It’s been that for a while. Tumblr’s had it a while, between the earlier days of the user base, and the site not being the most well-coded thing compared to Twitter or Reddit.

Maybe it’s cascade effects? Something depends on something else, which depends on a third thing that depends on AWS for something?

They do call it a Hellsite for many reasons. Not being profitable is one of them.

At the same time, it has calmed down a bit as the user base has aged up, and the more volatile elements have left for bluer skies.

Oddly enough, other than the mess of the NSFW filter, it’s been fairly controversy free. You can still use their API without paying globs of money, for example. Twitter and Facebook have all thrown that out, and Reddit has made other bad decisions, in addition to imploding their third party app ecosystem.

Firstly, that clip shows nothing about the driver’s current speed, only that everyone is driving the same speed.

You cannot do 140 km/h down the interstate, just as you do not do 100 km/h down a residential street or a main road. That’s a pretty notable difference. No-one does that.

An extra 15 miles an hour is a pretty significant difference basically everywhere, unless you’re on the Autobahn or something.

No it isn’t. No normal person drives 30 kilometers over the speed limit. You don’t go into a school zone doing 40 mi/h.

It does vary. My Thinkpad (T490s) is awful if you want to do more than replace the battery and main drive, despite being a used office machine.

To replace the keyboard for example, you basically have to disassemble the entire laptop, since the frame is a single unit, and the keyboard sits under it, sandwiched under the motherboard and case.

They do. That’s why it’s called an LLM (Lizard Language Model).

But also, they’re not real users watching those ads and getting impressions. Unless people are using an agent system that could be convinced to buy the product, it doesn’t seem like it would be that useful.

You may as well serve ads to standard viewbot at that point.

It is definitely more common on VPN IPs, since Google likely identifies the outgoing address as a datacentre, and gets suspicious. I’ve had multiple issues with the bot sign-in screen when using a VPN for it, whereas not using a VPN doesn’t have those problems.

Stuffed toy you can autoclave?

Big tech and walled garden operators don’t need Cloudflare for that. They can roll their own, for less.

Steam? Why Steam? They’re primarily a storefront, and may as well drag Mihoyo in.

It would make sense to pull in the major CEOs of things like Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), or Google. Google, since it’s got YouTube and Google Plus, and Facebook famously had a whole issue of their platform infamously enabling a genocide.

Why bother worrying about the downturn if the world bends over backwards to stop you hitting the ground?

It is basically impossible for Visa to go bankrupt, for example. The moment the threat looms, governments are going to leap in and save them. They’re too big to fail.

At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.

Even if I had wanted to upgrade, I wouldn’t be able to, since Microsoft needs hardware mg computer doesn’t have. I can’t imagine most people would care enough to even think about that. They’d just keep using the computer until it no longer worked, and in the modern day, that will take a lot longer than it would have a decade or two ago.

Especially since discoverability has pretty much gone down the toilet, between SEO and spam sites.

You’re not going to as easily find a new and interesting website, when the first few results are just computer generated regurgitated text, stuffed with ads by the gill.

Complexity? You either need a drain, or a supply of water, that can’t be easy to work with, and unlike with a refrigerant loop, you can’t just reverse it to dry/wet things.

Could you not just get an eGPU dock, and do it that way?

Its like the problems around the ozone hole, or acid rain.

A lot of people scrambled and worked very hard to find an alternative that didn’t cause problems, and now it’s almost like they never existed, and people think it was much ado over nothing.

I don’t think it will. It hasn’t so far, despite there having been linux phones in the past, and it’s got the Windows Phone/Symbian problem where users don’t go to it because it lacks support for the apps they use, and developers don’t support it because it doesn’t have much by way of users.