tiramichu

joined 1 year ago
[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn't reach 50% until the year 2000.

To have a phone in '92 you'd need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.

My dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.

As for mobile internet, that wasn't really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a geeky nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But most people didn't have Internet until about 2009-10

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

That's the strategy, yes

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

This may be a nonsense suggestion but is the game trying to activate the headphone mic?

If so this could be switching it to a different mode and cutting your headset audio quality in half.

EDIT: two other people suggested the same thing at the same time, never mind :)

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Time to start a boycott movement against Black Ops 6 :)

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

The number one thing I noticed after installing Linux on my old macbook was that the battery life was immediately halved.

I totally expected that to happen, though, because my previous experience had always been that power management on Linux was kinda terrible.

Time to try this out and see!

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 158 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

“I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said.

There's nothing 'altruistic' about reddit

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You answered your own question. If OP can't use it, maybe they'll buy a subscription, thinks Adobe.

Super scummy.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're right of course and that should be on Microsoft to better implement their driver loading. But yes.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 212 points 4 months ago (46 children)

If I send you on stage at the Olympic Games opening ceremony with a sealed envelope

And I say "This contains your script, just open it and read it"

And then when you open it, the script is blank

You're gonna freak out

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 88 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Owning a dog is the intersection between thinking dogs are the best, and actually having the time, energy and headspace to look after one.

If dogs looked after themselves like cats do, I'd be inclined. But then they wouldn't be dogs, I suppose.

view more: ‹ prev next ›