true. but this one wasn’t a class action, either… just one plaintiff.

blowing the budget is their own damn fault. they put up a leaderboard, ffs.

even ranked their internal usage competitively on internal leader boards,

do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?

A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/

CEOs have been blowing smoke for as long as CEOs have existed.

That’s Epic. The RC Cola of gaming

brutal.

(pretty accurate, but brutal)

if you’ve cleared your browser histories (cookies, mainly) and it persists and bothers you, you can try to force a new ip from their dhcp. process would vary depending on what gear you have. at home, i use my own and only need to give the router a different wan mac and reboot the modem. with their gear, might need to just unplug the stuff overnight or something as i dont think you can get at the settings–hell, you need their stupid app to change the wifi password.

but like i said, i’d just let them deal with it. it probably only affects their own determination of your location. if it does spread elsewhere because they’re ‘sharing’ that data with others–just roll with it. i actually love it when we hop on a weather site or something and they’re way off, like michigan or missouri.

i wouldn’t “help” them by submitting a correction. they’re the ones that assumed wrong, they can sort it out.

good ol 538. a classic. always relevant.

it’s not the ‘phoning home’ that’s doing this. they built-in a time bomb by way of an expiring digital certificate. one that won’t get updated or replaced because the software versions in question are ‘out of support’.

GmailFS provides a filesystem using a Google Gmail account as its storage medium

https://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/

a trixie netinst iso says it needs 320mb to run the installer and that’s in lowmem mode where you have to pick and choose every installer component you want to load. and then it’ll still look like this:

afaik there is no ‘standard’ for modular power supply cables. you have to make sure the ones you’re using are for the specific psu you’re using, and that can even vary between models from the same manufacturer.

even if the ‘next generation’ of gpu and cpu have av2 support baked-in, hardly anyone (with a budget to adhere to) will be able to afford it.

totally tracks. that would be the 80s for me and i still listen to it more than from any other decade.

four months to deny it?

actual bubble gum? probably a couple halloweens ago.

‘regular’ gum? yesterday.

the ‘pen’ isn’t broken. the little strap or string that leashed it to the terminal broke and the ‘pen’ is now nowhere to be found.

in this case, the platform (i.e. vlc) has literally not changed. it’s essentially the same thing it’s been for going-on twenty years. there has been no updates or upgrades or changes that affect how it looks or runs. version 3.0 is like eight years old. version 2 was pretty much the same, as was version 1 before that. vlc is one of the most stable and consistent software applications on the planet.

right click the player window. context menu comes up. tools->preferences. big fat ‘reset preferences’ button on the bottom of that window.

Maybe delete your config file and start over

this.

vlc literally has not changed appearance… like, ever