This isn’t speedrunning, this is a Rogue-like.

I’m keeping hold of my pixel with GrapheneOS while also keeping an eye on the new Jolla Linux phone. If that achieves even a half way decent experience, that’ll be my next phone. Android is too much work to keep control of your own data.

There is also a survivorship bias at play here. Old appliances that are still in use are exactly the appliances where all the constituent parts were top quality, that have had the right maintenance, that have, against all odds, survived. Plenty of those old appliances didn’t survive.

Yes capitalism has done what it does to increase profitability and desirability, but there are still got quality appliances that last. They just usually don’t have the most features, or a luxury look. When I got a new fridge-freezer last year, the guy who installed it told me that he rarely saw that model returned or repaired, and when it was repaired, it was pretty cheap. He also said he’d never buy a smart fridge, so I felt vindicated in buying the simplest device on the market.

That’s what non-binary people have.

So it’s the best bits of Kotlin in normal Java? Looks nice. Will give it a play.

Yeah, that’s just to normalise rentable levels. Once it has been begrudgingly accepted, there’ll be one that requires premium currency. Never buy EA.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: straight men are allowed to buy and wear sexy undies to both look and feel good. If you’re looking to upgrade your nethers, go to a gay underwear specialist, we have the best underwear.

That’s called vertical integration.

And before that, we were doppelgangers that had stolen people’s children away: https://youtube.com/shorts/WH5zYErWmAQ

Meatloaf is simple, but yummy and filling.

It’s a euphemism for “I heard you have oil, want!”

Being anti Israel is not the same as being antisemitic, it’s being anti-zionist.

Unfortunately BT’s systems are a hodge podge of different systems written and built over the last 40+ years, in various states of development from brand new, bleeding edge, to abandoned, running on an excel spreadsheet. To say the overall system was “designed” is to misunderstand the size and complexity of BT and its legacy systems. The fact that it works at all is a miracle borne out of the sweat and talent of great engineers hampered by busybody managers.

How does he still have any assets at all? He would only be allowed enough to eat gruel for the rest of his life.

and when a corporation rolls out lazy software with obvious flaws, who’s responsible for the damage?

Google. Google is responsible for the damage. Sue them. Please.

It’s not about subliminal messaging, it’s more the Illusory Truth effect, where a lie or misinformation is repeated enough that it is believed. Some people are more resistant to this thanks to critical thinking skills, but none of us are immune to it.

They couldn’t go full steaming at that point, X Cloud wasn’t fully ready, and gamer sentiment was against it on the whole. The Series S was intended for this use, but the timing was off. So they set about building up infrastructure using massive AI investment money, which also increased the price of hardware, eventually releasing a console costing over $1000 pricing most gamers out of owning the top end hardware, making the Series S type devices much more appealing, and getting them onto the streaming service, raking in fixed income off everyone, and raising prices when the investors want another payout.

Reggie’s wife could learn a thing or two.

1999, and a new Vib Ribbon for me.

If you’ve not seen Color Out Of Space, that’s got some great, practical body horror in it. Very unsettling.