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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. That's one raging fire. I did a rare foray to Reddit to check it out and there are quite a few videos including one showing the crane collapse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/s/eW5lM3h8hc

Quite the day.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

There are some great couch co-op games out there, BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. Seriously, the number of goddamn games that expect you to HAVE TWO COMPUTER AND TWO SCREENS SO YOU CAN PLAY CO-OP WITH SOMEONE ELSE IS TOO DAMN HIGH.

The issue is that not enough people play couch co-op to justify the effort that goes into making it work. It's a subset of a subset of gamers that play couch co-op even once, let alone on a regular basis.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Couldn't CrowdStrike do this to Linux too? And couldn't that be much worse? Like deeper network infrastructure?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I couldn't find the tweet in the article, but found it in this one from last year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/andrew-abbass-rnc-complaints-1.6967702

Abbass tweeted: "How about this, premier of N.L.: I'm going to bring down Confederation and have politicians executed. Ready to have me shot, coward?"

The tweet, he admits, was meant to antagonize.

"I figured they would arrest me."

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, not many people want that party back.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I left a lot of options open for improving the article from my original comment, but if you want some more details:

  1. Describe the issue and what forms it comes in to clarify the issue.
  2. Do a thorough analysis of posts and comments on Reddit (and maybe some other forums, just a thought) to try to get some numbers to indicate how often it happens and what the different causes are.
  3. Maybe create a survey to try to ascertain some numbers. Reach out to a statistician for some help on how to do that.
  4. This is a "Senior Editor" at Android Central and they don't have a single connection to an expert in phone technology. They exhausted all the possible experts out there and didn't get any responses? Honestly, this means they either don't know how to write a letter to get an answer from experts, don't have any compelling data to interest an expert enough to expend their time, or didn't actually try very hard, or all of the above.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ indeed.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This article is not very helpful. It doesn't clarify what is meant by the term "green line of death". Does it brick the phone? Does it make the phone unusable? Is it just annoying? Does it include red lines? Blue lines, black lines, rainbows?

It presents anectdotal evidence of it having happened a lot, but doesn't give any real numbers. There's no analysis of the information they do have to say if it's more often a hardware issue, a software bug, or caused by damage. There's no indication if there was an attempt to ascertain how often it happens within the warranty period, or if occurrences increase with phone age.

Interviewing a couple friends and a "quick reddit search" is not investigative journalism. The writer didn't hear back from manufacturers or industry experts, and gave up. So they interviewed a couple more "nerd" friends. Ouch.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article is like 10 days old but feels like it's about a year out of date already. What a whirlwind.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, interesting. I'll have to keep an eye on that. Normally I use search to find things I've already read and I'm trying to find again.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I use the Voyager app on Android and the search function is great.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

I liked the game, but I can't say I would have any interest in playing it again or trying to get into new levels after so long.

I also didn't know there was a new release until this article.

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