If you’re looking for something to read and haven’t read it yet, try Douglas Addams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s public domain, so getting it for free isn’t even piracy (hell, if you wanted to, you could even print and sell your own copies).

It’s not even close to Harry Potter, more of a sci fi comedy, but you won’t regret reading it. When I finally got around to reading it, I couldn’t put it down after I started, and this was well into the time where I was mostly playing video games instead of reading anything. Iirc, I read the first two in that first sitting, went to sleep, then read the rest the next day.

Hate to break it to you, but you can absolutely lose memories. Time is a bitch.

Then you hear about a lawsuit against redfarm for false advertising because the marketers didn’t verify with the food engineers before adding that and they source their silica filler from an asbestos plant down the street.

Those are the most accurate part of the comic.

I switched to linux a bit over a year ago but had around a decade of feeling like MS and I disagreed about whose computer it was before that. MS has given me many “why the fuck would you do it like this!?” moments.

It’s so much nicer using an OS where when something doesn’t yet work as I want it to, I don’t assume “because the people who made it are greedy assholes” is the reason for it.

Though I’d argue that they aren’t just catering to those who pay for it, but also to themselves and various metrics and revenues they want. Like disabling autosave if you aren’t saving to onedrive wasn’t likely from any corporation other than MS itself.

This support stuff (for problems that occur often enough for anyone to build experience) is one thing I’ve found AI is pretty good at. Even more obscure issues, and especially open source stuff because it was probably trained on the source code as well as any public support forums.

So this might stop being a factor, or as big of one, when an intern and an AI can figure out most issues in an afternoon.

Wouldn’t the extra sensitivity make it more likely to feel irritation on the head when you touch it? As long as it doesn’t get in the pee hole, I wouldn’t expect it to feel like anything, especially because the spice itself isn’t spicy but only gets that way after reacting with water. So I’d expect foreskin to be more likely to trap some moisture to activate it, too.

That miserable cunt would have been more likely to grab that chicken sandwich from your hands, add the spice to soaps so it always hurts to masturbate, and insist you eat something specifically made to taste as bland and boring as possible. Followed by getting his soap company hostilely taken over because his business partner realizes he’s a fucking idiot that a) one shouldn’t be in business with and b) is too focused on puritanical bullshit to prevent a hostile takeover.

I’ll cross that bridge when I get there. YouTube is already near the bottom of my list for source of information and I already have more sources of entertainment than I have time, so if they manage to win their war on ad blockers, I have no problem never visiting the site again.

I have a mini fridge purchased new early 00s that I recently left unplugged for a day or so to melt the ice buildup on the freezer.

Not that I’m happy with the overall state of appliances these days, but the reality is that technology is still improving, but some of those “improvements” aren’t for the buyer’s benefit (while others are). And there’s plenty of plain old cheap shit in a nice brushed stainless steel package to make it look high end.

Like induction stoves and convection ovens weren’t really a thing in the 80s but imo are way better than what came before. But, despite being a convection oven, the cheap one the developers picked for my place is the worst oven I’ve ever used. And I’m hesitant to “upgrade” because, despite knowing they can be better, there’s a good chance whatever I end up getting won’t, or make will be at first but will start degrading rapidly from day 1 such that it’s shitty by the time the warranty runs out.

That is the big difference between modern and older appliances. The older ones were made in good faith, the newer ones are a gamble because we have an economic system based on greed and it has progressed a lot since the 50s.

Funny because when I think of things bursting into flames randomly, the things that come to mind are samsung phones and teslas, not old appliances.

Is that smooth disengaging when the smart appliance is about to burst into flames even a thing? And if so is it really just limited to modern appliances and not a thing appliance makers have been doing to resolve flaws all along?

And you can decide the thing you want isn’t worth the cost.

With how many people there are out there, even something that happens to 0.1% of people over their lifetime will happen to 200k people living in the US right now (assuming 200m pop, which I think is low now). Assuming an average life expectancy of 75, that averages 2666.6 per year, or 7.28 per day (assuming every year is a leap year).

I don’t know what the odds are of having kids at 20, but I’d guess the conditional probability of two successive generations both having kids at 20 is way higher than 0.1%, which means there’s more than 7 new ones each day. And any of them might post this kind of thing where they talk about something their grandparent bought new.

From what I understand, thermal paper is one of the worst sources of BPA. It isn’t regulated because it’s not consumed or touching anything you consume usually, but it would be better to consume it than absorb it through the skin because at least the liver processes shit we consume, while shit we absorb can go straight to the bloodstream.

This is on top of being generally the shittiest form of printing by most measures, as the other comments go into. I’d prefer dot matrix or inkjet over thermal paper.

In my experience, the paper wasp description applies to the yellow jackets. They are fairly common around outdoor eating areas around here, especially near the garbage cans. I find they mostly just check out the food, though they will check you out, too, and will sometimes get right into your face, but I’ve found a good way of reclaiming your space is to slowly push them away. You probably won’t even make contact with them while you do so because they react fast.

Though I’ve also noticed that they (and bugs in general) are more interested in some people over others and I’m lucky to be on the low interest to bugs side of the spectrum.

MacOS wins the peripheral war after providing the argument “dongles are technically peripherals”. They might also count things like their monitor stand as a peripheral because a mac user from one of their own commercials once said, and I quote, “what’s a computer?”

Sounds like this article was more based on contributions from “marketing departments” than “journalists” or “anyone you should take tech advice from”, though to be fair I haven’t read it yet and am only going by comments and observations of the current state of “tech journalism”.

Edit: Ok, reading the article confirmed the previous paragraph, as well as confirming that it was another one of those tech ads disguised as a review where everthing “reviewed” gets a “best at x” title and the pro/cons lists are arbitrary and not a comparison to the others at all. Eg, Windows gets points for the “nifty copilot features”, MacOS has a con for lack of built in AI features, and then it’s not mentioned at all for Ubuntu despite the article mentioning it doesn’t have much AI features built in (but I guess that cancelled out because models are often run on Linux). Not that I agree that AI features should be on the pro list, but they aren’t consistent with their own metrics. Oh and I’m pretty sure any of them can run models, and even if not, most models have a web interface, so if you desperately want some slop, you can get it on any OS with an HTML5 web browser.

I predict this will increase a lot of software support required as people start figuring out that their setup is bad for their hardware. Pretty sure I’m not hitting the framerates my hardware could.

Wait until you hear about the other interpretation of it!

The sai one looks practically unusable, too. Thinking of the usual angle I use to cut pizza, the crossguards will get in the way.

I see this as a great taste, horrible execution. Especially because the one executed the best would have been better as a katana rocker cutter (which the staff isn’t, as a stick with a cutter in the middle is completely different from a single curved blade, to disagree with the other commenter).

A good set would have been katana rocker cutter, sai cutter (with a longer center blade and a smaller circular blade), a staff dough roller, and I guess nunchuck grain thrasher or maybe parmesan cheese and crushed pepper shakers. But I’ve always been a function over form kinda guy and hate artistic choices that completely ignore function.

Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot my motherboard’s HD Audio device just not showing up at all in my hardware devices? I’ve made sure it’s enabled in UEFI settings but it just appears to not even be enumerated by the hardware scan.

My previous mobo’s HD Audio also didn’t show up at first, but that one fixed itself by the time I came around to troubleshoot it (maybe an update?). Had to replace that mobo because of hardware damage, but I didn’t bother reinstalling the OS as I didn’t think it was necessary.

Other then hoping the next round of updates resolves this, I’m out of ideas.