I dunno. The 80s had a very particular vibe. When the 90s came along, it just felt different, even as I lived through it.

I think the 2000’s didn’t feel that much different than that 2010’s.

But yeah maybe it’s recency bias.

Came here to recommend Brother printers. They willingly accept non-Brother ink (at least my one does).

Honestly love the first amendment in the US. That video is gas!

My local charity shop has an arse load of DVDs.

I’m very similar. Earplugs have been a game changer for me. Might be worth a whirl for you.

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Just wanted, months later, to say thanks for this recommendation. I don’t get much gaming time but I did wishlist this and picked it up for a song and have been playing an hour here or there of it and thoroughly enjoying it.

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Ok. Now we’re at 99 seconds. What’s next?

Google employee confirmed. Absolute trash reasoning verging on trolling it’s so ridiculous. Wild that you arguing so vehemently in favour of reduced access to use your hardware the way you want.

All of them

Laughable. You’ve obviously never worked in any kind of customer support role.

Most people are going to melt at the steps necessary to use adb.

capacity isn’t willpower.

By capacity I meant access to hardware. There are so many people in poorer countries out there that don’t have a laptop, permission to start using one for installing adb on it but also have an android phone.

welcome to an effective deterrent.

I don’t want an effective deterrent that effectively kills fdroid and the like. That’s the whole point. I’ve favoured android because it’s more open. The talking points in favour of it pale in comparison to the loss of freedom.

If casual users can’t bother with a straightforward procedure

Honestly just jog on. Please. It is not a straightforward procedure and my threat model shouldn’t need to include the steps you outline. There are already barriers in place that put off casual users.

The fact that you want people to stop installing open source apps that they trust is honestly deranged. Deranged.

Yeah it was pre-upscaled. I don’t think there’s any higher quality source available than the DVDs so it was almost certainly the original source.

I watched an upscaled version of Star Trek Voyager and it blew the socks off the crappy DVD or Netflix version. There were issues around edges in places but overall it looked markedly better.

Oof. I’ll try it out in the morning and see if I can figure out what I did before to get the translate working offline.

I did test out comaps offline earlier and it worked a treat.

Firstly, congratulations on the big move! That’s awesome! Well done!

Without a phone plan I can’t connect to the internet to translate stuff or get directions anywhere when I’m away from the school wifi

On both of these:

• The Google translate app allows you to download a full dictionary while on wifi that you can use without an internet connection. I used this in China a lot as my SIM didn’t work there (and neither would anything google). You can even just point your camera at foreign text and have it auto translate (this is a bid dodgy at times but generally gets you the jist).
• For directions you can get an open source app called “Comaps” which allows you to download a whole region and use it offline. Here’s their download page. It’s very good.

Oh I agree that gross levels of wealth are the bigger problem by a country mile. We’re in total agreement there.

People earning half a million a year are still raking in money from earned wealth from excess money. I suppose my objections are twofold; that it’s a donations based organisation and that wages just shouldn’t be that high (and I grant you hers are at the lower level of many large companies C level packages).

Be angry at wealth, not income

I can think that both are gross beyond a certain point.

Does she really need the donations I’ve been giving to top her up to that level? Or is 300K more than enough for anyone? It would certainly be more palatable to those giving donations.

I think that utterly ridiculous wages at C level generally have become normalised and the amount of people in this thread defending a half a million salary is clear evidence of that to me.

Nice one. Will check it out.

It’s ambiguous. Fresh white bread could be considered both amazing or dull.

Did you feel like the date went well?

If it was meant as an insult then the guy is a cunt. Did he give off cunt vibes?

I think the thinking is that half a million is a disgusting amount for anyone to earn annually and I tend to agree with that.

Have you a nice dark mode plugin going on that I should have?