JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They give up to 10 days visa free from some countries you otherwise need a visa to enter in the first place. In guessing that if you can't show proof you are continuing to somewhere else - like a connecting flight - you aren't getting in at all.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

But it has only one official language, which is English, so calling it something else would also be a stretch.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They were always going to "kill" Nokia phones, as it was a limited time brand deal that ends in 2026, and iirc the exclusivity part of it already ended in 2024.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It turns the wheels, based on this image. It's not a skateboard, it's an rc car you stand on top of.

And if you look at that image for more than a second, you'll see that it's just car parts scaled down to a scale that wouldn't be physically possible. That brace caliper assembly is the size of a thumbnail.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Opt-out by default in the EU I'm fairly sure.

You can check here: https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

It's simply checking if the connection is from an actual browser, as a scraper pretending to be one won't actually refresh the page as instructed. It's going to buy some time, but like the rest of Anubis in general, it will only work until the scrapers get modified to work around it.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It’s not always about being first but about marketing.

And one has a cute catgirl mascot, the other a website that looks like a blockchain techbro startup.
I'm even willing to bet the amount of people that set up Anubis just to get the cute splash screen isn't insignificant.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Even more so when you ask Grok about something Elon did, as it quite often replies back in first person. Fairly certain it has been directly instructed to talk/"think" like Elon.

Also I love that prompt bleed.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 days ago

Robertson is a square. Rotate it 45 degrees and it has no overhangs at all.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For now at least. Hydrogen would be a fantastic energy source for vehicles if we were at the point where renewable electricity was abundant and we could spare it to inefficiently make hydrogen locally, as the fuel cells are simple and don't require nearly as large of an amount of rare elements a battery does.
Because trying to convert all of the over 1.5 billion cars to electric with lithium batteries isn't really going to work either.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep, that's why the best selling games consoles with the largest user base for selling all those super expensive AAA games are all the modern ones, like the Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, the Switch and the Gameboy Colour.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Just be thankful they haven't followed inflation of both the value of money, and their budgets. A $40 NES game would be $120 in todays money and it was probably made in a month by three people in a shed, meanwhile something like CoD Black Ops Cold War credits over 9000 people and had a budget of $700 million. GTA 6 has already blown past a billion.

In fact, video games are currently pretty much the cheapest they've ever been, comparatively speaking.

 

I completely understand why Valve decided that the touchpad haptics were good enough, the deck is heavy as it is already. I'd still love to have the option of adding some proper rumble on the deck for the games that deserve it.

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