I just hope they actually have their social security card. A quick googling told me that you need a current ID to get the social security administration to issue a replacement card. Talk about a vicious cycle!

Quark is a beauty, and that’s the plain unvarnished truth!

Efficient at confusing people, perhaps. Personally, I have no idea what you’re on about.

I’m no super guru – I last put together a PC in 2021 – but this all looks fine to me. You’ll be able to upgrade to a dedicated GPU once you feel constrained by the integrated graphics, and that’s pretty much the only thing I’d worry about.

I work for a large company that issues Windows laptops or MacBooks to employees depending on the work requirements. Most developers I know there use Macs, and I’ve only heard of 1-2 cases where programmers needed to get a Windows machine because they were working on a particular project.

So this is def YMMV territory.

Not obvious to me, but “acting” does make sense now that you say it.

potential downsides to a developer actively like an ass

Did you accidentally a word?

What do you get when you cross Family guy with BTTF?

1.21 giggetywatts!

I enjoyed both Primordia and Technobabylon.

I’m pretty happy with my steelseries rival. I’ve been using it pretty intensively since early 2020.

Eh, depends imo.

Civilization? PC all the way. Ratchet & Clank? God of War? I had a lot of fun playing them on consoles. IDK whether they would have worked as well on PC.

Knights of the Old Republic? I played on PC in spite of the awful UI port from console mode.

Stop patronizing restaurants where they don’t pay their staff a livable wage.

In most parts of the US, that’s all of them. This position is de facto “never eat out or order takeout”. I’m not sure that’s entirely realistic.

Nice thread necromancy

Thank you for writing 57°F instead of 57.20°F :)

I’m listening ;)

IDK, I think this take is more “It went from bad to worse” rather than “TSR was a bastion of consumer values”.

And given that the appliance needs to communicate with the app on your phone while you’re not home in the first place, there probably isn’t even a separate tracking API vs. data just being harvested as part of normal operations. So “back door” doesn’t really fit. “Broken by design” or “spyware” would be more apt, I think.

Still, I’m really not a fan of calling any spying/data harvesting a “front door” – IIRC, the term was coined by an FBI head pushing for back doors in our phones so the FBI could scan our messages. But he called it a “front door” as a way to dodge the reasons why building back doors in our security software is a terrible idea.

It’s just another step in the terrible trend of “let’s pretend that this horrible idea is ok if we just rename it” :(

What would the “front door” even be in this case? What comes to my mind is the corresponding app on your phone, but that doesn’t really make sense in this context.

Honestly, I can’t even imagine what it would be like having only owned two cars in my whole life.

Easy, just think back to when you were driving your second car ;)

What typically prompts you to buy a new car?

For me, it’s always been that I “need” a car for commuting, so I’ve looked for something reliable and efficient (I put “need” in quotes because technically, the bus routes in my city could have gotten me to work without a car. Turning a 20 minute drive into a 90 minute bus ride isn’t super palatable, though).

I bought my first car used and my second car new around the time Cash for Clunkers was affecting the used car market.

Oh, I didn’t think about having multiple cars. Are you a big car guy?

I’m in my early 40s, and I’ve owned two cars. I bought my current car after the last one got rear-ended.

Sidenote, I’m not counting cars that belonged to spouses or the car I drove in college – technically, that one belonged to my parents. If you add those in, I’m probably up to 6 or 7 cars.