Reddit-Bot: “You can get a large one topping pizza from Dominoes™ for just nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.”
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers’ preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
I mean look you could just not use Visa right? We all have tons of other options, and they’re totally not a monopoly right? That’s why we’re not regulating them, right?
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
I’m going to be honest, I got about half way through, I just wanted to add something some folks may not consider in this discussion.
Since I first got an EV almost a decade ago, I have spent less of my life waiting for it to charge than I had previously spent getting gas.
I’ll note that everyone’s situation is unique, and I’ve had the fortune/privilege of having private parking next to a 120v outlet at both of my previous rentals as well as my current home, but the 2s it takes for me to plug in every night, and the very rare 30 min charging session mixed into a 6hr road trip (when I’d be stopping for food/restroom anyways) means less time standing around at the charger than I would have spent at the pump.
I recognize this is a hard concept to sell to some ICE drivers, because all they hear is 30-minute charging session, but it’s real. Admittedly this is contingent on you having access to an outlet at home or work, which I recognize doesn’t apply to a subset of renters.
Updates will be made available on Steam, only $0.99 per patched minor bug, $2.99 per game breaking error, and just $9.99 per critical security vulnerability.
You can get a bug season pass with 3 months of fixes and an exclusive butterfly sprite at $119.95, a generous 1% discount off expected retail price.
For $229 you can unlock the super premium pass which gives you access to security updates 3 days before the details are published, and 30 days before non-super-premium pass holders (butterfly sprite not included).
EA account and premium subscription required for purchase.
Don’t forget support. For what the Steam Deck is, I’ll take runs well over runs fast any day. It’s not like these competitors are letting you crank the settings to Ultra at 120 FPS.
Yeah, except everyone has had it beaten into them - nobody fucks with gas prices.
Every news outlet in the country runs the same news segment practically daily - “Let’s complain about gas prices”. We’ve somehow made it the subject of basically nonstop discussion.
Seeing how some very particular relatives are, I wonder if much of the gas leaf blower crowd is less “watch me stick it to the libs” and more “look at me, I’m cleaning my yard, that makes me better than you”
That’s kinda my point. Mastectomies would bring the average down but more women brings it back up. Too lazy to Google but is global # of women who have had mastectomies more or fewer than # of “excess” women (over men)
Why most services that want to protect user privacy. Also those on privacyguides, don’t have anonymous payment methods like cryptocurrencies? I pay for a few such services like email or cloud etc. but I don’t know if it makes sense if my bank knows I’m using it anyway so they can sell that info to advertisers, gov, etc. In...
E.g., if you maintain a Proton email account because you don’t want your emails mined for businesses to advertise at you, then you give very little info away by your bank finding out about the purchase.
If you use it because you’re engaging in activity that could be considered illegal, then your bank knowing about the purchase is probably the least of your problems if someone starts digging. Mysudo has to respond to a court order just like your bank and has access to all of the same PII
A reasonably big restaurant doesn’t get enough amps in the panel to replace all their gas equipment with induction
This is the true reason more industrial kitchens don’t go electric, at least in my experience. This and cost. I work in building design and do a decent number of commercial kitchens.
New kitchens in new buildings tend to be trending towards electric, but retrofits / renovations more often than not are constrained by the (hyper-)local electrical infrastructure.
The chefs we’ve worked with actually really like cooking with induction, and their teams f*cling love that it’s safer and cooler than gas. Electric kitchens lose way less heat to the environment than their gas counterparts, and thus are way more comfortable to be standing in for 8+ hrs/day.
especially in grid-strained California.
Working across the country, I haven’t run into this “issue” as much on the CA projects I’m involved in.
Certain locations, especially older urban neighborhoods may have some local capacity issues, but not at the “state” level. I see many of the same issue in older urban areas around the country (and globe).
From my viewpoint, any increase in occurrences in California is largely driven by the fact that CA is the most populous state and simply has more projects interested in / requesting these things.
I love long complicated games, like breath of the wild, but I think the world also needs more concise games, those 20-40 hour masterpieces that keep you wrapped up without having to memorize 3600 pages of back story to remember where you left off.
What the studios (especially Nintendo) don’t understand is you can’t charge the same ~$60 for both games. People don’t hate shorter simpler games, they just hate paying the same price for less content.
Right now, Nintendo is selling the Switch version of Link’s Awakening for only $10 less than TOTK ($60 vs $70). That’s right, a remake of a 20+ year old game with a pretty limited story is selling for almost the same as the largest most complex and expansive game Nintendo has ever produced.
I don’t know why they’re so fixated on matching prices between games that took orders of magnitude different amounts of effort to produce.
Just wait a couple of years for their $700 Exclusivity Box 6 to come out with marginal graphics improvements, and oh by the way your old games are useless, but feel free to buy them again with sloppily upscaled textures.
If they time it right they can even release Overpriced Game Pt. 3 as an exclusive on the new box so you can never play them all on one system.
(Apparently) Sony has been pulling this shit for years, so either no one noticed or there’s more to it. I wonder if perhaps any of these countries have laws restricting certain online services, which Sony doesn’t follow, and thus is not allowed (as opposed to simply choosing not to offer)?
Sony has written off those countries for years of PS sales, its been a resounding yes for them since long before they started inching into the PC market
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
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TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate (www.tomshardware.com)
Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers (www.businesswire.com)
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers’ preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Ford asks suppliers for ideas to cut EV costs in an all-win-or-lose push for profitability (electrek.co)
Too many messages from comments
Hi. is there a way to not receive a message in my inbox each time a comment is posted on one of my posts ?
Biden administration signals it will support push to hit ICC with sanctions (www.ft.com)
Key sections from the article:...
The Sims 4 Promises More Bug Fixes, Performance Improvements in Response to Community Frustration (www.ign.com)
[Unsolved] [Indie Rock] (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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A new Steam Deck rival is coming, and you’ll never guess who makes it [Antec] [expected price range $600~$900] (www.pcgamesn.com)
President Biden announces a series of tariffs on green energy products from China. (lemmy.ml)
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower (hub.jhu.edu)
"Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Privacy services and non privacy payments options
Why most services that want to protect user privacy. Also those on privacyguides, don’t have anonymous payment methods like cryptocurrencies? I pay for a few such services like email or cloud etc. but I don’t know if it makes sense if my bank knows I’m using it anyway so they can sell that info to advertisers, gov, etc. In...
NYT's new TOS binds you to forced arbitration; opt out within 30 days (lemmy.world)
The Surprising Force Stalling Climate Progress: California Restaurants [funded by the gas industry] (www.bloomberg.com)
The gas industry funded the whole thing:...
Nintendo president: “Game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated” (mynintendonews.com)
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Final Fantasy 16 and Foamstars all sold less than expected, Square Enix president says (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Sony does not remove purchase restrictions from Helldivers 2 on steam and also adds them to Ghost of Tsushima (programming.dev)
Source: twitter.com/SteamDB/status/1788981898108182681
Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. (lemmy.ca)
Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests (theconversation.com)
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday her intention to sue the fossil fuel industry for its role in changing Michigan's climate and threatening the state (www.detroitnews.com)