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  • Advice on finding a partner?

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  • The bar and Tinder are not the exclusive domain of hookups. I met my partner of 5 years on bumble, my friend met his wife on Tinder.

    I think the advice others are giving is true to some extent, work on yourself and good things will come, but for most people you also have to go the extra mile and put yourself out there.

    Put yourself on the apps. Go to clubs, leagues, meetups, socials, events, parties etc. In general, say yes instead of no and talk to people instead of not. If something starts to develop you can give out those vibes that you’re looking for something more serious, and people will self-select.

  • Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024

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  • Yep. I used to upgrade my iPhone every year just because smartphones were moving fast in the 2010-2020 era. Now, I’m on a three year cycle and barely even notice.

    I’ve resold every iPhone I’ve ever owned for 50% of the value or more, and I manage a fleet of iPhones for my job and we still have 5Ses in the wild for people. Apple still provides critical security updates for those devices and we’re at 11 years for those devices. Most people have 7 year old iPhone X era devices and I get almost no complaints or dead devices.

    iPhones have ridiculous longevity and hold resale value better than any other device.

  • After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat

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  • No it doesn’t require it but it can make it easier. Especially for people that don’t have a robust and centralized way of controlling their smart devices, or only have 1-2 of them. I think the appeal is still obvious.

  • After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat

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  • The switch part will still work. How are you not getting this?

  • After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat

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  • The appeal is remote and centralized management, easier programming and more features. If that’s not worth it to you to replace your thermostat every 16 years, then nobody is forcing you to get one.

    But being able to change the temp from my phone from anywhere is worth it to me, as well as including it with other automations for all my connected devices. The appeal is honestly not hard to see, even if it’s not worth it for you personally.

  • Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline

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  • I think they cancelled a bunch of projects in development, and they are writing off the cost.

  • Fallout 4 upgrade launches to mixed response, with broken mods and bugged Xbox quality mode

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  • No launching a next gen upgrade is about the minimum they should have done. There wasn’t a better way to do this, they should have just not fucked it up.

  • Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

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  • What is a meme?

  • The little smart home platform that could

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  • Matter’s biggest problem is that it launched behind everything else. You’re already starting to see a lot of support for it just because it allows companies to support Apple Home without implementing the whole HomeKit stack & pay the licensing fees to Apple. SwitchBot, Hue and IKEA already have Matter support in their hubs in beta.

    But it won’t be relevant to non-Apple users until Thread radios start being more pervasive and the spec reaches v2 and supports more stuff. Then most devices will be Matter, because a company can support all 3 major vendor apps with one standard. Right now it’s:

    • Amazon/Google - most low end devices or devices made by those companies
    • Apple Home - devices specifically for homekit
    • Amazon/Google/Apple Home - devices for all 3
    • Amazon/Google/Matter - devices for all 3 that use Matter to support Apple Home

    Some will still go those routes, but eventually it will just make sense to support Matter and do away with all of those separate devices and support paths.

    I think the analogy is faulty because none of what exists is any sort of standard. It’s just a bunch of proprietary vendor implementations. Matter is the first front end Smart Home standard.

  • sIGmA BeHaiovouR

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  • Most people.

    Also the majority of people even on PC play vanilla. When will people who mod understand this. MOST PEOPLE DON’T MOD. That’s not even counting the people who did mod when they had the time to fuck around with stuff like that and no longer do, like myself.

  • What are your thoughts on the loblaws barriers?

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  • I hate them. The stores clearly weren’t designed with them in mind, and all it does is make getting from point A to point B 10x harder if those points aren’t exactly where they expect you to go. Need to get to customer service or grab a paper after you’ve entered the store already? Good luck, now you have to go ALLLL the way around the store, fully exit, and then you can get there. Before it was a 2 second walk, now it’s 5 minutes.

  • Windows 10 is the last version of Windows

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  • I don’t think that’s a fair interpretation, I think Microsoft absolutely intended what they said here, that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows. Hence the shift in development strategy. Annual breaking updates rather than new full releases, the new month-year versioning cycle, free for anyone with a valid Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 license.

    I think the goal was to eventually drop the “10” and for it to just be Windows as a service, where major versions don’t really matter and the UX slowly evolves over time rather than in one big change.

    Then, something happened. Obviously this is purely speculative, but I suspect either the executive championing this strategy left, or they saw it cutting into their profits more than they anticipated, or enterprises complained about frequent breaking updates, who knows. Then Windows 11 appeared out of nowhere. The signalling from MS for enterprise was clear. Stop monolithic imaging and site-wide rollouts, instead test applications with a pilot group and then push the annual releases wide if no issues are found.

    I definitely think something changed. While you’re right that this is the only quote supporting it directly, when asked in follow-ups Microsoft went out of its way to NOT deny the statement or confirm it. If the plan was the status quo, they would have just said “we have not changed our release model at this time” but they didn’t. They knew full well that based on how widely reported that quote was, people would infer that it was the strategy. If they felt so strongly that it was just a simple misspeaking, they would have said so.

  • Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day

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  • Most washing machines have sensors and do not dry based on a timer. The program time is just a rough estimate, if clothes are still wet or soap bubbles are still present it will do extra rinses or spins.

  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

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  • If this kills Fandom/Wikia, that would be amazing and somewhat realistic.

  • 200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone."

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  • Alabama

    AM

    I mean I can’t say 100%, but…

  • Venezuela building up troops on Guyana border, satellite images show

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  • We’re just warming ourselves by the fire.

  • ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times

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  • RTO/WFH definitely impacts tech workers the most, I think that’s just obvious.

  • Tangara is a portable, open-source music player based on an ESP32 MCU

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  • With the worst controls imaginable to boot :)

  • Cartridge rule

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  • That’s not the reason, it’s because the constant removal & reinsertion of the cartridge across attempts to get it working causes the pins on the inside of the console to scrape against the contacts on the cartridge enough to remove some corrosion and form a proper connection. Saliva and the blowing had little or nothing to do with it.

    The proper method is to use contact cleaner, rubbing alcohol or an eraser to remove the corrosion from the contacts on the cartridge. This is basically the same thing but instead of scraping off the corrosion with the console cartridge slot pins, you’re removing it evenly and cleanly.