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katbyte··on How did people deal with punch cards?
Am Canadian, never heard of a #2 pencil but very much had HB pencils
katbyte··on The coolest robot I've ever built [video]
Yea.. like it’s a 20 min video total. it’s shorter then a average 30min tv show episode without commercials
katbyte··on Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich
Where I live there is literally not cheap option for housing, no matter how far you commute lol

And commuting has a cost too, driving an hour or two each way is expensive

Expensive housing is driving up the cost of everything because, everyone in literally every job is having their wealth extracted by landlords or into buying homes

So yes, home prices means taxes are going way up because all services are now far more expensive to provide because wages need to go up because the col for workers is going up because the businesses they rely on need to pay higher wages and here we are in a vicious cycle

It really doesn’t matter how it’s solved in the long run, but it needed a to be solved

katbyte··on Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich
Because expensive housing means they all need to charge more meaning your fighter fighters and we’ll every Goverment employee needs a higher wage to account for it, meaning landlords can charge more meaning wages need to go up.. you see the problem here?
katbyte··on Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich
Ok, be prepared to pay a ton more taxes to afford that, all to the benefit of landlords - now what about all the people needed to maintenance, groceries, schools, etc?

Expensive housing is a problem for everyone even the people who own their home

katbyte··on Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich
Or there is not enough housing driving prices up (which then makes everything more expensive)
katbyte··on YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls
Also sponsor spots that cut out YouTube entirely
katbyte··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
what mental gymnastics? I pay to both avoid ads and support creators more. If i just watched YT with ads they would literally make less, regardless of supporting them directly.

and google takes 45% of premium with 55% going to creators.

feel like you are the one doing mental gymnastics

katbyte··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
except it hasn't be free for a very long time? its had ads for at least 10+ years and youtube premium for 8 now
katbyte··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
I also pay to avoid ads AND support the creators i watch as they make more per my paid view then an ad supported view.
katbyte··on Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
Should have done this at the start of this generation before people invested in hardware which is now e waste
katbyte··on Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
The time to do this was at the start of the generation or the next not mid way when people had invested in hardware. I think Sony already did this with the ps5, but from the get go so it’s fine

It’s just poor planning punishing xbox owners creating a ton of e waste

katbyte··on Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
No, error codes are far better then “something went wrong” as you can at least google them
katbyte··on Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
Real problem here seems to be games doing aim assist in multiplayer
katbyte··on Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages
surprisingly thou they have made some rather good hardware over the years
katbyte··on One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54%
There is an argument to be made Tesla and spacex successes to date are despite him
katbyte··on SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/30/elon-mu...

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-04-27...

https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/group-flagged-100-rac...

katbyte··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Find my works without a network connection. So if the phone is lost without signal and another iOS device comes in range it will remember seeing it, and then upload the location to apple for the devices owner to see when it has internet again.
katbyte··on Germany to Pass Japan as Third-Largest Economy, Helped by Weak Yen
I recently was taking trains across Germany and while some where late and others went out of service there was always another to hop onto and it was easy to find.

Maybe not like clockwork but as a visitor from a country without a strong train network I was (easily?) impressed

katbyte··on Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?
> their commute radius is frequently limited with gas costs that are insane

where in the eu are you talking about? every time i visit/talk to friends there it seems to be the opposite because public transit is ubiquitous and you can get a train out to all sorts of small towns and villages.

katbyte··on Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?
> Hospitals can veto any building plans of a hospital near them. This is to “keep the current hospital profitable”

wow that is absolutely wild and maybe one the most transparent profits over people i've heard of

katbyte··on Toyota adopts the North American charging standard
Your just not looking. 2 min google https://electrek.co/2019/11/18/tesla-supercharger-station-fi...

Not to say they are unsafe or anything but it’s not unheard of

katbyte··on Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord
When housing and commercial space gets expensive, EVERYTHING gets expensive
katbyte··on Toyota adopts the North American charging standard
Maybe it’s just me but that sounds like a fire/problem waiting to happen if the temperature sensors fail?
katbyte··on Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
Which gallon? There are two different ones (and for even more fun Canada and us don’t use the same)
katbyte··on Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
And it was ok the way and if regan hadn’t canceled it America would have switched around the same time Canada did
katbyte··on Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
Pretty much ALL countries use C - 97% of people on the planet use C

C is the global standard

katbyte··on Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
Neither of those are as important as “when water freezes” (ice snow weather effects), boils, and having a nice 100d in between
katbyte··on Microsoft gets green light in UK to buy Activision
A lot of people discuss it when purchasing tvs, tvs often have game mode as you say, the entire 30/60 fps debate and how many gamers refuse to accept 30fps as acceptable, ping times in games and how variable they can get. Personally I can notice the difference pretty easily.

Lots of people do discuss this and do care, not to mention to even get to the point of it only being “the lowest possible physics allows” you need great home networking equipment plus a fast/well connected isp and a cloud service provider that isn’t adding any processing delay. That excludes a ton of people.

Cloud gaming isn’t going to be “the default” anytime soon, and for many people it will never be an option.

Heck physical copies are still super popular with a large group of console gamers to this day despite digital delivery being so well tested and ubiquitous

katbyte··on Why I eat old cheese (2020)
Many places in the world er visits don’t cost anything.
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