Very few things “come with” a bin. Houses don’t. You generally have to buy one.

The last president to talk about that got a magic bullet for his troubles.

I don’t think it’s a matter of understanding (the seller can just arbitrarily choose to break what I bought from them is a simple concept), I think it’s a matter of exposure. As long as their things keep working for what feels like long enough to them, they won’t even see this happening.

And the average consumer isn’t tech saavy enough to do what this guy did to get it remotely bricked in the first place.

Nice, an analognowhere I missed!

There’s no reason it has to be post 2077. Silverhand was already an established character in the lore, there’s plenty of shit that could be adapted. 2077 was in part a time skip epilogue to a whole bunch of notable characters from the TTRPG, and I think there’s a decent amount of people who’d be down for the earlier stuff.

There are plenty of other horrific medical conditions without cures or significant funding into their research.

Blanking on the medical name, but there’s a disease that fucks the immune system into turning bruised flesh into bone. Most sufferers of it don’t even make it to 20 years old. And the existing treatments to reduce it all have terrible side effects.

Actual link to his “intervention”, which isn’t even in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide#Statement_from_Jimbo_Wales

I think that’s a distinction without a diffrence, considering he’s the founder and public figurehead of the organization. That comes with certain restrictions, like needing to accept that you’d need to use an unrelated psuedonym if you really want to do independent work where your reputation would effect things.

It’s kind of astounding how many semi-public figures fail to understand this.

What the shit? Pressing and holding power and a volume button used to be for force shutdown. It’s been that way for over a decade! Fucking hell.

Does that actually bring up a menu, or just outright shut it down?

The two button shortcut has historically been for forcing an immediate shutdown in the event of like, a full system freeze. It’s the same as ripping the power cord from a running desktop PC, and isn’t the intended graceful shutdown that these devices are supposed to get.

Unless they’ve changed things, that’s been the standard since the first smart phones and PDAs.

I have a first gen iPod Touch somewhere in a box here. It was press once to lock and turn off screen. Hold to get power menu.

Fucking hell, Samsung? I’m typing this on a Galaxy A52 5g. Same thing. Press power to turn off the screen and lock, press and hold for power menu. They did have press and hold for bixby about a year after I bought it, which I disabled, but it wasn’t out of box default.

I’ve never encountered this multi-button power shit you’re talking about outside of old click wheel iPods, or as the force shut down option (equivalent of ripping out the cord on a desktop PC, definitively not the normal/intended power off procedure).

Don’t know what you’ve been using, but this has not been some standard thing forever.

It’s not about like or dislike. I’d have almost no complaints if they added a button or a unique gesture to open it, like they already had with holding the home button (looks like they may have removed that shortcut functionality). Or how some phones made the lock/power button touch sensitive so a touch (not press) or a swipe over it opened the assistant.

But silently changing the function of a standard piece of UI/controls that have been standard for over a decade, and common on even slide phones since the fucking pre-smart phone era?

I’m shocked that anyone actually needs this explained to them.

It would rightfully be a news story if Honda’s newest car hid the window controls behind a settings menu, and what normally were window controls (still visually the exact same and located in the standard spot on the door) raised and lowered your seat instead.

That’s all without getting into the mess that is a company trying to artificially pump user numbers of one of their products, or my personal dislike of these “assistants”.

Internal emails from Google have become public through court cases which reveal that the rumor they were making search worse intentionally is true, and it was in order to inflate their ad impression numbers. There is no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt on this, and active explicit reasons to do the opposite.

Just one big incestuous sewer orgy of anti-consumer practices!

Basically it’s been demonstrated writ large that our governing body doesn’t have any actual teeth or intent to hold themselves accountable to the law. There are laws against this shit. It isn’t some milquetoast thing that needs to go through litigation. Putting this type of shit on government websites is explicitly illegal due to the Hatch Act.

But the imcompetence of our government is the point. They want everyone to give up on the federal government so that corporations have no watchdogs against their bullshit. You already see everyone calling for (but not taking any concrete action towards) revolution, rather than looking for ways to fix up what we have/had.

On top of that, somehow the majority of Americans have completely forgotten the art of effective non-violent protesting, the sheer amount of work and coordination needed for a successful movement, the work of managing the public face of a resistance movement, and being prepared to have the absolute shit beat out of you for a cause. I can only speculate that it’s due to long term manipulation of media and history curriculum.

The 60s weren’t so long ago that all of this knowledge should have been so entirely lost.

I don’t have a favorite line, but this copypasta always comes to my mind when I think about Kif:

I used to have 50,000 posts on a fucking really weird, small, Futurama forum. There were only about 50 posters on the entire board.

For some reason I literally roleplayed as Kif (the frog who was a slave to Zapp Brannigan) in every single fucking post. I remember that the other posters would say things like ‘post your penis again for me Kif’ with a picture of Zapp and I would do it (after using photoshop to make my dick green).

I was basically a fucking sex slave for 50,000 posts. I remember on one occasion a girl came onto the board and I really liked her, but instead of talking to her like a normal human I tried to pick her up by writing an extensive, 1200 word post describing the backrub I gave to Zapp Brannigan.

I hate that part of my life almost as bad as I hate this current one.

They may not want to fully wipe sda, there’s a mounted partition- sda4

I think I grew mine out before 20, but it’s stayed on because it absolutely made me look older.

I tried clean shaven a few times since and I end up looking like I’m 16 again. No thanks.

Customizing my pet pages on neopets made my later web design classes an absolute breeze. Granted, css and js weren’t really a part of the early ones. But it still meant I had one of the core parts down.

Watched everything before the gap for the “final seasons” I think the last episode was an AU of them all living happily in the more developed enemy state. Last thing I remember Eren doing is running off and becoming this big doomsday titan with an exposed multi mile ribcage thing leading a stupid big horde of titans.

Welcome to the new global military industrial complex, where Palantir masturbates using international militaries pitched against each other.