Nobody expects new Linux users to use the CLI though. For a normal user that just wants to run their software they will encounter this crap.

I first found out about it last week and it served my purpose well. It has options for what you want to name the file based on the metadata too!

Could be worse, some people park or put their hazards on for minutes at a time in the middle of a one lane one way road.

It’s not poker. It’s a deckbuilding game based on poker hands.

Pirate it if you want. You will probably want to pay for it after a few hours.

It looks like a boss bloon from BTD6 lol

Everyone has their own opinions here. Here’s my opinion on what’s worth it and not:

Streaming services: Only if you’re not getting ads bundled with your subscription and you’re getting a lot of use each month from it, more than just renting each movie.

Amazon Prime: Again, only if you really need the frequent free shipping. I don’t, so I’ll eat $30 in shipping costs per year when I need something more urgently instead of paying $140 to avoid that.

Discord Nitro: Obviously not worth it but it’s funny because I had it for a few months before their privacy policy shocker in 2023. I genuinely wanted to support them before then because it was feature rich but not as bloated and ad-free with a reasonable privacy policy before 2023.

News: High quality journalism deserve the support.

SiriusXM: Unless you’re road tripping into the middle of nowhere, internet radio is free and has many more options.

Xbox game pass: I never saw the appeal because I’m a patient gamer.

Gym membership: I tried to get one a Planet Fitness a few weeks ago just for a month because the closer gym was revamping itself and was shocked to find that it wanted a downpayment. It tripled the price of a month of membership so I noped out, I’m not paying $50 for 8 trips to the gym that doesn’t even have bench presses.

I think it’s actually higher now. It’s a whopping $480 billion now

I use Fidelity investments; money that isn’t in stocks automatically goes into SPAXX, a market rate high yield savings account.

Does this work with any app or just second party ones? Can you re-enable it?

How does this affect “second-party” apps (i.e. apps you have created yourself)? Are you still allowed to go to Android studio, make an APK, transfer it to your own phone, and install that app? If no, this spells the death of experimental indie developers on Android.

Yeah forgot to mention the lack of ads and the reliable access anywhere part

I still use mp3s because:

1. No financial cost
2. Not tied to any one app or service
3. More customization: Can be played back at any speed or modified in some other way

What are good brands that don’t sell your data? Is TP-link okay?

No, I mean 500Mb/s, as my Internet will be 300Mb/s. My needs are not great.

The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.

Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.

This is honestly surprising to me. Wouldn’t they charge wealthy people more because they could just suck up the higher prices?

I also use ZArchiver and unzipping is zippy (sorry) in my experience. Not quite as fast as Linux but that’s to be expected considering the hardware difference.

However Windows is quite slow in this regard in my experience. It can easily take 30 seconds to extract a zip file that Linux can do in under a second, often with a sub 1MBps throughput. This is on an NVMe SSD.

Can we stop putting actually infuriating political BS in the lighthearted c/mildlyinfuriating?

Most OEMs like to say that they have the very best. And unfortunately, software just keeps bloating, making it more useful to have a higher end chip.

However, this dynamic has changed somewhat in recent years as the price of flagship SoCs has skyrocketed by ~4x in 5 years. More high-end phones are releasing with not quite the best chip, like the base iPhone, the Pixel, and the Galaxy S25/S25+ (due to Exynos).

I have a few examples:

• Flight Sim 2020
• Windows Defender is the best antivirus, better than all those paid crapware antiviruses
• An attempt at an independent browser engine that wasn’t the dated IE
• This is a hot take but seamless integration of local file storage with OneDrive. Yes, they are way too heavy-handed about forcing this on you and it’s really stupid how it moves your files without telling you, but I’ve never seen a file manager that handles both local and cloud files faster than W10’s file manager (a big part of the reason why I was mad about W11, because that advantage disappeared)

The only useful thing I can think of after the pandemic is the CPU scheduling updates for Alder Lake, but that was pretty much a necessity. Everything else is AI overhype, rewriting programs to make them slower, and/or yet another way to invade people’s privacy