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Yeah, knowing how science and tech journalists often have little idea what they are talking about and the description itself, I'm skeptical that this will be as revolutionary as it's being presented to be. I'd love to be wrong, though.

And it does sound like extra speed is possible. It sounded like the magnetic platters in hard drives are too magnetic, and spend some time compensating for undesired electromagnetic effects that occur while reading the platter. Which makes sense because it's spinning fast while another electromagnet tries to read it and electromagnetic fields moving relative to each other are known to react and interact. Part of that would be how it works at all, but there could be another part that counteracts that and maybe requires time to stabilize or multiple passes to give an accurate average.

Though this is pure speculation, I don't have much in depth knowledge of how magnetic drives work, other than it involving neat tricks like spinning, magnets, and probably some sort of sorcery or witchcraft.

Ah that sucks, those are mostly ones I don't even consider anymore. KFC can be ok but their ingredient quality (for anything other than chicken) is all over the place to the point where I've stopped taking the gamble and just make chicken burgers and bowls at home if that's what I'm craving. I'll do the other three if there aren't any other options but I'll go a bit out of my way for other options.

But if they were my only options, I'd probably eat out less and would prefer subway or BK.

How's the non-chain scene in Germany?

I have negative feelings about subway because when Quiznos first started, their sandwiches were amazing but subway responded with the $5 footlong deal, after which Quiznos quality went down when they cut costs to compete.

And today Quiznos sucks if they even have a place open in the area and subway is still the same but certainly not offering footlongs for $5 anymore (and I question whether they were selling them at a loss even back in the 00s when they did it).

Plus subway had Jared, who was annoying even before his extra curricular activities came out.

At least Firehouse Subs are filling the niche Quiznos briefly filled now, which isn't even subway's niche, even if they both make submarine sandwiches.

Yeah, labels and categories can help make things easier to understand but sometimes they do the opposite. And I think a lot of the labels and categories used in politics are the second kind. And that's no accident.

Took me a bit to realize you meant ratted instead of the past tense of "rate".

Though if they do stiff her on the money because of that technicality, I'd consider that a massive tactical blunder, maybe even strategic. Tactical because it reduces the incentive for individuals to inform because they'll realize the reward has technicalities that can be used to weasel out of paying it, on top of the public backlash directed towards the employee and everything they are known to be associated with (McDonald's). Strategic because it might just be another straw on the camel's back about how the ruling elite fuck over the working class every chance they get, even for amounts of money that would be trivial to them, despite being life changing for the informant.

My guess is that the technicalities will slide and there might be a ceremony with a novelty giant-sized check (which would simultaneously dodge the above issue while also still fucking her over because such an event would give a face to the one who called the police on a popular fugitive). Then she can be used to justify some secret police shit, if they still feel the need to justify things at that point.

I don't think that's air force one. My guess is they just had some staff on the private plane plate the burgers and fries using the normal plates and trays they'd serve any meals on and had them leave the bags in the back but leave the individual packaging for the food items so they could virtue signal eating the same food their fan club eats.

Another possibility is some high end chef was told to prepare burgers and fries and then use McDonald's packaging as a part of the presentation.

Also every single one of them is on Spotify!

I've seen stores with walls of funko pops on display. I've never seen stores with gaps in their walls of funko pops, or evidence that they are moving many. Were their sales ever really that great to justify the amount of inventory they've produced?

My own interest has only gotten as far as "Oh hey, I recognize that character. Yep, they've got a bunch of Naruto characters, or at least generic funko pops with clothing like those characters wear. I wonder what else this store has."

I think it would be a net zero for babies getting access to food because it's not like it's being stolen to be destroyed or processed into something that won't eventually get fed to some baby.

Though it might be equivalent to scalping if the goal is to create a shortage to sell at a higher price in the same area. But I'd bet that if it's being sold locally, it's at a discount.

Just install a barbeque lighter near the leak and set a timer to regularly light it and just flare off anything that has leaked since the previous flare. Then, when rebuilding after the fire, add a pressure sensor to the new setup that reduces the interval if the pressure increases beyond what it was when the interval was first calibrated.

Thing is, if they have backups, even editing data doesn't do anything. Or they could even just have it set up to only display the most recent version but still keep each edit on the db. Wouldn't even be hard to implement. Hell, it wouldn't even be that hard to implement a historical series of diffs so they don't have to store the full comments for each edit if the edit is a small one.

Like if I wanted to run a service that made it easier to find interesting data, part of that would be to flag deletes and edits as "whatever was there before has a higher chance of being interesting".

Once something is posted, IMO just assume that it can't be unposted and trying to unpost it might work similarly to the Streisand effect.

Even here. Sure, the source is open and I'd bet looking at the delete and edit functions would make it look like everything is fine. But other federated servers don't have to run the same code and can react to delete and edit directives from other servers however they want. The main difference between this platform and Reddit in regards to control over posted information is the fediverse can't prevent entities from accessing the data for free (albeit with less user metadata like IP and email).

Exactly. Oh and I also just remembered another angle: their anti-linux stance. They used to make games with native Linux support, but as I understand it, they've even removed Linux support from some games that already had it, trying to keep the Microsoft monopoly going. I wonder how much money ms is giving epic for that.

Same reason why a lot of the non-steam handhelds are non-starters for me. And yeah, I can live without games that depend on Windows kernel-level anti-cheat.

My backlog is so full I could keep entertained even if I ignore every single game I don't currently have in my steam library. Hell, I even ignore some that are there when I realized they have denuvo or something like that after buying and the refund window has already passed when I do notice.

Yeah, from my pov, it's not about silencing their opinions as much as it is wanting to avoid their authority because they abuse it to push their opinions.

Same reason I ultimately left Reddit. Admins were making choices I didn't like and forcing them on their users. The new site and official app both suck, but I had the option of using other apps or the old site. Even the old site isn't a great experience on mobile vs some 3rd party apps, but then they killed off the apps in a way that looked like they weren't being honest about (though in hindsight it was more about wanting to price access for AI training than specifically wanting to kill the 3rd party apps imo).

Lemmy isn't immune from any of that, but the impact isn't as high because federation gives options. And corruption turns into more of a game of whack a mole instead of "throw lots of money at the one entity controlling it" like Reddit and Twitter.

Lol I stayed away because the anticompetitiveness was immediately obvious (they should have opened with the free games but showed their hand early by starting with exclusivity deals), but I'm not surprised it gets even worse.

Yeah, they expressed that they wanted to join the online game store scene and the big feature they were offering to draw in users was... anticompetitive exclusivity deals!

Plus the company killed off the unreal tournament franchise because they didn't want it to compete with fortnite.

I have no interest in supporting a company that thinks removing options is the best way to get users to use their products.

It's the same shit that has turned streaming services from great back when it was new to now having content spread across many competing services. I'd rather they competed based on their own platform's features and advantages than the whole "if you want to watch x, you must use service y". It's just a series of mini monopolies.

You might be right. I haven't tried installing the add-on, but the site does indicate that it might not be supported. Though it does still have the install button.

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Ah right, thanks for the correction!

That depends on Trump giving a shit about protecting anyone. I wouldn't be surprised at any outcome.

The Android version supports desktop addons now.