I remember a story of a child watching their mother cook a roast, and asked why she cut the ends off before putting it in the oven.

The mother learned it from her mother, so they both went and asked the grandmother.

Turned out the grandmother used to have a small oven and did that to make it fit.

The thing is, their anti-adblocking measures are still less unpleasant than actually watching ads.

port forwarding/firewall issues that most people don’t know how to deal with

This sort of thing makes me want to tear my hair out when I hear “Why bother rolling out IPv6 when IPv4 just WORKS!?”

NAT, port forwarding and the problems they cause are seen as expected, just the way the internet works instead of the dirty hacks they actually are. Most people aren’t old enough to remember the time when everything connected to the internet had a routable IPv4 address.

Personally, I’m on an electricity plan that gives me free usage at midday when solar is flooding the grid, so it’s useful for me to be able to charge as fast as possible in that window.

Faster charging is useful for more than just finishing before your next drive.

Because the “Why is the video being slow?” pop-up now sends you to the page blaming adblockers instead of the ISP shaming thing it used to do.

You may not be surprised to find out that place used to be the bottom of an ocean. Doesn’t look like it’s changed much.

Presumably it’s a bit less wet these days.

You sure that guy wasn’t playing on a potato? (Or a brand new Nvidia 5060Ti 8GB?) Low VRAM makes a lot of games look like crap, because it’s either dropping textures or running like ass when you overflow VRAM.

I’ll say fudge-diddly-darn if I want to and you can’t stop me.

Just scrambles in place, like eggs.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710

Apparently, but not flawlessly.

This. I know I’m not going anywhere, I just want to stand for the next ten minutes.

That… really feels like something hardware should have been doing, but okay.

The problem with getting rid of everyone who tells you things you don’t want to hear is that bad things still happen to you but now they always come as a surprise.

It’s funny how that goes: elements that react violently often form strong bonds, so make stable and safe compounds.

It was life changing when I realised uBlock Origin can block whatever I want from web pages and not just ads.

All the links at the right of an article, headers and menus that want to continue occupying screen space after I’ve scrolled down, the entire comments section on some pages. Bam, gone.

Pages with cookie banners that don’t have a one-click reject all button? Just block the banner.

Instead of running a magnetic tape over the cassette player’s sensor, you put an electromagnet on it powered by the headphone jack. The cassette player just reads the magnetic field and doesn’t know any difference.

Fake resolution has it’s place, the problem is when Nvidia pressures reviewers to put its cards running a fake resolution against other cards running native resolution on benchmark charts.

It’s how every manufacturer starts, though. Sell at a loss until you can achieve the volume you need to bring costs down. “strong growth in EV deliveries as losses narrow” means this is exactly what’s happening.

Nobody’s going to buy your first car for 100 million dollars so that you can be profitable from day 1.

“How did the world end, Grandpa?”

“Well, it all started with this fucking gorilla.”