Sodium-ion batteries are likely to be the obvious answer in another decade. Dirt cheap, abundant materials, competitive density.

… by submitting queries to another website that only does what’s ruining search engines.

I would still be using 7 if ransomware wasn’t a thing.

I went back to Mint instead.

You pay how much to be told no?

Windows 9x was low-bullshit.

NT and 2000 were corporate enough to be no-nonsense. They belonged to the administrator, but the administrator can be you.

ME was a mistake.

XP was not yet online enough to be properly skeezy.

But from Vista onward, yeah, it’s been an escalating shit-show that’s difficult to miss.

“How do people manage to play and chat online with random people?”

Man, if only home computers were capable of hosting their own servers. Oh well! Guess it’s gone forever.

Eh. The primary obstacles to VR right now are intercompatibility and cost. Facebook’s bullshit is near the right price range, but it’s from Facebook, so it’s bullshit. Everything else is wildly overpriced for what remains a niche secondary gizmo atop already-expensive gaming setups, and it only works on one brand of gaming setup. All these motherfuckers took a scalpel to the nascent industry to slice up their tiny fragment of an itty-bitty pie.

I will tell companies this for free: use a point light source and focus becomes trivial. You don’t need three inches of fancy folded optics. The proper Gumpei Yokoi approach is a textbook drawing of one lens, a liquid crystal panel, and a dot that emits light.

I’ve been telling companies this for free: use intermediate voxels and performance becomes irrelevant. Toy hardware can throw sprites at a zillion frames a second, with up-to-the-nanosecond head-tracking. Make games emit that cheap 3D data instead of giving them direct framebuffer access.

Of course if these people were serious, they’d use lightfield displays. Stick a grid of tiny lenses onto a high-res screen and you don’t need focus because you’re emitting a hologram. Nvidia had tech demos for this, an entire decade ago. The hardware is dirrrt cheap. But for some fucking reason we’re still acting like Palmer’s cheap hack remains state-of-the-art. Just stick fancier pancake polarizing birdbath Zeiss optics on this Google Cardboard thingamajig. More pixels! More pixels!

What a fuck.

Java is an okay format owned by the devil. When two devices running Java connect via wifi, One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison expects the air in-between them to be properly licensed. If the free software movement had not been founded to say “fuck printers,” it would have sprung into being in order to say “fuck Oracle.”

If businesses spring up to advise customers how to handle your billing and legal departments, maybe you shouldn’t be a company anymore.

InfoWarriorRides / SchizophreniaRides, for pictures of cars with batshit crazy messages on them.

100YearsAgo could be mirrored here via bot and not miss much.

Other subs were great for their discussion more than than linked content - Civvie11, GunnerkriggCourt, DresdenCodak, QContent. Not so much DumbingOfAge because it devolved into a hatedom sub. I guess most of that should be lumped into comic and game-video communities. I could “be the change” and start posting speedruns willy-nilly.

LinkIsCute is here but pretty dead.

Polandball, holy shit!

This is a good point. Reddit originally had no communities. Then there were maybe a dozen, all picked by the admins… and already /r/Atheism was one of them, because that’s how the userbase went. People who don’t understand why such a community was necessary do not remember living through 90s / 00s American culture.

Any amount is the same abuse, just gentler or rougher. Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

‘It’s Remedy’s own fault Alan Wake II isn’t selling well - they’re not on Steam! Not being on Steam means you might as well not exist for the majority of customers.’

Right, they’re a de facto monopoly.

‘How dare you.’

Assholes can be right.

Don’t play this ‘where’s your Bugatti?’ ad hominem.

Awww, not a remake of the batshit crazy Amiga game about a megalomaniacal alien destroying his last thousand clones by talking to locals in a symbolic constructed language… and also blowing up entire planets at the push of a button. And the alien is canonically the game’s creator isekai-ing himself into his own procedural universe and living for centuries as an immortal tyrant. Jean-Micheal Jarre did the theme music.

Yeah, CD-ROM for Windows 95. But not on any digital storefront.

Wow, does that site design suck.

How hard is it to deliver ten JPGs?

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark sure the fuck isn’t a cuddly-looking bait-and-switch, but it is plainly aimed at a younger audience. Basically a collection of standard campfire stories and spooky e-mail forwards… with nightmare-fuel watercolor illustrations.

Bridge To Terabithia goes a step further.