The exact amount of money I have in debts at the moment.

If I was 100% debt free I could work 3-4 days a week with the same amount of money left as with debts.

This would reduce stress and give me more time and energy to improve myself

Then you’re using tabs as bookmarks

It’s the old prepper adage: two is one, one is none.

The smugglers don’t give a fuck, they got paid.

In the Mediterranean they use any shitty dinghy that just about floats and drive paying people to international waters, then the smuggler bails out in a proper boat and leaves the people adrift to be rescued by NGOs or coast guard.

Multiple people were really angry when VGA ports disappeared, the amount of shitty corporate projectors with only VGA connectors was staggering and we had to resort to using adapters (“dongles”) for a long time until all of them were replaced with HDMI capable ones

Removing things is also innovation

Or do you still miss the VGA connector? A floppy disk drive? DVD drive in a laptop?

Corp accounts, Docker Desktop isn’t free for non-personal use

Well 50% of Americans don’t know what “socialism” is and can’t see the difference with “social democracy”.

Trump speaks at a 3rd grade level to an audience even less intelligent

American truckers especially love their FREEDOM to a stupid degree. I do get the lifestyle of being a road cowboy never knowing where your next haul is going to.

But they’re also a dying breed, new drivers want to get home now and then and not live in a truck for months without seeing their family.

There was a good documentary about this a while ago, can’t remember where.

Gandhi did non-violent protests.

He didn’t burn himself alive, nobody would remember him if he did

And weird trivia: the Alanis Morrisette theme song “I Remain” is not available on streaming legally. All of the other OST songs are there but that one is always missing.

Tom Holland was good, but Marky Mark was a big “meh”.

And the end action set piece was too over the top bonkers for my taste

But suicide by self immolation because of it?

Why? What drives a person to do that?

If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?

And the Lobby scene 10 times more than the movie 😅

And that is a bad thing?

My Xbox and PlayStation and Switch are also “closed ecosystems” and I like them too.

You can take background permissions from system apps on iOS

As soon as Chinese “fishing vessels” aren’t armed and won’t turn their transponders off to sneak into territorial waters

mAh is a stupid way to measure batteries. Wh is more relevant.

It also tells nothing about the efficiency of the device. You can add a 50kWh battery to a device but it doesn’t matter if it uses 2kWh at idle

I’ve wanted capes and cloaks to become fashionable again

But not like this…

I’d go with the amount of additives compared to the “real” thing.

Like basic bread is water, yeast, flour and salt.

If your bread has 20 ingredients - it’s ultra processed.

Drunk people and consent is a moral and legal gray area - it doesn’t matter if they initiate

Why don’t games have playable credits?

Let me play the tutorial and show the obligatory Unreal and whatever logos during it like in the movies

Still light years ahead of FB groups tho

Yes

Games. The answer is games.

The day COD, Dota2, CS2, Overwatch 2 and all that crap runs on Linux with anti-cheat and no performance issues is the day Windows dies.

“Open beta” lets them erase progress if they want.

“Early access” usually implies that you get a head start on the normies

A basic DOS system has zero networking or open ports

You post to a location you control, then post the link to that to other sites.

That way you own and control the content.

There’s a reason why Meta and Twitter hate external links, it takes people out of their feed

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/ 😀

But more seriously: I do frequent shitty FB forums where newbies ask the same question over and over again. I can just quickly copy-paste my longish and sourced response every time. I’m pretty close to just setting up an Alfred/TextExpand macro for the most common ones 😀

(On a proper forum we could just point them to a FAQ thread, but Meta makes is intentionally hard because ✨engagement✨)

You guys do know you don’t have to use Windows?

AFAIK there’s a ton of their best anti air stuff parked around Moscow just because of this, they can’t risk the hits they’d take if they move it to the front lines

Putin has no endgame.

There is no timeline where he can step down and live peacefully.

His one in a million is to conquer enough of Ukraine and somehow be allowed to keep it - but that’s not happening unless Donald wins the election.

We don’t need to nuke them even, we can just use conventional munitions to fuck up every military installation they have to rubble.

And chuck a few Tomahawks at Kremlin to be sure

Yes, it just counts the steps. Not amount of distance traveled

Nope, not anecdotal. It’s actual industry fact.

The phone you use combined with the country you’re in is a very good indicator on how likely you are to spend money in an app.

This is a perfect way to weaken Russia for a looong time both militarily and economically.

China will be the next one to do something stupid and a weak Russia is a good thing when it happens

Only the few elite ones, mostly the ones with music.

The fact that nzbs are old as fuck and not one service has been taken down is weird.

They bust torrent sites every day and they don’t even host anything.

News hosters have literally petabytes of warez and nothing.

And don’t get me started with real-debrid

Yep, the last time heads rolled in the USSR it was the babushkas who started it 😀