I just enjoy that I can call them “xbone”

Well I’m not going to vote for Biden after that “garbage” comment he made. Such violent rhetoric.

I also know nothing about helicopters but I bet the answer is “yes… If you know how” with a follow up of “and they did not”

Internal RAID1 as first line of defense. Rsync to external drives where at least one is always offsite as second. Rclone to cloud storage for my most important data as the third.

Backups 2 and 3 are manual but I have reminders set and do it about once a month. I don’t accrue much new data that I can’t easily replace so that’s fine for me.

Is there a sim card buried in there somewhere that can be removed or is it soldered in, potted, etc?

… Or your car bricks if you remove it wouldn’t surprise me, regardless.

Might vary by locale? Around here (South US) it seems like every single store has their own rewards/discount/whatever system that requires your phone number but it’s not necessary for the transaction… It’s just an extra info grab.

Sometimes the user facing POS/credit card reader will let you handle it (enter/skip) but many places rely on the salesperson to ask and then enter it or skip.

But, I also don’t get around much so my experience is limited.

Same.

Cashier: “What’s your phone number?” (For the store tracking/rewards/whatever)

Me : “Don’t have one!” (As I remove the credit card from the case on the back of myphone)

Nobody has questioned it once. They don’t want to ask in the first place but are forced to.

But… well done is tougher and harder to chew than medium? Right? Am I taking crazy pills for believing this my whole life?

Generally speaking, programmers like to program (many do it just for fun), and many dislike review. AI removes the programming from the equation in favour of review.

This really resonated with me and is an excellent point. I’m going to have to remember that one.

Ooo, I’ll have to check this out. Thank you

Same here for the most part. Every now and then I’ll see something recommended that may be on the edge but I’m not clicking it to find out.

I should note that I’m not talking about shorts so I guess I’m off topic here. They wouldn’t stop nagging me so installed a plugin to permanently hide it :)

Slashnet still exists and it’s fairly active depending on the channel. #xkcd was bumping last time I checked my client.

“Demonrats” is my personal favorite.

… Not sure if it was originally a typo for “Demoncrats” or no.

Ah, delete the windows partition. That should keep me safe.

See the top left image in the panel. Goobers were marching with tiki torches shouting “you will not replace us” if I remember correctly

This guy has a radio show that I found while searching for a station in the rural south. It is oddly fascinating (and enraging) to listen to on long drives.

The people calling in are especially… Enlightening? It’s particularly interesting how many easily disprovable outright falsehoods that people fervently believe and want to call in to talk about.

Lately I’ve been partial to Yeats similar quote :

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Whoopsie!

I’ll join this.

I commented on a motorcycle thread a few days ago where the poster said “bike from 1982, over forty years old” (or something to that effect) where I had to do the math and realize… Shit… That was forty years ago.

O, and also short term memory loss.

; )