Ooh, good Ole malicious compliance.

Make it a check.

Even better, pay with visa. The processing fee will be more than 23¢

You mean probably the most popular pics of her?

Those gals are probably 60 today

So I know whether to waste my time

“raw dogging the Internet”… I chuckled out loud

One day, after I am done with -insert reason here-, I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

For some reason you’re “insert reason here” was dropped by lemmy. I guess a sequential less-than/greater-than messes with it.

Right?

$450 and a toaster to use something like the external batteries I’ve used for a decade.

Have you seen the books?

I know someone in a place like this, and to move there they essentially sell any property they have to buy their space in the facility.

It’s not cheap, but these places also provide on-site medical facilities with trained staff so someone 65 having a stroke has a decent chance of being OK.

62 is first year of social security eligibility.

So you have nothing to hide, eh?

Read more here.

These tvs, like smartphones, track lots of stuff. And the databases they feed make all sorts of inferences.

They even scan what you’re watching from other sources and can determine what show it is, and report that info too.

They know when you’re home and leave, to some extent.

I’ve read of patents for wifi tech in tvs that will connect to other TVs of the same brand for a connection if you don’t set one up.

They definitely use their own DNS, and probably have some hard coded IPs so you can’t block them phoning home via DNS (I’ve tested this myself). I can see this traffic even when I setup DNS blocks - they still hit the vendor’s service IPs (looking at you, Samsung).

These companies are openly antagonistic and adversarial to us, and you “have nothing to hide”?

Another hero we didn’t know we needed.

Have my grateful uovote.

Though odds are highest for carbon-based, simple from it’s abundance.

Thanks for this - a reasoned, easy-to-grasp explanation of missions, without a lot of technical jargon.

It’s this kind of writing that’s needed (from any technical field) for those not in that field to understand it. I’m in IT, and work diligently to provide this kind of explanation to decision-makers. It’s not easy, when in your head you see all the “but this” at the technical level. We have to sacrifice high-resolution detail to provide a “good enough” image for people to comprehend. Sometimes that means being “technically inaccurate” - which then gets unnecessarily criticised.

I wish magazines like Scientific American (which has seriously gone down hill) wrote like this more.

God I hate compressed file support in explorer.

I even disable zip support. Let me use my own app for that.

Yea, from what I’ve read attractive folks hold our attention better, and attractive women do more so, for both men and women.

Something in the way we’re wired.

Wow, I never made that connection

And we already do this - every culture has a form, some more ingrained than others.

During WWII (and the Cold War), Allied analysts, spies and diplomats found learning Russian particularly difficult for just this reason.

*vwoom

I think he’s talking about with ARM-based systems things tend to be more monolithic.

I don’t know that this is true, I haven’t read enough about them.

will depend more on whether Ryobi kills off the USB Lithium line like they did the Tek4 line.

This is where learning how to rebuild your own batteries cones in. Nearly all of them use multiple 18650 batteries, which cost about $2 each online.

I’ve rebuilt a few for my power tools. Larger ones cost about $10-$15 to rebuild. And newer batteries have greater capacity too.