I know this has nothing to do with my home computer, but this just further affirms my decision to switch to Linux earlier this year.

Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.

“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”

Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.

Thank goodness for Linux.

Wait until they hear about cell phones.

Philosophy students: Turn up with the textbook along with all of their notes, and write a dissertation on why it all qualified as “one-sided.”

Joy Division. It took several years of being a New Order fanboy before I revisited the earlier band and realized its genius.

It got bad several years ago, which is when I permanently jumped ship to DDG. It’s nowhere near as good as Google used to be, but on the other hand, it’s also nowhere near as bad as Google is now.

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Mitt Romney says “Hi.”

Guidance counselors. One of them tried to convince my parents that I was on drugs…in 4th grade. Turned out that I had an undiagnosed mental disorder.

And on the third try, you think you accidentally failed to hit the last key, and so you have to start all over again.

The sad thing is that most people won’t even give a damn.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

Good for them! Hopefully this leads to a stronger labor movement nationwide.

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

I look forward to the day when my refrigerator stops working because the company went bankrupt, or because their server was down.

I’m fine with language evolving; my issue is that there used to be a word that succinctly conveyed a particular idea, and now there is no way to concisely convey that idea in English.

“Gay” changing its meaning isn’t the same thing, because there are still plenty of ways of saying “happy” in English.

The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.

You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.

I pity the poor fool who sets up their smart TV instead of just grabbing an HDMI cable and plugging in their computer.