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garretble

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  • Leave my Taco Bell alone! 😭

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  • Realtalk: The $7 "decades" menu item or the $7 Luxe Cravings Box is one of the best deals in fast food right now.

    These usually have a taco, a "fancier" taco (like a double decker), and a burrito, AND chips and queso AND a drink. If you want a large drink it's $.20 more. So for about $8 you can get a lot of food.

    Compared to McDonald's that somehow charges like $11+ for a Double Quarter Pounder meal now, it's a great deal.

    I may be lucky in that the Taco Bell near me has line cooks that actually know what they are doing. I know that's not a luxury everyone has. But I'll never turn down some Taco Bell.

  • What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?

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  • Yeah, I paid for PCalc because someone put in effort to make it, and it’s good. Don’t feel bad about that.

    But I wouldn’t subscribe to one.

  • CNN To Launch New Streaming Service As It Sets Sights On Digital Future; About 200 Jobs To Be Cut In Restructuring

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  • 'It didn't work the first time we tried to launch a streaming service. But THIS time..."

  • Pixelfed has reached its Kickstarter Goal in Just 13 Hours

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  • The people there seem pretty chill in my experience so far.

  • Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched

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  • Hopefully this money will allow that ONE DUDE to get some help in managing these apps. I know he has maybe a couple of collaborators now, but maybe they can get some more dedicated people to build out the apps. It's a lot for one or two people to try and spin up two apps at once.

    The Pixelfed app that dropped last week, for example, doesn't even have a button to view the global feed. It's better to just use the main website of whatever server you are on right now, even on your mobile device.

  • Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: ‘We don’t care about professional coders anymore’

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  • We don’t care about professional coders any more. You know, the people making all these “breakthroughs” we are so happy about.

  • Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps

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  • I wish there was an easy way to know which servers are getting hammered more than others.

    I can easily make a post to my server via the website, but the app was giving me trouble, as an example. That's why I wonder where the hiccup is/was. Both the website and app are just interfaces to get data to a server, so if one doesn't work I'd assume the other doesn't too. But I dunno.

    Edit: After writing this I went back and tried posting from the app again. It finally worked! I guess things have settled down.

  • Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps

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  • I have a Pixelfed account and have tried the app.

    But I can't actually make posts using it. Don't know where the hiccup is.

  • Dell kills the XPS brand

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  • AMD now has "Max" chips and Dell now has "Pro" and "Max" laptops.

    Everyone copying Apple.

  • HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content

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  • "...whenever we have 8K TVs and content."

    The TVs exist, but there won't be content for years and years. Companies barely stream usable 4K right now.

  • when can we expect level 4 self driving to be commercialized? is it near (1-2 years away)?

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  • Every car company has a financial incentive to, every year, say it’s a “couple years off” to keep investors intrigued.

    Back when we all were a little hoodwinked by elon and didn’t know he was a complete, lying asshole, he said around 2014 or so it’d take just a couple of years. Then another couple. Then another couple.

    I don’t really have faith it’ll ever be there in our lifetimes in a way that’s I’d trust.

  • Elon Musk announces changes as 'too much negativity' being pushed on X

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  • I mean, he will on an alt.

  • Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio'

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  • Great, new format wars. This time with expensive speaker setups!

  • Are there any words that you pronounce in a way that seems weird to most people?

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  • Bala-tro, not Ba-lottro.

  • Insiders say cutting-edge graphics are too costly for AAA games

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  • Art design will always trump straight up graphical wizbangs anyway. There’s a reason Tears of the Kingdom is gorgeous and impressive over here running on a potato versus a lot of games that need more horsepower to run.

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    Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup

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  • Had Twitter added a paid tier early on as it scaled up - when it was still largely the only short form blogging platform - we could potentially have avoided...so much shit we now live in. Twitter was never profitable, so it just kept adding ads until that wasn't sustainable. And then dipshit bought it and really turned it into the nazi place.

    Twitter always had problems, but I think we can generally agree it wasn't a pretty good service for lots of things. Breaking news, sports, even science, etc. It had actual (not amazing, but existing) moderation. There's maybe a world out there where a Twitter that isn't owned by some idiot doesn't help influence an election that we now have to deal with for decades to come.

    That's all wishful thinking, of course, and Twitter is not THE REASON the U.S. is trash. But there was a path where Twitter didn't turn into just Truth Social 2.0.

    Adding a paid tier to Bluesky might sound like "enshitification," but if it simply keeps the company afloat then there's potentially less chance of it becoming Twitter 2.0, so to speak. Otherwise, there's probably a straight path to ads then creditors calling in debts then selling then elon just buys it, too.

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  • "Should you put glue in pizza?"

  • Intel Officials Warned Police That US Cities Aren’t Ready for Hostile Drones

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  • Oh, I get it now.

    These "mysterious drones" have all been flying from the police this entire time so articles like this will be written which in turn helps the police get more funding.

    Then the moment the police get their kill drones they'll somehow solve the case!

    (This is all tinfoil hat nonsense, of course)

  • Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance

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  • “We made Siri faster but each request now drains a lake.”

  • Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far

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  • For me the best new feature on macOS is the ability to natively put the temperature in the menu bar. You click on it, and it gives you some more info and from there can launch the full weather app.

    It's a small addition and could have been there for a decade, but I like it a lot.