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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
  • So I have a question for YouTube Premium haters:

    How is this any different than what most people pay for both another music service and another video service? It's about half the cost of other music + video services (when combined), even with the increased pricing over the years. I've been paying for YouTube Premium since the awkward Google Play Music transition and it's a bargain, especially when I had my student discount at like $4.99 a month.

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    Level Requirements for World Tier 3 & 4 Will Be Reverted - Icy Veins
  • It's not this single thing. Just go look at battle net forums or Reddit. It's nothing but complaining about departures from D2/D3 systems.

    I was completely unaware that anybody was unhappy with the game until I went to report a bug on the D4 battle net forum and I was met with 50 different threads complaining about this, that, or the other.

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    Level Requirements for World Tier 3 & 4 Will Be Reverted - Icy Veins
  • Because apparently people were complaining. I just wish they would rip off the band-aid and turn this game into D3 since that's apparently what people really want after doing nothing but complaining about it for 11 years.

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    Young Americans blame SCOTUS, GOP for unforgiven student loan debt
  • It's not the votes of the young that get diminished, it's the political minority depending on state.

    Conservative voter in California? Your vote doesn't matter.

    Liberal voter in Arkansas? Your vote doesn't matter.

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    Youtube added shorts to the subscriptions page, pushing the subscriptions almost entirely off the page...
  • If only we had invented a device that could scroll the web page... Some kind of wheel maybe? It could even go directly on the mouse.

    Guess we'll just have to suffer until then.

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    Pew: Even amid high turnout, less than 40% of Americans voted in all three most recent national elections
  • That's what happens when you have a presidential election system like the electoral college instead of a popular vote.

    Liberal voter in Arkansas? Your vote doesn't matter. Conservative voter in California? Your vote doesn't matter.

    It's just the sad reality of a winner-take-all system that places more importance on the geographical size of a state rather than individual voters.

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    It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
  • People are gonna hate on this comment but it's true. I can replace the battery in my iPhone in an hour if I want to, even if it's not as easy as it used to be with removable plastic covers on the back of phones.

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  • It depends on how "friendly" they decide it has to be to replace the battery.

    The battery in my iPhone 13 Pro is certainly end-user replaceable, but it's significantly more difficult than it was for me to pop the battery out of my Galaxy S2 and put a new one in.

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    Red Hat: why I'm going all in on community-driven Linux distros.
  • I'm excited to see what the outcome of SUSE forking RHEL will be.

    • Will IBM backtrack?
    • Will the SUSE RHEL fork stay separate from SLES?
    • Will SLES move directly upstream or downstream from the RHEL fork?
    • Will this inspire other big wigs (Microsoft?) to start work on their own RHEL equivalent distributions?
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    Hosting provider advice for a Telegram bot?
  • The gotcha for this is that you have to actually use the resources on your free instance or they will reclaim it. I use my instance as a Minecraft server so it utilizes about half of the 24GB RAM you get. For a very light compute task like a chat bot, it might be difficult to keep the instance from being reclaimed.

    From this page:

    Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:

    CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15% Network utilization is less than 15% Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)

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    Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?
  • WHY ARE FERAL HOG POPULATIONS SO HARD TO CONTAIN? BECAUSE THE POPULATION ARE BIG AND ALL THEY DO IS KEEP MAKING 100 OF FERAL HOGS AND I THEY DO IS MAKE THEIR MARK EVERYWHERE THEY AT AND THEY ARE TRYING TO STOP THEM BUT THEY CANNOT BECAUSE THERE ARE ABOUT 2 MILLION OF THESE HOGS AND ORDINARY HUNTING AND THESE FERAL HOGS ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND THESE TYPE OF ANIMALS ARE ONLY IN THE SOUTHERN.

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    Cocaine found in White House sparks brief evacuation
  • Maybe it's just because I'm an American that remembers 9/11 and the anthrax scares that came soon after, but I completely understood the evacuation because of a "mysterious white powder".

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  • The vast majority of the posts I saw on Reddit were complaining. I have no complaints. I like the video game. Thank.

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