Case in point, read this shit… https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/

Hey, glad to hear! I bought a used pixel and did almost no research as I’m busy. So glad to be proven wrong!

Lol also maybe this is just the new normal to get people to buy phones more often again. I just bought a pixel 8a for my father in law because it was supposed to come with 7 version upgrades before being left to rot. I assumed they release a new major version each year, so the phone should last him 7 years, but maybe it’ll only be 3.5 years now?

This is proven false, so 7 years of updates, not 7 versions for a pixel 8a, hooray!

Everyone thinks they’ll be in the ‘in group’ with a dictator. The only ‘in group’ is the dictator themselves. As you said, over time the ‘in group’ gets smaller and smaller. Really frustrating how people still champion this shit on thinking they’ll be in the special group too!

I stopped buying their phones when they started locking the bootloaders for the Qualcomm ones in the US. My last one was a galaxy s5. Sadly now I go with the pixel line directly from google, because I know it’ll be unlocked.

The only exception to this is google maps. There isn’t really an alternative, because they have the network effect going with all the points of interest added already, and crowd sourced by people, plus the reviews of business and restaurants. Even if you can get all that going with a Foss app, its not going to be tracking you, and unfortunately maps is the 1 reason for tracking people that actually gives the user some benefit, traffic data. I don’t think there any other Foss maps that gives traffic data.

So… The scenario is about your parents. Does that make it any more clear to you?

So… The scenario is about your parents, make it any more clear to you?

So… Let’s say your parents are murdered tomorrow. And the investigators and the news reports just say that they died suddenly on Monday, you know full well that they were actually murdered, they just ignored using the term ‘murdered’, you’d be totally okay with that?

Those 2 phrasings have the exact same meaning to you?

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Knew that was coming, at some point… I wonder if anyone grabbed copies of the git repos.

Yeaaah, don’t use open office, it hasn’t had any code updates in like 15 years. Use and suggest libre office instead.

Oh boy, I get to excite you with the news of SkyBlivion, a community project to recreate the Oblivion game in the skyrim engine. Its been in development since 2013, and they say they have a 2025 release date scheduled but as I’ve been following this project and SkyWind (Morrowind remade in Skyrim’s engine) for years, I wouldn’t hold your breath on a 2025 release.

Or fixing their fucking power grid. Sure hope the voters think about the use of that 220 some million dollars when the power goes out again this winter and they can’t heat their house, again.

Wow… While the action is ethically crappy, I never would have thought that to be an arrestable offense. Using the actresses to generate new nudes and porn scenes? Sure, but to literally cut out the nude scenes from real movies? Kind of crazy to get arrested for that without some sort of warning or cease and desist letter first.

Yah, been playing it on my steamdeck, I forgot how hard the first diablo was, haven’t played it since in was a kid. I got a warrior all the way to diablo, but couldn’t kill him, character wasn’t powerful enough. So i started a new game with my character and thought I’d train in nightmare, and come back to kill diablo in normal later. But then I read the game ends in each difficulty when you kill diablo and what ever loot you get, you can’t pick up before the ending dialogue screens, and diablo isn’t treated as much of a special character in regards to loot so… I never went back to kill diablo, because what’s the point?

Now I got all the way to level 13 in nightmare and stalled again because my character can’t survive the balrogs, and isn’t powerful enough. Usually when you got stuck in the original game, you could dupe gold or stat increasing potions or something to get your character past their slump, but they fixed the dupe bug in the devilutionx code. Now there’s nothing really to help you out when stuck. Crazy thing is sometimes you have to restart because you’ve run out of gold for healing potions after trying and failing to clear a level.

I might be putting the game down for a bit. It was incredibly fun while I played though.

He covered that one already, and he’ll probably say it again: “stand back and stand by.”

That’s not how hate works.

Openwrt is life.

Its an old one, but it checks out