I'm the opposite from you on the digital coupons. I really feel strongly that if they require me to sell myself and what I'm buying to advertising / trackers in order to get the best deal, I'll just go to another store. even if it's more. Yeah...I could just buy at the higher price, but I'm doing the voting with my wallet. Honestly, I'm probably the 0.01% of the population that cares about this...probably less, so they don't care. Just the other day I was buying something, and then I noticed it was $2 cheaper if I used the app. So I put it back and left.

So...yeah, good for people who are okay with ads, tracking, and getting the deals from it. But for me and my house, we don't.

My kid suggested to me that maybe we get a burner phone and just keep it powered down in the car until we go to some store that uses them. Then the random email that it's registered to, linked advertising ids, and location data will hopefully be less than helpful...and then I won't feel as taken advantage of.

I did it recently...and it was because Google laid off large percentage of my team, hired more in India, and I was now leading a team based in India. Meetings most nights and it was a pain. The executives above me said they could hire 2-3x in India for the same price as in the US, so it just made sense to move more and more jobs to India. They also sort of capped individual contributors to L5 (not a hard cap, but definitely made it difficult to go any higher). So for me, it was lifestyle (I didn't want to work evenings) and job security (Their rags-to-riches MBA from India CEO got an extra $200M+ stock package added around the same time he did all the layoffs). He really doesn't care about where the jobs are at.

Youâ(TM)re choosing the wrong plates if you want cheap vanity. They only cost $50 initial and $40 annually if you get the more boring backgrounds.

I just tried their app (I've been calorie counting a few months now). It was terrible. A meal that should have been in the low 200s was specified as 60. When i commented about the inaccuracies,it redid the analysis and put it at 400+ calories

This summary should have linked the Dec 2023 article from Slashdot which actually explains a little bit more about it (and has a link to the technical paper).
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
"The L4S standard adds an indicator to packets, which says whether they experienced congestion on their journey from one device to another"

My favorite thing will likely be REVIEWS on the cars by purchasers. I really wish I could review my cars. There's currently no way to voice feedback to the manufacturer (and steer others away) for things that drive you nuts. For example, if you notice the Bluetooth is painful to use, or the interface is goofy.
As it is currently, the manufacturer gets none of this feedback (unless you are a famous Youtube reviewer) and neither do other customers.

Yeah...I think that's still the case. I have a NAS sitting around, so I just run it on there. It's my replacement for J River Media Center that I used for years. J River just never got an app that was any good, always struggled with hangs or forgetting what it was playing...

Yeah, Plex's Plexamp is already pretty awesome. Maybe some of the equalizer animations could be pulled in :) https://www.plex.tv/plexamp/

That's not from msmash. It's from the article's title (the verge)

No that's different. This is akin to someone getting kidnapped, and paying the ransom. While it is very tragic, again, we shouldn't pay ransoms for kidnapping. It encourages more

Started commenting to say that the phrase "California based-Apple" is wrong and should be "California-based Apple"... But then I checked the freaking source and I guess Reuters needs to have someone proofread. As a side comment, I pasted the original text into a LLM and it pointed out the same problem

Maybe, if Cold Fusion were a technology where we could start using it right NOW, get some amount of benefits from it (more power back than we put into it), and know that it will continue getting better and better over time.

For instance, I have a vehicle with Ford's Blue Cruise. It drives by itself, on some roads, like a 12-year-old, bouncing back and forth between the lane markings (and trying to drive off the freeway when the lane markers disappear). It constantly turns off when the road conditions change from super-simple to normal. I continually am fighting the steering (in both hands-on and hands-free mode) to keep the car in the center of the lane when I'm passing cars (it will typically try to hug the right-side lane markings, which is very unsafe when passing Semis).

Then I drove my brother's Model X with the new Machine-Learning driving. It drove from his house along unmarked country snow-dusted roads, through a town, to the grocery store and back. The only interactions I had to do was getting it out of his driveway, and parking (it did the parking, but driving around the lot was me). And, besides one minor section of road, and being a bit overly cautious at stop-signs, it drove just as well as I would have (unlike Ford's drunk Blue Cruise). The minor section of the road I felt it hugged the outside of the lane a bit too much.

You forgot the requisite console-internet-subscription for online play. So your list should be tweaked with:

Console:
I buy internet to play online
I buy console-internet-subscription so I can use the internet I already purchased and play with others online.

PC:
I buy internet to play online

Came here to say the same thing! I love it, and it's business model isn't selling your data, so you can mold your data however you like. For example, my budget categories and super categories are exactly what I say. Mint and credit karma make you fit their mold so they can aggregate you better.