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  • i play games online, and wireless is prone to jitter and lag spikes.

    you don’t notice these things when browsing the web, streaming movies, or even downloading large games. but in multiplayer games it’s a problem

    i have gigabit fiber in my neighborhood though, so i’m not being forced to choose between shitty cable and compromised wireless

  • Sounds an awful lot like that thing boomers used to do on Facebook where they would post a message on their wall rescinding Facebook's rights to the content they post there. I'm sure it's equally effective.

  • complete with missing battery cover, just as god intended

  • Explaining? Stars go supernova occasionally, there’s your explanation. There doesn’t need to be further cause or intervention behind it.

    Stars don't just randomly supernova. Stars have extremely predictable lifecycles. It's hard to believe a warp-capable species never made it past a 19th century understanding of how their sun works, especially given how fundamental the underlying principles are to our own ability to observe and understand the universe.

    It's a plot hole in ST '09, though I agree that maybe it is best ignored unless they can come up with a truly compelling explanation.

  • i’m a millennial, my dad just barely turned 60

    i want to see new characters do new things

    i would think continually rehashing characters from the ‘60s is a move meant to appeal to people in their 60s.

    i’m much more interested in the Star Trek: Legacy pitch, but even then i want them to keep legacy characters limited to guest appearances so that the new crew has a chance to stand on its own.

  • runas will do it, but the syntax is awful. i’m so glad windows is finally getting a real sudo

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  • alcohol is physiologically worse than nicotine, but not nearly as instantly addictive.

    i’ve watched people with much stronger mental fortitude than i try to quit nicotine and fail spectacularly. i don’t know any smokers who aren’t addicted.

    nicotine scares the hell out of me because i do not want to be a slave to it

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  • it’s wild to me how willingly people will give themselves over to nicotine addiction

    i blame our nonsensical drug laws that rank cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms as “worse” than nicotine and alcohol, even though the latter two are more harmful and much more addictive

    i love me some cannabis, i’ll have the occasional mushroom, and i even enjoy a glass of whiskey every now and then, but nicotine scares the absolute hell out of me

  • There absolutely is.

    SODIMM slots disappeared from laptops because of technical limitations, and it took an entirely new design to eventually bring socketable RAM back to laptops. And those new sockets still take up more space than just soldering the RAM in place.

    Engineering is all about tradeoffs.

  • So from the title, you could already tell this wasn’t a project for you. Yet you still felt the need to open this thread just to complain about its existence?

  • Why do you think aiming for NT 5.2 compatibility should preclude them from building a modern GUI-based installer?

  • Well you didn't watch season 3, which is the season that actually won these awards.

  • Even the leaflet is just a shitty bandaid. What if someone picked up a printer used and it didn't include the leaflet.

    It's outright unacceptable to ship a consumer product that so easily bricks itself like this.

  • The HP instructions didn’t say that if you connected the cable between the printer and the PC before you had installed the drivers, the printer would not mount as a device. In fact, it would never connect to that PC ever again. Apparently, it ruined the registry until you reformatted and reinstalled the OS.

    How do they manage to fuck something up so royally? They clearly knew it was a problem, as they outlined it in their manual. But there's no way it was cheaper to deal with all the angry support calls and lost customer confidence than to just add some code to the driver installer that fixes the registry settings...

    If this happened to me, I wouldn't reinstall my operating system, I would tell their support technician to fuck off and go buy a printer from a different company.

  • the stuffed crust is prepared as a calzone but becomes sushi once the pizza is sliced.

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  • Critics didn’t necessarily go to film school, but they see everything under the sun, so when a movie doesn’t do anything particularly new or is highly derivative without adding its own twist, it bores them. The person who goes to 3-5 movies a year doesn’t care, to them something derivative of 10 movies they haven’t seen is still new and fresh. This is in addition to the technical competency component you mentioned.

    I watch a ton of movies so my tastes are more likely to align with those of a professional critic.

  • it sounds like they want to cover the birth of the Federation, so maybe it’s a bit of an Enterprise follow-up?