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I don’t agree with this statement. I think “intelligence”, however you define that, has fit pretty cleanly to a Gaussian distribution since the dawn of man. If anything, I think advances in nutrition, preventative healthcare, and access to information has driven pretty significant negative skew. I don’t have anything to back up this claim, but my guess would be that median intelligence has actually increased - it just may not seem as such since the population continues to rise, so the raw number of dummies seems overwhelming.

But hey, who I am to define what’s smart? Maybe an inflatable hot tub, 30 rack of Busch, RAM 1500 on an 84 month note, zero turn mower, DirecTV with Fox News and the funds to pay for it all is the real secret to a happy life. I’m just someone blabbing about nothing with a bunch of Reddit exiles.

Is Sobe still for sale? I can’t recall the last time I saw it anywhere.

Looks good. Any noted pros/cons vs. Memmy?

I have been an Unsplash power users for years. Also love Pexels! Both amazing platforms.

So O-Rings are notoriously for cutting the noise on Cherry Blues, but we put 0.2mm O-Rings on my wife’s keyboard, and it accomplished EXACTLY what you’re looking for.

Massive pain to install, but cheap, and “deeper”.

Yeah, for $1 (between 9.99 and 10.99) this is just a price decoy / asymmetric dominance exercise.

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Core will go away (or at least deprioritized from a marketing perspective) once they’ve successfully transitioned everyone off GfG.

Same. Block is a key feature. That said, I’m actually fascinated at how many furry communities there are. You’d think blocking c/furry would take care of 90% of the problem, but who knew c/MidCenturyYiffsOnAnEamesChair had such a dedicated following.

I commented this on the other thread, and reading your comment, I think you’re 100% right. The IPO dream right now is to try and tap in to the type of casual audiences that YouTube and Twitch maintain, and the best way to accomplish that is a dedicated fleet of power users that generate content, are barely compensated, and do 99% of the marketing for the platform.

If I was a VC, I would want a glut of ad-sensitive, lowest common denominator users. Think your Aunt on Facebook, or your sister on VSCO, or your young nephew on TikTok. I don’t think those people are necessarily attracted to the overall community attitude(s) currently on Reddit.

I would never call the ex-Hacker News/Digg Redditors smart. But.

Those users do have certain proclivities that make them EXTREMELY unattractive to investment dollars. Strong interest in anti-mainstream topics, including the 3Ps (Privacy, Piracy, and Pornography) doth not good ROI make. This exodus of users and elimination of features, outside looking in, seems like a misstep. I’d be skeptical.

It’s a good point, but even with abstraction, don’t you think there’s a certain amount of effort to hit “generic performance parameter” on any given OS? The Mac native version of Battle.net is a .app package, and I’m assuming they did that for speed/stability considerations for Hearthstone/WoW/HotS.

Like with PS5 in your example, clearly their product manager was able to argue that allocating $X IR&D to supporting PS5 would result in a solid NPV/ROI, and were unable to create a similar substantiating argument for MacOS. My gut tells me there’s like 3+ man-months of “official” effort and Activision/Blizzard said nah.

I’ve been tracking this, and I’m hopeful… that said, I think unless Blizzard actually gets officially involved, the M1 Max I have probably isn’t going to cut virtualising (more or less) D4 in a meaningful way. I say this with zero experience actually trying.

I know this is a wild sentence but… MAN do I agree with Whoopi. Playing D4 on my MacBook would be a legitimate dream for work travel. inb4 Steam Deck.