Thats why you need a country with strong consumer protections.

3-ball-Dave, can you come here for a minute, we need a scale for this fish brain

“Unlike dogs,” Pongrácz says, “cats never stop trying.”

Ain’t that the truth :D

We’ll likely never know, but I wonder if all of them are actually collecting the same info, but the big tech lot have better lawyers, so the privacy policies are more correct?

An opt-out of training button is worthless if you can’t actually verify it anyway.

L I Q U I D

It was a generic action film, not bad, but not top 100 IMO.

Precision movement is definitely solved, but rapid precision movement required for fast printing isnt easy, and requires tuning.

The legal requirements likely only apply to commercially sold and operated printers. Patents really only matter once you are making significant money, HP et al. aren’t going to give a shit about diy efforts. Not a lawyer though.

The real issue is that printers are already dirt cheap (and despite some complaining here and there, work really well). Its hard to convince people to invest hundred to thousands of dollars to diy build a printer when you can buy one from an office supply chain for $50 (its wasteful, because it’ll only last a year, but it makes financial sense). Even diy 3d printing is basically dieing out with people preferring to buy an off-the-shelf system.

I happy to believe that its probably trending down, overall PC shipments have been trending down for a while, but 400m drop over 3 years is a huge amount that just doesnt smell right.

A lab computer is used by up to N students typically, so by removing it, there is potentially N more devices being purchased by the N students. So that could mean more iPads or Chromebooks, or even more PCs overall.

And converting a university device to a byod device doesn’t necessarily remove a PC either, given the user may purchase a new device for work.

With any statistics to back it up (which none of us have, especially not the original article) all we have is speculation.

Also quite disappointing that no one is questioning, “where did they go”. If Chromebooks or Apple picked up a fraction of the “lost” users, they’d be shouting from the rooftops. And a fraction of those users would crush most Linux distros infrastructure, so we’d have heard something.

Yeah, this is just terrible journalism.

The writers are lazy, last few seasons of reality have really sucked.

I like the old wedge shaped macbook airs. Go back to that shape. I’m not leaving my m1 air until then.

1 pump chump ey?

100% agree, this is probably a soft launch so they can go hard later.

Super scummy.

Smoking is also quite common, it still harmful.

Betting isnt required for sport, millions of kids manage to play sports without betting.

So we’ve established at the onset that Riot-owned broadcast and social channels will stay betting-free, which means no ads, no sponsored segments from betting partners, and no betting partner logos on team jerseys

Good, as it should be.

No mention of age controls, and I’m sure it’ll be the scummiest of gambling companies (tautology?) that signup for this.

Riot has a lot of children who play their games, this is a really disappointing decision from them.

Hard pass. What a pointless downgrade in functionality. I’m due for a new phone, and this had tweaked my interest, but lacking desktop mode and fast USB is crazy in 2025.

Weird descriptions is just how Aliexpress is. I think your right, the first one is a bad example, but there are definitely ones that work, I have one at home that explicitly marks the charge side and audio side.

Never tested it properly though, so YMMV.

The existence of these adapters does make me beleive that if apple/samsung/etc wanted to, they could trivially include an official one for $10 or so.

Really depends on if it has a proper internal USB hub or not.

And with a non-PD charger its perfectly safe.

But very good point, that you do need to be careful. Especially with Aliexpress junk.

Edit: tested mine, which is a Y cord thing, like the first link, and it does not pass more than 5v to the audio side. So it really depends what you get. You can’t power it from the audio side either, so there must be some kind of proper isolation.

~~https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006520633408.html~~

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007424092888.html