There are a lot of reports of simple.life being a scam app. Charging people more than they agreed on and not honoring requests to cancel, being auto-subscribed to other ‘offers’, and the app not providing the info they claim it does. I filled out their questionnaire but did a bit of digging and stopped before giving them any payment. They still have my info though…

I’d argue the opposite. We need more things to be free and standardized. There is no universal way to send a file, store a file, send a text or picture message for example. Email, with a basic design that’s over 40 years old has had to fulfill all of that itself, and does so reasonable well, all things considered.

Th gb Mega Man games got colorized DX releases for the gbc, and they look and play great.

Everyone wants a car that blends in so that they are less of a target for cops.

The DRM on Netflix and other streaming sites makes the quality noticeably worse on other devices, even locked down ones like the PS5. On Firefox on Linux the quality is locked even lower, to like 720p.

The ads bother me, but my girlfriend says TVs have always had ads since they were originally created. I see the distinction between the channel playing the ad and the device playing the ad, but I can kinda understand people not knowing or caring about that difference.

“Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.

Unfortunately, for the enthusiasts who had a left-aligned or vertical taskbar in Windows 10, you would have to settle for the fact that Microsoft’s data shows such users are really small when compared to the number of users who are asking for other newer features in the taskbar.”

100% of the users that are smart enough to care about moving the task bar are also smart enough to turn off all optional telemetry. This sadly a part of why tech companies are making products for the dumbest people and pushing away power users.

It’s an accounting thing. They can deduct the value of the hardware over its expected usable lifespan. So they have to replace it after 4-6 years even if it’s still working fine. Sometimes they sell it used, and you can buy it pretty cheap, but dollar for dollar, consumer grade stuff that’s current will usually consume less power and game better than a 6 year old server. Now if you need a home NAS or VM host…

If you have a high refresh rate display, Lossless Scaling is life changing. It’s a $5 app on Steam and it can take any application and introduce frame generation. It requires a decent gfx card, but it doesn’t need to be a recent one. It works on Linux now too, or at least on the Steam Deck.

The use case for me is primarily for older games that are locked to 30 or 60 fps, including PAL region games locked to 50 that normally have microstutter. Games from the PS1 era at 120 fps with geometry correction never looked or played better. But even some newer games are fps locked and can benefit. It also makes the app full screen eliminating my need for Borderless Fullscreen too.

When the truth is paywalled and lies are not, is it any wonder how our democracy turned out this way?

It dismisses the notice and lets you keep playing. But then it pops up again a few seconds later if it still detects motion.

They also prevent you from catching Pokemon above 40mph, which is annoying when you actually are a passenger.