“We’re in code freeze, so no more changes are to be committed until release! Also, the management needs this change to be fast-tracked to be included with the release, so let’s make it happen, people!”

Or how delicious they are.

Have you tried 15 more reboots?

Looks like I switched to Immich right on time.

Unfortunately deleting my photos out of Google now is a futile exercise. No matter what Google says, I’m convinced that they just make the photos unavailable to us, but don’t actually delete anything, ever.

Are you kidding? The 40-50 generation invented falling for stupidity of social media. Talk to 60-70 gen instead.

Trade-in value, plus $400-500 USD. I generally change my phone once every 2-3 year, so I figure ~$150 per year amortization is fine.

All of them. I dislike every marketing tactic ever invented.

Easy solution. “The Internet Archive” should rebrand itself to “Archiving the Internet” to confuse everyone who talks about how “AI” should be able to steal books.

Agreed about changing the copyright law.

Until that happens though, they must not be allowed to have it both ways - call us “pirates” when we copy their shit without paying for it, and tell us that paying for shit they copy is “impossible”.

Maybe. Probably. Who can keep track?

Libraries are still a thing. You can still go there to borrow a book, read it, and return it, so that others can read it.

Public libraries are under assault from every direction.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119752817/local-libraries-have-become-a-major-political-and-cultural-battleground

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/us/book-bans-librarians.html (apologies for nyt link)

https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans

Pretty soon you either won’t find the books, or even the libraries themselves. Piracy is the only way they are leaving to us.

your Communist inspired Fantasy Football League

You mean OUR Communist inspired fantasy football league, comrade.

Itanium jokes are never going to be not funny!

I’m one of those people that couldn’t get past the middle part. Plus, something about that engine gives me terrible motion sickness after 30 minutes of playing.

I’m a software developer. All my relatives assume that I know how to troubleshoot every computer problem they have. From cleaning up crapware-ridden ancient Windows XP laptops to replacing failed hard drives, they call me for help.

I mean I do, but that’s not the point!

Wait 5 second, they will tell you.

Chaotic evil is “makes you create a ticket, doesn’t work on it, and then blames the ticket for the downtime to the CEO.”

I take it as “received a diploma from an accredited educational institution”.

Isn’t this getting blocked in 24H2?

Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…