His logic is actually flawless. Let me explain with a metaphor:

Trump has an imagined pain in his foot, so to cure it, he’s going to open the hood of the family car and kick the engine as hard as he can. So you see, this will break his other foot and severely damage the car.

Hopefully that helps.

Thanks, I didn’t know that!

Well, Nvidia seemingly forgot to price gouge on RAM for the 3060 and they had a 12 GB standard version for a while. That should have been the low range standard, with 24 for mid and 32 for high, but they’ve adjusted.

Possible I suppose, but if that worked, not sure why they couldn’t just provide a diff patch that worked on the user’s existing binary…

What is the DMCA argument here? Does anyone know what was alleged by Sony?

It would need to be either using copyrighted code or circumventing copy protection. Neither seems likely for a frame rate mod.

Yup, I got rickrol- I mean, loss-memed.

Ok, I’m calling it - I’m an idiot. What’s it referring to? Pins that broke off inside the connector?

Edit: Oh, it’s loss meme.

What gets measured gets improved. The inverse is also true - what doesn’t get (or can’t be) measured deteriorates.

Google had a uniquely employee-friendly culture and probably the highest morale amongst the FAANG companies. But Sundar apparently couldn’t assign a value to that like he could quarterly balance sheet improvements, and at some point it appears to have disappeared from his decision tree entirely.

So it’s no surprise they discarded their entire company culture and are so concerned with the same Wall Street-pleasing nonsense efficiency metrics as a typical company. Google is no longer special in any way.

I had a few dates with an asian woman in the US who called herself only half-sarcastically a “Twinkie,” which the Internet told me was yellow on the outside and white on the inside. I laughed to be polite not knowing what she meant, but when I learned it made me feel racist by proxy.

This is the typical Jack Welch stack-ranking nonsense. The theory is that there will always be a bell curve or similar distribution that requires a certain percent (Welch said 10%, but it’s all over the map) be cut while new hires are constantly brought on.

It kills morale and forces employees into short-term impact patterns to avoid the constant churn of cuts. It also means that performative work rather than actual substantive work is encouraged, since the appearance of productivity in whatever metric is stack-ranked is all that matters.

Finally, it encourages people to do the minimum, because the alternative is to compete for bonuses that are only going to the people who meet the highest appearance of productivity metrics, which doesn’t correlate strongly with actual productivity, just as actual productivity (in terms of “producing” output) is also not strongly correlated with value (such as by knowing enough to efficiently complete tasks such that you are not appearing to “produce,” due to being extremely efficient).

Ooof, can you imagine? Gen alpha would all become reactionary right-wingers. Being older and living through that would be like that Ricky & Morty episode where Rick regenerates himself in an alternate universe and Morty is a fascist ordering him around.

I know we’re taking about LG, but firmware updates really are as likely to break as to fix core functionality in my experience.

My Hisense TV is automatic, full-on lockdown-until-you-update. You literally can’t use the TV until it updates. And lo and behold, after an update that I did everything to try to decline but couldn’t, we couldn’t connect to the Internet. Cue to 4 months of arguing with Hisense support to get a working TV again - a TV I paid for, to which Hisense applied an update against my will, that broke it.

The only updates I trust at this point and welcome are Valve updates to my Steam Deck.

“We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership,”

The double-speak is relatively subtle, but it’s always interesting to see how much work they put into gaslighting their customers:

• “No action is required from you…” - yes, Amazon hopes we do nothing, but Amazon unilaterally changed the assumptions underlying agreement, so “no action” is an acquiescence to a materially worse reality for us and a better one for Amazon.
• “…there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership” - yes, no additional dollars are required because Amazon is now selling our time and attention, but that is still a new “fee” we are paying.

Pretty gross, Amazon.