I regularly manipulate my 2008 Toyota matrix’s radio and HVAC controls while never taking my eyes off the road. I won’t buy any car that forgoes the physical controls.

Yeah uh let me just put in my 512GB ram stick…

It’s apparently a license restriction that prevents this. Damn WotC.

Then pay a premium for the privacy, which Apple actually tries to give you (unlike Google)

It is a DVD, can faintly see DVD+R on the left side

I have an iPhone and while I don’t like Apple Maps, I will absolutely switch to it in a heartbeat if this is added.

Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there are too many highly valued startups out there with an AI bent. The gain in stock value has been mostly the big boys. In the dot com era you had tons of hyped IPOs of companies whose stock valuations went to the moon. That doesn’t seem to be the case today.

As someone who burns with the faintest touch of stellar light, I love clouds in the sky.

I think it epitomizes our cultural complacency nowadays. It’s the same reason why we don’t have mass protests right now. People are too comfortable to give a fuck. Assassins are the seven sigma outliers of the distribution but the whole distribution has shifted so far to the complacent side that we just don’t have any anymore.

The woman = Amy Coney Barrett

The pond = DC swamp

The sword = Official acts

I stick data I will almost certainly never access again on glacier deep archive. Dirt cheap. Good place to escrow data.

Honestly it’s a great publicity stunt. Not like people would give a fuck about toys r us otherwise.

And Mozilla is largely funded by Google. We all just hope they don’t pull the rug from them but I have no faith that our inept, slow government would stop that from happening before it’s too late.

Or run your own DNS with Unbound. Just takes a raspberry pi and/or other cheap low power PC.

Oh I definitely still do plenty of that, I’m doing my job after all.

I Remote Desktop from my personal computer into my work computer. All personal stuff happens on the personal computer, the work computer is work stuff only. There is no way for my work to know I am “goofing off” while working.

Stereolab. French avant-pop band, really pleasant to listen to when driving and working.

My only other thought besides destroying it: maybe gift it to a theater so it can be used as a prop? There are plays that focus on nazis/neo-nazis (e.g. The Producers) so maybe they could get some use out of it?

There’s a few things that are iOS device specific (like FaceTime) so I can see legit reasons to keep the different colors, if that’s what everyone is used to. Not that video calling should be a random proprietary tech, but that’s another battle…

Prolly their confusion is that Macron called for new elections, but unlike some parliamentary governments Macron isn’t selected by parliament.