That’s crappy, but have you seen what other remote apps are doing?
Vizio has an ad that takes up around 25% of the screen!
MyQ has a large scrolling ad at the top, and they are actively hostile towards any integration that allows you to control your garage door without using their app (unless you use one of the very few subscription-based integrations they offer, of course).
Never heard anyone pronounce it ping, lol! P-N-G is a better pronunciation anyway. Less ambiguous, there’s already something called ping that is super common in computing.
Life is easier if you just always tip 20% no matter what. I go to restaurants to eat. It’s not my job to judge the waiter, and who am I to judge someone I don’t know on a job I’ve never done?
Tipping is stupid, yes, but that’s the culture and people need it to live. Only exception I make is if a restaurant has a required gratuity (usually 18%), I don’t tip any additional.
Texas has big access roads on almost every mile of highway, and it’s glorious. If there’s one thing Texas does right, it’s highway infrastructure. Except for its obsession with tolls.
I’ve never seen a highway with a hill so steep that your visibility is less than stopping distance. There’s an exception to every rule, but I’d wager that it is at most exceedingly rare. It’s definitely not regular.
Texas has u-turns at basically every highway intersection, with exceptions like this photo. The u-turns bypass the stop sign/lights so that it’s just a yield. I’m not sure if any other states do that at the same frequency. With that design, it’s probably easier to just raise the highway since it’s a straight road rather than raise an intersection. I’m sure it also depends on which road was there first.
The huge access roads also typically stop at intersections, unlike in this photo. In order to support that and have the smaller road use an overpass, the access roads would either need to be built much further away from the highway or curve out and in at every intersection in order to reduce the grade of the overpass’s slope. The overpass would need to be longer too since it’s crossing more lanes.
If the smaller road goes over the highway, it’s pretty common that the highway actually goes down so that the smaller road needs to be raised less.
I’m sure there are plenty of other positives and negatives, but I’m not a structural engineer. I’m just pointing out that it’s not an arbitrary decision and it comes with some benefits like robust access roads and u-turns.
Title is somewhat misleading. It’s not for anything video-related. It’s for using a (probably free) photo of actress Cuca Escribano without permission.
"Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post) (lemmy.ml)
Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
roku remote app showing ads now (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
My dog tore up the remote so we were forced to use the roku app to control the tv....
Remember when everything was so blocky? (startrek.website)
The Holy Trinity of JavaScript (programming.dev)
They shipped him in from Italy (startrek.website)
My first time playing Cities Skylines (lemmy.world)
Oh wait this is i-30 in Dallas....
Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps — meaning it can't turn that info over to the police (www.businessinsider.com)
Plex Sued for Copyright Infringement by Press Agency (torrentfreak.com)
Title is somewhat misleading. It’s not for anything video-related. It’s for using a (probably free) photo of actress Cuca Escribano without permission.
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
Woke Adapter (lemm.ee)
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