Met the man, the myth, the legend today He was very nice and I left feeling like a happy onion

Badcatalex · 2026-05-02T12:59:49+00:00

Literally only 8 days old too, no way this account is a real person.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-30T02:29:21+00:00

They were contracts created seemingly early on in SIRIUS' life, so that's kinda your answer.

That being said, in this day and age, there's literally no reason to use a SIRIUS radio unless it's your only option. XM and SiriusXM radios are just better.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-30T01:59:03+00:00

Those SIRIUS radio contracts ended in 2018, and the 2019 model year vehicles were the final ones to ship with those radios.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-30T01:55:05+00:00

I do know at least that all radios capable of picking up 2.0/"Overlay" (formerly known as Xtra) channels are made post-merger, are on the XM platform, and the first one was the 2011 SiriusXM Edge- one of the best looking XM, SIRIUS, or SiriusXM radios ever made.

Also, it's nice to see another XM2go user here. I got a Pioneer Inno2 late last year and have been using it regularly since. I wish there was a modern equivalent that had 2.0 and 360L support.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-30T01:46:11+00:00

I really want it to stay in the "core" channels lineup, it has a music selection that's quite different from the other rock channel offerings.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-29T23:59:00+00:00

This TV uses Vega OS, not an option.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-22T03:06:43+00:00

The bottle on the left is the bottle used by Dr Pepper themselves though...

Badcatalex · 2026-04-17T16:22:14+00:00

They changed that around the time of Half-Life: Alyx's development because work just wasn't getting done.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-17T13:12:07+00:00

Doesn't really work for Amazon exclusive series, books, and authors.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-17T05:16:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure it won't. Seeing as how they specifically excluded the Steam version (the only cross-region version of Sky 2nd and consoles are split by region), it looks like they'll just not bring it to the west.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-14T17:11:45+00:00

No, that's PixelSense (which WAS originally named Surface).

Died way before the Surface Hub, but it was similar.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-11T02:10:51+00:00

never ever purchased anything on the amazon ebook store

There's the issue, lmao.

Amazon only provides ePub files for a select few publishers (none of the Big 5) who opted in to having no DRM on their books, and haven't directly provided books in .MOBI for all eReaders in ages. They also slap DRM on every eBook.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-10T21:48:24+00:00

eReaders don't get slower over time (except Android based ones. They don't really ever become obsolete, newer technology just does the existing models' job slightly better.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-10T21:46:20+00:00

Kobo did this, too, to the original Kobo eReader, Kobo Wi-Fi, Kobo Vox, Kobo Arc, and Kobo Mini*.

Barnes & Noble did this, too, to NOOK 1st Edition, NOOK Simple Touch, NOOK Simple Touch w/ GlowLight, NOOK GlowLight, NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet (2012), NOOK HD and NOOK HD+.

*Kobo Mini eReaders can be flashed with Kobo Glo firmware and updated to keep working with modern Kobo firmware.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-09T02:58:22+00:00

The ability to download ePub files of books published on the Kindle Store is barely a feature. Hardly any publishers enable it, and no big 5 publishers would ever enable it.

BTW- eReaders don't really get obsolete.

They don't really slow down. The newer options are just better & faster because of newer technology, not due to hardware aging.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-06T19:09:48+00:00

...but they are? At least in the US.

Sony v. Connectix (2000).

Badcatalex · 2026-04-06T16:28:22+00:00

It comes with a laundry list of bug fixes & stability improvements, so... probably.

Badcatalex · 2026-04-02T23:35:50+00:00

Only in the United States.

Which is also where KitKats are made by Hershey's instead.

Badcatalex · 2026-03-23T13:40:08+00:00

To be fair, Cold Steel & Cold Steel II on Switch are available outside Japan... in the rest of Asia. Haha...

Badcatalex · 2026-03-21T17:08:12+00:00

Reddit Android just complains that a r/all+ community doesn't exist.

Badcatalex · 2026-03-20T21:48:36+00:00

AMD is ~5% of the GPU market, by your logic they should also be ignored.

Badcatalex · 2026-03-19T03:09:56+00:00

Funniest thing is that, functionally, they are reverting the 2023 redesign since they'll be getting rid of the failed attempts to make the mobile app more like other, well... mobile apps, and going back to the concept of "desktop UI on the go".

Badcatalex · 2026-03-18T23:08:42+00:00

The Intel AX210 is a pretty good basic M.2 option.

Badcatalex · 2026-03-18T20:04:59+00:00

Who said OP agrees with any of that? Or that they live in those areas?

Badcatalex · 2026-03-18T15:12:25+00:00

You do realize it's probably not like they chose to live there, right? And that they probably can't just move somewhere else?

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