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I game on PC but I understand the appeal of an Xbox. GPUs have been insanely expensive, and while not necessarily hard, building a PC can still be an overwhelming rabbit hole to research as you try to find the best configurations and deals, and even though it’s improved a lot, PCs are still more prone to messing up since more configurations are harder to test.
I think there’s a lot they could have done better. They could have injected ads into the API feeds directly so they could still get revenue and make it part of the terms that a client can’t remove them, and offer a paid version of the API that doesn’t have ads. That could work with the clients who could then continue to offer a free ad supported version or a subscription that removes them with Reddit getting a cut. I would have been totally understanding of that and reddit could have gotten a ton of subscription revenue by leveraging the existing distribution channels.
They’re a company, they have to pay the bills, I get that, but they went over the line with their deception, greed, and hunger for power. This wasn’t just about making money, it’s also about control. This was all just an underhanded move to kill 3rd party apps without outright banning them. They want total control so they can continue to make ui decisions that make then more money at the expense of the user experience with their users not having an alternative client to go to. They clearly don’t have any respect for their users so why would I use them?
I think it’s more of a generational thing than an age thing. Younger generations that grew up surrounded by games don’t think it’s weird and I while you do have less time to game as you get older I don’t think it’ll ever get weird.
I’ve used gas, coil, and induction and I’ll have to disagree on them being as good. Coil is just terrible. It takes way too long to adjust the temperature which makes some kinds of cooking incredibly hard. Induction is much more responsive, and I could live with it if I had to but it’s just not as good. It’s prone to hot spots and you need the pan perfectly centered to get even heat distribution and you lose heat any time you lift the pan which makes it a lot harder to do any cooking techniques that require a lot of tossing and without the radiated heat it makes certain pans like woks way less effective as you don’t get the heat going up the sides.
I understand that gas isn’t as healthy, but there are other health optimizations I could do that I think would have a bigger impact on my health. I do hope that this research leads to better regulations and standards to prevent gas leaks and improve ventilation though. Residential hoods are incredibly weak and I wish they were better, and there’s much more that could be done to minimize gas leaks.
No, I find typing faster than clicking and I’ve been using git for so long the commands are second nature to me.