CentipedeFarrier

Same, I get tons and tons of survey request texts for some reason. I report them as spam, block, and move on. Too big a risk that it’s a data harvesting front looking for targets or something, since the uptick in number of texts and groups sending them in the last two-ish years has been massive…

Depends who they define as “customers”, probably. The little people using the stuff aren’t customers, in their eyes.

Not a dick move making someone experience the other option if they can’t appreciate the service you were willing to provide for them out of the kindness of your heart and presumably asking nothing, or very little, in return.

I recently had someone mention that I’m not updating my self-hosted stuff frequently enough (by their entirely arbitrary personal metric), and had the pleasure of writing out some… not overly nice messages about how I’m being selfless and generous sharing my very time consuming hobby with them and asking absolutely nothing in return, and if they want more they can pay for it from someone else or learn to do it themselves. If you make my hobby feel like work, I’m not going to treat it like a job, I’m just going to stop sharing it with you.

I don’t know about this device specifically, since it seems a bit too specialized for plausible deniability and I’m not really sure what the regulations surrounding this specific market are, but a lot of times not being available through insurance is actually an effort to keep costs down for the uninsured and underinsured, as medical devices are regulated much more strictly than things which can be purchased by anyone who wants one, and meeting those regulations and undergoing testing and whatever else is super expensive.

All those weird “as seen on tv” gadgets are that sort of thing, where you go “who is that even for?” because they show able-bodied people using them so as not to imply the thing is a disability aid.

I mean I have that option as well, but I don’t use ice, so I don’t waste the freezer space, especially when that freezer space is already consumed by the built-in ice maker that isn’t hooked up to a water line, even tho I could easily feed the RO tank to it.

I do use ice trays for freezing milk before it goes bad, or leftover coffee for making iced coffee, but that’s about it. I have some really nice silicone honeycomb trays that have silicone lids, so perfect for milk and coffee, which typically don’t get used right away.

I never have ice at home. My fridge can do that, but I don’t ever use ice*, and my drinking water is already RO so no need to muck up a very expensive fridge filter every few months for no reason.

* I use ice for making beer, but it’s an entire 5-gallon bucket frozen solid, usually just thrown outside overnight in winter.

They still lock down features, as of like maybe 5 yrs ago. Idk about today specifically but I wouldn’t doubt it, if only because most people don’t realize that it’s locking something the OS can do by default.

For example, if you have a major brand phone (smaller brands that don’t have contracts with phone companies are unlikely to have this issue) with OEM OS, on a plan in which you pay separately for the WiFi hotspot feature, even though it’s built into your operating system, hotspot is locked and you can’t access it.

This is even true if you buy your own device, I discovered, and was very very very angry about. Enough that I switched providers, because fuck that nonsense.

Too many eyes

I don’t recall saying all attackers were necessarily from different countries, because that’s not true at all. I said it’s unlikely they are from the same one, because statistically that is true.

Even if they did track them down, then what?

The world is huge, it’s unlikely that a particular attacker is going to be from the same country, so how are they going to do anything about it, really?

The victim can report to the government local to the hackers, but that local government is under no real obligation to do anything about it.

A science book and a plant.

If it makes you feel better, the people who stick their arms in aren’t allergic to mosquito bites. Doesn’t bother them to get bit beyond the feeling of being bit.

I mean I guess it could happen that they are just masochistic, but typically not.

Similarly, granular audio options that separate dialogue from ambient from music from system sounds. Definitely don’t need my ears blown out just to hear dialogue.

I like having the background music very low, but not off, system sounds a bit above that, sound effects higher than system but lower than dialogue, which is maxed. And of course ambient sound levels really depend on the game and what kind of ambiance it has.

Same thing with granular contrast/gamma/etc. Don’t just provide a few preset options, especially if they can only be set before you start the game (also they should never only be set from the main menu, never). Let the player choose whatever they want on the fly. I love playing with everything bright so I can see wtf I’m doing, I don’t give half a shit if the devs think it should be so dark it’s not navigable. I disagree.

Yeah, why do other countries get to have all the fun government brawls?

Does on iOS, dunno about android but I’d assume so

They used sensors to detect particle energy, which is what temperature measures, when they impacted. There are so very few particles out there that no significant heat transfer actually took place, despite the particles themselves having huge amounts of energy.

They both went directly through it. It envelopes the entire solar system as far as we know.

I assume there’s context missing since it says “replying to”

So I assume they meant something like “my dad only told me xyz” or like “wow that’s nuts, my dad just said xyz, not all that” or something roughly along those lines.

Oh, here I thought they actually made it! That didn’t happen? :p

It’s kinda beautiful to watch.

I hope it matters. Probably won’t, but maybe. Stranger things have happened…

Subtle.