Spotify Premium cut from Premium Connectivity
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    This might be an Australia specific thing. I'm in the US and I've been paying separately for Spotify all along. We did have Slacker Radio included, and I recently got an email very similar to the one posted telling me that Slacker would no longer be included going forward.

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  • [Discussion] What do you think about the longer wait times between seasons and fewer episodes per season format of modern TV?
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    I think this is a perfect idea for a Youtube channel. Maybe in Alt Shift X's style. Just go through popular shows (ongoing or finished) and recap the big ongoing plot lines, characters, relationships, etc. One at the end of each season, maybe even one at the end of the series just for the sake of completion.

    I saw a recap like this for the show Dark and, well, I was still lost through most of it, but it's a good idea. That show's a bad example.

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  • Steam will no longer sell games that do not have an age rating in Germany due to regulations
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    I think you misunderstand their point. PostIdent would only be useful AFTER someone took the time to rate the game. Steam does not require any official content/maturity rating in their store, just some subjective content descriptors. To do so would pass an additional cost onto developers. The US-based ESRB process, for example, can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to rate a title.

    Further to your point, I try to limit the number of times I provide my personal ID online. It's one thing when you show your ID at a bar and the bartender gives it back to you after a glance. It's another when I'm sending a photocopy over the internet and trusting a remote, distant party to use the data once and discard it. Even worse if they save it for future use and risk leaking it later.

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  • People older than 35: do you remember the first time you used a GPS device to get somewhere?
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    No, but I remember buying my first smartphone (SymbianOS) without a data plan and being terrified that using the GPS function with pre-downloaded maps would accidentally run up a thousand dollar phone bill.

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  • North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson treated for second-degree burns
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    It's not so bad. I hope he stays on the ballot for his shellacking in November, then goes down with his wife (ayy) when they get arrested for the $130k they appear to have misused from the DHHS

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  • Women rule
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    Jesus, why did I click around in there? I want to pity them for being so pathetic, but they're being pathetic in the most aggravating way. This game is woke because it's got a black man and an Asian man in it. That game is woke because it refers to the faceless protagonist with they/them pronouns.

    What's sad is I'm sure there are some people engaging in that forum as a form of satire and Poe's law is in full effect so we will never know who is who.

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  • Know your nazi
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    Can we get a modified version of this with NC gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson as a rare unicorn black, pro-slavery Nazi?

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  • efficient game design rule
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    Yeah, my OP9 was my third OnePlus phone and my last one. I installed a security update that made the cell radio completely non-functional and had to factory reset it. I use my phone for 2FA to get into my work computer, so this was simply unacceptable.

    I realized I wasn't doing enough with my phone to warrant flagship prices and ended up switching to a Pixel 6a I got on the cheap. Other than having to add wireless charging with an accessory, I haven't looked back.

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  • OOC QC Extra Classy rule
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    Really? Every time I visited the QC sub it seemed like they were finding something to get angry about and always removed about the comic going down in quality.

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    PSA: LinkedIn is using your data.
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    Personal data and content you create. So it's training off of your resume. I put a lot of effort into mine. LinkedIn can compensate me if they want to train a model off of it.

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  • There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
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    The PlayStation store is also a miserable shopping experience. If you don't know what game you want or just want to browse, good fucking luck finding it there. No screenshots, no gameplay, no user reviews, no related games to compare to, no info about if your friends are wishlisting or playing it. Just a choice of buying the expensive version or the more expensive version, and good luck figuring out which DLC is already included in the deluxe editions.

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  • This Windows 11 Start menu change is now coming to Windows 10
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    If you have the port and money for it, I'd recommend a separate drive for the second OS. Windows is kinda notorious for stomping over GRUB if you rely on partitions for your dual boot.

    If you're worried about installing to the wrong drive on accident, you can always physically disconnect the existing drive until install is complete, then plug it back in and set the boot order in the mobo config.

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    It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.

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    From Steam's [self-published stats](https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/). Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection. Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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