Very thorough answer, thanks!

I agree trains are generally safer but I’d like to know more about the data. Are those just base death chance statistics (e.g.: 100 people die from train accidents every year compared to 3500 from cars) or deaths/km travelled?

The difference is availability of choice. On apple phones, Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation you are locked into a single source of software. On a PC there are myriad of game stores you can choose from. Sometimes you can even buy the software directly from the developer. Usually people are upset when this choice is taken away (for example epic exclusive games). Nobody would bat an eye if a developer offered their game on epic or their own platform with a ~20% discount compared to steam. But it is up to the developers to make their game available on any of the PC game stores.

In conclusion, steam is not a platform holder, they could charge whatever they wanted. If the markup was too high, you could simply choose to buy your games elsewhere. For most people, this 30% is worth it for the features and buyer protection that steam offers compared to other platforms.

Looks both promising and sketchy at the same time. Have you personally tried these? How’s the ANC?

I think that’s one of the dilemmas of westworld. William starts off as you describe: peaceful, not really wanting to hurt the hosts at first. But he’s kind of like a fish out of water. To me it seems heavily implied that the only ones able to afford to go to Westworld are the rich psychopaths who exploit their own environment for personal gain. And we also get a look at how William turns out by the end…

Where do you think KFC comes from?

I believe it is the ‘far side of the moon’. The moon is tidally locked to the earth so we only ever see one face frome here. But it does receive light regularly as it orbits the earth.

Despite or Because?

Yeah, imagine trying to hit that while you’re turning the wheel

Capacitive button on the wheel

90% of doomscrollers log off right before they meet their doom

You are allowed to watch the Overwatch porn without playing the game

You’re never really sitting at a 90° angle for the whole screen, only the middle. For very large screens the effect can get quite pronounced. One possible solution is to look for a display with better off-center viewing performance in terms of colour and brightness shift. The other comment about rtings is a great resource.

Alternatively you can get a curved display where the entire surface area is at a perpendicular angle to your eyes (this is most common in ultra wide displays). These come with their own tradeoffs of course. One of them is the viewing sweet spot is not only from left to right, but also at a given distance from the screen. You can calculate the desired curvature based on display size and how far you will be sitting from the screen.

Luckily the app is generally (but not always) backwards compatible. It’ll just nag you to upgrade the server.

The server doesn’t, except if you have watchtower or something similar.

The app auto updates on your phone though, unless turned off.

Like everyone is saying, Immich.

But keep an eye on updates because it is under active development so breaking changes tend to happen every once in a while.

I thought this was a Kerbal space program community for a second

In this case the garbage is behind the pay wall then. Verge is all opinion pieces and cheap content nowadays anyway.

Along what everyone else said, so it’s more broadly marketable. In theory a humanoid robot could do any job a real human is doing now, meaning you don’t need a high tech production line to go along with it. You don’t need to automate your entire production line to get started.

Also, it’s more of a commodity. A business could sell the robot once they don’t need it and anyone else could just buy it to use for a different purpose. Not many will have a use for highly customised robots ment for a specific task.

While Romans did acknowledge how long ago the Roman empire began the actual day-to-day calendar was based on the year of the ruling Consul, or later, Emperor. Meaning a new year count was started when a new Consul rose to power.

So for the Americans it’s only a couple of weeks to the first year of Donald Trump. Or 5th? I wonder how the Romans would have handled a “re-election”.

Edit: around year 500 there was this Christian monk Dionysius who didn’t like the current ruling emperor, as the emperor persecuted Christians. So Dionysius came up with using the birth of christ as year zero. While this didn’t catch on as the official calendar for a thousand years, this is where we got our current year zero from.

Basically some guy was upset about their current Donald Trump and refused to count years by him.