“It has a mic, so it’ll definitely have eavesdropping malware” is quite a logical jump to make. Everything has a mic nowadays.

Pokopia, Bananza? It’s better than PS5 launch imo

Most likely an LLM generated app then

I’m willing to pay more to steam even if Microsoft releases something better for cheaper. Fuck Microsoft.

“President of Signal getting paid less than a principal engineer” must be the take here.

The same argument applies to Wikipedia: it’s a blessing these people accept working for <1M. They could easily get a job for triple the salary elsewhere but choose to forfeit it for principles.

Personal dinner: taxed

Business dinner: tax-deductible

I run a iRobot i3 and cutting its internet connection renders it useless. I’m eyeing a dreame l40 ultra for valetudo

How is factorio on deck?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Gross?wprov=sfti1#Brooke_Shields_photograph_controversy

Not only that, but when she wanted those photos to be taken down, US courts ruled that she has no right.

Truly the best democracy in the world.

Satisfactory?

I use the audio rooms feature with some friends quite a lot, where anyone can join and leave. Don’t know the official name. What’s an alternative for that? Will stoat work?

I usually look at it from cost per hour perspective. Tears of the Kingdom was 70 but I played it for ~140 hours, so 0.5 per hour. I’m ok with 1 per hour too but anything higher I start to ask myself “is the developer / publisher worth my support?”. Not all games can be judged by this metric though (eg outer wilds, unpacking)

So far, nothing beats the value of factorio. Mindustry (being so cheap) is a close second.

How come 1984 is before photocopiers?

I might actually use this as my primary phone (I agree with others who say marketing this as a 2nd phone was a mistake) if it gets e/os/ or grapheneos support

Not really, since Briar has a very specific usecase and doesn’t have cross platform support

I’m not American so can someone clarify 2nd amendment in this context for me? Can someone actually shoot an ICE agent and evoke 2nd amendment as a defense? How does it work? What about the state’s monopoly on violence?

Ah I see, that’s a long dreamed feature of mine. To be honest, I haven’t seen that feature work reliably in apps that do have it (eg otterrss)

Why do you feel uncomfortable with NNW?

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