I think we can all safely assume that EV’s are not relevant to this discussion.

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You can just right click on it and hit “remove from toolbar.” That’s all it takes.

Putting it back in my toolbar for the purposes of taking this screenshot was actually more clicks.

You can actually do this with most, but not all, of the toolbar items. You can even 86 the refresh button that way if you’re feeling truly perverse.

A curse for you: A crooked scan of a printout of a cell phone picture of someone’s screen, embedded in the first top left cell in an otherwise empty Excel document, attached to an email, with read receipts turned on. Marked urgent.

I actually once had a client do the image embedded in an Excel document thing. You know how people use Excel for absolutely everything, even when they shouldn’t? Yeah. Some people really live their lives that way. I pointed out that they could have just attached the picture by itself to the email, but did not receive a response. You can’t help some people.

New cars absolutely do have dipsticks; they’re the ones designing them.

Notwithstanding the potential for software bugs or other issues inherent with monitoring oil levels only digitally, monitoring just the oil level is not the sole purpose of the dipstick. Being able to physically see a sample of the engine oil is a vital diagnostic tool and can alert an owner or mechanic to a head gasket problem or other oil contamination issue, or if something is grinding metal shavings into the oil, etc.

For what it’s worth I have yet to actually physically see a new vehicle without an oil dipstick. I guess they’re out there, but so far I’ve been lucky. But I have already had quite a few automatic transmission equipped cars without a transmission dipstick cross my path, and that’s already enough of a pain in the ass. If you’re lucky there’s a side plug in the transmission case you can use to check the fluid condition and level (after crawling under the vehicle…) but in a lot of cases there isn’t even that – your only recourse is to drop the transmission pan off entirely, which causes you to lose all the fluid in the process. And you’ll probably also have to replace the gasket while you’re at it. Needless to say, this is an incredibly moronic design decision.

Regardless of whatever it did or however it did it, the way Pocket was suddenly shoved in everyone’s faces by default definitely left a bad taste in a lot of mouths (including mine) and everybody just considered it more unasked-for adware. Especially since in its default configuration about a quarter of what it serves you is indeed flat out ads, when most of us are using Firefox with uBlock or similar specifically not to see ads.

Pocket provided a feature I suspect few people actually used, and in the process had an obnoxious presentation that a lot of people actively disliked. Add me to the list of people who won’t be sad to see it go.

I want my browser developer developing browsers, not other ancillary side projects and certainly not “curating content” or whatever the fuck.

I would not be at all surprised to learn that Pocket costs Mozilla a nontrivial amount of money and manpower to maintain, what with doing all that curation and all, and provides them bupkis in return.

Pocket absolutely would suggest you articles (and ads) by default unless you explicitly told it not to in your settings. This is separate from the tiles of frequently visited pages from your history.

The second slider down is your history/pinned shortcuts on the home screen. The third one is recommended junk, “Powered by Pocket.”

More info on that here, for however long this will do anyone any good:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pocket-recommendations-firefox-new-tab

It was redundant anyway, since it was just bookmarks with extra steps. But you can sync bookmarks between devices with Firefox anyway and you’ve been able to for years, so I have no idea why they kept it around other than to use it as a vehicle to push ads (because it seemed like roughly 25% of the “articles” it suggested to you were actually ads). I can’t say as I’m too sad to see it go.

Fakespot could arguably have been useful on paper, but I have to admit I never used it because I treat most online reviews as if they’re bullshit anyway.

This is solid gold-pressed latinum.

IIRC all of the past ones have worked over LAN, including over a private VPN if you so desire. I definitely played pirated copies of 1 and 2 with my mates. I had no real desire to get very deep into 3 because the campaign storyline was so stupid, but I don’t doubt you could.

It’s only online matchmaking with randos that you’ll be blocked from, which if you ask me is not really that much of a detriment.

True, but I’ll wager most of the things people are filching for these purposes get displayed on the screen at 100% scale anyway. Unless you’re sniping a picture for large format print, in which case I figure you’d probably be under less restrictive conditions… Hopefully.

use on a locked down school computer.

Shift + Win + S

I’ll bet they didn’t disable that in Group Policy. Lasso that sumbitch right off your screen and then just paste it into whatever.

The solution being, for the singular person on Earth who hasn’t heard already, “If you were the other guard, which door would you say is the safe one?”

Alternatively, the barbarian in the party just splatters one of the guards in one hit and asks the remaining one, “Which door? You’ll go through it first.”

Notwithstanding all of the points already made in the comments here, a large number of these people are informed (I use that term loosely) wholly by right-wing media sources anyway, which happily lie to them about the causes of their problems as well as the effects of what their politicians are doing. In short, they don’t believe GOP policies are personally harmful to them because Fox news is constantly blaring at them that the price of eggs and gasoline, why they can’t find a doctor, why they haven’t had a raise in 20 years, etc. is actually all Joe Biden/Kamala Harris/AOC/Obama’s fault, or because the Mexicans up the street stole all the jobs, or whatever.

These people live in a constant roiling, seething ocean of propaganda largely comprised of utter falsehoods that are nevertheless plausible sounding to the uneducated, and they believe all of it.

I don’t hate Discord, I simply hate that so many projects and companies have unanimously decided to use it as the wrong tool for the wrong job.

It’s fine for its intended use case, which is bickering with my friends about video games and fiction, and spamming each other with .gifs and meme images.

Ditto. Primarily mine is used to “sweep” the shop and dry off motorcycles after washing.

This is in contrast with how pi is otherwise consistently expressed on the Disc, which is “three and a bit.”

Notably, Bloody Stupid Johnson is so skilled/inept that he actually does make pi equal to three within the machine… somehow… which breaks reality in a small amount of space inside it.

Apparently King David had this skill as well, since this is mentioned twice in the old testament:

1 Kings 7:23: And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Most of the PTAC units I’ve looked at in hotel rooms have had daylight visible right through them. And I can tell you from personal experience that the GE ZoneLine machines don’t even have the hot and cold sides insulated from each other, nor the outside world. There’s just a poxy plastic partition behind the blower wheel that’s got all holes in it for mounting various components, and since this slides out with the chassis this doesn’t seal against the inside of the sleeve in any way and usually leaves about a 1/4" gap around the top and sides. Maybe there’s some kind of boundary formed by air pressure when the thing is running, but when it’s off it absolutely allows outside air into the room without much hindrance. That’s before you get into fitment of whatever current unit is installed in the old-ass sleeve in the wall.

Even your $99 Walmart window unit has a big polystyrene block insulating the evaporator side from the condenser side (and thus also the outside).

Everyone knows at least 3.14

And biblical authors.

There was also the Hasselblad camera back for the Moto Z series.

Sadly, probably not the ones from his first term. Whether or not his second term election was actually legitimate and the machines were not fucked with is certainly more questionable. Plus there is a 14th argument that Trump should not be qualified to serve as president after the January 6th coup attempt.

Anyway, Alito and Thomas were appointed by George W. to begin with. Part of this shitshow is also down to Obama failing to successfully appoint someone to replace Antonin Scalia under the objections of Mitch fucking McConnell.