For reference I have large hands and throught the original huge Xbox “Duke” Controller was comfortable.

Un popular opinion when I had to support those damn things I actually hated the keyboards, always felt the keys where too small

Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records and then received an unconditional discharge of his sentence.

Trump would just pardon him… Nothing you can do now.

Nearly all brands have produced unreliable and a reliable series of hard drives.

Really have to look at them based on series / tech.

None of the big spinning rust brands really can be labeled as unreliable across the board

console = network, game = content… is my argument.

IE Nintendo was happy to sell more units with Sega content, and sega moving to software / content had no choice but to sell on other platorms.

I’m not sure if Nintendo would get a percent of a 3rd party devs profits.

Nintendo makes money on EVERY cart sold and every electronic purchase… it is a major part of their EXPENSIVE model and why Nintendo platform games always seem more expensive. It is also why they still sell cart based systems so they are the ONLY supplier of the media, but now they have their own eStore as well.

Nintendo allowed Sega’s Sonic Heroes to compete with Super Mario Sunshine on their own game conosle

99% sure that only happened after Sega stopped making competing consoles. IE more game content benefited their console platform

Private company doesn’t allow promotion of competing product? That is just good business? No surprises here.

I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.

I guess this would be country/state dependent.

Have you heard of the Information superhighway?

“Will that be smoking or non smoking?” Asked as a restaurant

“I think you flooded it” in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)

“I got it off Napster”

“want to listen to my mix tape?”

“I can burn you a CD of that”

It won’t be green because of the cold… If it doesn’t doesn’t snow it is a brown / yellow Christmas.

Also you can’t use your cross country skis, sleds, snowmobiles etc if there isn’t any snow. No one wants to go out in the cold MUD.

I cant make out the model number in your photo…

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/iphone-faq/differences-between-iphone-3g-iphone-3gs.html

Although external identification requires sharp eyes to spot it down at the bottom of the back of the phone, the iPhone 3G is model number A1241 and the iPhone 3GS is A1303. The China-only iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models that do not have Wi-Fi are model number A1324 and A1325, respectively.

FYI I owned both, the 3GS was just leaps faster than the 3… At this point however I would be surprised if there would run without a full battery swap due to age.

The fediverse is more like a string of hit and miss mom and pop shops no one has heard of. Some are great, others are real dives.

Seems like there aren’t many centrist communities where you can have nuanced discussions.

Nearly all social media is full of eco echo chambers… I still post and follow stuff on several of the platforms. There is very little nuanced conversation… Seems like it is more and more just an up vote or downvote storm, or people claiming one thing or another without any supporting evidence.

Yep, it can also be the answer to getting insane performance gains for extremely specific functions / calculations.

The reality of life is the higher level languages let you get more done with fewer errors but with less potential performance… You can only optimize python so much. Some newer languages like Rust try to balance the two but often make things more complex.

Many programmers that work in Low level languages like Assembly or C regard high level languages as easy or slow and thus tended to dis them.

John Carmack (Doom, Quake engine, considered an amazing programmer) Best Programming Language has a wider appreciation of IDEs and Languages.

The barrier for entry for TEDx is very very low, worked with someone in management who had done one they where not with the company long.

X can’t reuse the inforwars account due to the trademark, but they are also not required to transfer ownership or continue providing access to that account.

Who owns your outlook.com account? Who owns your gmail.com account? I will give you a guess it is the company that owns the domain to the right of the @.

No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts

The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.

Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.