Are movies and TV shows really accurate when it comes to American attitudes towards cars? I remember watching something where a character lamented how old their 5-year-old car was. This simply does not compute to me. My mortgage is less than the equivalent of $1000 USD a month - I’d much rather have an “old” car.

When I was in high school I used to bike practically everywhere.

A few years ago I got a bike again in the hopes that using it would improve my health. Despite still living in the same city I now felt so unsafe on the road that I sold it after a few months.

Kokomo

Wank

I work in ecommerce, so the answer is “ours”. I get far too many calls saying “Do you sell x”, or “How much is y”, and because of how terrible our website’s search function is, I can’t just say “use the fucking website, that’s what it’s there for” like I desperately want to.

We all know they use Signal, anyway.

I still use Firefox despite Mozilla because fuck Google.

I tried Librewolf, but YouTube (yeah, I know) ran like crap on it for some reason.

Me saying “RIP” was an attempt at hyperbole. That being said, shoehorning AI into something for which a big selling point is that it’s user-made is a gigantic misstep - Maybe they’ll listen to everybody, but given that they tried it at all, I can’t see them properly backing down. Especially when it was worded as “pausing” the experiment.

These haven’t really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I’m six foot tall.

These… things are a “clear threat” to fully-grown adults. They’re well beyond that for children.

If they thought this would be well-received they wouldn’t have sprung it on people. The fact that they’re only “pausing the launch of the experiment” means they’re going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.

RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.

I can’t imagine anybody would prefer work-sanctioned “fun” to the same amount of PTO and the money the activity would have cost.

Yeah, I didn’t consider that the exchange rate in 2012 was really good. With the new price and today’s exchange rate, it would be $180 NZD, which isn’t the end of the world, but feels kind of wrong because electronics generally get cheaper the longer they’re on the market.

That being said, it isn’t just Kindles. Kobos used to be ridiculously cheap, and now they’re the same price as Kindles if not more.

It’s crazy. I bought the then-current basic model Kindle for $90 NZD in 2012, which still works. I recently started looking for a new eReader with USB C and without the rubberised coating that slowly turns back into oil. The cheapest I’ve found is over $200.

On the one hand, it’s about time - APT was released in 1998, and it wasn’t even the first package manager.

On the other hand, I’m sure Microsoft will find a way to make it shit.

It’s still in active development, but you might want to keep an eye on Plasma Bigscreen. I’ve been looking for a similar setup to you, and it seems to tick all of the boxes, at least for me.

I only learned about it recently, and I’ve been too busy to try it in that time, but I’ll edit this post with my impressions once I get the time to have a play with it.

…Patreon has existed for 12 years. Websites have had “Buy me a coffee” buttons for even longer. You not noticing something doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.

…what’s hard to understand about people donating to those who make content they enjoy or tools they use? It’s not that complicated. Not every Youtuber is Mr. Beast.

Atlas himself cowers at the sheer burden of hearing about people donating to content creators they like.

Howareyou? Fine sankyou.

SATA ANDAGI!