Seems like a huge design failure that the sense pins (which need to be connected for the card to turn on) mate before the power connections are fully mated.
Opinion- these Mini-Fit / Micro-Fit style connectors have no place in PCs. I’ve always hated how much force they require especially those damn clips when you need to take them out, which doesn’t make much sense to me given they barely click in.
I don’t understand why anyone would pay that much for YouTube premium- isn’t it just no ads, and background play? In what universe is that worth £16/$12 a month?? You could get two “real” streaming services for that if you pushed it a little.
No ads is worth quite a bit to me. I wish more platforms had this option to opt out of them legitimately. I would gladly pay another 25% on top of my YouTube Premium subscription if they would also enforce no in-content/native ads from the creators (just ask them to tag the beginning and end of the sponsored section, and auto-skip for premium subscribers). I basically lose my shit every time I have to hear "this episode brought to you by square space" lol.
This is yet another instance where piracy provides the better product.
Installing uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock makes Youtube a much better product than simply paying for premium. If you haven't used it, SponsorBlock is a crowd sourced browser extension that identifies and skips sections of videos like "This content is brought to you by..."
I used to pay for premium and use YT Music, but after getting fed up with YTM I cancelled. I'm noticing a much MUCH better experience using UBO and SponsorBlock. Unfortunately, this setup means the creators don't get any revenue from me.
If only YouTube offered such an experience at a reasonable cost.
There's more entertaining, educational, and just plain useful content on YouTube than cable ever offered. The value proposition is certainly there. I don't consider Premium to be a bad deal at all.
If there's a threat to the value proposition, it's increasingly-intrusive sponsorship messaging. But that's outside Google's ability to control.
And those "real" streaming services have much lower quality and diversity of content.
There's no match for YouTube, as long as you are not after movies, but very broad "video" content. Nothing even close to it. 4 coffees per month so my whole family can enjoy it without ads? It's a bargain for me.
I watch YouTube more than all other streaming services combined. The ad-free experience is absolute bliss. Most of my music listening these days is DJ mixes on YouTube and having ads in the middle of those would drive me insane. I also watch a ton of hobby YouTube with the kids and I love not having ads in the middle of all that. (Of course, the videos themselves often have product placement and other stuff, but at least that feels more essential and organic.)
No ads and background play are great though. YouTube music also means you don't need a Spotify subscription which is $10 by itself. Altogether it is worth it to me
It is quite punchy for an online service, but you would have to prise YouTube Premium from my cold dead hands. I visit YouTube multiple times per day for work, entertainment, research etc. Without Premiun there are so many ad units it’s painful.
I swear there’s something going on with those fake shipping emails- I only ever get them when I’m waiting for a parcel- and no, I haven’t been entering my tracking number into any websites. Very suspicious.
Yes, now that you mention it, the gaps between these phishing emails don't seem random, but do seem to come around the same time as an actual shipment (not enough data, but...).
I mostly see fake-DHL being phished, even when the shipment is coming on another carrier. You?
Man, I can’t understand what they’re thinking over at Autodesk. Right now I have the student license for Fusion 360- I was (still am to be frank) thinking about becoming a paying customer at some point- occasionally they do a $100 a year sale, which is a far more reasonable price than it is normally. But when they keep pulling crap like this, it makes it real hard to commit to, especially with Onshape existing and SOLIDWORKS having not-terrible personal offerings now.
If I were pulling the strings, I’d go all in on trying to convert hobbyists and students- pricing at $100/$150 a year all year round and add a monthly tier for $15/$20. I don’t even mind locking features like simulation behind a paywall- 99% of users designing for 3D printing, 2D manufacturing like laser cutting, and basic CNC machined parts don’t need them (though I’d throw in a few free cloud credits for the value-add, and make them a bit less of a rip-off). What do I know though.
One thing I suspect- there are a lot of people using the free license to make money (which is not allowed), so I guess they’re turning the screws on.. their paying customers? Much easier to just make the software good value IMO.
> One thing I suspect- there are a lot of people using the free license to make money (which is not allowed), so I guess they’re turning the screws on.. their paying customers
I don't understand. The free version doesn't have simulation anymore for a while.
They should be illegal- the waste of RECHARGEABLE lithium cells in DISPOSABLE vapes is insane. At least in the UK, anywhere there are teenagers these things follow. I'll admit as an electronics hobbyist these can be a good source of free batteries though (hell, it'd probably be cheaper and certainly quicker for me to walk into a vape shop and shuck these for the batteries than it is to buy them online).
Real evil villain stuff tbh- wasting rare metals, getting kids addicted to nicotine, probably shipped by the boatload from China...
These types of situations make me think some externalities should be priced in, perhaps through taxes. It's ridiculous that these devices make litter of rare metals that also have a risk of fires. If we're gonna allow it, it ought to include the cost of inevitably cleaning them up off the streets
That's literally true but that's inefficient. The question is whether it's more inefficient than whatever you try to do to solve it and the risk it does more harm than good.
By the literal definition of what an "externality" is.
A company cutting costs by dumping their PFAS into the local river isn't being "paid for" by anyone. Except with our health and all the dead insects and fish and compounding environmental effects brought with it
By definition an externality is a "market failure" because the market completely fails to account for this effect. There are "positive externalities" as well, but that's obviously not relevant here
Problem is if we started pricing in this stuff it would absolutely obliterate other, much more wasteful practices. If these were priced in, almost no one could afford to drive SUVs like they do now. Which is a good thing but isn't going to be accepted by the public.
Maybe it’s just the news I’m fed, but I have an unshakeable feeling that China is waging war with “the west”, but they’re doing it discretely, by making everyone a little sicker.
China doesn't have to do anything on purpose. America and American's utter disregard for anything other than saving a couple pennies here and there mean every possible corner will be cut, without any purposeful planning or damaging intent.
Considering what "the west" did to itself in past centuries (and still does) I think China is just participating in a preëxisting tradition of self harm.
They didn't pay for the processing.. We ignore a lot of cost when selling a product, and particularly the cost of recycling, which start to be a huge issue taking in account the amount of waste produced..
Lithium mining isn't particularly bad and it is mostly done in fairly well regulated parts of the world (mainly Australia and Chile) with at least somewhat enforced worker and environmental protections.
It's possible you are thinking of Cobalt which is very bad?
Yeah you're right, cobalt is probably worse, but lithium isn't great either. All unnecessary mining seems pretty horrible to me, even thought these capes might not be as bad as disposable lithium AA s that are probably made in larger qty.
22 is far too young. I've been watching his videos since 2017- the picture in today's video of him in a hospital bed with his 10 million subscriber play button absolutely destroyed me. He used to joke all the time about hitting 10 million subscribers as if it could never happen, and the fact that it did is a monument to all the time and effort he put in- should've lived to 100 million. A reminder to us all- life is precious, live it to the fullest while you still can.
That's my son's age, and he was into minecraft in a big way a few years ago. Not sure if he knows of this news yet since he's at work, but I might mention it to him tonight.
This is the second person in the streaming or eSports community I've read that's both very young and died of cancer recently. I'm kinda terrified now. Especially because I've been treating my health with a very "fix it later" attitude.
Taking your health seriously is good, but your chance of getting cancer at a young age is small and fairly unrelated to any measures you might take to protect yourself.
I found my son floating in the pool at a beach rental house when he was 3 (the pool door was broken). I managed to revive him with CPR and he's totally fine now. Years later, I still feel trauma from it. I often think about what my life would be like if I had found him a minute later. I feel deeply for your neighbor.
I am a father myself. You need to weigh between letting your children learn things by doing and forbidding. Usually, when I see something I deem dangerous, I tell my children to be careful then carefully watch them. If I feel they don't take it seriously, I try to create a controlled dangerous situation.
One of my sons is autistic and when he was small it was very difficult to tell him to be careful of the stove. One day I made the stove not really hot to seriously burn the hands but only very slightly. After I put my own hand on the stove, I let my son touch the stove and said, Hot, hot hot! And it was successful. He didn't burn his hand but it hurt somewhat.
Another example: he doesn't swim but pushed his brother into the water at the pool. I then pushed him myself then jumped in the water to save him and told him, be careful, you can't swim.
The idea: see what is dangerous then decide: can your children play by themselves, do they need watching or do you need to forbid it? Before forbidding something please try to give the children time and watch them. If they learn a dangerous thing you will save time later because your children have already learned.
It makes you wonder how parents coped before the advent of modern medicine. Infant mortality was so very high - many of them wouldn't even get marked graves. This is also why the median age of death in the middle ages was so low.
This one has to be my favourite- I thought maybe whoever transcribed the source code listing for the AGC to GitHub took some artistic license- but no, it's there in the original scans!
Opinion- these Mini-Fit / Micro-Fit style connectors have no place in PCs. I’ve always hated how much force they require especially those damn clips when you need to take them out, which doesn’t make much sense to me given they barely click in.