I actually had this happen more than once because of a coworker that uses Copilot and it would help him with code and use functions not in existance. He has since finally stopped trusting Copilot code without more testing.

A 33MHz DX 486was great. If you got stuck with a slower SX CPU, things were frequently not so hot.

I’ve had great luck using Intel NUCs as home servers and HTPC boxes. Since those are now gone, I have found that Beelink is the most cost effective replacement when I needed to revamp the setup. My biggest complaint on them is that the cooling fans on them are not super reliable and it is not easy to find compatible replacements. I had to order them direct from China and there are a few wiring incompatible variants. I ended up with one of them being the wrong type and I had to resolder the leads to match the existing broken fan.

That would have been inevitable, but the previous poster skipped the obvious Dexter Takes Manhattan

This isn’t necessarily accurate and probably depends on the model of open backed headphones. You can definitely hear music from many open back headphones when they are playing music if you are close, even at normal listening levels. My wife used to constantly complains about it when my office was in our bedroom and I had to switch to my closed back over ears that isolated well.

I am the same, so it wasn’t an issue for me either. I just wanted to confirm that you were not going to get the previous “fun” ROM experience.

Going bankrupt from a random hospital visit.

GrapheneOS will feel very different, and quite a bit less of the “fun” customization options, since its goal is security.

Fwiw, mine has worked with no issues on any of my Linux PCs.

I have used both AMD and Nvidia cards on Linux for a long time and with Nvidia it’s mostly fine now days, but their driver situation tends to be fine until the rare time that it isn’t. I switched back to AMD last year due to the occasional driver issue that left me dead in the water. And by occasional I mean like once every year or so, not something common. It is entirely possible that you’ll never have much of an issue, but I started to take note of my Nvidia driver versions and and especially noted when GPU drivers were updated so that I had some notion of where to try to roll back to if I ran into issues. I haven’t had any issues like that with my AMD cards for a long, long time in Linux (with Windows obvious the situation was more of the reverse of this).

I wish I had a boombox with a cassette player in my pocket.

Sure is

While certainly some people take it to a point that could be considered too far, I think that the reality is that you have to go very far if you want actual privacy today. I think most people either don’t know all the ways that their daily lives are being tracked and their activities are sold or they simply don’t care. To vast majority, doing anything that isn’t trivial is probably too far, and the more you talk about it with them, the more they will think it’s crazy. Most people of the older generation probably don’t “get it” or think it can be real, and very young people have probably never known privacy in their lives to much degree, so it can be a tough sell. I think Late Gen-X and Millienials are the main group that got to experience privacy when they were young and then saw it slowly eroded away in increasingly gross ways until it was gone.

I ditched reddit for good two years ago. Now I just use Lemmy, Tildes, and Lobste.rs

So, what happens when someone that doesn’t have social media accounts applies for a visa? I assume they just won’t believe such a thing and deny the visa since you can’t prove a negative. Would it make sense for such people to make a social media account and just not use it? This is ridiculous.

I was lured to use it during those days as well because of all the cool and wildly different screenshots I had seen. I did manage to get it working and looking super cool, but it was fragile and complex. It was so easy to fully break it in my experience. I tried to use it again about 8-10 years ago and while it was easier than the 90s, it was more trouble than I was willing to put up with for a DE these days. Especially since Gnome (with extension) and KDE could trivially look nice.

The most universal American unit for weight.

I’m totally on Data’s side here, but calling Spock a “Scrawny wimp” is nonsense. He could probably take down the entire crew on strength alone, not to mention his magic Vulcan Nerve Pinch.

I’m so sorry to hear that somewhere in between Clarence Boddicker eviscerated the admins. I hope they can regain their humanity.

Mine was a new TI 9/4A. Did yours have the voice synthesizer or hard drive? The voice synthesizer was awesome to kid me, even if most of the games were not so great.