here': Last messages revealed from Titan submersible before implosion: Coast Guard

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  • Something could have gone wrong electronically or mechanically warranting a ballast drop. I have considered this to be a possibility outside of them hearing cracks and suddenly wanting to go up.