Sometimes his bragging is hilarious.

On Italian TV there was a sports show where some pundit was saying “no but Infantino would have never bent the rules like this, it is because they noticed some problem with the VAR and we’re going to get explainations soon” - meanwhile the control room was showing on the back monitors trump “truthing” his bragging “I corrupted FIFA and I am proud of it”

I forgot to explain why they can’t just leave it alone and just continue milking whales their subscription/coin purchases: every 3-4 weeks they change the courses with new “events” and SURPRISE! Your expensive gear now here is useless. You grinded for days and/or spent $1000s to have level 8 “beach costume Luigi” that requires to literally find ONE HUNDRED duplicates in the loot boxes? Sorry, those new courses unlock the max points multiplier only with the new “Pizza baking Luigi costume”, go back to level 0 and climb the ladder again with the loot boxes, thanks for playing. Ah and the “Pizza baking Luigi costume” is a limited event, please find all the 100 duplicates in the loot boxes before the end of this month, or you will be never be able to level it again, thanks.

So Nintendo needs to pay a couple employees to think and create the new monthly events with all the new gear, takes a lot of effort, that’s why they can’t just abandon it and continue to just rake in the money from whales

And ps: IMHO the “online racing” part is simulated and it didn’t wasn’t real multiplayer. I played “online” on a severely throttled WiFi connection (so slow that is unusable) and it didn’t bat an eye. It just downloads a list of usernames to pretend the computer-driven karts are real players, then uploads the lap times for ranking after the “race”.

I played the game years ago.

It’s a gambling simulator where you pretend to drive but the final result is almost already predetermined according to how much time/money you spent on gear. Maybe you can get 1-3 positions higher than expected by timing the activation of power ups at the right time, or manually drifting, but the kart drives automatically, for the first levels you can even win without input.

The most exciting part of the game is shooting the firework from the pipe to open the loot box.

Once you take out the loot box system and you take out the pay to win subscription and you unlock all the gear, then where is the “fun” in the “game”? There’s no single player mode to preserve.

I got a jeatone for the peephole

Advantages:

1. It can work 100% offline because it has a 5" screen inside the door so I can see who’s outside
2. It can record 100% offline because it has a 128gb microSD (located inside the door so it can’t be stolen without breaking&entering)
3. It has a PIR sensor in front so it only activates when someone is in front, so cars passing on the road don’t activate a recording
4. It has a removable battery
5. The battery is 5000 mAh so it lasts months and months
6. It charges via USB c
7. Bidirectional microphone and if someone rings the bell (and I gave it wifi access) first I get a notification “someone is in front of the door” when the pir sensor detected movement, then when he rings the bell I get a video call
8. No subscription required
9. App UI to see recordings is decent, thanks to the dedicated movement sensor it highlights times with recordings without using AI detection or something like that
10. IR floodlights to see everything clearly in night time (although in pitch black can see faint dark red lights from the LEDs)
11. It costs half price than the ring and doesn’t come with the mandatory privacy intrusion
12. Doesn’t require screws or vhb tape, once inserted in the peephole it has hooks for a toolless install of the inside vision LCD screen
13. Maybe because it’s based on tuya it can be possible to integrate it with home assistant? I didn’t try it, I didn’t trust it so I placed it on a “no LAN access” WLAN

Disadvantages:

1. It doesn’t support onvif or other standard protocol so if someone wants an automatic backup of recordings off-site, the only option is to pay a cloud recording subscription
2. Fucking tuya
3. Technically, it can be removed without tools to charge at an outlet once a few months, but then you need to insert again the flat cable from the camera on the motherboard, not something that can last hundreds of insertions, I had to buy a very long out of spec USB cable to charge it (temporarily for 2 hours every few months, then remove it)

More than half of all traffic flowing through Grok, Elon Musk’s flagship AI product, now comes from users requesting pornographic images, explicit videos, and erotic roleplay — and a new investigation reveals that xAI made this outcome a deliberate strategic choice

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319142/20260626/grok-adult-content-tops-10-billion-images-monthly-xai-engineers-admit-csam-has-no-fix.htm

Wasn’t this a black mirror episode?

The reason used ThinkPads are so easy to find in good condition at bargain prices is because management in corporations just lease them for 3-5 years and continuously replace them even if they don’t actually need to do so. They probably don’t even know that they can last decades but accounting wants a lease, so they get a lease.

There isn’t a similar “infinite supply” of used frameworks that constantly drives prices down

It seems like the trend is don’t even watch the code, many vs code forks for vibe coding now don’t even have the coding portion, it’s a giant prompt in some electron app

For example Google antigravity

Or windsurf that openai almost paid 3 billion before changing idea (now renamed to something else) also became just a prompt

It’s going to backfire spectacularly, approving pr by just reading them in the browser is insane

One thing is “I’m lazy to do this specific thing, I ask the tool to do the specific task by inserting only the useful files in context, then review manually before committing”

Another is “I write a generic prompt “add a photo sharing feature” then it directly opens a PR where another bot reads it and generates a review with so many emojis that it must good 👍🏻😊 boom merge it all the tests pass ✅ ✔️ ✅ ✔️” and then nobody actually knows what it did

Of course the ai companies prefer the second approach before without a subscription the first uses 1 cent in tokens, the second uses $100 in tokens.

I like the idea of owning one. Then I see the prices and I compare them with the prices of refurbished ThinkPads… (No, I don’t need a new laptop)

Can and most time I do that, although sometimes I’m too lazy to cut and wire a new plug

2b. Company thinks their online store is a boutique and sell the stuff for 50% more than Amazon

Somehow it happens even more often with small businesses. My city is small and irrelevant, so when I saw a book with the history of it, I wanted to buy it. On Amazon it was sold for 15% off, on marketplace directly by the publisher + free shipping. So I went to buy it on the publisher website and… MSRP + need to pay shipping

This publisher was doing a war price against itself. A small niche book where you’re the only one to sell it. Why would you need to discount this heavily on Amazon?

Numbers:

On Amazon: 13€ + shipping paid by the seller (+customer has free returns in one month). They can’t have more than 50 cents of profit for each copy sold

On their own website: 15€+5€ shipping (+customer needs to pay 7€ to return it within 2 weeks). Healthy profit for each copy sold.

You need to be an anti-bezos activist to choose the second option, though.

But did they tell him that balogun not only is black, but got the citizenship by ius soli, two things he hate and wants to remove?

He already kept the FIFA trophy won by someone else and infantino had to give a copy to the winners https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fifa-soccer-club-world-cup-trophy_n_68755c06e4b0b1c6f12569ae

The adapter has the earth, is the middle pin and also has the side contacts that would touch the earth on the side of the schuko (here just for aesthetics because the schuko pins can’t fit)

Yes basically every European country and Swiss has its own plug standard

LOL: look at his statement on the situation https://xcancel.com/SeppBlatter/status/2074022159916130658

When even a corrupt fuck is calling them out…

Yes but the electrical code allows this kind of converter if there’s a label like “1500W max” because most manufacturers are lazy and don’t ship a cable for the Italian market, they give the cable for the German market. So you have stuff like:

1. Computer cables
2. Laptop chargers
3. Televisions
4. Modern fridges

That consume like 2-3 A at max but for the manufacturer it was cheaper to ship the German 16A plug and fuck with all the Italians that have the houses with 10A receptacles

Decades of “we can’t do anything against referees decisions no matter what” vs the fifa peace prize: who is more corrupt?

But Microsoft removed the “start Linux” option from their bootloader in windows 10 and higher when booting in EFI mode. Maybe you’re still booting in CSM mode and you patched w11 to allow this? (W11 doesn’t support csm mode)