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A majority of people with laptop have separate memory pools

Majority of people with laptop have RAM and igpu using some of that as VRAM.

Kessler syndrome is one of the things that give me that dread feelings, one of the things vast majority of people can do nothing about, yet it can derail any dreams of extra terrestial endavours before we even reach that point.

Very interesting, I've been thinking on how to make physical pomodoro timer (or just display for one), but with circular screen and preferably no exact time remaining visible. as for me it is both distracting and anxiety-inducing. I've been using Visual Timer app [0] on my android phone and it has mostly been great, but putting phone away would obviously be better.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.cwiesner.an...

Most people probably envision selling data akin to shady person trading usb stick in dark alley or hackers selling huge batches of stolen data, so that statement will be true almost by default

For anime connoisseurs there is Desktop Mate, suprisingly easy to mod and use your own (or found in the Internet) character models

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3301060/Desktop_Mate/

Once the accounts were finally gone, I realized just how much of a grip these platforms had on me. The number of times I reflexively typed "t" or "f" into my browser bar (which autocompletes to twitter.com or facebook.com) was honestly terrifying. Waiting for assets to build? Hit Twitter. Software update running? Quick Facebook check

How many different accounts do you have to delete though? For many of those people "t" and "f" would be substituted by "y"toube, "r"eddit, etc. It doesn't have to be a social media site, might be news you're intrested in, tech sites, deals aggregator.

I get what you mean, but for someone with habit of looking for distraction whenever they have nothing to do it won't be a cure, bandaid at best.

Or a certain streamer AI

There was still ongoing dispute between pool and snooker players whether playing side spin on white ball affects angle of the object ball hit by the white (ignoring deflection, just the spin transfer).

In real life it depends on the tables bed, banks, cloth (different material, speed, whether it's clean or dirty, it's 'mileage', air temperature and humidity...), balls, cue and of course human factor.

It's also one of the hardest games (sports) mentally, you can sit for a few minutes or few breakes and all you can do is wait for opponent to make a mistake - or play a safe. All you can do is try to stay focused and positive, not sulking over mistake you just made that might've lost you the whole match, to not mess up a chance when it comes.

Snipping tool build in OCR works for multiple languages (English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese etc.) without the need to install any language OCR packs though

Maybe try Malazan Book of the Fallen, in terms of worldbuilding and plot/lore depth it is far ahead of any other (modern) fantasy books. Sheer scale of the world and its history might be a bit overwhelming at first, as it is not an easiest read, but often if you don't understand something it means that it will be referenced later in the book (or later in the series).

They did not remove API yet. I believe they intend to remove it sometime in December, after they complete rollout of removing dislike counter globally

In the long run it sounds like something better that could pressure YouTube to improve their own meagre and useless comment system.

Surely Google is gonna feel pressured because of extension that will have few thousands active users at most.

It's about muting mic, not speakers

If you have more tabs opened than the window fits, there is no separator between them, other than fade away.

Also,in another area, 'People also ask/search for' section of Google. Worst offender when it comes to spoilers (movies/shows/books...). You just want to search something about one character and there it is, recommended search "who killed x", "why did x die" etc.

Twitter trends can also be spoilerish in that way, although it's usually more ambigous.

Curse Voice was discontinued few years ago, after Amazon bought Curse and later turned it into Twitch app

In Poland such system (Blik) was created by cooperation of multiple banks. You can pay online, in stores, withdraw cash from ATM or just send money P2P using other person phone number. It works like 2FA (you have to enter code generated in app on pinpad and confirm on phone) so it's a bit more of a hussle than qr codes, but... it just works.

I'd guess most people, at least in Europe, learn British English, so US format of MM/DD is not really intuitive.

or there’s some kind of component shortage There is a shortage of materials (ABF and glass substrates, PCB materials, GDDR6), that affects not only AMD/Nvidia but also car manufacturers (Toyota, Honda, VW, Ford etc.). It's caused by high demand and lower supply (due to covid)

Pretty annoying when they run you trailers of a sequel before you even finished the first one because 'you might be interested' - sometimes even the thumbnail is a spoiler.

I don't know about this specific issue, but it's hard to compare those two. If DiRT was simcade (more arcade than sim) then Dirt Rally would definitely be sim. Maybe not on the level of iRacing or Asetto Corsa, but it's as good as it gets (maybe Richard Burns Rally is more authentic, but it is pretty old)

I guess it might be also pretty hard if it's city centre full of old buildings.

Recently one of the biggest and most popular sites you could watch anime on (Kissanime) shut down, apparently because of changes in said law and requests from copyright owners.

It has changed its name, now it's "rif is fun"

In Poland there has been an outbreak among miners in multiple coal mines. 98% of them are reported to be asymptomatic and those are people often working in hazardous conditions.

The problem with Windows 10 is that it doesn't have consistent UI across applications from MS, bundled with system. Heck, there is even 3 or 4 different styles for context menu. They are trying to roll out Fluent Design for what, 3 years now? New control panel is also kinda laughable functionality wise. And I write it as W10 user.

It was the case with 'reddit is fun' for android, now it's 'rif is fun'

We should just go full Trackmania

There are also some that can only be downloaded limited number of times (a year). Example - Gotham, at least in my country.