TheRealKuni

The real reason for PIN login is so you can login quickly with just the numpad, even if you have to edit the registry on your work laptop to enable it. /cough

And deli style American cheeses, with lower milk content and thus a firmer, more cheese-like consistency, make the perfect cheese for a good burger. Melty but not stringy.

ABS which has a glass transition temperature of 105C, so they will melt.

Well, they’ll deform. ABS won’t melt at 150°C, it’ll just become soft and flexible. But yes, it’s a bad idea for your earbuds.

There is a philosophical difference using Open Source software. To compare it to religion is pretty shitty honestly, even if you find it amusing. Linux is not faith it is logic.

Hoooooly fuck. I was just riffing off the other guy using the word proselytizing. I wasn’t trying to make any sort of point.

Go outside and leave me alone. Fuck. I’ve already explained this multiple times.

Linux is fucking awesome. But you all take yourselves way too seriously. You’re making the community look like complete tools.

I promise I wasn’t trying to make any value statements at all. I wasn’t speaking in favor of Windows or of the Catholic Church. Just something that made me chuckle. 🙄

I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?

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First, do you think Microsoft would do less shady shit if there were more Windows users? I’m sort of confused about where you’re finding that interpretation of the metaphor.

But more importantly, as I explained in my other reply I was just riffing on the proselytizing comment. It made me chuckle to think about someone being advised to change religions after voicing a (legitimate) frustration with their religious leadership.

It may be my perspective comes from western civilization, but do Buddhists have similar child abuse scandals?

I have no idea, that wasn’t my point with the metaphor.

I was riffing off the “proselytizing” comment and comparing someone complaining about some shady shit Microsoft does and then being advised to change to Linux, with someone complaining about some shady shit the Catholic Church does and then being advised to change to Buddhism.

It’s not a perfect metaphor, but it gave me a chuckle when I thought of it.

I picked those religions because Catholicism in its singular “what the Vatican says goes for everyone” approach mapped well onto Microsoft and Windows, and I thought Buddhism, a religion with many flavors, some of which are more structured than others, mapped well onto Linux and its various distros.

“I see you’re worried about abuse by priests in the Catholic Church. Can I interest you in Buddhism?”

Ah, you’re going to visit Hell, Michigan.

“about a meg” because it’s almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.

Tell me you never used floppy discs as a storage medium without telling me.

homophonic

I think he was the first Pope Francis. But even if he were the second, that wouldn’t make him a homophone.

I guess all popes are homophonic in some languages, like in Spanish “la papa” is potato and “el papa” is pope.

Yeah, sure reminds me of borderline. But also not a professional.

Because, similar to blackface in its time, people love to point and laugh at exaggerated caricatures of something different from themselves.

And CBS airs lowest common denominator garbage that the masses devour.

he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades

Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).

And honestly not great at anything if we don’t have tools.

Just goes to show what an amazing evolutionary advantage we get from the combo of intelligence and dexterity. The ability to make and use tools to fit any situation makes us capable of anything other animals can do and more.

Maybe. If they’re following the rules they need you to agree to their privacy policies, and to do that you have to connect to the internet. I know from the time I did have it connected (before they rolled all this shit out) that they would let you use the TV without those policies accepted. They would just bother you about it constantly. Since I factory reset and didn’t let it connect, it hasn’t asked.

But that’s assuming they follow the rules. I’m not knowledgeable enough to find out if they’re doing this or not.

Exactly this. I love my LG, but it doesn’t get internet privileges.

I have an LG TV. Absolutely love it.

However, it’s not connected to the internet so it doesn’t do any of this shit. It’s just a really nice dumb TV that has the potential to spy on me if I ever gave it a chance to be smart, and I still get to take advantage of the various picture improvements that come from having the processing power of a smart TV.

Just need something else to do streaming if that’s what you want. Like an Apple TV, nVidia Shield, Roku, or game console. Some of those will also advertise to you, but I’ve had good experience with my Apple TV.

I sincerely believe that there was a concerted effort to disillusion voters in 2016 and 2024. The whole push for Bernie bros to not vote for Hillary and the push to reject the Democrats for the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza felt so similar.

Obviously plenty of people did feel strongly that the Democrats weren’t worth supporting, but I think the initial push on both of those, and a large amount of the continued support for them, was perpetrated by people who wanted Trump to win. They didn’t have to convince people to vote for Trump, they just had to convince them not to vote for the Dems. These actors understand first-past-the-post voting well enough to weaponize it.

Though comically, in Iceland they got the populace to convert to Christianity by saying it was okay to worship Thor in private.