Oh, it’s not real. I can’t remember what I was using before gmail. I was too hip for hotmail, so it was likely some boutique bullshit that sold itself to a marketing firm for their URL.

There is a chronodarkprophet@something.com still out there getting spam email from every site I could put my address into.

Hell yeah, I’ll read it when I get off work. One of my top 5 games of all time.

The average age of a first time parent in the US is around 27 right now. The iPhone is nearly 19 years old this year, and Facebook opened its gates to anyone over 13 right at 20 years ago. That means these first time parents were below 10 when these came out, and they likely grew up in a world where social media consumption on handheld devices was very common. So, when they are supervising their children, they aren’t doing it from the perspective that these things are bad, they are doing as though they are normal, because for them they are. This is what I mean with children of smokers become smokers. If its normalized around the house, it doesn’t matter how much policing is done, it’s just a part of your life.

In related news, children of smokers more likely to smoke.

The jury found that the marketing from Tesla didn’t line up with the actual abilities. Musk is on record saying that Autopilot drives better than a human. They also stated that it should only be used on highways and access roads, but even with their GPS always active, the car doesn’t differentiate between road types, and so will let you use it anywhere you like.

On top of that, Tesla triggered the car to wipe the crash data from the local copy 3 minutes after the accident so that the only copy of the crash data that remained was stored on their servers and could be tampered with.

All of that led the jury to giving 33% fault to Tesla, which, again, I think is fair.

This is an interesting one. The jury actually only faulted Tesla for 33% of the total blame, but since the driver wasn’t a defendant in the suit, he doesn’t have to pay the remaining 2/3rds. I really struggled with this one because to me it felt like Tesla was being attacked, but looking at it in the full light of day it ended up being pretty fair. The driver completely ignored the road while looking for their cellphone which had dropped to the floor, and then blamed the Tesla for not alerting him of the intersection. That leans pretty hard on the driver being irresponsible to me, and the jury felt the same way, which is why they said that Tesla was only 33% to blame. So, Tesla trying to overturn this verdict is them trying to absolve themselves of all fault, which I don’t agree with, and I think the judge did the right thing. Tesla advertised a feature of a car that failed to work in the way it was described. Should the driver have been more present? Yep. Should Tesla still be partially responsible for the fault in their machinery? Yep, again.

I honestly don’t remember. I don’t think it was anything special. My family was never big on birthday parties, and subsequently I haven’t been either. More than likely I stayed in, ordered a pizza and watched Princess Bride like I do every year.

Let me guess… just in time for a 2028 election where we all suddenly need our valid SSN?

And the DLC and “Deluxe” editions… The price of a AAA game is well over $100 now.

Another well balanced individual throwing money around to change the world to the way they see fit. Surely this will lead to a beautiful utopia this time.

This just in: Scotland new capital of Humanity!

Check the prices on the ones you think are valuable. A graded $0.10 is still only worth $0.10, but a graded $50 card might be worth $75 if it’s graded high enough. It really is going to vary wildly on the card.

Because Apple built it’s brand around control. If you think windows locks down their users, try working on a Mac. Shit, you couldn’t set a wallpaper on an iphone for 3 years. It’s about the ability to make things work the way that you need them to. Maybe Linux is better there, but Windows vs. Linux is going down a mountain road with or without guardrails. You’ll get to the bottom either way, but one might be a bit more hazardous.

And it wouldn’t be in that position if it weren’t easy enough to teach to the least tech savvy person on the planet.

I’ll just fucking say it. Windows. Maybe Mac if you want, but that’s gonna cost a fair bit more. Skip Linux. Everyone here circlejerks it like it’s the best thing since 3.25" floppy drives, but it’s a pain in the ass for the above average user, let alone someone who isn’t tech savvy. The first time they encounter a problem and have to open the terminal they are going to shut off their computer and burn their house down. Unless your friend wants to learn Linux, then I’d advise you to steer them clear, regardless of what the crowd here has to say about it.

Windows is clean and simple. People here will say otherwise and they’ll point to strawman arguments that don’t have anything to do with the average user, like user telemetry or shutdown/restart on update. Windows wouldn’t be dominant if it wasn’t user friendly. If my grandfather can figure out how to install his bible verse software on his Windows PC, then your friend is going to be just fine.

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frfr on god

It’s not so much the users as the mods. I haven’t met one I liked. Tend to sniff their own farts a little too deeply.

I’m glad I blocked the blahaj.zone instance just to get it crossposted into a barely relevant community.

…sigh. Here I go blocking again.

That’s pretty bad for a renewable, though. Most of the time you only get one at a time, and that one doesn’t provide much…

You know what, I was all on board with making this joke when I started writing, but the more I typed, the less I wanted to continue. So, yeah, I’m sure you can see where it was going. I’m done.