another year another blog complaining about apple icons.

what a weird business for a pop star to get into. kinda sounds like a buddy of his went to him with a fire business plan and let him run with it.

the SSD is not necessarily being “used” (written to) more here. The issue is that data isn’t being cleared when OP wants, but that doesn’t cause wear.

I’ve been playing https://cluesbysam.com/ a lot recently. It’s a (free) daily logic puzzle, so not really story-driven, but it is 100% text based.

makes me think it’s inevitable that they reverse their position on console exclusive games.

do they inject ads into loading screens and cut scenes?

given how terrible it has gone for ea over the past 15+ years maybe this is a good thing.

…oh saudi arabia, nevermind.

why are we comparing a game 5 years ago to one released today? hardware is much more capable now.

which is just a waste when it’s trivial to plug your phone in at bed time.

~16 hours is all most people need 99% of the time.

the other 1% of the time you can connect a battery pack. you can’t do the opposite with a thick phone, you’re just carrying a bigger battery all the time for no reason.

Instead of making suicide harder, we should be treating the root cause of suicide

Or… both?

If people get hurt due to gun accidents, I highly doubt they’d be happy if we took their guns away, since that’s like solving traffic deaths by banning cars.

it’s not even remotely the same thing since cars’ primary purpose is not killing. Also there’s a very wide middle ground of options between “do nothing” and “take all guns away”. This is not a binarry issue.

Suicides and gun accidents are certainly interesting statistics, but mixing them with homicides just makes it harder to see what’s going on and arrive at effective solutions.

it doesn’t really. what does make it harder to arrive at effective solutions is making any excuse possible to avoid gun control.

why should we exclude suicides and accidents?

also Greenland isn’t a very reliable comparison statistically since their grand total of intentional murders in 2024 was 3. Canada is ranked 111 with a rate less than half of US. UK is ranked 142 with a rate less than a quarter of the US.

the comment wasn’t about fox news specifically, it was about news in general. like it or not, we need news agencies to cover what these people are doing.

It’s straight disinformation. Nevermind that everyone else plays the same games, let’s cherry pick the one western nation that has a comparable number of guns per capita and not think about that any further.

Because they control the country and people should know what they are doing. It’s not that complicated.

is the news supposed to NOT cover what the government is doing?

this is so obviously false it’s enfuriating coming from the head of HHS. Lots of coutnries all over the world have the same violent video games we do without the mass shootings.

“Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago,” said Kennedy, 71. “We have a mass shooting every 23 hours.”

“There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these,” he added. “One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs… there could be connections with video games and social media.”

okaaaaaaay… follow that train of thought just a liiiiiitle bit further bobby. Do you think Switzerland is stuck in the 80s or something?

“up to”

some carriers do have deals like that but usually you have to commit to a higher tier service plan for X years where they make up the cost. it’s just a new form of carrier-subsidized phones from the 00s and early 10s.

for example, this is from verizon last year:

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/apple-iphone-16-pro-verizon-deals

Guaranteed trade in: New and existing Verizon customers can trade in any phone, in any condition and get iPhone 16 Pro on us, or up to $1,000 off the new iPhone 16 lineup with Unlimited Ultimate. If you choose our Unlimited Plus or Unlimited Welcome plans, you can get $830 off or up to $415 off the new iPhone 16 lineup with trade-in, respectively ³.

3 $999.99 purchase w/new or upgrade smartphone line on Unlimited Ultimate plan (min. $90/mo w/Auto Pay (+taxes/fees) for 36 mos) req’d. Less $1,000 trade-in/promo credit applied over 36 mos.; promo credit ends if eligibility req’s are no longer met; 0% APR.

so they give you a bigger discount if you go with the more expensive plans, and you have to commit to 3 years. if you want to opt out you have to pay back what you saved.

i don’t think tailscale will fork for this since it’s L3 and old lan games typically work on L2. Zerotier is a similar service that is L2 and should work.

if you run into issues with softether, zerotier might offer a more streamlined experience.