Excuse me, his name is Rock “The Dwayne” Johnson.

Well yeah, one happens all the time and the other one is news.

Corpo assholes trying to break the AIs out from the Blackwall. Owning the entire world isn’t enough I guess.

That’s awesome. Sadly I think it would fail miserably in most countries.

If you survived childhood, there was a decent chance you’d live to your 60s, IIRC. Obviously disease and injury were more dangerous, but childhood killed off those most likely to succumb to disease.

Colin is a very good boy, he wouldn’t devour an entire world…unless given permission, of course.

Strong Bad singing voice:

“If you want it to be a possessive it’s just I-T-S, But if it’s supposed to be a contraction then it’s I-T-apostrophe-S…scalawag.”

Once the military control and election suppression are in place, you don’t need the “charisma” anymore.

Ad-free subscription services that actually benefit the creators are exceedingly rare.

Believe it or not, YouTube Premium is one of them. A Premium view is worth more than an ad-supported view to a creator.

(Obviously Patreon is better, as they can’t make a living off of only Premium views because it’s a smaller group; the population of ad-supported users is much much larger. But YouTube Premium does benefit the creators more than ad-supported YouTube does.)

How dare you make such a dangerous wish.

There are plenty of men’s pants with just the front and rear pockets!

Man, I’ve been using the same Logitech mice (two of the same model) and headset for like eight or nine years now. Still works great.

He’s on the phone a lot with full brightness. Whatever app he uses most burns it’s UI in.

Not wrong, lol. Cheaper than a bunch of toolheads though, I assume.

I genuinely cannot understand this “controversy” over the rebrand in any context other than manufactured outrage as a distraction from Epstein and Russia and occupying DC and every other horrible thing. Or manufactured outrage to bring attention to the brand, as I suspect the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney shit was.

Also Bambu has completely lost all trust from everyone

No they haven’t. They’ve lost trust from a lot of the hobbyist community, sure, but they’ve tapped a whole new market. And at the risk of having to hand in my hobbyist badge, the slippery slope argument that closed firmware means they’ll someday require DRM for filament is nonsensical. They know what happens to companies who pull that. And they don’t need it anyway. Plenty of people will exclusively buy their filament anyway since it’s the same company that made their printer. From a business perspective they stand to lose far more than they gain locking down filaments.

Don’t get me wrong, the firmware situation is infuriating. And for those who prefer the 3D printer side of the hobby over the 3D printing side, it’s a non-starter. But the field has expanded and most users aren’t power users now.

although it also has a much higher display resolution.

I was about to say 1920x1080 isn’t that much higher resolution than 1280x800, but it’s twice as many pixels! 🤯

And 4K is 4x 1080p! No wonder 4K gaming makes graphics cards chug.

using Steam remote play to the deck

I’m going to pass on some advice that a friend of mine gave me: get Apollo (a fork of Sunshine) on your computer and Moonlight on your Steam Deck. You can install Moonlight in Desktop Mode and add it to your Steam Library so you can access it in Steam mode.

It’s far better at streaming than Steam’s own streaming system. Apollo treats it like a monitor on your desktop. I have it set up so that the Steam Deck is the ONLY monitor when I’m streaming to it. You can also specify resolution in Moonlight, so I tell it to give me 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. Because of the way chroma subsampling works, this looks much better when downscaled on the Deck’s screen than simply streaming the Deck’s resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 looks GORGEOUS on the Deck like this.

(Note this is best if your PC is on a wired connection to a router with WiFi 6/6E/7 support.)

I forced myself to complete the Diablo 4 campaign because of them.

That would be a lot easier now. The game improved enormously around season 4 I think. Whatever the Loot Reborn season was. And nearly every season has included some QoL improvements.

I honestly love Diablo 4. It’s a great podcast/audiobook companion.

Modern electric mowers use batteries, and they’re awesome.

Good thing Sauber is becoming Audi next season. That’s a lot of money for a title sponsor to lose (and it sounds like they deserve to lose it).