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New comment by latsu in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

latsu — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:04:32 +0000

There are businesses that specifically don't allow credit cards and only allow Debit and Cash to reduce these fees already and they are still in business. WinCo Foods is the biggest example I know of, so insinuating that it's impossible to operate if you exclude payment method types/cards isn't really true.

New comment by latsu in "Stop Writing Brittle Playwright Tests: Why YAML-Based Testing Is the Future"

latsu — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:59:25 +0000

AI slop article about using AI to write tests in a format that's worse than Cucumber...

Why would I bother to read the slop you couldn't even be bothered to write?

New comment by latsu in "YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month"

latsu — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:55:37 +0000

I'm pretty sure this is a re-launch of the lite tier they already had in lower income countries at a higher price, instead of making a tier for people that don't like ads and also don't use Youtube as their primary music platform.

New comment by latsu in "Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots"

latsu — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:25:16 +0000

The physical-sim tray is present for all markets outside of the US on all iPhones.

New comment by latsu in "Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand slides"

latsu — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:38:42 +0000

You aren't kidding. The price for a lot of their storage options looks to be 2-4x what you can find in a grocer in the US. Even a Costco set of Snapware glass is significantly cheaper than Tupperware.

New comment by latsu in "Google Under Fire After Influencers Were Asked to Prefer Pixel Phones"

latsu — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:35:58 +0000

Many of my close friends and myself that have used Android phones have sworn off the Pixel brand.

Personally I had issues with GPS and the speaker on my Gen 1 pixel.

We all seem to run into hardware faults right around the end of the warranty period and their value seems to drop like a rock on the second-hand market months after launch.

Just my anecdotes.

New comment by latsu in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now"

latsu — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:13:47 +0000

The problem is most of the boards from partners are specialized with different hardware add-ons and have a significant markup at about 10 USD a board, which makes it harder to justify buying a handful of boards to tinker with. It's quite unfortunate.

New comment by latsu in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now"

latsu — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:03:45 +0000

Why oh why is still using Micro USB?!

I was hoping that the next iteration would start using USB-C even if it costed a bit more per-board.

New comment by latsu in "React Component Principles and Best Practices for Better Software Architecture"

latsu — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:11:03 +0000

I think I'm growing tired of reading articles and books that disguise opinions as "Best Practice." I find most of these types of articles and guides lacking in substance.

All of them seem to use blanket statements that lack any evidence as to why the claim being made is true. We are just expected to trust the author, when the author isn't even an expert in the topic they are discussing.

New comment by latsu in "Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments"

latsu — Thu, 16 May 2024 01:39:49 +0000

Good on them. They are using the same tactics ISP's have used to screw the general public but instead they are at least providing the services they promise.

New comment by latsu in "Google Is Killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites"

latsu — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:57:40 +0000

It's frustrating to see a post like this just blaming Google for their issues, when perhaps their reporting/reviews might be at fault? Many people who look up reviews for products reviewed by Retro Dodo often criticize the reviews for lacking substance or getting very basic facts wrong.

I know that I added them to my personal filter list when I found them providing mis-info or just click-farming off of unannounced products.

New comment by latsu in "Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people"

latsu — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:47:04 +0000

Payday loan companies like Klarna should probably apply AI to avoid granting loans to people who obviously can't pay them back...

Oh, wait, that would probably be be 90% of the people that use these loan providers to buy something. They should probably be regulated out of existence instead.

New comment by latsu in "Nvidia adds $277B in market value, Wall Street's largest one-day gain in history"

latsu — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:56:09 +0000

Tesla still seems to be over-valued. I don't see why they would be worth 10x other car manufacturers, especially ones that have quality manufacturing already down.