true here in germany
baguettefish
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Just think of all the incredible engagement players will feel as they gamble their latest limited edition skin away which they bought with their mom's credit card or their first independent wages.
But hey, at least the slot machine has all your favorite characters and also streamers who have sold their soul. Market research shows that people with dysfunctional impulse control are much more easily exploited that way.
Life can be cruel.
phones are already very full and dense, and a headphone jack is a very large component. plus, the Bluetooth is simply part of the small SoC, it's a microscopic size. That doesn't mean I prefer Bluetooth, but it makes some sense.
as someone has been fiddling with dongles for years, it's not that bad, and you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle. the apple dongle is excellent and beyond enough for iems and a lot of headphones. I personally have one dongle + iems for my phone and another dongle + headphones for my PC, and that setup works really well for me. You might want to consider it. Otherwise, those big beefy Bluetooth headphones might be semi-repairable, and there are of course also Fairphone Bluetooth earbuds that are apparently fairly repairable (though I know nothing about those). At least you can replace the batteries and the ear tips or pads, and that's usually enough to last you a decade with these things.
A lot of people get cancer already and ice also already melts all the time so I don't see why this is so special
yes but what if a company has the ability to create billions of close friends who can recommend sponsored products to you? why would it care about whether you want that or not?
also bard was a way better name for google's LLM. it has its origins in an isaac asimov story about a robot who is programmed to tell random stories.
can confirm (germany), it's gotten better but in my childhood there was literally just a cig vending machine outside my block, like 30-40m away from a playground
just one is not enough
absolutely
in OLED screens the colors wear out over time at different rates, so you may be correct
there's a book about that, "no such thing as a free gift: the gates foundation and the price of philanthropy"
then you need to buy 6x more alcohol, which is clearly not worth it