olyjohn

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by olyjohn 1y ago
Meh... technically, you're probably right. In practice, it probably won't make a damn bit of difference. It's just like how everybody was scared to run without anti-virus years ago. More people got their computers fucked up b
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by olyjohn 1y ago
You realize your EV (or any new connected car) is next, right?
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by olyjohn 1y ago
I'm ready to print off some stickers that say "FUCK YOUR ADS" and stick them all over the gas pumps that do this. Probably get me arrested for vandalism though. I want to just smash those fucking displays every time.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Now? Windows 10 was released 10 years ago.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
That's what Amazon Sidewalk and things like the "Find My" network is for, and one of the big reasons for the 5G push despite it basically being total shit. It's coming.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
You have to watch an ad before you can open the fridge to get your verification can though...
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by olyjohn 1y ago
The car is registered to some entity. If I stopped my car in the middle of the intersection and left it, they would tow the car and send me a fine in the mail, even if I wasn't in the car. This bullshit about not being able to ticket s
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Maybe if these places weren't basically monopolies, people could switch to platforms that don't censor them, and then they might change their stances. We can call out all this political shit about which party did what, but the rea
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by olyjohn 1y ago
I doubt that's true except for in your mind. What are you comparing it to? And old-ass Windows laptop?
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Yep, they will lock all that down. It's been coming for years. Tech companies have learned to do their anti-consumer work slowly and progressively over time instead of dropping it all at once. The whole frog in boiling water thing... M
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Nah not really. When you watch drag racing, they're testing acceleration. One car is always faster. Nobody says one is quicker than the other. Quick (when referring to straight line speed) is reserved for cars like the Miata, which has
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by olyjohn 1y ago
They used to be better. But all my recent Macs have had some real shitty power management issues. The most annoying thing is when the battery drains fully overnight when it was supposed to be asleep, and then you get the wait 20 minutes bef
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by olyjohn 1y ago
You mean a tiny computer in your pocket that you can mostly just consume content with and chat with others. Sure there are some neat, useful apps out there, but you can't really learn how technology works on a tablet or phone unless yo
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Sorry but you're not correct either. The mass makes the car stop slower, makes it corner worse. 100% of the time. Weight is the enemy of performance. You don't see race cars adding weight. Less weight makes everything function bet
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by olyjohn 1y ago
We know what happens when the tech is invisible. There are thousands of cameras doing facial recognition and license plate tracking and nobody cares. Everything we do is already recorded. Your phone location history, your vehicle location h
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by olyjohn 1y ago
$8000 is nothing. You see what a Porsche EV costs?
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Useful for shutting them up and feeding them addictive trash media you mean.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
So you want a thinner phone, but want to carry your charger with you everywhere? Or buy chargers and place them everywhere?
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Millions of people find Tobacco a very pleasurable experience. Not just addicted cigarette smokers. It increases social lubricity, brings people together at parties... It helps connect new friends together and can strengthen existing bonds.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Not always. Lots of episodes they are well out of range of communications with Starfleet. They have even mentioned not getting a response from Starfleet for weeks in a number of episodes.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
No the Eugenics wars were endeded well before the nuclear holocaust of WWIII. When you see Zephram Cochran in First Contact, it was many years after Earth was devastated by nuclear winter. That's why populations were sparse, and there
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by olyjohn 1y ago
The only reason the user got confused was because of the terrible fucking cloud-first save dialogs that they kept pushing. And all the different iterations of OneDrive that weren't the same thing. It's also getting tiring seeing e
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by olyjohn 1y ago
I don't think the Snap authors ever used Snap packages. The barrage of update notifications, to close my software constantly... that was super frustrating. All I had installed for snaps was Firefox and Discord. Imagine having a 20+ sna
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Who knows. I just know that I have uploaded high quality video to YouTube, and they compress the living shit out of it so badly that it looked blurry and faded. Now they gotta use AI to upscale shitty looking videos? Dumb as fuck.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
It's probably the 2.4GHz WiFi transmitter interfering with the 2.4GHz mouse transmitter. You probably notice it during YouTube because it's constantly downloading. Try a wired mouse.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
They mean turn it off so that apps on your phone can't read your location.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
It doesn't show up as a separate task. I have to go to Firefox and find the window. It's not as easy as an alt-tab and gets lost in all my other web apps that are in my browser.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Or was it because it attracted more people to the area, making criminals less likely to hang around?
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by olyjohn 1y ago
God the AI answers that it gives in the Facebook Groups are so wrong that it's hilarious.
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by olyjohn 1y ago
Didn't they just buy it though? Then they proceeded to fuck it up just like they did to Facebook.

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