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It’s like on my old Nvidia SHIELD, an update rolled in and all of a sudden there are ads on the homepage. Some people were ok with TV/movie ads being on a TV/movie device, but, why the hell would I want ads for content only available on services that I don’t have? If they’d at least only given me ads for the services it knew I was subscribed to, I would have at least been less pissed off since it could have been useful.

Reached out to Nvidia and they say there isn’t anything they can do, it’s built that way by Google. By no means do I just blindly accept that that was accurate, but, it’s still bullshit that with a basic update all of a sudden the nature of my device was completely changed (imo) and I’m expected to just suck it up or work around it with 3rd party launchers that weren’t as polished.

Dunno if it’s gotten better/worse in the last couple years, mine died and I elected to not replace it with another Android device.

Is this you? If so, my wife wonders what camera and software you used!

Right‽ I don’t think anyone expected spinners to outlast SATA SSDs!

Same for me, looks like us diverging for the third one saved it :-D

On mobile, I use Interstellar to connect to a MBin instance.

Absolutely! That’s probably the best compromise to make it easier without risking something breaking or not working as expected

Maybe, but there is always the possibility that Downloads and downloads both exist in that path and in a case sensitive file system, those are going to be two completely different directories, so adding that obfuscation on top might wind up biting you later.

Yeah, that was my first exposure to her and because of it I thought she was pretty good!

Turns out that when her character was supposed to act weird and like she didn’t know what was going on, it wasn’t actually Gadot acting, but her lack of skill worked out for that particular movie.

Sometimes, the best tool for the job is the one you already have. Is she supposed to go out and buy a new missile launcher and all the consumables that go with it when she’s got a perfectly functional stinger in the garage already?

Consumer culture has gotten out of hand!

/s … kind of???

I haven’t bought anything pre-built besides an Alienware laptop a decade or so ago, so, I have absolutely no idea what OP is talking about with:

• crystal-facet enclosures
• overall showiness

My cases are clean and I guess you could see the font on the video card if you looked into the case, but, the RGB just shines out and you don’t really have a reason to look in. The other two gaming systems I have in the house, I disabled the RGB and again, I’m not looking into the case frequently, so I don’t know that tacky fonts even register on my radar.

Keyboards/mice - again, RGB is all that’s really noticeable and that can almost always be turned off.

So, my guess is people don’t care for OPs prompt, but it kicked off their desire to talk about the only bit that is actually noticeable and that’s the RGB, if they didn’t disable it.

ETA: And that’s assuming people actually read the whole two sentences that OP wrote and didn’t just stop at the title.

“I’m just not a tech person! ::most annoying giggle imaginable::”

You don’t have to be a tech person to know how to use basic features on your damn phone! You’re not a mechanic because you know how to use the radio!

To make it worse, it’ll quickly get figured out and people will be calling in “oh my God! he’s trying to kill me”, get transferred to a person and be like “so, it’s 3pm in a Saturday and my neighbors are playing their music too loud!”

Yeah, nothing says “I just don’t like that scent” quite like “I ain’t no bitch”

Looks fine for me with mobile app, Interstellar, fwiw, not even a little bit blurry.

Especially when they put the price as free and then say make me an offer!

At least put $1 so I don’t have to see your bullshit at all if I filter correctly.

I called Comcast and it was horrible

human, operator, GET HUMAN, person, technician, for fucks sake! Bomb? Give me a fucking human!

Nope, nothin, mashing 0 on the keypad also did nothing.

It made kids afraid to swim in swimming pools!

Jaws and those notes hit something primal

Yeah, DE + the process that typically goes with it (brush, shave soap, lathering it up, etc…) can do wonders to reduce the irritation.

With that said, I even found that shaving in the shower with normal hair conditioner and a DE was a better experience than the 5 bladed razors with the shave gel

OP - The blades are so cheap you can use a new one every time if you wanted (you don’t need to, but you can)

Especially because Iran HAD a nuclear deal with the US that they were adhering to and Trump broke that deal in his first term!

Why would they ever risk entering an agreement like that with the US ever again‽

In my experience, Zoomers largely lack a lot of computer skills (specifically in troubleshooting), but, for me the huge difference between them and the older folks has been that the older folks will say things like “I’m just not a computer person ::laugh::” and refuse to be shown how to do anything whereas the Zoomer just doesn’t know, yet, but are more than willing to learn.

ETA: NOTE: that’s just the generalized trend … some of the most knowledgeable technical people I’ve met are Boomers and some of the best computer techs I’ve worked with have been Zoomers.