Aloha_Alaska

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I’ve never seen a more relevant username.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! They didn’t explore the “aerial flight” or “beautiful colors” tech tree at all, but are maxed on armor and chomping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends on how reliable you think my Uncle Charlie is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was about to make a similar comment but you beat me to it.

It recently showed me a bicycle as part of “select all motorcycles” so I didn’t pick it. And I failed. Twice. Finally picked the bicycle and it let me through. Guess the computer knows best.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, I mean not always but for probably 20 years their laser printers have been terrible, and their inkjets have been not consumer friendly for even longer than that.

For instance, I once had an HP color laser printer that was designed in a way that toner dust would build up on the prism and mirror, causing streaks and splotches to be printed on the page. The official recommendation was to buy a new printer, and the local repair shop said is it even though it’s a known issue and they’re capable of fixing it, getting it apart and putting all the pieces back together is such a time consuming hassle that it would be just as cheap to buy a new one. A $300 color laser printer. If I did it successfully, I would need to do it again in a year or two anyway. I now have a Brother; it’s black and white only but has been rock solid.

I did see on The Other Site a discussion from a year or two ago that Brother isn’t so great anymore, but the consensus seemed to be that they’re still better than anything other than maybe those Epson printers with the ink reservoirs.

I remember that my high school, college, and first couple of jobs had amazing HP laser printers, but sadly those days are gone and the company is a shell of what it used to be. I would not buy an HP printer at this point.

Sorry for your suffering but welcome to the club.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Oh, and how about some ethics rules? Didn't Amy Coney Barrett just come out in favor?

According to another poster in a different thread a few days ago, the ethics guidelines are basically already in place and just aren’t enforced. That person suggested that we need more enforcement or penalties rather than more ethics rules.

I like your idea of adding more justices because of what you said about diluting the president’s power to appoint a majority. It’s an interesting point, although we shouldn’t be in the situation we are in now (“Wait, wait, you can’t rush the process…oh, now that we have the majority we need to finish this quickly!”)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

I think you have to be more specific.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We are talking about a code editor, not a whole operating system!

/s

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wait, what the heck is BeReal? I’ve never heard of it before?

Does that mean I’m old now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I upvoted you because I don’t award contracts, so I have no idea if that’s common practice but I hope your comment gets some visibility and discussion. It’s quite interesting to think about the value of our time or effort and how maximizing those isn’t a bribe, it’s just common sense.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Huh? AppleTalk was, according to the headline, discontinued in 2009 if that’s the useless feature you mean. It wasn’t useless before that, but eventually TCP/IP overtook it and it was no longer practical to run two networking stacks side by side. It is very similar to Microsoft’s extensive use of IPX/SPX up through Windows XP (IIRC XP was the last to include it).

Apple certainly has its flaws, including a bug I reported many years ago in Photos that makes it useless to me, but them discontinuing an aging network protocol nearly 25 years ago seems like a weird thing for you to be upset about, so maybe I misunderstood your post.

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