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    28 days ago

    I’ve never lived in a society where a microwave is used for anything other than heating things up—all be it, poorly.

    Then I hear of people in some countries use themi cook. What a waste your time, food, and mone?

    In the apocalypse; Microwavers.are.day 1 done at best.




  • God damn, not even the Vatican has laws like that now. Their age of consent went from 12 to 18 recently. I believe the marriage exception got raised to 14, which is still kind of wild, but not Iowa levels. Many of those laws are in place for, and exceptional to, accomodating marriages that occured in a culture where it is acceptable but the marriage is obviously no longer in that country/culture.

    For those that consider marriage “a thing” these laws are intended to balance the respect of marriage and respect the immaturity of a young mind and body. For those, like me, that recognise there is literally no purpose for marriage, they’re entirely insane laws to go that low.





  • Do usual dev mode shit…

    1. You then have to confirm that you aren’t being coached/guided/instructed by a bad actor to turn off the security measures.

    2. This is followed by a device restart and re-authentication that “cuts off any remote access or active phone calls a scammer might be using to watch what you’re doing.”

    3. A required “Security wait” takes one day to “confirm that this is really you who’s making this change with our biometric authentication (fingerprint or face unlock) or device PIN.” This is a one-time wait.

    4. Afterwards, you can install apps from unverified developers indefinitely, while there’s also a 7-day “Turn on temporarily” option.

    I don’t think the wait is necessary. If someone were to continue being scammed after a reboot, they’d continue to be scamme tomorrow. An additional education piece after the reboot would be more effective.


  • So long as the result is a bazillion comments with as many upvotes as downvotes on each, it’s a good shitpost. Bonus points if it captures those two cliche users that end up frustrating the hell out of each other as they strive to be first in a 20 comment head-to-head marathon that goes absolutely no where. All because some people take it seriously while others take it as a joke; minimal effort by OP.

    This community seems to lean quite a bit toward people taking things seriously, or they simply don’t notice where they are before they unsheath their keyboards.



  • I swear the relentless feature and tip popups are now AI generated too…

    Yesterday, I connected Excel to a database, pulled and cleaned up some data with PowerQuery, then loaded it in. Popup was like, "Did you know you can change the colours and theme of your query tables?’ and points to the window previewing different table colours…

    No human would be so dumb to have made it.

    It’s like someone just engine-swapprd a car, and someone stands in front of them pointing, “Hey, did you know you can put oil in your engine by unscrewing this cap?”

    I turn these things off in the settings, but it doesn’t work. Every day it’s like three or four absolutely moronic and in the way popups. It is an absolute pleasure to log off the work computer each afternoon and go back to Linux.






  • Yeah. I remember as a teen, my father said I should look at learning Shockwave as a potential career pathway after school. It was taking the web by storm and many people were convinced that Macromedia’s visions was the future of the web.

    I still kind of remember Macromedia Lingo. I had taught myself HTML—which was an extremely easy thing to learn for a child back in that day—and I started learning Director, JS, and Shockwave.

    By the time I was older and out of school, Adobe had aquired Macromedia. But in a few short years during that time, websites had gone from basic HTML, images, frames, etc. to entirely animated opening scenes vectoring together beautifully over the top interfaces. UX was out the window because everyone’s brain was happy to explode at how cool an interface functioned…once it finally loaded lol. We used to visit websites to show friends how cool they were, still amazed at a cool “loading site” Shockwave animation, happily sitting there waiting, because we knew soon sprites would follow the cursor around lol