A lot of them want to use your financial data (what you buy, for how much and when) to sell to advertisers etc.

Maybe adding porn stuff in there taints the data?

More compact tech usually increases pricing.

Also the need to have it not break when regularly transported in a backpack etc (think moving parts).

Also it includes a screen and controllers.

Apparently that alt parks account is super weird and q-like.

They had “140k” members counting protesters (they claim). Seems made up.

For now I’m sticking with the low-but-verifiable numbers. Otherwise we leave ourselves open to being ignored the next time (on numbers/data).

If they only get to use their toys in specific cases, they’ll pretend it’s always that case.

Right now the key words are “insurrectionist” and “terrorist” and “illegals”. They say the keyword, they suddenly get the loopholes.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say they suspected “illicit” materials just so they could gear up for their hero LARP.

And also that honking/screaming at the car is (even more of) a dick move now.

They’re not going away, they’re just going to be more persistent with their cold calling, and more infuriating with their call answering.

Gentrification came for flavortown.

Rent is now $4000/mth. No loitering.

Excellent work by someone there. I love the customer service agent with the ski mask (who can barely keep a straight face) lol

Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment

A whole new generation of the Kobo readers just came out too!

I’ve got one of the previous Gen and I was so happy to find they have models with the clicky buttons to turn the page.

The main thing stopping me is that I only use my PC for gaming, and I know the support for drivers etc isn’t as good on Linux (though I know this is debated).

However if Linux became more centralised, with a “gaming first” distro like this, the graphics drivers would have a “main test case” to work with.

This is my theory anyway.

You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?

Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?

Fight in the middle east, we will

It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…

I’ve been burned before by these.

I checked it thoroughly for a smaller Africa inside it before taking it seriously.

Thank you!

Management get to say they’re doing big fun events for morale etc, but the employees can’t make it look like they did a bad job of it (i.e. did not make the party entertaining).

Can you tell me more about this? Or just a link would be amazing.

I’m worried about what this could mean about further SEO enshittification.

I always liked how GOD had a blue checkmark.

Like, “over here is confirmed to be the real Barack Obama, and over here is confirmed to be actual God”