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I tried to place my order a couple minutes after it went live but wasn’t able to successfully place it until several hours later. Tracking info says it should arrive tomorrow.

Ah yes "themarysue.com", where I get all my news from...

Part of what makes this particular story noteworthy is the lack of coverage for so long by news outlets, so turning your nose up because of the news outlet that wrote the story kinda misses the point.

If you’re so critical of The Mary Sue that you’re not even willing to read the article, that sounds like a self-enforced echo chamber. You’re always free to find coverage by another news outlet or even write to a news outlet you respect asking them to cover this story.

Even if the headlines are true, the reason to bring him back is internal backlash.

I use single-purpose email addresses and so feel free to sign up for the mailing lists of things I’m specifically interested in. If I get an email from anyone else then that email address gets scrapped and I know I can’t trust that entity anymore.

If the emails I’m getting aren’t occasionally interesting to me, I unsub. But if an artist is making cool things and sharing them then those emails are worth reading. If a place I want to buy some stuff from is having a sale, that’s worth knowing (and if I might buy from there, I filter their emails so they aren’t in my inbox but are available and I can grab a coupon code from a recent email when I spontaneously decide to buy something). If new features are coming to a service I already use, then that kinda is “news” for me.

Thanks, that’s good to know.

I’m running ZFS on my server and tried an L2 cache at first (a 2 TB NVME on a system with a 64 GB ARC and three mirrored 18 TB HDD vdevs) but it didn’t seem like it was giving me much benefit. I looked into tweaking the settings a bit (prioritizing frequently used over MRU, increasing write rates, etc) but after seeing that most of the advice online was that it wasn’t great for my use case, I gave up and repurposed the drive. However, my use case has changed a bit (I’m using my server for more things) and I may try using the spare 256 GB drive that the 2 TB one displaced as an L2ARC drive now.

What kind of SSD cache? L2ARC?

Yeah - the tweaks can be substantial and they have the flexibility to do more. Brave has a whole development pipeline for incoming Chromium changes so they can intentionally bring in code they want and avoid bringing in code they don’t want, like FLoC, or changes that would conflict with their own tweaks. But I don’t think many other browsers change a ton in the engine itself, so you effectively end up with them getting as much customization of Chrome, Firefox, or maybe of Safari (mostly of Chrome) as Apple allows browsers on its platform.

Having older versions isn’t generally an advantage, unless you’re trying to test for compatibility or something similar. It means you’re more vulnerable to known threats that have been patched in current versions of browsers

If you use YouTube through Safari, it has extensions that can help. I’m using AdGuard (paid, but I’m not sure that’s necessary), Vinegar, and SponsorBlock and I never see ads on Youtube. Pretty sure the reason is AdGuard, though.

In the same way that someone using Edge, Brave, or any other Chromium based browser anywhere else is using Chrome, yes.

Is my car a random person? I thought it was an object that I own.

On mobile, the initialism takes a third or less as much time for me vs typing it out.

If you don’t want to see the initialism anymore, you could submit a PR to your Lemmy app that allows users like yourself to automatically expand it and similar initialisms and other shorthands in other people’s comments (preferably in a slightly different color so that it’s clear what happened when an word is erroneously or incorrectly expanded).

iOS only allows PWAs in Safari, and Safari lacks a lot of features for PWAs - https://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/ is a pretty good resource for figuring out what they do and don’t support.

Outside of PWAs, Safari is a pain to develop for. Unlike both Firefox and Chromium browsers, its “dev tools” are a bit of a mess and don’t support simply adding extensions like React Dev Tools to augment them. To use such an extension you have to run it as an independent application and connect to Safari, and IME doing this it frequently fails to actually connect properly and didn’t provide a comparable workflow.

When I was working on an app that only needed to support Safari, I ended up just using those extensions in Chrome or Firefox rather than trying to build it in Safari.

And this is my experience building on a Mac. For anyone developing on a Windows or Linux device, it’s not like they can just install Safari locally to confirm that everything works. So if something doesn’t work in Safari, it’s probably not gonna get caught by the developer.

Really? I’d take Google’s offering or Teams over Zoom, especially if there’s a screen share involved

That’s not happening anymore due to real world constraints, though. Dennard scaling combined with Moore’s Law allowed us to get more performance per watt until around 2006-2010, when Dennard scaling stopped applying - transistors had gotten small enough that thermal issues and other current leakage related challenges meant that chip manufacturers were no longer able to increase clock frequencies each generation.

Even before 2006 there was still a cost to new development, though, us consumers just got more of an improvement per dollar a year later than we do now.

Still a valuable anecdote IMO. But a 50x decrease is substantial, especially for guys. Some guys might not have ever had 50 matches. More importantly, do you think you wouldn’t have had, or noticed, your high quality matches if your profile had stayed more broadly appealing?

The impact depends on the app, too. OkCupid has different algorithms than Tinder, and those might punish a particular person less. So switching apps up might work really well for some people.

But it’s also an unfortunate reality that dating apps are less useful than they used to be, largely because the companies are more focused on monetizing them than on providing the best experience possible. If you’ve tried a few apps, a few different approaches on each app, have had people review your profile and so on, and it’s still not working, then you should definitely focus your efforts elsewhere.

ex-lease cars are just as good as new

They literally aren’t. If the car is going to last 200k miles then getting a car with 36k miles on it already means you’re that much closer to it failing.

It’s also going to be that much closer to needing more expensive maintenance to be done.

A three year old car will often have a lesser feature set than the current year’s models. Stepping up to the higher trim that had those features 3 years ago can negate the cost savings of buying used in the first place.

Ex-lease cars are frequently well-maintained and driven responsibly, but that doesn’t mean they’re “as good as new.”

come with a new car warranty

Do you mean “comes with what’s left of the original warranty?” Because that’s generally true but doesn’t mean you benefit from it the same amount. If it has a 5 year, 60k mile warranty (Mitsubishi) and you only get the warranty for 2 years and 24k miles, that’s not the same.

With CPO cars you also get the CPO warranty but that doesn’t usually make the total warranty you get as good or better than what you would have gotten new.

Kia and Lexus both have very competitive CPO warranty programs. Kia has a 1 year / 12k miles bumper-to-bumper warranty. Lexus extends their 4 year/50k miles new car warranty by 2 years/unlimited miles after your purchase date or after the original warranty expired, whichever happens first. If you buy a CPO Lexus at the 2 year mark then you’ll get a full warranty out of it, but that’s not true for most other manufacturers.

And I don’t know of a single manufacturer that completely refreshes their warranty term for CPO cars.

and don't come with the absurd depreciation.

The cars that make the most sense to buy used have the least depreciation, though. For example, looking at CPO Toyota RAV4s, for the ones that aren’t former rentals/didn’t have accidents/multiple owners, the 3+ year old models are very comparable in price, like 26k for a RAV4 with nearly 50k miles vs 30k new, or 27-28k for one with under 30k miles.

If the lifespan of the car for you is 10 years then a 3 year old car is 30% less valuable - so a 13% discount is hardly a bargain. You’d need to keep it for 20 years - until it was 23 years old - for your 13% savings to be more valuable than the extra lifespan of the car.

You also frequently get a worse interest rate on CPO cars than on new.

There are many times when it makes sense to buy a CPO vehicle but also many where it makes more sense to buy new. Do the math in your specific case rather than acting like there’s a one size fits all solution.