He exhibits this flaw lovingly too, basically letting her use communication with him to speak to herself as he just nods along as long as she’s happy. I think this leads to some of Peggy’s more narcissistic traits too imo, like thinking she speaks flawless Spanish despite it being fairly obvious she cannot haha.

Even in the future technology disappoints.

That assumes the dealer or owner lets you. Granted that’s enough for me to walk away from the sale, but generally I’ve not had a good track record with dealers letting me pull battery health figures as it’s beyond what they understand (dealership training is very very poor) so it scares them. Owners generally are happy to provide me a print out.

Imposter syndrome is a hell of a drug when it comes to negotiations on salary… Lol

I too, have now lost the game. 😵

Given the “Games as a service” model a lot of gaming has shifted to nowadays, this could be totally valid criticism of so many games to come. Like, say they shut the servers down or insisted they wouldn’t patch a wormable and actively abused exploit but didn’t remove the game from the store or even discount it… (looking at you, Activision/CoD)

And definitely!

This is your way out of America’s big tech nightmare. Take it. Run with it. Never give it up.

Yep. It’s like all of his supporters remembered the first term as some mass fucking hallucination. I had entire groups of my family bitching his entire term only to blame everything they were bitching about on Biden within the first year of his term, refusing to acknowledge the things his administration did fix, and then blaming implementations that Trump 1.0 did on Biden saying Trump 2.0 would fix them. I thought the 2017 tax law passage couldn’t be more obvious that it would cause issues due to dump, but all the gpo had to do was apply a time delay to it and suddenly all the “against” votes and dissent democrats did cast fell away to “Damn Biden raising my damn taxes. Feels like I can’t afford anything due to inflation!” And it’s like bro… We had a global pandemic that was so so much worse than it needed to be on our home front because Dump specifically cut the departments responsible for mitigating it before it occurred… Like how fucking stupid are people on average? Are we all just living with memory of only the past few months or what?

Honestly every networking company that couldn’t be bothered to ship with randomized creds physically embedded/etched somewhere on the device should’ve probably went out of business. The cost has always been minimal and the increased security value has always been readily apparent.

Unfortunately, to his base, it works.

If I were to hazard a guess, they’re reusing a mobile board design for this somewhat and at least in mobile applications socketed dimms draw 30-50% more juice than soldered. It could also be the npu or gpu requiring the 5-10% extra memory bandwidth they get from being soldered. I do agree that I don’t think it was worth the trade offs from a consumer perspective, but framework seems to generally make good choices so I’m thinking there must’ve been some outside pressure at play affecting the financials of the project or something.

Facebook… Or… Ugh… Meta… Has always had a long history of abusing private data. They’re probably one of the leading (if not the leading) reasons that people have predisposed low expectations for the privacy of their private data.

My reponse has always been “If that’s the case, why make it appear as though it’s suffering to us?” And they usually respond with some level of “it’s a test”. Personally I think it’s just a wild set of mental loopholes they engage with to justify not feeling any guilt or reverance for the creatures they are consuming but I genuinely don’t know.

Sure, but care or not they can both certainly influence development on your favorite IP. Having the knowledge to be able to exploit this exploitive practice is not the same as supporting it or agreeing with its existence, just simple acknowledgement of your ability to influence outcomes of which in this case I’d suggest picking the one that is forever in your own personal favor.

“God created all for us to enjoy. Why would he instill within it the sense of self with which to suffer?” Is a paraphrased response I’ve received when posing this question to a few friends.

I’ll never understand republican voters. Their representatives are literal bed fellows with some of the most exploitive and scam based businesses in existence. They’ve all been affected in their personal lives surely, and yet they just keep coming back because a quality life isn’t worth more than being… Racist, Misogynistic, or what?

Specifically the ones they’re most abusing. 😭

That does unfortunately and irrefutably occur. It’s not every case, but it is sadly likely a majority.

Can we get it to 99?!