You underestimate big tech. Judging by the headache inducing track record of AV technology, this would end up as yet another garbled mess of eleventeen different competing codecs with bad implementations, inconsistent specifications, misleading marketing, horrible licensing, and predatory DRM.

Many leaf blowers are powered by angry little single cylinder 2-stroke gas engines. Those obscenely loud and annoying machines are carefully engineered to emit sounds that are perfectly within the most intolerable frequency ranges of the human hearing spectrum.

BMW’s current B48 and B58 engines are some or the best they’ve ever made in their history. They’re quite reliable and make a very good amount of power. Even Toyota uses the B58 in the Supra. The ZF transmissions are also quite mature and robust. They really improved a lot.

It works both ways. When it’s -10°C outside and you walk into a store where the thermostat is set to a cozy 27 and the employees are walking around with short sleeve t-shirts. You spend 2 minutes 37 seconds inside, and leave with your balls drenched in sweat.

Not here, but this is a screenshot from a video, likely from a platform where there is something to gain.

Linux srom fcratch is my favorite

The software that’s made to escape Microsoft’s ecosystem is being hosted on Microsoft’s GitHub.

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Because for phones they kinda are custom. The smartphone hardware landscape is an absolute clusterfuck of proprietary blobs and closed source drivers and all sorts of shit that makes it so you need a lot of work to customize the base os to work on any particular device. ROMs have rather short lists of compatible phones, and each one of those had to have a build specifically developed for them. You can’t take, say, grapheneos and slap it on any phone you like.

Oh they did innovate alright. The Ecoboost engine was an innovation. A surprising amount of power from a small lightweight engine. The Powershift transmission was an innovative transmission and was quite efficient.

Unfortunately those innovations sucked ass. The Ecoboost engines kept destroying themselves because the timing belts soaked in hot engine oil kept disintegrating. The Powershift transmission was such a terribly broken piece of machinery that even the engineers who designed it told corporate that it was crap and should not be used.

Couple days ago my Arch (btw) tried to update gcc by building from source. I started the update, went and made myself dinner, ate it, cleaned up the dishes, and it was still building when I returned to my PC. How do people live with Gentoo I will never understand.

FH5’s characters were some of the most insufferable NPCs I’ve ever encountered in any game, which is an accomplishment for a game that really didn’t need that much story or character dialogue anyway to begin with. I’m not even exaggerating when I say the game is easily better when their voice slider is set to 0. They’re actually a net negative for the experience. It’s an outrageous combination of top shelf cringe being voiced by some unskilled VAs under the direction of someone who should never have had that job.

The 3DS screen kinda sucked though. It only worked well when your eyes were inside a very tight cone straight in front of the screen. Move your head just a little bit and the image went to shit. And even when it did work, it looked more cool than good, if that makes sense. That narrow fov thing is an inherent limitation of the technology that can hardly be worked around, and it makes it practically useless for TVs. Multiple people can’t view that screen because you can’t expect everyone to be in the vision cone at once. You can’t even properly view it alone because you won’t be staying inside that narrow vision cone the whole time you’ll be sitting on your couch watching Avatar.

I never saw mine as anything more than a cool gimmick, and kept its 3D-ness turned off 95% of the time. There’s a reason Nintendo didn’t pursue it further.

I mean they are a legitimate government office. Trump didn’t found them, they’ve existed for over two decades. It’s only their outrageous gestaponess that’s recent.

Patrick and his clique are a bunch of superficial morons who have no idea what they’re talking about a lot of the time. They blindly follow popular trends, do what everyone else does and say what everyone else says. They have no personal opinions and are too shallow to form any. Guy probably sat down and wrote that “analysis” by imitating other people’s reviews of other media, and then memorized it to recite at people. The discussion they have at that dinner is like that too. They’re just regurgitating rehearsed and memorized statements about some social issues they clearly know nothing about and don’t care at all.

Eh. I won’t judge anyone for how they look naturally because that’s something that they have no control or choice over.

But all bets are off when you make the conscious decision to specifically give yourself an “I’ve been stung by all the bees” look through a long and expensive medical process with multiple steps where you could have changed your mind. You had control over that transformation, you chose to look like that. That’s your work. And if it’s bad work, you deserve to get shit on for it.

We need enamel that grows back. More robustly built eyes that don’t get bent out of shape and lose effectiveness. A user replaceable HEPA filter somewhere along the windpipe. An update to the liver firmware to get rid of hangovers. Most importantly, and I can’t stress this enough, we need certain kinds of body hair to be opt-in only.

I think I see what she’s trying to say. Something along the lines of “normally legal things can become illegal if it can be proven that you’re doing them with criminal intent”. Like you’re buying a car for example, which would be legal. But if someone can prove that you’re buying that car with the explicit purpose of using it to run someone over in a preplanned assault, then it can be treated as illegal. Which might have been too much for the translator to reduce into a short and accurate one liner.

Maybe she’s just an idiot though, who knows. I don’t even know if that’s how the law works over there.

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