There's not nearly enough awareness of this. Even with root access, on modern Android you have to set up a virtual USB connection just to get at the files in the data folders of android apps if you want to, for example, sync the savegames between your mobile emulators and your desktop emulators. It's fucking disgusting. With every new edition they shave off a little more user agency.
So he repeatedly feeds dirty power into consumer routers and is surprised when they don't function correctly. Then he writes an article complaining about it while being careful to exclude any relevant facts like the models of router and power supply or any actual measurements from his oscilloscope. Gold star writing this is.
I bounce off Linux every few years because I always run into a "that's just broken and if you don't like it go eff yourself" situation. Maybe sleep doesn't work right, or battery health charge limiting doesn't work, or I can't change the order of the window control buttons without throwing the whole WM out, or my 1% lows go absolutely in the trash, or some other obscure things just doesn't work.
Also the whole "Wayland was supposed to replace X twenty years ago but a third of software doesn't work on Wayland" thing is just super embarrassing and makes me feel like the entire Linux ecosystem doesn't know what it's doing.
How aggressive is the driver monitoring with Openpilot? I don't personally see a lot of purpose to driver assistance systems that won't let you, for example, eat with both hands while it keeps the car centered in the lane.
We're perfectly aware of this, just as we're aware a large part of the starvation the US was saving Indians from was due to decades of the British forcing them to grow cash crops instead of food. An American collection of Indian works is no more a "colonial library" than an American collection of Irish works or of Canadian works.
This applies equally to everyone is always the rallying cry when a rule applies to everyone while not being equally onerous to everyone. It's like dress codes in schools that are much easier for girls to violate than boys, or office hairstyle bans that seem to only target styles used by black people.
Right. It's like concluding that traffic congestion has no effect on mood after talking to a bunch of commuters whose commute time never varied by more than five percent during the study.
So what's the best solution? Suppose you have a dumb TV, or a smart TV locked to a single input. It seems like there are big downsides to most approaches. Rokus and Fire sticks have the same downsides as smart tvs, with ads and laggy interfaces. I currently have one output from my desktop hooked to my TV, but the UI leaves a lot to be desired and of course now I have two input devices to deal with, one for the TV and one for the PC. What's the best way to do it?
Exactly. How many hours of WoW makes up for having to explain to a girl in her 20s that it's your first date? How much YouTube does it take to forget that you had to use your cousin as your best man? How many up-votes does it cost to make sure the person who picks your retirement home isn't a stranger?
I also lucked out and ended up married to someone I love, but thinking about the number of experiences I missed out on for lack of trying is enough to make my chest feel tight. You have so much time right up until you don't.
I had unfiltered internet access from around the age of ten onwards. I can confidently say that was a horrible idea and I would have been much better off as a person without it.
men failed to self-report changes in sexual desire while experiencing normal cycles of testosterone levels, therefore testosterone does not affect sexual desire
There are no polite words for how utterly worthless this study is. The authors, the publisher, and anyone spreading this garbage should all be ashamed.
Sometimes I wonder what fraction of people employed in advertising think they're making the world better by exposing customers to good products and what percentage aren't in denial about the fact they're weaving dollars out of human misery.
It is such a tragedy that a large percentage of modern multi-player games come with no options for bots. For example, it would be so lovely to be able to play the Master Chief Collection against customizable bots.
Dealing with dementia in the elderly is difficult enough, but it has a progression and you can feel how close you're getting to the end. Having to provide a similar level of care to someone who may live on for decades seems like a living nightmare. My heart goes out to this man and any others with similar burdens.
Weird that an organization like Netflix is having problems with this considering their depth of both experience and pockets. I wonder if they didn't expect the number of people who were interested in finding out what the pay-per-view experience is like without spending any extra money. Still, I suppose we can all be thankful Netflix is getting to cut their live event teeth on "alleged rapist vs convicted rapist" instead of something more important.
At the time in 2018, AT&T would let you bring whatever device you wanted. They implemented whitelisting in the leadup to disabling 3G voice in February 2022. I believe sometime around March or May of 2021 was the last time you could activate a non-whitelisted device.
I was forced to give up my beloved OnePlus 6 barely eighteen months after buying it when AT&T shut down 3G and moved to a whitelist scheme where any phone not allowed was forbidden. I'd just moved my family off Verizon for the same reason, too.
Wireless "progress" has been anything but. The 3G shutdown created dead zones where before I had adequate data connectivity. Even today I keep the 5G functionality of my phone turned off because 4G gives a consistently more reliable connection and faster data rates.
Interesting that certain terms have dropped in usage as precipitously as they rose, such as micro-aggressions, cultural appropriation, and mansplaining.
It's amazing to me that we're all so chill about a company in Redmond having root access to our PCs because they pinky-swear they will never misuse it.
Weird how psy was everywhere in the mid to late 20th century. It showed up in science fiction constantly, as if it was just going to inevitably pop up.
she has also learned strange psychic arts from Hindu mystics, which give her ... a naturally pleasant body odor
I wonder if anyone who has not traveled in India can match the sound that came out of my mouth at this line. This read was worth it for that line alone.
Her writing style is quite fun, if a bit try-hard. Definitely something to be enjoyed when you're in a good mood.