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Comment Re: It's as useless as the average human (Score 1) 43

The oil specified for your vehicle by the manufacturer might or might not be the best thing to put in it. You didn't give us enough information to know if that fact is relevant, but since it might be, I put that here.

I am not talking about brands here either, if you do changes on schedule that is mostly irrelevant. I mean some vehicles are better run with a different weight than specified, usually due to engineering failure.

Comment Re:RISC Rules Everything Around Me (Score 2) 43

The problem with ChromeOS is Google having to maintain two Linux distributions. The only reason it even exists at all is that Chrome for Android was shit at the time at which ChromeOS was released. Its entire purpose for existing is running desktop Chrome on cheap laptops. Now that Chrome for Android is basically OK, it has no reason to exist. Unfortunately for Google they are going to have to support it for another decade, but that support could be pretty bad and probably still meet any notional promises they've made.

Comment But why? (Score 3, Interesting) 43

Columbia computer science professor Jason Nieh, who interviewed Google engineers as a witness in the case, testified that Aluminium requires a heavier software stack and more powerful hardware to run.

This just doesn't make sense. We're supposed to believe that the software now running on phones requires more hardware than the software now running on laptops?

Comment Re:WM isn't what it used to be... (Score 1) 53

I stopped going to walmart because about 9/10 of the time they wouldn't have what I wanted and I'd leave empty handed.

I've looked at their website many times but only ever bought something there once. In their attempt to be like Amazon they have wound up taking on all the same AliExpress shit as Amazon. This makes me unlikely to shop there because what I wanted was an alternative to Amazon without the flurry of crap which I buy from AliExpress, because it's 10-50% cheaper there.

I conclude that the people who shop at Walmart are predominantly either stupid, looking for typical mass market crap which I don't buy because it's terrible, or both. If I wanted some artificially fruit scented hair gel or a bicycle which is made out of the lowest grade chinesium, I'd go to wally world. It's still an OK place to pick up a HDMI cable or memory card on short notice. But in general, if they've got it, I don't want it, and vice versa. Last time I went in there, their website claimed they had a car battery that they in fact did not have. I wound up going to Costco, and they actually had it.

Comment Re:That's not very different (Score 2, Informative) 18

There is a big difference. Since it is tied to your subscription You would not be able to use it anymore if it was removed from their portfolio. This way people will still be able to access and use it.

FTFA from the prior story:

"Weâ(TM)re contacting you to let you know that Adobe will be discontinuing Adobe Animate on March 1, 2026. As an existing Animate user, you may continue to use Animate, but please note that technical support will no longer be available after March 1, 2027," states part of the email sent to users.

So no, that is not different at all, so it's not a big difference, in fact it's no different.

Comment That's not very different (Score 3, Insightful) 18

Animate will still receive "ongoing security and bug fixes" and will still be available for "both new and existing users," but it won't get new features.

The only difference between that and what they said before is that they will still be selling it. They have already committed to maintaining it for three years, that's "ongoing". There is no promise to bring it to new Windows versions, so that's not different either. If the only difference is that Adobe agreed to take more people's money, it's not a difference.

Comment Re:Aerodynamic? (Score 1) 180

The article you linked proves the opposite of your point:

If only you could read, you would have read the part of the article which says flush door handles alone can save 1-2 MPG.

Certainly not worth designing a handle that gets people killed.

If only you could think, you would understand that you can make a flush door handle which doesn't get people killed. It was done in the eighties. It can be done today. Why are you doubling and tripling down on ignorance? If you don't know shit about cars, just don't talk about cars, problem solved.

Comment Re: You're making excuses for hungry children (Score -1, Flamebait) 275

Remember when "it's for the children" was rightly derided for being manipulative and meaningless? When did people start falling for that nonsense?

If you think feeding children is nonsense, from the very bottom of my heart, fuck you and fucking die.

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