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Minetest is like a platform, and for anyone wanting a Minecraft-clone based on it: https://content.minetest.net/packages/kay27/mineclone5/

Not sure how this is would be so different from how we treat forms of speech such as pergury, libel, and treason.

In the CDMA days your non-carrier locked phone had trouble handling travel across the US, and forget about service in another country. Carriers (Verizon and Sprint?) tried to impro…

Starlink's sats are 30-60x closer to earth than other satellite providers (500-1000km vs 35,000km), so their coverage area is lower as well. In that sense they are competing more w…

They were correct. They're saying your phone service identity (I am X number on Y network plan). Not your personal identity (pictures of your kids and passwords). Today if your pho…

It would depend on which "long-term effects" you examine, they range from simple inflammation to brain damage[1]. Could be the virus causing damage or your own immune response. [1]…

That road is so well suited to self-driving it almost feels like a paid advertisement. Here is a typical urban stress test of FSD 10.6 beta in San Jose: https://youtu.be/2ub2F-UnXI…

If you're shopping for a Macbook Pro, gaming is the extremely narrow use-case, no? Edit: various benchmarks seem to show the M1 Max games at about the FPS of a RTX 3060L (though wi…

Am I forgetting anything from the Sonos saga? 2019: Growth problems. Sonos states 92% of their sold products are still in active use. Creates “Recycle Mode” which bricks the device…

This link states in 2018 Apple (1st place on reliability with 665 pts) was 2-3x more reliable than Samsung (2nd place 270 pts). Then in 2019 Apple suddenly became half as reliable …

Alternative take: USPS is really quite a remarkable business and worth learning about as a case study - from their fleet, to eating 90s darling FedEx alive, to overcoming artificia…

OP needs to cite sources, can't find anything corroborating their hazy claims. Only know one arrest, plus two suspects mentioned in the posted article: - 36 y/o (possibly homeless)…

This is verifiably a real thing (see last 2 paragraphs). You will need to disable microphone access wherever you do not require it, even on your TV. Windows: https://support.micros…

It's quickly becoming their go-to offense and defense with Apple. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/17/22180102/facebook-new-ne...

25 years ago one of the groups was caught, from NYT article: https://archive.md/5Qv1e "More than 400 Silicon Valley businesses had been robbed by chip thieves in the last 18 months…

Would think "educated" implies this, as intelligence is a raw faculty.

This is wonderful news, 13,000 sightings in one location is 6x more than ALL western US locations last year. Western US populations have collapsed: 4.5m in 80s, 1.2m in 1997, to 10…

Honest answer - maybe. Amazon is so rampant with fraud parts[1] and shoes it's hard to know there as well. Best to buy "nice" things elsewhere than Amazon. For me 100% no-go on Ama…

State University: typical higher-learning university that requires application and awards degrees. Funded in part by its US state via taxes. Community College: no application, no t…

Check out the ingredients of Cheerios, which says a bit about the process of making them and the attempt to restore some nutrition: https://www.wdbqschools.org/Downloads/Cereal-Che…

SYAC summary: Street vendors thinly slice "tree trunks" to order, and tell similar impossible stories of where they source it. In the end, one confirms from photos it is a type of …

Sceptre brand TVs in the US have no smarts and are widely available.

Bureaucratic cynicism aside, if recalling correctly the 1GB symmetrical fiber in Oakland is largely courtesy of a CA gov bid that Sonic won. As is the case widely across CA fiber i…

They are incredibly ear-wormy, aren't they? My internal name for them was "this and that" phrasing, but if I recall from Uni the sterile academic term is a "paired construction".

Can think of so many examples of threes. But for the sake of confirmation bias... Rise and shine Rinse and repeat Lock and load Wax on, wax off Netflix and chill