Don’t feel embarrassed. The developers failed.

Is getting scared once in a while actually bad for the animal? Or is that just an inconvenience?

I think comparing fireworks to thunderstorms is okay. I would even go as far as to say that thunderstorms are where this behavior comes from. But in either case, we can not stop those and they have been around since the planet exists. So I have my doubts.

Unnecessary noise pollution still sucks, no questions asked, mostly from cars and motorcycles for me. But these once or twice per year things affecting pets? I don’t think so.

Old 120 Hz veteran here, when it was all new and shiny: It was fairly easy to go back to 60 Hz. The loss in quality was absolutely not worth it back in the day. The displays today got better, but so did my standard. I think it will take OLED or microLED to get me to higher refresh rates again.

You don’t exploit by paying the price that was agreed on. The driver let’s himself be exploited, but that is not the fault of the customer. If I agree to give away 100 $ bills I don’t get exploited by people taking them.

I agree, that season (6?) was really good.

They keep making Rick and Morty. And so far they didn’t fuck up, still very funny.

1. In this case, the service is disconnected from your data. With Google et al., your data is the product.
2. Closing or some other form of taking your banking account hostage until you give them permission is not exactly something that should ever be possible to happen. This kind of service needs to be heavily regulated. Much unlike Facebook or some other social media stuff.

The many different distros are also bad thing for the same reason. The same way 100 different types of flour in the shelve would be overwhelming.

They removed “Don’t be evil” as their big motto. So indeed fuck them. And yes I know it is still somewhere in their code of conduct or something, but holy cow why would they ever feel the need to move that in the back? Was that after employees did not want to work for military stuff?

Except that GPT4 in Bing seems to suck every time I try it.

So it is like browsers out of the USA then with their secret (company is not allowed to tell anyone about it) data draining laws?

What do you mean with hardened? Why beta for financial stuff?

Since when is that option a thing? Always thought I need an extension for that.

(not too afraid to ask) What is the context? Don’t know Grindr.

Why not? But configure it right, just like you need to do with any other system.

Peertube? Is that a thing or just an idea you just had? Sounds amazing!

Most people don’t use ad blockers. Link below says 43% use them world wide, as per user reports. Ad blocking is (only) detected in 18% of web sessions on computers among American users. https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users

Had to zoom in to find out why it is suddenly year 200. There is a tiny 1 in there.

How efficient is it? For that price I would expect top values. But seeing those 2 doors (for whatever reason someone wants to waste space like that): I doubt it.

Here is what GPT 4 says:

Me: What is the longest 5-letter word?

ChatGPT:

The concept of the “longest” 5-letter word can be interpreted in two ways:

1. If “longest” refers to the physical length of the word (how it is pronounced), then it can vary based on different accents and languages. However, in English, five-letter words with a large number of syllables such as “queue” or “eerie” might be considered.

2. If “longest” refers to the word with the most definitions or uses, it’s hard to definitively state which 5-letter word that would be, but “round” and “sound” are examples of five-letter words with a large number of definitions and uses.

It’s also important to note that in English, all 5-letter words contain the same number of letters and would, therefore, have the same length if written in the same font and size.