But while windows has that grip, more malware and scams will target windows users. I’m getting tired of seeing good things ruined by their own success.

What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?

It’s just the latest version of “hot singles are waiting in your area!” They are going for the whales like p2w games do.

Not sure if this is still the case, but I see some do the reverse to get around the “no extra fees for using a CC” rule: instead of adding fees when using a CC, they set the prices higher by that fee all the time but then offer a discount for cash or debit payments.

Yeah, that and I was already wary of Google by the time using your phone to pay was a thing and it was an even bigger “fuck no” than when they and MS wanted me to hand over my files for them to store instead of using the perfectly good storage I have at home.

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I miss my cat. I’m a side sleeper and she would (eventually, after doing her night cat stuff) sleep right on whichever butt cheek was facing up. I’d need to roll over, first few times I’d just wait longer in that position but eventually I’d just slowly start changing position and she’d wake up and hop over to the side to let me roll over then settle back on her spot once I had settled.

It’s like worrying about a leaky faucet when the building is engulfed in flames.

No disagreement there, I only responded because of the “ain’t no other way” in your OP.

What about playing them on the original consoles? I’ve got a Game Cube and PS3 I still use occasionally, and a PS2 that I haven’t tried in a long time but would give it 50/50 for just booting up if I hooked it up, plus some portion of the failure 50% includes the possibility of repairing it.

Considering who is running things there, I don’t get why anyone else’s security clearance even matters, other than maybe increased bandwidth.

It should just be assumed that all national secrets are known by whoever offered money for them and any security that remains is likely more through obscurity than because of any clearance requirements.

Have at least one instance where one gets in the way of two characters having a conversation while trying to see each other around it.

And the whole “try but back down if it isn’t going so well” strategy is the worst part of it all because it helps them without even if a judge would laugh them out of court over it because of the set of people that would back down or be happy with a lesser settlement, which is probably larger than the set of people that would fight it anyways, plus there’s the subset of people that would want to fight anyways but don’t have the resources to do so.

That’s why I hate the whole system of “treat it as if it is all good until someone (who was specifically harmed by this) takes it to court”. And that’s even before getting to the part where the decision in the end rests in the hands of a single or maybe a small group of judges.

Army of Darkness, assuming self-parodies are allowed.

I still can’t figure out if Tommy is being laughed at or with regarding that movie. It’s so entertainingly bad, but he made a series (whose name escapes me) after that that managed to also be entertainingly bad. I can’t tell if his taste is accidentally hilarious or if he figured out how to bottle lightning and can just make hilariously bad media on a whim.

It’s hard to walk that line without drifting into satire territory, becomming a self-parody, or going too far the other way from hilariously bad to just bad.

I lean more towards him doing it deliberately from the start because he pivoted so easily to the comedy series. I suspect he would have had a meltdown about the public reception if his personality was really like the Tommy Wiseau character he plays.

Though I am pretty sure that a significant part of his motivation was to have sex with (or at least a sex scene with, no idea if they actually did it like in a porno or just simulated it like on most movies) Gabrielle from Xena.

Another suggestion is to have multiple lights and rotate them as you charge them. Freshest charge in emergency bag, then the one previously in the bag is for day to day use until it dies and needs charging. Though this is mainly a concern if you rarely use it. If you’re frequently stopping to help people, you might not need to do special battery management beyond just charging when it gets low.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it but car adapter to USB charger can also help here (and in many other cases… My daughter isn’t SOL when her DS dies because I got a USB charging cable for it).

Similar (to the first paragraph) for jump starter kits. The first time I needed mine after getting it, it was winter and the battery was dead and wouldn’t even charge until it had warmed up. I leave mine in the car during the summer but leave it inside by the door in the winter now.

I wonder if the language selection is similar to how they use bad grammar specifically to filter out people smart enough to see bad grammar as a red flag when it’s supposed to be a professional communication.

Lights. At least a headlight, though I’d also consider hanging lights that could hang from the bottom of your hood and/or a light that can be positioned to stand somewhere and shine where you need it. Sure you might have your phone on you but you might need to use both hands for things other than holding lights.

Also, if you have someone wanting to help but doing more to get in the way, you can delegate them to “hold the light” to hopefully redirect them out of the way. Just use the headlamp if they are bad at aiming the light.

Think about how much it must upset shoe makers!

Yeah, a lot of these fingerprinting capabilities seem like things that should be behind permission requests, if not outright disabled entirely.

Like ok, I get that if someone wanted to make a browser-based audio editing tool, it might be useful for javascript to be able to sample the output side after effects have been applied. But I don’t want every single fucking website to have that capability by default. I’m not even sure I want websites to be able to play audio at all without permission.

By default, it should be a one way pipeline. Whatever they put into the pipeline gets displayed or played but they can’t see any of the system-specific results. I’d prefer the standard be designing pages to work with any resolution instead of letting them query the exact pixel dimensions, which varies per device and I suspect fingerprinting was the reason they were designed like that in the first place.