I feel like there’s a big difference between grabbing some music that I might actually pay for later if it’s ever available DRM free and downloading the sum total of human creation in order to sell that creativity back to those same people for a profit.

But my biggest issue is the hypocrisy, these companies who are using generative AI for their scripts and their CG are the same ones that were suing the pants off of people 20 years ago for even thinking about pirating shit.

Typing each letter once and having a list of possible words pop up is T9.

We rented a van last year and only the front seats were bucket seats, the backseat of our car is a bench seat too. In both cases they’re not smooth across the back anymore like the one in the picture, all modern bench seats have divots too.

I’m guessing it was drilled like halfway through and then artfully cut on the front so that it would push out that way.

Me too! Mine was a five speed with an in-line six cylinder, formally owned by a pipe smoker so it had a very distinct smell.

I still haven’t forgiven him for The Learning Company and Brøderbund.

In my experience most people have forgotten about hot cereals. My mom used to make Cream of Wheat all the time when I was growing up.

If I recall correctly, they specifically said that FSR 4 would be coming to RDNA 2 systems early next year.

Teams, like a lot of MS products, uses Edge Webview 2 (an Electron clone). So if you have Teams, and VS Code, and Chrome or Edge running you are running 3 Chromium instances.

Eehhh… this person is wrong about programmers and business models but DOS machines did boot really fast (my 486 boots to DOS in about 20 seconds) and C64s and Apple IIs and such were all ROM based and so booted instantly like a Super Nintendo.

It’s more than that even, MS and Sony switched to an x86 platform for the consoles specifically to make it easier to develop cross-platform. Valve was very vocal about how hard The Orange Box was to port to the PS3 and that they wouldn’t develop for that platform again. This wasn’t a trend, it was a conscious choice and I genuinely don’t know what the goal was if not this. I was convinced that Xbox was going to become a Steam clone until recently anyway and I think the jury is still out on if MS will ever make another console themselves.

If the goal is to make it more exclusive then they should switch back to Power PC processors at least and offer other reasons to use a console over a PC.

I have had trouble not disassociating in a room where a TV is playing since I was a kid. I hate that it’s hard to find a place to eat that doesn’t have a million TVs these days.

You could maybe make an argument for Counter Strike or Team Fortress or something like that… maybe.

Yes, lots of emulators support that and as others have mentioned have for some time. I can remember doing it with Super Mario Kart back in high school at LAN parties.

Apparently it is also possible to do it on the latest crop of Retroid, Ambernic, etc. handhelds where each player can use their own handheld for the split screen game wirelessly. As someone who also remembers corrupting Pokémon saves because the bus hit a bump while plugging in the link cable I am super jealous of kids these days for tech like this.

I worked at a pizza buffet in high school and we made it in 5 gal batches every few days.

One of several people standing on a balcony overlooking an Occupy Wall Street protest in 2011. This woman specifically was at the time believed to be an employee of National Bank but I don’t know if they were ever identified individually.

You are surprised that the people doing this during Occupy Wall Street are allowing this?

Contigo makes cold only ones too, maybe you got one of those?

Did you put it in the dishwasher? Because that can happen to things like this when they are subjected to things like the heated drying cycle. That goes for any brand, not just this one.

Honestly the heated drying cycle is just about the worst thing for most dishes that aren’t ceramic.

Google Glass was like the 3rd time this tech has fallen on its face. I mentioned this before recently but I can remember when Sony had some that used a CD-ROM Walkman for the HUD data. They were going to be on the face of every engine mechanic by the end of the 90s…