Advertising cars with the exact scene that carbrained people are constantly getting in the way of is ridiculously ironic.

Carbrained people want to enjoy the beauty and lifestyle that comes from walkable cities, but those things only exist because people aren’t driving.

They want to drive on empty roads (that are empty because nobody else has cars) to get to a beautiful leaf-shaded downtown with cafés and shops (that only exist because of dense mixed-use cities) then park in an always-vacant spot right outside the door (that is only vacant because everyone else walked or biked)

The “dream lifestyle” of car ownership is a fakery that only exists if cars are an exclusive luxury for a tiny number of people. It’s fundamentally elistist, and selfish. But nonetheless that’s the lifestyle advertisers continue to push, and the public continues to lap up.

VWOOoOOoooo!!

It’s really interesting when you think about that.

In the video world, we’ve had an arms race all throughout the last 25 years for the lowest possible file size at the best possible quality, with new codecs and containers constantly coming in and out of favour. Hardware playback has always been spotty at best, with little guarantee you’ll get a file to play on any device in particular.

Meanwhile I could rip a CD and put it on even my first-generation MP3 player from the year 1999, and it would work. A blessing we rather take for granted.

I guess there just hasn’t been sufficient pressure to toss MP3 out completely. From an evolutionary perspective, just like the horseshoe crab, it is “good enough” and so it endures.

This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.

Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.

Why are we changing the default SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.

More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.

100%.

I haven’t bought a full price game in a long, long time.

Oh no!

Well, anyway…

What was the answer to the questioning?

Brain at 7AM: “okay, now it’s time to feel more sleepy, relaxed and comfortable than you’ve ever felt in your life”

Whatever it is convenient for it to mean at any particular point in time.

Zero point two nine cents? That’s cheap!

I’m sure lots of people here do and will like it - just not me! :)

You should keep posting it, obviously.

It’s a comedy strip, and humour is extremely subjective. What works for one person won’t work for someone else.

I see it as intentionally being a “bad taste” comic by design, and as someone who never enjoyed Happy Tree Friends or other franchises which use violence, sex or toilet humour as cornerstones, it’s already on an uphill battle as far as my tastes are concerned.

Of course, dark humour and “bad taste” have been important parts of human comedy since forever, and I don’t mind them when it serves a purpose. But Cyanide and Happiness seems to exist purely on bad taste, as if bad taste is entertaining in it’s own right.

To me it feels completely insubstantial, and so for me it’s a pass.

I like c/comicstrips but I wish there was a way to exclude certain artists whose sense of humour is incompatible with mine.

I never want to see this artist nor cyanide and happiness ever again, if I can help it.

There’s no strict rule, either is acceptable.

“Write down the age of everyone here”

“Write down the ages of everyone here”

Equivalent, and both equally fine.

When we are talking about a group of two or more people either singular or plural work, and singular doesn’t imply they have to be the same either.

For broadcasts yes. The autoplay for trailers keeps forgetting its setting constantly and there’s nothing you can do about all the embeds - which are really the worst offender.

That page won’t open for me because it’s http only, won’t upgrade to https, and my browser won’t allow it.

But I know the story you mean and it’s brilliant lol.

Here’s another report on the same: Welsh translation gaffe

If you’re the sort of person who likes to take in plenty of trailers when you’re hunting for new stuff to play on Steam […]

How about if I’m the sort of person who hates it when a bunch of shit starts autoplaying and there is a dev stream popping up and 10 embedded animated images in the product description?

Got any features for me?

Bizzarre mistakes in signage, just like in real life! Realism++

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Finding a decent hub is a minefield, but I don’t think this is the fault of USBC as a specification. It’s just the incentive towards cheap manufacturing.

If watching a load of videos from the legendary bigclive has taught me anything, its that electronics can be built sometimes very well, and sometimes very poorly.

When people buy hubs on Amazon they will consider the features (ports), the appearance (nice and shiny to match the laptop), and the price. What they often fail to consider is what’s on the inside.

We can’t see what’s inside and assume that any hub is as good as any other, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Electronics can be built with a whole load of extra components that go above and beyond the baseline. Extra electronics to do things like help prevent overheating, smooth out rough voltages, or prevent damage to themselves or other electronics they are connected to.

But these components cost money, and so the incentive is to leave them out to keep the price down, while the budget instead goes to making sure the case is shiny and there’s a premium-looking braided cable, because those are the external (and often false) indicators of ‘quality’ people are looking at.

This is very different scenario from when the ports are built into in the computer/laptop itself, because in that situation the equipment price point is already expensive - so the engineers will have leeway and incentive to make sure the ports and surrounding electronics are of high quality.

I’m thankful to bigclive, because now I avoid no-brand cheap electronics like the plague. Even if they function to start with they may not last long, and they definitely aren’t being gentle on my connected laptop while they are at it.