Early CD players had some strange decisions in the audio path that certainly weren’t helping matters. It’s surprisingly easy to accidentally introduce noise and aliasing if you aren’t careful, and cheap players absolutely cut corners and did just that. For example, a remarkably common technique was to use a 1-bit…

It really doesn’t help that wireless bluetooth is already compressed. Pass “lossless” audio over your air pods and you get lossy audio in your ears, with variable bitrate at that. Most competently mixed modern music is designed to sound just fine on shitty sound paths, so you’re usually not missing much.

What you’re asking for is a “cheat options+”, which is very different. Every game has debug features, but remember that developers know the inner workings of the game and often need to intentionally break things quite badly, to test out error handling and other logic. This is not meant for casual players to access,…

The fragile egos on display in that discord are something else. Even if a company is trying to “inject diversity,” as they say, why is this a bad thing? Historically we’ve not been very good at that. If we can bring diverse representation into our games such that they better reflect the diverse reality of the…

That’s the thing though: if they “lower” the prices during any portion of the day, they have to “raise” the prices back at some point. You can’t adjust in just one way with this scheme or eventually your products are free, but also nobody likes the prices going up, no matter the context.

iFixit covers the reason, though it’s a bit hard to see in this article’s photos: that little notch in the cable keeps it physically secured to the pack. There’s a matching locking mechanism in the headset, and the net effect is that the battery pack is rather difficult to dislodge through accidental motion, catching…

That’s not what I said. Of course it did bother me, once I learned what it was. The argument is mostly that it can be hard to recognize without the necessary context, especially if the moderators are overworked and in a hurry.

Sure, but that’s because I can’t cancel what I don’t have. I don’t ship from Amazon often enough to justify the subscription, and for the most part I don’t mind waiting longer for deliveries. It’s not like I can do much with them until the weekend anyway.

I was trying to have a discussion about the challenges of moderation at scale. Everyone is jumping on my ignorance instead, ignoring the point I was actually trying to make. (Y’all are explaining it quite well, fwiw. I am up to date now, thank you.)

Everyone here also seems to assume I’m somehow defending these images? I’m... not? Just trying to shed some light on how the moderation team may have missed them at first glance. Epic’s (updated) response makes it clear the company as a whole doesn’t think the situation is okay.

Sure, they’re well known in America, due to the cultural history of [gestures vaguely]. But the younger generation (myself included) are often ignorant of the details because we grew up after those stereotypes were plastered all over everything. If Spanish golfers can commit the gaffe during a press conference, then…

I suspect part of the issue is that if you hadn’t explained some of these offensive stereotypes to me just now, I wouldn’t have even spotted them in the mix. Today I learned that fried chicken is somehow offensive, in certain contexts? (???) I mean, sure, maybe that’s offensive to a subculture, but is it bad enough to…

A better question might simply be: does the version of Safari you can almost certainly launch work to play Netflix the normal way? If it does, there’s no pressing need for an app at launch, and they can simply take their time.

Fahrenheit continues to be perfect for weather specifically, which is why we cling to it:

0F - “It’s really cold outside”
100F - “It’s really hot outside”

For all other temperature work, I agree. We ought to switch to Kelvin so that everyone is just slightly irritated all the time.

I was actually *born* in ‘88, so you’ll have to forgive me here... but I don’t particular care what neo-nazi bullshit has decided that a normal-ass number is now a problem. No, I am refusing to give these ignorant fools the respect of acknowledging some fake invented symbol in any way. Ignore those trolls and move on.

This is just my subjective opinion, but when I see characters in western games, it’s usually pretty easy to point at a facial feature or a bone structure and go, “ah, yes, a consenting adult.” In Japanese media, the same character is drawn with enormous anime eyes and absurdly perfect skin, and they look quite a bit…

I mean, regardless of your thoughts on either side of the conflict, restreaming war footage at all is a bad look, and reacting to it for entertainment value pushes that low even lower. It’s not the reactions themselves, just the... like... total lack of respect for the death and destruction on display.

Nooooo, don’t do it! Don’t spend your precious purple coins on 1ups. Keep about 300 or so stocked for badges and wonder seeds, and spend the rest on Standees. Purple coins are *much* slower to farm late game, and you’ll need a whole heck of a bunch of them to round out your standee collection if you’re going for all 6…

Less charitable take: Only Google will be allowed to have effective targeted advertising. Google’s competitors, forced to actually adhere to web standards and lacking a user account to track that is signed into the browser itself, will have to fend for themselves.

The noise doesn’t directly help me sleep. I’d prefer peace and quiet. No, the noise drowns out the neighbor’s barking dogs, removing the distraction and making sleep possible. (The noise in my case is my A/C, I have a window-unit in the bedroom, and I just let it run the fan all the time)