This could probably be used to check for authentic game cartridges. I’m not going to be licking used games to find out if they’re real, though.

“… cooked at varying speeds over hot charcoal.”

Unfortunately, this is exactly what is turning (and has been turning) the US into a shithole country.

That scene in Idiocracy where the smart couple fail to reproduce comes to mind.

Being illiterate has no correlation with wanting other people to do all the work for me. We’re just lazy. Please do some homework before jumping to conclusions.

Congrats, you’ve won at ADHD.

From what I read on other posts, it sounds like Geico was the one not following suit because nobody else would insure it in the first place.

Easy. I’m the new CEO of the company we set up there. Employee salary is an expenditure, and being a company in that country, it qualifies for that rebate unless there’s more details I’m missing. I was also grossly over-simplifying in my original comment, I’m sure it’s more complicated than that. I also just attribute Hollywood Accounting (see other commenter’s post) to anything listed as a box office loss.

“I lost $100 million dollars making this movie. Coincidentally, I also paid myself $100 million to make this movie.”

“As the CEO, if I pay myself $100 million for making this movie, I will get $25 million of that back from government reimbursement.”

No big budget movie will ever make a profit because they make sure the big wigs get paid the amount the profit would have been. It is intentional.

This might make sense for people with six+ figures sitting in a savings account, but the average person today doesn’t have enough cash to think about earning interest on it. For them, paying off a debt now would be cheaper in the long run. For the most part, at least.

I like these points. Preventing a future expense by paying less now is always worth it, if you can afford it.

Another reason why I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy.

Web page was actually an image! Whoops! (I get this error a lot)

It’s almost as if being publicly traded is bad for the stability and longevity of a company. Who would have thought?

[Disclaimer: I only read the headline]

Also the triggers have way too much resistance.

The Edge has 3 “distance” settings for R2 and L2. I moved mine to the shortest setting since I was getting trigger fatigue from Final Fantasy XIV.

I use a DS Edge exclusively for PC gaming, and I have for a while now. Through Steam, the back pedals, touch-pad buttons, PS button, and microphone button are all customizable to be any button input you want. I have them on a per-game profile basis, where some games like Elden Ring I map them to be a second O-button so it’s less awkward to run, where others I have them bound to keyboard inputs or macros.

Now the question will be: How long until emulation of these console-locked games is viable?

If you aren’t ready to fully commit to installing it on a hard drive, you could probably make a live USB stick of Linux. There are installers built to run on windows that will install Linux onto a USB drive, which you can boot from after turning off your PC. That way, you don’t need to worry about wiping or resetting an old computer just to see if you like it.

Unfortunately, most Windows users are not tech savy and will never move to Linux, regardless of how user-friendly Linux becomes. It would take large-scale retailers switching their computers to have Linux pre-installed instead of Windows before any meaningful transition happens.