[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 9 months ago

Monkey's paw: Google buys it

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's the treshold for you to get a 1st degree burn. No, it's not instantaneous at that temperature, but it certainly denotes that it shouldn't get there at all.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 9 months ago

RCS is a carrier-side standard (the sucessor to SMS) that is older than iMessage (circa 2008 iirc).

Some phone manufacturers started to implement it when iMessages was released, but it didn't really become a big thing until Google pushed it to become the standard messaging way in 2017.

The message of this video is that Apple has maliciously held back implementing the standard for years because they'd lose some of the selling points of the iDevices and would also end the narrative that "androids are trash, can't text them properly and look at how pixelated the videos are".

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 10 months ago

Kid intended to watch a TV programme, but dad did a dad joke and made it seem like they were refering to the TV itself (the object).

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

your average cyclist can sprint to over 30 mph without much trouble.

I don't believe that. That's 50kph!! Your average cyclist will be pedaling 12 to 15 mph (20 to 25 kph) and at that point you'll be sweating, it's not "leisure" speed. That would be up to 9mph/15kph.

You are not reaching 30mph unless you are fully sprinting on a descent with a gravel bike (maybe a mountain bike if it's a long, long, stretch) or have a road bicycle on a flat/slight slope and you are full sending it (even on a flat road I'm assuming, I've never ridden one). Not to mention these people will be using protective gear.

I have a gravel bicycle and on a flat road I can get up to 23mph (37 kph) with me going full beans (occasionally fighting the wind). For reference, I've only reached 30mph a couple times in 1,100km and it's been only on a 3km long downward stretch of road. Also because there's no point to waste that energy when you are transversing double digits distances, and it gets really scary to be at those speeds anyways.

You certainly cannot get those speeds on a city bike or mountain bike on flat asphalt since they are not as aerodynamic, and often more heavier.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just pull the parking brake and accelerate until you feel the car slightly raising and then drop the parking brake.

Eventually you get a feeling for it and drop the parking brake before it's "fighting" the accelerator.

This might sound trivial to some, but I know several people that never use the parking brake in these situations and instead do a manic race with their feet and the car drops a couple meters back and they over accelerate to compensate.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 10 months ago

Not to mention that they did start with the narrative that they start enforcing this on a certain date, but it took me 2 months over that to receive the warning/being locked out. I remember seeing people from Canada (one of the countries in the first wave) that still had not been forced off 4 months into the date they had set.

They appear to be taking it slow (not booting off everyone at the same time) to build this narrative that it's working fantastically so to not get a massive drop off in users (stock price drop) and waiting out for their competition to also move forward with this change. All of this while also adding more markets, dropping the prices in others and removing the cheaper plans.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not OP, but you can skim a news article in 10/20 seconds.

Why should people watch videos that take 10x more time and, more often than not, don't offer anything besides narration since most just use recycled footage anyways?

You've gotta read anyways what he says since we don't understand Russian, but now we don't have as much control over the content.

Accessibility aside, I really dislike the video-centric internet.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 10 months ago

There's plenty of games which haven't been cracked. More often than not, a game is updated to remove denuvo or a drm-free .exe is released accidentally.

It's been hard to crack games and from what I've read, it now relies on one person and they have been a bit of a lunatic.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 11 months ago

Long-form journalism predates google by a few centuries.

Out of the 15 paragraphs, it says it uses sound in the 3rd and explains the mechanism in the 4th.

I agree that they should've put it in the title or the lead, but this wasn't a news pice, it's a monthly column focused on analog buttons. The first 2 paragraphs rightfully contextualise the hardware to an era most of us don't know much.

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 11 months ago

If you're still looking, the switch pro controller uses the same battery as the 3DS

[-] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago

Reddit will spiral down to a 9gag clone.

Back in the day, I discovered Reddit because people in the comments on 9gag would say a certain post was stolen from reddit.

I was a sucker for rage comics, so r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu (aka f7u12) was my gateway drug.

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