Voyajer

Voyajer , 1 day ago

Chrome doesn’t really look good on late model cars anyway

Voyajer , 2 days ago

It’s a ceramic coating

Voyajer , 2 days ago

Last YouTube tried stopping ad blockers I set my user agent to PS5 or some bot and it worked as well.

Voyajer , 2 days ago

If there’s any time playing only indie games is viable it’s now. We’ve had high quality indie releases outpacing how fast you can play them for a few years now.

Voyajer , 5 days ago

Not sure when the sentiment changed, but it used to be heavily recommended against updating the bios on any computer unless there was a specific feature or fix your computer needed.

Voyajer , 7 days ago

Neither the gun nor the switch is 3d printed in that video.

But to answer your question, you can make a firearm from actual trash if you’re sufficiently motivated. Look at the different guns Abe’s assassin made from a couple of years ago, he even made his own ammunition because of it’s lack of availability in Japan. Is the point of gun control as it currently stands to limit access to firearms period or to limit their access to good and more easily available weapons? I would say it is realistically the latter, though crossbows and air rifles are completely legal for people who are barred from owning firearms to obtain and use which sort of invalidates that too.

Voyajer , 8 days ago

Based purely from their comment yesterday I would say it’s ironic.

Voyajer , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

There is a solar plant in switzerland that still has functioning panels from the early 80s.

E: Oh, the one I thought of was mentioned in the article already.

Voyajer , 8 days ago

They can feel touch through their shells

Voyajer , 8 days ago

Unless you’re tipping them for driving smoothly.

Voyajer , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I still read this game’s title as Octagon Waffler anytime I see it mentioned

Must not be Yahtzee fans

Voyajer , 11 days ago

Finally one with touchpads

Voyajer , 12 days ago

Reddit is like that too though, games, gaming, videogames, gamers, pcgaming, etc.

Voyajer , 12 days ago

Tidal is $11/mo for an individual and $17 for a 6 person family plan. I recently switched because they supposedly give a better cut to artists and serve flac files.

Voyajer , 10 days ago

Not 70 psi, 70 MPa (10,000 psi) If we’re talking about what toyota is doing with the Mirai.

Voyajer , 16 days ago

He’s joking that you’ve just described TurboTax

Voyajer , 22 days ago

Having Windows installed on your PC counts as permission right?

Voyajer , 23 days ago

What do I win if I own one? It’s red.

Voyajer , 23 days ago

This just in: Impersonation still illegal

Voyajer , 25 days ago

You can always read the transcript

Voyajer , 27 days ago

As soon as it’s out to market someone will clone it and have an STL available

Voyajer , 26 days ago

Ok?

Voyajer , 29 days ago

Wasn’t it marketed as something to do while the car charges originally?

Voyajer , 1 month ago

We need a bot that comments this for every single greentext

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Rude comment aside, at least that restaurant would have accurate pricing in cali now.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

The videos get tuned into articles on gamersnexus.net after the fact, so check there in a few days.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

fewer beer

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Taxonomically correct!

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Reading the article is bannable apparently

Voyajer , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I thought deckard was supposed to be a standalone VR headset similar to the quest 3.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Better late than never I guess.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Epic did it to fallguys a ~year after the game came out

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Yes

Voyajer , 1 month ago

I haven’t noticed this, but I also have heavily curated my predictive text so that it doesn’t even attempt to use uncommon words I won’t use.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Obscurest Vinyl has some hilarious stuff. I like “You Look like You Could Use a Fuckin’ Lamp” and “It’s Time To Take a Shit on the Company​’​s Dime” enough that they made it onto my spotify.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

You’re even funnier the second time

Voyajer , 1 month ago

You’d think he would have at least some amount of interest given he clicked the link.

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Sourcemage, because gentoo and slackware are too mainstream

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Now I want to know how long it would take to circumnavigate other countries and states in a leaderboard

Voyajer , 1 month ago

How do you turn around when you’re boxed in?

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Turn the car around by using the door

Voyajer , 1 month ago

If I’m not a car what door am I using to turn around?

Voyajer , 1 month ago

Drkt said I could turn around though. How do I turn around with the door?

Voyajer , 2 months ago

Remember that forced arbitration clause that was in the news last month?

Voyajer , 2 months ago

Certain lantern batteries are filled with AAs as well

Voyajer , 2 months ago

My 3570k very much enjoyed the switch but it’s retired now. I can’t imagine how it would have handled win11 based on the before/after of other computers I use.

Voyajer , 2 months ago

Did you forget to scroll down and see everyone verifying it with their own screenshots?

Voyajer , 2 months ago

Modern dating can be severed into two eras: before the swipe, and after. When Tinder and other dating apps took off in the early 2010s, they unleashed a way to more easily access potential love interests than ever before. By 2017, about five years after Tinder introduced the swipe, more than a quarter of different-sex couples were meeting on apps and dating websites, according to a study led by the Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld. Suddenly, saying “We met on Hinge” was as normal as saying “We met in college” or “We met through a friend.”

The share of couples meeting on apps has remained pretty consistent in the years since his 2017 study, Rosenfeld told me. But these days, the mood around dating apps has soured. As the apps seek to woo a new generation of daters, TikTok abounds with complaints about how hard it is to find a date on Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Grindr, and all the rest. The novelty of swiping has worn off, and there hasn’t been a major innovation beyond it. As they push more paid features, the platforms themselves are facing rocky finances and stalling growth. Dating apps once looked like the foundation of American romance. Now the cracks are starting to show.

In 2022, a Pew Research Center survey found that about half of people have a positive experience with online dating, down from October 2019. With little success on the apps, a small but enthusiastic slice of singles are reaching for speed dating and matchmakers. Even the big dating apps seem aware that they are facing a crisis of public enthusiasm. A spokesperson for Hinge told me that Gen Z is its fastest-growing user segment, though the CEO of Match Group, the parent company of Tinder and Hinge, has gone on the defensive. Last week, he published an op-ed headlined “Dating Apps Are the Best Place to Find Love, No Matter What You See on TikTok.” A spokesperson for Bumble told me that the company is “​​actively looking at how we can make dating fun again.”

In part, what has changed is the world around the apps, Rosenfeld said. The massive disruptions of the pandemic meant that young people missed out on a key period to flirt and date, and “they’re still suffering from that,” he told me. Compared with previous generations, young people today also have “a greater comfort with singleness,” Kathryn Coduto, a professor of media science at Boston University, told me. But if the apps feel different lately, it’s because they are different. People got used to swiping their hearts out for free. Now, the apps are further turning to subscriptions and other paid features.

Tinder, for example, launched a $499-a-month premium subscription in December. On Hinge, you can signal special interest in someone’s profile by sending them a “rose,” which then puts you at the top of their feed. Everyone gets one free rose a week, but you can pay for more. Hinge users have accused the app of gatekeeping attractive people in “rose jail,” but a spokesperson for the app defended the feature: Hinge’s top goal is to help people go on dates, she said, claiming that roses are twice as likely to lead to one.

It’s the same process that has afflicted Google, Amazon, Uber, and so many other platforms in recent years: First, an app achieves scale by providing a service lots of people want to use, and then it does whatever is needed to make money off of you. This has worked for some companies—after 15 years, Uber is finally profitable—but monetization is especially tricky for dating apps. No matter how much you fork up, apps can’t guarantee that you will meet the love of your life—or even have a great first date. With dating apps, “you’re basically paying for a chance,” Coduto told me. Paying for a dating-app subscription can feel like entering a lottery: exciting but potentially a waste of money (with an added dose of worry that you look desperate). And there has always been a paradox at the core of the apps: They promise to help you meet people, but they make money if you keep swiping.

Over the past few years, the big dating companies have faltered as businesses. Tinder saw its paid users fall by nearly 10 percent in 2023, and the big apps have been beset by layoffs and leadership changes. Bumble and Match Group have seen their stock prices plummet as investors grow frustrated. Perhaps the biggest problem that the apps might face is not that people are abandoning them en masse—they aren’t—but that even a small dip could prove detrimental. The current big apps’ edge relies on lots of people using them. Apps such as Tinder and Grindr “have an enormous network advantage over newcomers,” Rosenfeld said, for the same reasons Facebook does: It’s not that they’re amazing; it’s that they’re giant. If you want to meet other single people, the apps are where other single people are.

So far, the big apps’ efforts to avoid this doom loop have involved the same basic feature that has been around since the beginning: swiping. “We’re essentially at a tipping point for at least this version of the technology,” Coduto said. Like so many other industries, dating apps swear they have the answer: AI. George Arison, the CEO of Grindr, told me that the app plans to use AI (with users’ permission) to suggest chat topics and power an “AI wingman” feature, and to scan for spam and illegal activity. Hinge’s CEO has suggested that AI will help the app coach users and enable people to find matches, and a product leader at Tinder said last month that the app has used AI to power safety features, adding that the technology can help users select their profile photos.

But AI also holds the potential to unleash chaos on the apps: Bot-written messages and bot-written profiles don’t exactly sound like a recipe for finding love. For Gen Z, the future may hold a grab bag of sliding into DMs, reluctant swiping, and generally doing what humans have always done—seek companionship and love through any means they can muster. With all the time spent online now, people are finding love on Strava, Discord, and Snapchat, among many other sites. In a sense, any app can be a dating app.

Traditional dating apps might be most useful not to young people but to those middle-aged and older, with money to spare. They are more likely to be part of “thin” dating markets, or segments of the population where the number of eligible partners is relatively small, Reuben Thomas, a professor at the University of New Mexico, told me. Online dating is “really useful for people who don’t have that rich dating environment in their offline lives,” Thomas said.

In this way, the future of dating apps may look more like their past: a place for older daters to go after exhausting other options. In the 2000s, the heyday of OkCupid, eHarmony, and desktop dating, middle-aged people were the power users, Thomas said. Millennials had their fun on Tinder in the 2010s; many found lasting relationships. But as a top choice for young people looking for love, dating apps may have been a blip.