true. but this one wasn’t a class action, either… just one plaintiff.

blowing the budget is their own damn fault. they put up a leaderboard, ffs.

even ranked their internal usage competitively on internal leader boards,

do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?

A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/

CEOs have been blowing smoke for as long as CEOs have existed.

That’s Epic. The RC Cola of gaming

brutal.

(pretty accurate, but brutal)

if you’ve cleared your browser histories (cookies, mainly) and it persists and bothers you, you can try to force a new ip from their dhcp. process would vary depending on what gear you have. at home, i use my own and only need to give the router a different wan mac and reboot the modem. with their gear, might need to just unplug the stuff overnight or something as i dont think you can get at the settings–hell, you need their stupid app to change the wifi password.

but like i said, i’d just let them deal with it. it probably only affects their own determination of your location. if it does spread elsewhere because they’re ‘sharing’ that data with others–just roll with it. i actually love it when we hop on a weather site or something and they’re way off, like michigan or missouri.

i wouldn’t “help” them by submitting a correction. they’re the ones that assumed wrong, they can sort it out.

party hard, it might be the last one.

it’s not the ‘phoning home’ that’s doing this. they built-in a time bomb by way of an expiring digital certificate. one that won’t get updated or replaced because the software versions in question are ‘out of support’.

actual bubble gum? probably a couple halloweens ago.

‘regular’ gum? yesterday.

bid in whole dollars–and values of items bid on are also rounded to the nearest dollar, too. i think that’s just part of the rules. as far as i can remember, only a few of the pricing ‘games’ (and the big wheel, of course) had things in cents or dollars+cents.

yea, you can freeze it. i’d do something like 2 big or 4 juniors per sandwich bag, then put those bags into a couple larger gallon size bags. pull out one of the small bags at a time to thaw in the fridge.

back in the before times, when i could afford beef, i’d do 3-5 lbs at a time that way. now i just get 'em every now and then from my boss when they cook a few extra on the grill and she brings me a couple (home raised, the very good stuff). and yea, they’re often frozen when i get 'em from her, too.

i do always make sure i get the cooked frozen beef back up to temp.

i see a ram upgrade in your future. 4gb is barely enough for win10 to boot and run a browser or something. will need more on top of that for what you’re gonna be running with qemu. other than that, as long as you have virtualization enabled, the rest is ‘good enough’

the last bicycle i bought i got to ride exactly once before it was stolen.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

robin’s been laying an egg since at least the 1970s

i don’t have an internet-connected phone, so it’s pc browser only. i have a few /c/ i look at and then all sorted by new. i use one instance at home and a different one at the office.

it was joomla that forked from mambo site server after the latter made organizational changes many of the devs didn’t like.

absolutely… but you may need to turn down graphics settings in-game. also make sure you don’t block the ventilation–most have intakes on the bottom and output the side or the back of the base.

huh. so it is that. i had no idea.

first ‘birthday’ wishes i’ve received in probably 20 years.

ty.