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New comment by TitaRusell in "Von der Leyen uses Orbán defeat to push for end of veto in EU foreign policy"

TitaRusell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:39:32 +0000

The EU survives for as long as it makes financial sense.

Hungary never exited because they're a poverty stricken nation suffering brain drain.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

TitaRusell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:09:40 +0000

I am in my 40s and prefer a old school flash drive instead of an expensive cloud subscription.

An elegant tool from a more civilised age!

New comment by TitaRusell in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

TitaRusell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:56:20 +0000

Yeah I'm not buying it.

Look I live in a leafy affluent area and there's just no way in hell a data center would ever be built here. There will be lawyers.

Maine is poor.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

TitaRusell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:51:22 +0000

Would you build one on Pennsylvania Avenue?

New comment by TitaRusell in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

TitaRusell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:40:55 +0000

Data centers bring in less jobs than tourism. They don't grow the tax base.

All you get is ugly industrial sprawl.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

TitaRusell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:28:27 +0000

I had to completely nuke OneDrive from windows.

With a 2 terabyte SSD I'm unlikely to ever run out of space.

Automatically opt in and make the settings deliberately vague and obtuse- companies that have FAITH in their product don't need to do this.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

TitaRusell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:43:46 +0000

Videogames are increasingly demanding secure boot.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

TitaRusell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:24:02 +0000

You can watch Nixon's speeches on YouTube. He certainly tried to spin the Vietnam war...

But ultimately Nixon was right. America getting out of Vietnam was a good thing.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

TitaRusell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:57:17 +0000

Yeah the public library in my country insists on Adobe.

I lend books legally (library membership), strip the DRM and convert it to mobi. There's just no way I am reading books on my phone.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

TitaRusell — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:53:02 +0000

Bought a Kindle because it was the cheapest ereader I could find. Amazon heavily subsidised it.

Joke's on them I've never bought a book from the Amazon store! It takes a few minutes to drop files on it via USB.

New comment by TitaRusell in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

TitaRusell — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:53:32 +0000

Death Stranding 2 was 140 gigabyte.

Ofcourse luckily our SSDs got bigger too.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

TitaRusell — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:41:25 +0000

America is running a disinformation campaign against Europe.

Europe represents democracy and rule of law- something right wing fascists and Christian fundamentalists despise.

Make no mistake we are involved in an ideological war against the US.

New comment by TitaRusell in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"

TitaRusell — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:02:43 +0000

Why is organising a religious service the business of government?

New comment by TitaRusell in "Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy"

TitaRusell — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:46:09 +0000

Indifference is the right word. America thinks Europe is one country. In reality my country has had no economic or cultural ties with Hungary since the Roman empire and couldn't care less.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

TitaRusell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:32:22 +0000

I bought a game on Epic once but I ran into some problems. Epic doesn't have a community so I had to ask for help on the Steam forums..

Can't escape the feeling that Epic just want to sell games without engaging with their customers much.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

TitaRusell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:29:22 +0000

Turkey- a key US ally- will never allow the formation of an independent Kurdish nation near their borders.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

TitaRusell — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:06:37 +0000

Steam has been around for 20 years and gamers really, really care about their Steam profiles.

Valve has created a kind of gaming Facebook.

You can't replace that.

New comment by TitaRusell in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

TitaRusell — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:54:42 +0000

A superpower run by geriatrics.

Future historians are going to laugh at us- provided there will be any.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

TitaRusell — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:14:22 +0000

There was an interesting article in a local paper here about non zionist Jews emigrating from Israel.

There are no missiles and draft in Western Europe and the shops are open on every holy day.

Unfortunately this leaves the holy land to the fanatics.

New comment by TitaRusell in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

TitaRusell — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:40:09 +0000

What the hell would AI even bring to the table here?

Already your favourite e commerce site has all your data. You can switch on the "buy this automatically" feature.