Blake (he/him)

Very happy with my UGREEN. Though it’s my first so I don’t have anything to compare it to

No doctor, no medical records though

They’re a powerless middleman, no?

If I recall correctly they removed all “journalism” references on their website a while back and published their own page of ethics

This is because of excessive early production to curb scalpers. It’s not a fair comparison

Huh. I’ve heard of Risk of Rain before but when Steam recommended it to me I thought it was a JRPG

Not if you want a music player. They’ve added podcasts everywhere possible

Companies, governments, and corporations are all run by people

Seems oversimplified and hyperbolic. The economy will always need people because people are the demand. And because markets are largely unpredictable, supply relies on people making strategic decisions. That will never change. Not everything can be quantified, collected, analyzed, and automated

Well yeah, but who would use a Chinese-based VPN? That’s asking for trouble to begin with

That’s opening Pandora’s box though, since you then become aware of illegal activities and take on a lot of liability

Bad employers eventually face the music

I haven’t heard discussion on this topic, but isn’t it possible for the LLM to interpret that 30k as good, reinforcing its own bad habits?

Nintendo sucks

It’s worth noting these companies try to capture & record every inch of a city before entering the market there. Without these models the vehicles would drive significantly worse. This isn’t really a scalable business model from what I’ve read

People accused MKBHD for “killing” products with his reviews. Both cannot be true

I think it was pretty convenient for the specific use case of discovering an article you want to read later on an e-reader. Or so I hear

Huge +1 recommendation for Manic Miners. Functionally a 1:1 remake with everything you could ask for and more- lots of settings, remastered levels, and a level builder. The (solo) dev got hired by Lego’s video game division afterwards

any of the thousands of games that predate “the cloud” or games that don’t even have a save feature.

Well sure, but those games were all made with that specific context in mind. You don’t simply start over BotW each time and have as good of an experience, because that’s not how it was designed. You don’t design 25+ hours worth of content for a campaign and expect it to be fine for players to lose their progress. This is a portalable gaming handheld we’re talking about. You can drop it. You can lose it. Spills happen. SD cards get corrupted.

Besides, if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product not the consumer.

It wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t a walled garden. Forcing payment for a basic feature plus not allowing any alternatives is classic anti-competitive behavior.

Lack of free cloud saves is a non-starter. Why spend hundreds of hours on a save that can be gone at a moment’s notice?