If it makes you feel better, Consumer Reports still operates like it's the year 1990 and is completely detached from the world of media today. There are YouTube content producers who make far better content than Consumer Reports does, in every category. Sites like RTings and YouTubers like Project Farm or Vacuum Wars completely obliterate Consumer Reports in terms of quality, freshness, and usefulness.

Look at the way cars are even rated on Consumer Reports. They post "samples of the data" from their surveys, and you get examples like somebody having an ancient phone and not being able to Bluetooth pair it to their car ending up lowering the reliability rating of the car. It makes no sense.

Articles like the one linked are what you get when you have a clueless, outdated organization with management who have their head in the sand, feeding some SEO suggestions from ChatGPT to their writers. It's just layers of badness and poor decisionmaking.

Every time I look at this, the value proposition makes no sense to me. The DIY V1 and V2 only have instructions for adding a single HDMI input port (??), and the V3 and V4 are like $350 CAD, which is way more expensive than buying a used KVM on eBay. What am I missing?

I don't want to dox myself so I'd rather not say, but it was some time ago and I'm no longer leading that project. I do still do development in the same field though!

Your post couldn't be more true. Decades ago I was sold on MythTV, this PVR software but it only ran on Linux and you had to compile it yourself. So I gave Linux and MythTV a shot. As it turned out, both MythTV and early desktop Linux were a buggy, frustrating mess. X broke all the time. Incomprehensible, ungoogleable compile errors all the time.

I spent so much time troubleshooting MythTV and compilation problems that I ended up learning Linux inside and out and the C programming language to be able understand the compile errors. I went on to lead a major open source project and have had a long career as a programmer, using all the knowledge I gained that started with fighting MythTV.

It's a misnomer for sure, but that's why it's a funny label.

How can it cost 3x as much as an F-35?

Here's what the official government news releases say:

$19 billion for 88 F-35s = $216 million each - source

$2.5 billion for 11 Reapers = $227 million each source

... so I don't think you're right.

Edit: This CBC article quotes an unnamed "senior defence official" as saying the first four F-35s we purchased cost $85 million per plane, whereas the numbers quoted in the press releases above are the all-in costs including all the "sustainment set-up and services" such as ground control centers, training, etc. So without being an expert on this stuff, I do think the numbers in the press releases are a better apples-to-apples comparison.

Edit 2: but yeah, your point still stands.... Is a Reaper worth as much as an F-35? Beats me....

The transport trucks that will go 1000km don't.

This guy's the worst at putting together a pursuasive argument. Almost all the problems he wrote wil have solutions we engineer in the future. Dismissing electric cars, the very real and imminent problem they have of CO2 emissions, based on cherry picking current problems they have in different countries is disingenuous and short sighted. eg. California's CO2 emissions problems at night cannot be generalized to other places.

And the punchline of this article is an apples-to-oranges comparison - you can't harp on transport trucks and then argue the solution is walking and biking.

Lithium batteries (or their successor) will get cheaper, lighter, and more energy dense because there's a massive market opportunity for that now. This article completely ignores our ability to advance technology to solve problems, lol.

Can't put nuclear fuel in a car lol

I paid $30 for early access to Tribes Ascend and then like 2 weeks later they were like "actually it's going to be F2P lol!"

When you hand the Russians a propaganda victory, you can expect them to dial up the troll farms to 11 to get the most out of the opportunity. It's a big fuckup and CSIS/CSEC should have interdicted this TBH.

This is disingenuous and irrelevant - that's no what's being proposed at all. And if you've ever run Facebook ads, you'd know what a ridiculous amount of money Facebook gets from that.

You actually made the argument for the bill, and then twisted it to justify Facebook and Google's domination of the ad market.

The specific problem they're solving is that that there's a majority of Facebook users who get their news from Facebook, and probably the majority of those users don't actually click through, so the news organizations get no money. Facebook and their users are benefitting from getting headlines, but the companies incurring all the costs to generate those headlines are getting too little money from that to sustain themselves. This is why this bill has to exist and why it's necessary to protect Canadian news organizations.

Is this game worth the money?

Paid $220 for this on Black Friday last year.

TIL how to poach brains

Your 10 day old account is from a Finnish Lemmy instance and already has 454 comments. All you write about is this imaginary impending civil war - 100% troll account.

Lmao, this is a post about Canada. Your post is the clown meme of far right bullshit, ending in a claim about genocide.

You can use your "logic" to justify anything. It's totally garbage. "The world is ending therefore X is justified." Just grow up and deal with it or leave and go somewhere else.

If you don't have the political fortitude to be able to play ball in a democracy, then you won't have what it takes to govern a country if you succeed in overthrowing it by violence.

This is the thing with Lemmy - there's all these veiled calls for violence which seem like an astroturfing campaign to foment social unrest from users on weird instances which should be banned.

You don't need tanks - we live in a democracy - you can band together and form a political party to replace the government, and convince people to vote for you. That's how it works.

A large part of politics in Toronto revolves around placating property owners, so the powers that be must see the sales tax as less hurtful at the ballot box than a property tax increase.