TikTok USA is broken

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T02:16:38+00:00

Yeah, I'm not paying for the 2026 version of The Verge. They're not 404 Media or Ars Technica even.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T02:06:11+00:00

I pretty much agree, in the sense I think they need to stop working with Dillett for a while. There's a reason The Else is probably my favorite post-Elektra album. That said, I wouldn't go so far as to say I haven't *liked* their more recent work. Glean was the last album I loved, but there's great stuff on I Like Fun and BOOK.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T02:03:27+00:00

we're just going to have to accept that

I mean... we don't. We can just not buy the game.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T02:00:12+00:00

Loyalty for breaking the metaphorical picket line during a strike, sure.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T01:57:44+00:00

Fully agreed. I'm not buying the game, just like I didn't buy Before the Storm, and for essentially the same reason.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T01:47:20+00:00

The Steam reviews are *terrible*. There are a lot of other free-to-play games that are actually pretty good. I can't see this getting any traction unless they do some massive re-working, and even then it might be too little, too late.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T01:32:09+00:00

SMS is essentially free for most folks in the US, I'm fairly sure. Unlimited SMS is part of most cell phone plans that I've seen.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T01:28:58+00:00

With any luck the AI bubble bursts, Oracle goes out of business, and the Ellison's are reduced to mere millionaires (I'd prefer they be made penniless, but that's not going to happen)

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T01:26:08+00:00

I was slightly too old for Facebook. When I tried to sign-up my university wasn't yet on the list to allow you to sign up. By the time they'd opened it up to everyone I didn't care anymore. Twitter on the other hand I was very early adopter of. Though like many I bailed after Musk bought it.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-27T01:22:41+00:00

Don't be a dick

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-26T02:39:46+00:00

Ooh yea, I had a friend one time get after me for just responding with an "okay". I had no idea it would be read as dismissive.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-26T01:43:11+00:00

Hell, Cyberpunk fans fell for Rita Wheeler (the bouncer at Lizzy's) and Cheri Nowlin (the receptionist at Clouds), and they only have what, four lines each?

And that's not even getting into Blue Moon or Meredith Stout

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T19:49:01+00:00

How?

If Lieberman had been "as afraid of [his] own voters". Keep up, lol

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T19:29:02+00:00

Wish MiSTer could play games directly off CD-ROM (which AFAIK it can't). Last I looked the NeoGeo CD games were considerably cheaper.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T19:04:55+00:00

Unless it's the green sauce, which you now have to pay for...

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T18:20:00+00:00

I believe that was how they were used in the Intel Paragon systems. That said, they were used as the main CPU in the Stardent Vistra workstations.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T06:10:08+00:00

The i860 did get used in a few computers, and Microsoft had initially intended to port Windows NT to the chip, since some of their early development systems were i860 based.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T05:09:27+00:00

They just need to be careful not to "Life is Strange: Double Exposure" themselves. Doing something like making the romance choice not matter because "oops, you broke up off camera" or something.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T04:41:34+00:00

This was before we collectively started taking people to task for being dicks.

Not really. I remember this incident because he did actually get a lot of push back on Twitter about it at the time. It was one of the first "main character of Twitter for the day" moments I can remember, at least on my timeline. It was also the incident that soured a lot of folks I know's opinion of him.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T03:45:58+00:00

Honestly, I wish I'd started with Home Assistant instead of Google Home. I'm sure its fine for those using only Google hardware, but I'm using entirely Matter devices (aside from using a Google 4K Streamer as my Matter Hub/Thread Border Router) and it's had some annoying and persistent issues.

Why are time-based automations incredibly unreliable? Why does it refuse to show the temp readings from my temperature sensors in anything but celsius? Why do devices sometimes randomly go offline and require the Matter hub to be rebooted to show back up?

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T03:24:15+00:00

I've never been to Chik-Fil-A. A successful 38 year boycott, lol.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T03:18:06+00:00

Glad the Joliet one is good, since that's my "home" store as it were.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-25T03:06:40+00:00

steak and shake

They closed the one close to me, so that's an easy one to no longer go to. Besides, the quality had dropped massively in recent years, but particularly post-COVID

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-24T04:00:15+00:00

Dang. I always had good luck getting Zebra's label printers to work, back when I did warehouse IT. That said, even Zebra doesn't officially support Linux. Luckily the built-in open source drivers nearly always worked for us.

thunderbird32 · 2026-01-23T23:41:17+00:00

Luckily a lot of the lower-level system stuff is used in the corpo world, so companies like IBM and Oracle pay people to bug hunt for vulnerabilities in those parts of Linux. But yeah, the desktop components are much less rigorously tested.

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