Haha nice one that’s so based and kekpilled my duderino

Well we had to use the 10k triangle toothbrush model, no two ways about it! (/s/)

Future living spaces will need to put each computer area on its own breaker 💀

Damn right!

Huh, the reply at the bottom is by a different user than in OP’s pic

At the top level, MBAs see brand reputation as value to be cashed in on, nothing more and nothing less

What’s crazy is that he could have had a 10-20 minute convo with whoever set up the character to determine how it worked and what makes it good, and he probably could have faked it. Instead, he decided that he was just such a special and talented boy that he’d be able to wing it and just intuit correct information by looking at one number in a very complex game. Him calling the best unique gloves in the game trash because they weren’t “high level” was just the cherry on top 😂

It would be extremely funny if not for the fact that he runs his businesses (and wants to run the US) with this same mentality. He thinks because he figured out how to make more money than anyone else with a public net worth, that he can become an instant expert on anything without the slightest bit of effort.

AI audio with AI-generated captions, visuals, and accompanying text descriptions. It’s almost like there’s no actual grassroots support for a tax dodging tech bro.

Cool

It’s surprisingly often that the login page doesn’t use the same password processing code as the password reset/account creation pages, and it can be very frustrating at times.

Desktop OSes, my bad.

iOS is still much worse than Android in terms of “walled garden” practices but Google has been slowly inching over that way, what with the recent crackdown on sideloading apps.

While the main quote I can find is like 6 years old at this point, Tim Sweeney directly compared Linux to a US citizen moving to Canada when they don’t like the political landscape. I’m sure his opinions have become more nuanced since then, but it’s still imo just needlessly antagonistic.

In that regard I think both Epic and Valve are trying to advance the industry in different ways: Steam trying to break PC gaming from Windows, and the EGS trying to free up restrictive mobile app store policies. We really should be able to directly buy and play mobile games from whatever storefront we choose, not being limited to Google Play or the App Store.

Since Valve and Epic are both for-profit companies, the advancements are largely for profit’s sake of course. I agree that we should take wins where we can secure them, but always be vigilant for how a company might turn the tables once they have the upper hand and try to mitigate that. We’ve seen the same anti-consumer practices happen many times over in the PC hardware market, such as with AMD v Intel or AMD v Nvidia, where a given company pushes for an open standard only when they are the underdog.

I wouldn’t dislike Tim Sweeney so much if he didn’t write off Linux so much.

He’s diehard on primarily having the Epic Games Store support Windows, which is ironically the most monopolistic and anti-consumer OS right now.

(minor edit to acknowledge Windows isn’t the only platform since the EGS is also available on Mac)

Reminds me of how the YouTuber Angela Collier detailed once reading Atlas Shrugged and really enjoying it. Wanting to read it blind, she did as little research as possible on the book beforehand, only knowing that the author was made fun of for relying on food stamps leading up to her death. As she worked through the book, it was shaping up to be a masterpiece satire on much the same level of A Modest Proposal.

It was only upon finishing the book and looking through the other reviews on Goodreads that she realized it was not satirical.

Or tries to revert it, fails, then claims credit for it in March anyways

With the way things are going, the next generation will have all three!

Those look like they could be quite ergonomical, but it’s a bit hard to tell just from looking at them

You might not even need them, it’s more just an option if the unit wiggles around too much for your liking after dropping it in.

Definitely don’t use screws or nails! Glue should be fine but you might need a method to hold them in place while it dries. Masking tape would probably do the job just fine; in fact, you could probably skip the glue and just tape the blocks into the gap from underneath the countertop. The latter case would definitely require careful inspection of the cooktop to make sure you’re not covering up anything important.

The idea with the blocks/shims isn’t to hold up the cooktop structurally, just to keep it from sliding side to side (and only if you need them, it might be perfectly fine without). The weight should still be primarily on the granite itself in all cases.

Disclaimer: I never installed cooktops but did have to work with the spec sheets frequently at a previous job that included kitchen design work.

It’s a bit dependent on the specific model, and if there are any load bearing parts of the design that would normally fall onto the extra 2cm of countertop the new one is expecting. You should be able to determine that by looking underneath for anything of the sort.

I’d say in most cases you should be fine, as long as the flange covers the whole cutout, which it should in this case. If the new one feels loose, you could glue in some 1cm wood shims on either side just to keep it from sliding around.

If people are willing to listen but not actually to address your concerns, they don’t actually care what you have to say.

I’m sorry to hear about your experience working at such a place. It’s no wonder that the industry ends up devoid of both empathy and efficacy when it actively screens out such qualities, if not in intent then in practice. For the time you were able to endure despite the impossible demands and pressure, I hope you were a ray of sunshine for those patients you were able to help.