I appreciate the sentiment and it feels relevant to my old brain but I realize it might as well be ancient. It’s the same comic now with different proper nouns. Are we doomed?

This alone is one thing that makes Grounded stand out so much. Why do they make me suffer? Shuffling my equipment in and out of chests is not fun. I want to organize it, and then fill it up.

That’s exactly the point. They did spare expenses, on a lot of things.

Kinda strange. Why not just use 45s? I guess perhaps cheap modern turntables can’t play 45 rpm. But I feel like those turntables often have automatic arms and might not be able to play this either.

My old apartment building in a dense city got our Internet with a setup like this. The ISP transmitted the internet wirelessly to our building and then the existing copper wire POTS cables were used to distribute it throughout the building. Pretty weird setup but I still got 200 Mbps down 🤷.

I was a dum dum and installed the wrong version of Bazzite for my graphics card. If someone is having drivers issues the first thing I’d check is if they have the right version for their card, and then check that the card is actually recognized. Immediately fixed most of my problems by installing the correct version.

Now if I could get my Steelseries headset chatmix to work reliably I’d be 100% happy lol.

I’ve been very happy with Bazzite so far. It basically just works. Only thing I have had issues with is chatmix on my Steel Series headset but that seems to be a common issue.

What are the icons? Some sort of AI code products?

Great article and one I always share when this argument comes up. It can happen with one simple mistake.

“anonymized” sure. I highly doubt they read every message. I’m sure there is lots of de-anonymizing information in the messages themselves

For example–

Anon1: “hey jeff, wanna play Minecraft?”

Anon2: “sure”

Thus we know Anon2’s name is Jeff. I imagine there’s a lot of this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system

This is my first time reading about this. I’m very curious to hear a lawyer’s thoughts on this.

If you change the bootloader to some other software, how could the company be expected to provide support for something they may have no knowledge of? Suppose I develop some theoretical SnowsuitOS and then complain to Samsung support when it doesnt run on my smartphone? It seems very likely that some conflict in my code could be causing problems, as opposed to an issue with my hardware.

I feel like to require this, you’d have to prove that the software is functionally equivalent to their software, right? (Side note, isn’t this problem undecidable? Program equivalence?)

If you replace a wheel on a tractor you can pretty easily define what it should and should not do. Determining equivalence seems simpler with a physical situation. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure program equivalence is not a solved problem.

My point here is that I don’t think it’s reasonable to legally require a software company to offer support without limits, because they cannot be sure that there is not an issue with the (unsupported) software you are using.

I use gimp but OP isn’t wrong. Doing a stroke on text is mindless in Photoshop and very convoluted in gimp.

Seems that guildcafe bought the satanic site and then just copied and pasted the text without preserving the hyperlinks.

It’s just text but I’m sure I’m underestimating it, especially at social media scale.

Anyone smarter than me know how much storage (I assume that’s most of the problem) overhead we’re talking with a version control system?

Given, we may not have a version control system that is appropriately designed for social media yet, so pre-existing software like git might not be efficient.

Part of the problem extended beyond software. Back when I got into recording, FireWire was necessary for the data bandwidth and it was standard on Macs. I had to install a card to work with my recording interface on Windows.

On a side note, been using Reaper for years and it has been great as a hobbyist option. I understand why any professional would use something like ProTools instead, though.

I prefer hyphens. Dots for file extensions only. Not really an issue in 2023 but it used to cause problems and I’m in the habit now. Pretty sure my hyphen habit comes from web development.

What OP is suggesting is actually in that Wikipedia article. Apparently it’s called “Baltimore Stockbroker / Psychic Sports Picks”.

Buy a bidet, it’s worth it.

Best purchase I ever made. Can’t believe I lived without one before. America needs more bidets.