Mac Miller said he wouldn’t join the 27 club and then died of a fentanyl OD at 26. Charlie Kirk said Texas wouldn’t turn blue in his lifetime and then died of a fentanyl OD two years before that happened. Eerily similar.

In my experience, the LLM usually proposes a solution, but it’s a crapshoot whether it works well. And plenty of bugfixes go well beyond a few lines, especially in older code.

It was originally conceived to replace Android, but then it got relegated to Google Home devices, and now it’s basically just a REST client for Gemini that’s bleeding users because Gemini on smart home stuff sucks even more than Gemini normally.

Check out the Fairbuds 2, then. The batteries still degrade, obviously, but you can reasonably replace them.

I’m starting to think that Carl Pei gets off on making good but somewhat unfinished phones for a few generations and then following them up with bloated, confusing garbage. OnePlus did the same thing.

They’re much closer than e.g. Samsung OneUI, though.

And Fuchsia! RIP Fuchsia.

Sideloading has been a word for installing apps that aren’t from a store at least since I started using Android in early 2010. There was never any negative connotation, aside from the acknowledgment that you wouldn’t get automatic updates.

“Cleaning up” seems a little generous. It’s finding them, but someone still has to patch them.

That’s a relief. It’s no good diddling kids.

I’ll probably pirate Ocarina when the Switch 2 gets CFW and buy GTA when it hits $15ish.

Until you break a tooth and you suddenly have 50% fewer intact teeth.

Basically, if you presume freedom of will and peraonal responsibility are a thing then it is significantly more likely that there is a possibility for a person to lift themselves out of poverty one way or another and they choose not to act upon it (rather than strictly corcumstances that make it impossible to do so).

That doesn’t follow. You can have lots of bad options and the freedom to choose between them.

That is not to mention that the wast majority of the people are simply bad with money. Like they would take out a loan on a new iphone when they can eaaily get a cheap paidoff android/a used iphone or they would buy a car that is way above whet they can comfortably afford

Do you have any data that suggests that this is in fact the vast majority of people? There are certainly people who do this, but there are also people who choose a newer car because they can’t afford the uncertainty of potential maintenance problems with an old one, for example. The newer car costs more on average, but it’s more consistent. When you don’t have savings to smooth out the bumps, you could lose a lot if a problem happens at a particularly inconvenient time.

A phone is such a negligible expense compared to a car that I don’t think it really needs addressing. Even a maxed-oit iPhone Duo is $100/month or so. That’s less than most people spend on gas alone.

And that’s ignoring people who get locked into payments on things that they could afford when they bought them, but no longer can. Job loss or medical expenses can wipe out your savings in a hurry.

I’ve seen GB sometimes on Linux, but they’re actual GB, not mislabeled GiB, so I don’t have a problem with it.

“Bootlickers will blame a multi-trillion-dollar company”

Do you know what that word means?

Can he get a Guinness World Record for the most Guinness World Records held by a US Senator?

Ok, IRA is a strictly amercan thing (I guess)

The cooler version is strictly an Irish thing.

Im afraid Its not that the capitalism game is rigged,

It is.

its just that you are bad at playing it.

It can also be that, but it’s volatile enough that no strategy is really optimal and even the better strategies can leave you in the hole.

(which is putting money YOU WONT NEED in another 10+ years in there EACH MONTH and not even lookimg at it for the bare minimum of ~10y).

Some people don’t have money that they don’t need each month. Most people don’t have a guarantee that they won’t need the money for 10 years. Remember, we’re talking about the US. The social safety net here is made of cobwebs. That $10k you put away over the last three years might suddenly be $8k that makes the difference between staying afloat and losing your housing.

The problem arises when the OS uses GiB but labels them GB, like Windows does.

The manufacturer is labeling the drive correctly as 1TB (1000GB, 10^(12)B). It’s Microsoft that incorrectly labels it as 931GB; it’s actually 931GiB (931 * 2^(30)B). A Mac will correctly show 1000GB and a Linux machine will correctly show 931GiB.

Also, even ignoring taxes, it’s pretty common for tech products to cost the same number of USD, EUR, and GBP.