Prioritising search with the right result almost always on the first page. Stripped back interface. Back in the day search engines could be and often were a crapshoot, then along comes Google and surfaces what you are after first time the vast majority of times you used it. Plus the Google search page was a logo a text box and 2 buttons, you had to go looking for a weather report, a stock ticker, a news feed, an entertainment feed, etcetera etcetera. It was the disruptive tech upstart, now it’s the incumbent, basically all the evangelist algorithm nerds took their stock options and bailed. Now we have advertising obsessed business majors and cryptobros piloting the zombie husk of Google around.

Well of course you do. You little scamp.

Yeah… I left the door open for that answer, should have realised someone would let themselves in.

It’s Lemmy so I feel compelled to ask… You want to die as Henry Cavill watching Kevin Costner get choked out by an anime chick?

As Kevin Costner being choked out an anime chick while Henry Cavill watches?

Or as an anime chick choking out Kevin Costner while Henry Cavill watches?

Always had the same reaction to requiring a PIN to refund a transaction on an EFTPOS machine. Someone wants to steal my card and put money on it that’s cool, just stop them from taking it out and they can hold onto that card as long as they want.

The vision is there too, immanently doable to set up. You could shoot this very shot with a barely functional camera 5 bucks of supplies and 15 minutes to set up and get the shot.

Such a waste.

“Fiscally conservative” you know the sort who will piss away tax payer money like a drunken sailor while bleating about how people need to tighten their belts and live within their means.

His aprty keeps getting re-elected at a state level because the media talks about them being strong economic managers while they lurch from disaster to disaster sinking the states credit rating and driving away as many young people as they can to pander to a rapidly aging demographic.

*** Deep Breath *** But I shouldn’t complain, could be worse.

Just wait till you find out Eric Abetz is pansexual.

He is fucking an entire state right now pushing a stadium build that’s probably going to end up costing between 5 and 10 times more than the original ridiculous price while championing public service cuts that will result in police, nurse, doctor and teacher shortages that will have generational impacts.

I mean, you can make anything run on batteries over a short enough time scale.

Cat manufacture? Surely you just shove them in an alley and let nature take its course. With enough alleys I can beat them. 😜

Before I went to a laptop with somewhat shakey suspend power consumption my desktop PC was going on 18 months uptime. The reason it was only 18 months was that we had a power outage. Unfortunately Debian became a bit boring so now I use Arch BTW. So many of the problems I deal with are caused by the insistence we use Windows “because it just works”. Worst part is 95% of my workflow is browser based. Its only bloody stinking Outlook that means I couldn’t use Linux to do everything.

My first thought was that there is a gulf of difference between display, and display respectfully… But seriously how does anyone take their religion so seriously when it’s so obviously a fragile veneer, if your beliefs are that brittle maybe time to start challenging some assumptions.

Oh when I see AI shilling I see them as tools.

Yeah, maybe. Different pathways to the same end I guess still gets you to the same end… In Germany.

That’s the garden variety censorship though, right? Your government deciding no one should be allowed access, not just restricting access behind mandatory state sanctioned identity theft like some of the more “Enlightened” countries have.

I think the normies just find the niche hard to appreciate. People don’t think about things like ownership and DRM until they are forced to.

Luckily GOG isn’t affected at this stage.

Yep I can see them in search but I’m an Australian with no credit card, that’s all I can see.

I always thought the decision was made a lot earlier than that. Wasn’t it largely due to Westinghouse that America settled on 60hz 110v? Where AEG pushed 50hz 220v in Europe? That was late 1800s early 1900s from memory. World war 2 may have resulted in some rebuilding but they rebuilt along lines that were already established, the bump up to 230-240v with time and gained efficiencies is mirrored in the US with the move towards 120v at least that’s what I recall, but I must admit that outside of some Technology Connections videos I haven’t delved too deeply in recent years (and yes I know Alec would say the US technically already sends 240v but that’s not what your general appliances are rated to).

Takes a couple of litres of water before we get hot water. I have filled the kettle twice before the water was too hot to hold my hand under before. That’s roughly 3.5 litres of water just to get to the hot stuff. Luckily boiling water was a key consideration in our voltage level (actually that’s something I made up on the spot 😜) but more power equals good so… Its weird that this is a field that the US apparently just decided to let a large portion of the world be more “powerful” almost expect that if there were parts of the world settling on 240v the US would arbitarily decide they needed 500v.