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boycott-israel··on Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times for the industry
The cut is 500% of revenue, as stated in this and several articles. Read before posting.
boycott-israel··on 3M reaches $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination of water systems
bro I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but your answers make it seem like you're living in a contaminated hellhole and terrified of contact with the local water

it's not a good defense for indiscriminate contamination of water, if that's what you're trying for

boycott-israel··on Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
So too close and they're out of focus / blurry?

Does VR work for you?

boycott-israel··on EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling
holy shit are you 12 or just slow?
boycott-israel··on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Fast and plenty of keyboard shortcuts - but absolutely not privacy-oriented (https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi).

It's always worrying (and intriguing) when a small upstart decides to go closed-source when essentially the entire market is open-source.

boycott-israel··on TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
What were your symptoms?

(asking for info, not doubting anything!)

boycott-israel··on HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
This is a surprisingly naive thing to say in the era of a CEO having a fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder-value over the short-term / their tenure (whichever is shorter)
boycott-israel··on New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Not at all - the hype part is that 2 teenagers derived a uniquely elegant proof that other highly-trained mathematicians had thus far failed to do so.

Any other claims seem to have been added by the media, not the teenagers themselves.

boycott-israel··on Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week
Are you somehow unaware of the regular reliability issues (6 incidents in 2023 alone), downtime, collapse in revenue, advertisers erosion of trust, etc?

Personally, I couldn't classify that as 'operational' - but maybe I just have high standards and expectations

boycott-israel··on GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”
tl;dr - you're part of the problem
boycott-israel··on Stable Diffusion 2.0 on Mac and Linux via imaginAIry Python library
fwiw dual booting is ultimately simpler than WSL and it's quirks