I already could never ignore that shit, that’s why I’m so thorough and motivated about scrubbing ads from my life.

Motherfucker I am still humming a jingle sometimes for a tooth powder ad for a company that went out of business before I was born, because my mother used to randomly sing it around the house when I was small.

That shit is pernicious.

Congratulations on your finely-developed ability to filter which of your perceptions advance to memory but I will pick up and remember just any random thing and it sticks

Installing packages, and software updates also require sudo permissions. Which means to keep a password nearby or easy to remember which is hard when Windows never required it for the longest time.

Macs also require a password now and then. I’m pretty sure windows does too, unless they somehow changed that in recent years.

I guess you can configure Macs to use a fingerprint reader instead of a password but that’s mostly a trap — it just means you don’t have to use your password often enough to remember where you wrote it down. Also fingerprint readers don’t work well for old people with papery dry thin skin (certainly not for my mother anyhow)

Not really much point comparing modern Linux to Windows XP on security inconvenience

Attribution is cut off. Please don’t do that, let the artist be known.

Is this the same poster who got banned from a comics comm for repeatedly insisting on stiffing the artist of any credit?

I tried them and they made me extra nauseous, extra fast. 🤷

Neutered

From the article:

we do not claim it is true

That’s some hard-hitting journalism right there

I don’t think that’s an autism thing. I think that’s just a thing for people who don’t have enough meaning and purpose in their life to feel like they had a day’s worth of experiences yet when the day is over.

Which is a LOT of us.

I’m imagining what happens is they organize a giant search party to look for you (this is not the good kind of giant party) Eventually they find your corpse and put it in a refrigerator for a long time while your relatives argue with the police about whether you were kidnapped and murdered. Somebody pays for all this, maybe the tax payers, maybe your relatives, I don’t know. Then after all that you finally get to have your expensive funeral but on top of being sad, everybody is frustrated.

I’m thinking, better all around if you just don’t die quite yet because that shit is just awkward.

Gluck auf!

I don’t think deserving things (or not) is really a relevant consideration for people like that. They just have things that they want for whatever reason and the power (or not) to have them

Bambu is working on it already — can’t print unless you’re connected to the internet and send your files through their server, can’t connect to the printer with other slicers besides their slicer.

They had to walk that back some; there is now a “developer mode” where old standard functionality is still exposed, but they’re clearly working as hard as they can to turn it shitty.

Feminism absolutely arrived because women made themselves a source of trouble.

I just came back from the National Park at Seneca Falls NY about women’s liberation. Women are even still today working for equal rights, and women’s right to vote came after 70 years of activism and fight.

We will get improvements to housing, wages, health care, and every other good action we need from our leaders and wealthy powerful society, when we make it more uncomfortable for them to keep helping themselves than to change and help the rest of us — and not one minute before.

I feel like this would not stop him from threatening Sweden, though.

First I was afraid, I was petrified

I didn’t know if I could live with silica inside

But then I spent so many years buried under all those layers

I grew strong

I learned how to be a stone

And now I’m back

From underground

I don’t erode so fast as all this crumbly sandstone all around

I’ve been transformed by all this waiting into something that could last

You just hang a sign around me and you send those tourists past

“Users don’t like MacOS’s liquid glass, especially not me, but they released it anyway and this is bad.”

I mean.. it’s not slop. It’s a good, old-fashioned well-supported rant about how Apple has abandoned good user interface design.

I do wish that anal-retentive, careful, thoughtful geeks would come back into power in place of flashy shallow thinkers.

But I can’t say I expect shaking fists at clouds is likely to accomplish much.

https://old.reddit.com/ is still working fine for me.

If Lemmy would pick up some more content about RVs and sailing I would leave there but meanwhile the old way still works.

Indeed, the plan for SpaceX is to literally launch computers into orbit to have orbiting data centers.

No, I cannot explain why this seems like a good idea to anybody. Beyond, “Elon Musk likes juicing his stock by announcing useless sci-fi plans that won’t come true”

OP If you’re really going to do this (questionable imo) then you’d need to find some kind of list that gets updated automatically. Because if you just make fox and OAN suck he’s more likely to find some other, worse thing you never heard of.

But if you do do this behind his back and he notices, you can pretty much forget about him ever trusting you for anything again. Those are the stakes.

Holy crap my iphone goes hard — I do not type like this:

“Women are not allowed in this world anymore because they don’t want their husbands and children in this country and the rest are forced into the hands and knees to get to work for their own selfish desires “