I’m aware of the current shortage.

Unfortunately I feel we’ll be forever prone to this now that GPUs are useful for far more than just gaming. The market is being shared with people who are willing to spend a lot more for the same silicon.

During the Covid GPU shortage, my card died and I had to go back to my Geforce 9800 GX2. A monster of a card (in 2008).

I did not have a good time. But it was incredible it even worked at all.

I mean the galaxy note (2011) is still larger than plenty of phones now, so it doesn’t seem absurd. They were large and still are.

• Note: 146.9mm x 83mm x 9.7mm (total volume 118,269mm³)

• S25: 146.9mm x 70.5 x 7.2mm (total volume 74,566mm³)

The note is 59% larger. Yet people seem to look at the specs and say “it only has a 5.2” screen, it must be way smaller than the 6.2" screen phones of today"

I don’t get why reviewers conflate phone size and screen size. They aren’t the same.

Shit, let’s even compare it to the S25 Ultra (so the big one with a 6.9" screen).

• S25 Ultra: 162.8mm x 77.6mm x 8.2mm (total volume 103,592mm³)

The Note, despite the 5.2" screen size implying the phone is tiny in comparison, is 14% larger.

I’m tired of them quoting phone sizes by screen size as opposed to… well… the actual size of the phone.

Most people will hear 6.3" and think well my old phone was 4.3", clearly this is going to be vastly larger, completely forgetting that bezels these days are practically non-existent, whereas they used to take up half of the frontal area.

The original Galaxy Note had a 5.2" screen. By modern standards that’s puny. You’d assume that phone is absolutely tiny. Yet the Note is actually 14% larger than the current S25 Ultra with a 6.9" screen.

HDR is kinda complicated right now.

As it stands, it’s only available on the Plasma and Gnome desktop environments.

The HDR stack on Linux has went through a lot of change recently, and much of the stack has only just been finalised/standardised. It’ll take a while to mature, and to arrive on distros like Mint.

No

Strange (or maybe not, I imagine there’s a lot of overlap with the work they do and constructing homes).

I won’t complain about more houses being built.

I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s bigotry to dislike Nazis, but you do you mate.

You wouldn’t want the Signal brand to become linked to it.

“I’m on Signal, would you like to chat there?”

“What, on the MAGA Nazi app, are you joking? Of course I’m not talking to you there!”

Ideally you want a broad spectrum of people.

I know it shouldn’t make a difference and people should base their views strictly on the technical and usability aspects of the app, but real life doesn’t work that way. Perceptions matter.

I’m sorry my lord, but you did say to add the white wizard… How was I to know there were two of them now??

I had the exact same thought. By the sounds of their announcement, yes!

The Stardew Valley preview is an opportunity for you to get involved, test it, and let us know what you think. It currently has all the features needed to help you easily mod Stardew Valley, such as mod updates and installing collections.

I need to remind myself to install this when I get the chance. Navigating the site for every mod, downloading them, extracting them, deleting old mods, and moving them over is very tedious to do on a steam deck without an external monitor/KB+M

One of the many games in my steam library that I bought and still haven’t played. I need to force myself to play some games…

TIL. You’d think Wikipedia would mention that! Unfortunate.

Unfortunately they cost a lot more or often don’t exist.

Plus, many of us are over-stressed and overworked as is. Going to 5 different places to buy your stuff was a lot easier back in the days when most things were in walking distance and only one person in the household had to work full time.

Not sure where you heard that, it’s headquartered in the UK, founded by a man from Yorkshire, and the current CEO is French.

Tbf, I think all of them took advantage of COVID to some extent

The card thing is annoying though. Tesco seemed to have pioneered it, and now Morrisons and the Co-op seems to be doing the same. Not sure about others.

Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, M&S also aren’t on the list, actually. But then again I don’t think I’ve ever seen them outside the UK, so maybe that’s why.

E: I’ve been told elsewhere that Morrisons was taken over by a US equity firm.

This source backs me up, not you.

Under the terms of the contract, the Chinese group has the possibility of converting its obligations within two years in order to become a minority shareholder in the French group - in the order of 5 to 7.5% of the capital, according to the documents obtained by Politico. But such a scenario, which would allow Huawei to influence Qwant’s strategy, can only be achieved if the Chinese group obtains prior among other conditions. According to Politico, this mechanism reassured the Deposit Fund. Qwant, on the other hand, assures that Huawei is not trying to get into its capital.

So, a 2021 source says Huawei, in accordance with agreements, could possibly take a 5 to 7.5% stake as long as they did it within two years. It then states that this isn’t something Huawei actually intends to go ahead with.

It’s been well over two years, Huawei indeed didn’t take a stake in Qwant, and Qwant is still entirely French-German.

With that above information, you went online and lied, saying Huawei owns Qwant. They do not. You lied. And now you’re doubling down on it.

Bit suspicious, by the way, that you’re a new account with only 3 comments, all of which spreading misinformation.

It seems obvious that a 20mph limit will be more safe in most instances.

There’s the issue with older cars having a gearing not really suited to staying at that speed (meaning revving higher and chucking out more pollution/being louder), but that’s less of an issue with new cars.

There’s also the issue of a car in 2nd gear at 20mph being ready to take off far more easily if you were to accidentally press the accelerator instead of the brake – something which often happens in traffic incidents. But again, the gearing of more recent cars is typically fine with sitting at 20mph in third gear. Car gearing seems to be designed with 20mph in mind now, as more places are enforcing it inside and outside of the UK.

And honestly, in most circumstances it won’t make a serious difference to travel time going 20 or 30. Either way you’re likely going to be stopping multiple times or stuck behind people.

Worth noting though, that the very people who collected this data say that the data can’t really be used for direct comparison and that we need at least a couple more years to see what the effect of the change is.

Pretty much any car that comes with even a very basic cruise control will have a speed limiter option. My car is from 2010 and has it. I think my 2004 Mégane I had beforehand may have had it too, IIRC.

Although it’s a bit more fiddly than what you describe in that you have to turn off cruise control mode, switch to speed limiter, set the speed, then activate.

But yes, it would be an interesting feature to have a “town mode” button that you could set to 20 or 30mph in the car settings. Much more streamlined than the above. I imagine you could do other things, too like trying to keep revs to a minimum to keep the car quiet, (if a hybrid) going EV-preferred or EV-only, etc.

Qwant is owned by Huawei.

No it isn’t.

Why are you lying like this? What’s the goal?

Qwant is based in Paris and its owners are:

• Jean-Manuel Rozan

• Éric Léandri

• Patrick Constant

• Caisse des dépôts et consignations (basically a public investment institution owned by the French government)

• Groupe Axel Springer (an online media company based in Germany)

So again: why did you lie? What’s the goal here?