Recent content by Megaslug

Easy - we've been burned before. You know, maybe the current AMD processors really are that good. But way back when, I bough tin to the "XP +" hype from AMD and built an AMD system. Probably my shortest lived desktop. I even went ATI instead of nVidia for the video card - and with Linux and...

Oh it can - Dave Jones at EEVBlog on YouTube has done a couple of videos on the subject of pair for likes and dislikes, using examples where it has happened to him, and the YouTube analytics shows large masses of the dislikes coming from certain areas such as Vietnam, and compared to his typical...

Storing LiPo batteries fully charged isn't good for the battery anyway. I'm sorry if you feel inconvenienced when your new device isn't 90% or better charged fresh out of the box. If anything, this will speed development of the next new battery technology. The energy density is lower, but I've...

Philadelphia already does, with a "soda tax" that really only affects the poor who can't easily shop outside the city limits. This guy he's an idiot. Delaware County, yeah, that explains a lot. He's my age, but perhaps he led a sheltered life. He ought to remember when "video game" meant Pong...

There have been plenty of verifiable examples of both paid likes and paid dislikes. It's even obvious from the metrics, so they COULD do something about this even with automation. At least for relatively large channels - sorry, your subscriber base doesn't suddenly go from less than 1% of your...

That would help, I suppose. So would doing away with the completely useless DMCA and putting in place some actual reasonable copyright laws. Alas this too will never happen so long as Hollywood and the RIAA can lavish millions on Congresscritters.

Exactly what I came here to post. Last thing I would do if I had to park outside and/or on the street all the time would be to buy a $60K+ car. OK, I lie, I probably wouldn't buy a $60K car period - I DRIVE a car that cost that much new, but I bought it used for less than half that. It's cold...

In the meantime my daily drive 5S still works just fine..... SOmetimes I wonder what people do to their phones that kills them in short order. Besides the usual dropping types of things. For grins I dug out my old 3 and charged it up to see if it still worked - hey, waddayaknow, it does. It's...

What? I've owned two different '99 BMWs (a 328 and a 540), a 2003 (X3), and my current car is a 2012 (135). They've all had the same central locking system that has been in BMWs for ages. If the doors are locked - you just pull the door handle twice and it lets you out!

Such is the way of the world today, it seems. Extremism is EVERYWHERE. I hate Microsoft, because they did X, therefore, EVERYTHING Microsoft does is just for greedy profit mongering. No, that's not how it works. But that's how everyone ACTS these days. I was going to say it started with...

Why in the hell is there EVER a reason making the door handle electrical? Not just this one, the Caddy XLR (which is just a Caddy Vette, the Vette has the same system) as well. Who does that and thinks it's a cool feature to have? Emergency release or not, the whole idea is just a problem in...

Simple - the data link providers are also content providers and they don't really want people switching to streaming, they want people to keep using their content. Which is also why you see many providers not count the traffic streamed from THEIR services as part of your monthly usage. This will...

I think I just found a use for the old Atom SFF box I built a bunch of years ago - heck it already has Ubuntu on it, so pihole here I come.

Always use a VPN back through your home network, instead of just using whatever public connection you find. That's one way of solving the problem.

I guess Electroboom will have to pretty much shut down his entire channel now. I can only dream that some day there will be a company that stands up against this removal of personal responsibility instead of just caving, but clearly anything Google-related will not be it.