Skip Navigation
Jump
Trump Demands ABC Be Shut Down for Daring to Fact Check Debate
  • What’s even sadder is that he would 100% be president right now if he didn’t constantly stick his foot in his own mouth.

    Everything about Trump makes him one of the most awful human beings alive, and yet he would be the leader of the free world if he wasn’t also incredibly thin-skinned & stupid.

    16
  • Jump
    New Cheat Code Discovered in Sega Saturn Doom After 27 Years
  • Is that transparency? Looks like the same dithering/alternating empty pixels that all Saturn ports are plagued with.

    13
  • Jump
    Burning Up
  • Most of Europe just uses metres for people’s height. 1.67m, like that. I have no mental picture of that, so it doesn’t work for me. But they don’t seem to have any trouble, further evidence that it’s all just what you know.

    10
  • Jump
    Apple may ditch FineWoven cases, return to leather-like material
  • Get it replaced again now, they’ll cover another replacement but not for long.

    3
  • Jump
    Burning Up
  • It doesn’t help at all, it’s being intentionally obtuse. You know what I mean, it’s unhelpful to pretend otherwise and pick a fight over it.

    24
  • Jump
    Burning Up
  • Whatever it was it was intended for it was built in China for a global audience, then customized for whatever market it was sold in. They all use common software platforms.

    It does indeed change that fact, because temperature is exclusively reported in whole numbers. Go to any weather channel, site, provider, etc. It’s always whole numbers, even in Celsius.

    It truly doesn’t matter.

    0
  • Jump
    Burning Up
  • For proof that this thread is just people justifying what they know as better somehow, look no further than Canada.

    We do cooking temps in Fahrenheit, weather in Celsius. Human weights in pounds, but never pounds and oz. Food weights in grams, cooking weights in pounds and oz. Liquid volume in millilitres and litres, but cooking in cups, teaspoons and tablespoons. Speed & distance in kilometres, heights in feet and inches.

    Try and give this any consistency and people will look at you like you’re fucked. The next town is 100km over, I’m 5ft 10in, a can of soda is 355ml, it’s 21c out and I have the oven roasting something at 400f. Tell me it’s 68f out and I will fight you.

    People like what they are used to, and will bend over backwards to justify it. This becomes blatantly obvious when you use a random mix of units like we do, because you realize that all that matters is mental scale.

    If Fahrenheit is “how people feel” then why are feet useful measurements of height when 90% of people are between 4ft and 6ft? They aren’t. You just know the scale in your head, so when someone says they’re 7ft tall you say “dang that’s tall”. That’s it.

    153
  • Jump
    Burning Up
  • The reason you see fractions is BECAUSE of Fahrenheit. Your air conditioner is designed to work in multiple regions and so it works on steps. Easier to just map the half steps to Fahrenheit degrees and call it a day.

    For non-electronic usage, people just say the round number.

    3
  • Jump
    Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard says he’s ‘surprised and disappointed’ by JD Vance
  • I don’t even know why this is a question, people can absolutely be radicalized in a short period time, especially the apolitical. Even faster when large sums of money are involved.

    16
  • Jump
    Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says
  • I’ll believe it when I see it. He made his good financial decisions when he wasn’t full mask-off insane, since his wife left him and his daughter disowned him he’s had more important things to deal with, like wasting his money turning back the clock so neither of them have any rights anymore. Currently he is just banking off of those good early decisions.

    I won’t speak to the specific financials of his companies, but I don’t see him maintaining his current growth rate while so distracted for much longer. I also see his attachment to companies as a growing impediment, not an asset.

    21
  • Jump
    Apple may ditch FineWoven cases, return to leather-like material
  • I really like my FineWoven case, I was hoping they would revise them rather than do away with it entirely. I had to get a replacement for my first one because the sides were peeling (which Apple replaced for free) but the replacement has been fine.

    However they don’t age well, especially the ones in any colour other than black, so I can see why they did it. Still, I prefer it over any other case I’ve owned. Feels nice in hand, thinner than any previous Apple case while still providing great drop protection, smooth but not slippy, it had a lot going for it.

    4
  • Jump
    Sony officially teases PlayStation 5 Pro
  • The current Slim PS5 also doesn’t have a disc drive, you can just buy it in a bundle and attach the optional one.

    Honestly for manufacturing this makes way more sense, to ship one SKU and then make them all upgradable to disc. It’s also kind of nice that if you buy a digital one and want disc in the future you can just buy the drive.

    4
  • Jump
    Kids Are Working in America’s Meatpacking Plants
  • Meat packing, farming & agriculture in North America is run entirely off the backs of immigrants, poor people and people of colour. People don’t choose these jobs, they take them out of necessity. This is just a fact, and a weird hill to die on.

    If you want to rebut the argument that this is unique to meat, look no further than fruit picking in the US. It’s less risk of maiming and disgusting, but still dangerous and exploitative.

    8
  • Jump
    ‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurers
  • The turn of phrase refers to things that are natural facts, human nature, stuff like that. This one isn’t any of those things, it’s weird to use it to refer to something specific to one country or place.

    6
  • Jump
    Subscribing to YT premium is also an evil act
  • You’ll get an email shortly kicking you off that plan, they’re just working through the list. Had it for 4 years, signed up quite a few others as well. Everyone has been booted over the last 2-3 months.

    4
  • Jump
    What the rule does this mean?
  • Place in hand.

    Smash.

    Enjoy!

    It’s because it’s semi-soft toffee in a brick, so it’s hard to chew through but if you smash it you can eat the pieces.

    32
  • Jump
    Coffee [Mr. Lovenstein]
  • 42
  • Jump
    Resistance is futile
  • That was Jenny Nicholson, and it was also 4 hours. Also not an outlier, all of her long form content is amazing and worth watching, even if you aren’t directly interested in the topic.

    I’ve watched her The Vampire Diaries video multiple times, and a CW teen show about vampires is about as far removed from my wheelhouse as it gets.

    17
  • Jump
    Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms
  • Why any game in 2024 is targeting one specific frame rate is beyond me. Just do like any other competent release, and offer a “Quality/Performance” option where one targets 30fps with max visuals and one targets 60fps and cuts what it needs to get there.

    I think people are well aware that the current console generations are just midrange PCs frozen in time at this point. Nobody is expecting miracles, just give them both options and be done with it.

    4
  • To enroll, go to Software Update and tap the prompt at the bottom.

    Device region needs to be set to US, language to US English, Siri also needs to be set to US. I was able to join the wait list from Canada after changing all those settings.

    5

    This has been posted all over the place but if you haven’t seen it, this is a huge change.

    To get it working, you need all your Apple TVs on iOS 18 DB1. Remove all your HomePods from your home if you have them. Then, you should see the option to turn off “Automatic Selection”. Turn it off and pick the Home Hub you want.

    You can then readd your HomePods to your home. This process sounds painful but it’s actually pretty quick, HomePods remove, reset and readd to your Home fairly quickly. This whole process probably only took about 10 mins.

    1

    Apparently coming in a dev beta soon, although properly launching in Fall.

    4
    developer.apple.com iOS & iPadOS 18 Beta Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation

    Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

    Typically more dev & API focused but helpful if you’re encountering an issue and want to know if it’s known, or want to see if there are any known showstoppers preventing you from upgrading.

    0
    www.apple.com iOS 18 Preview

    iOS 18 makes iPhone even more personal, with deeper customization, new ways to connect, easier-to-find photos, and support for Apple Intelligence.

    Always worth a look through for stuff that wasn’t mentioned in the keynote.

    0