For what it's worth, I did just test it with airplane mode and it still correctly identified the song playing. So at the very least, it's not lying about using a local database to identify songs, at least when it is offline.

As someone disabled, I have a bad feeling about how they'll decide which groups of people get the placebo vaccine...

Elite Dangerous, Rimworld

COVID-19 started in late 2019.

Why didn't he use the tow truck?

The problem with individual user blocks is that if someone submits enough of the links in a community, blocking them means blocking most stories and discussions so you can't really read or participate in the community without leaving them unblocked.

Yeah, the whole no public charges thing I think all countries have will lead to a lot of people with disabilities dying when Medicaid is cut off, if not a repeat of Aktion T4 in the USA. I don't see a good future for anyone disabled in the USA. The situation is grim, at best.

Friend is now playing Skyrim. *few minutes pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *few seconds pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *two seconds pass* Friend is now playing Skyrim. *30 minutes later* "Oh looks like they finally got it work-" Friend is now playing Skyrim.

Maybe a model where upvotes and downvotes can per instance be federated either publicly or aggregated? So an instance admin could choose to bundle together the vote totals and push them to other instances and it would just show the total number of votes on comments and posts by people on their server rather than the individuals. And if a federated server acts up and sends bad vote totals, the instance could be blocked for it as a trade off.

I don't get why they don't just have like, install cards with cheaper but slower storage on them for smaller game devs or extra large games that require installation to the system first before it can run. Seems like the in-between of key cards and full speed game cards which still might be faster than downloads and also helps game preservation by having the game actually on the card. Kind of like CD ROM or floppy disc games on PC.

Oh, I didn't notice this, my apologies. Turning on identify songs nearby reveals two new options, notifications and show search button. That show search button option must be new; I had identify nearby music on already since my last phone. Guess they added something new. My bad.

I mean, it didn't. They aren't the ones suffering, their son is. They got off scot free.

There's also that things have shrunk enough and that takes more precision and specialized tools to repair. And there's also that some people, myself included, have absolutely no business messing around with capacitors and the like. It is just not everyone's skillset, and that's okay, we live with other people who cover what our personal skills don't, and it comes with very lethal consequences if messed up. Which is also another reason that companies don't like people tinkering with the insides of things; electricity does not care who you are and if not respected it can and will kill you, start a fire, etc. It's one of the reasons companies don't like people messing with the insides of electronics; bad PR and lawsuits if someone gets hurt.

I feel like an additional major danger here is putting them in conditions where disease can spread rapidly, then pointing to them being hurt by an outbreak and using the very situation they put them in as evidence that "immigrants are diseased" or the like, to fuel further persecution of immigrants both inside and out of the camp.

Frustrating to say the least. Still use chrome because it has some things I still like, but I also used the registry key to keep manifest 2 extensions for now. Switching back to Firefox from chrome after I think a decade of use is going to be mentally taxing, especially for someone who reacts as poorly to change and is as lazy as me. Frustrating how Google has gone from the earlier days of don't be evil to being who they are today.

A shame; the way they make their open worlds with lots of little things to collect and do are oddly pleasant to play for that. Definitely something only I really enjoy, I realize, of course.

Just because something is out of my control doesn't mean I'm not responsible for or guilty of it, though.

And on the other hand, when you shout objection and the normal music keeps playing...

Making internal lists and data and eliminating public facing data aren't incompatible. In fact, they're horrifyingly compatible.