I think “enabler” is probably a better word choice than “supporter”.

That doesn’t make it right, or even much better…but I do think that there’s a difference.

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I’m a network engineer and lately I’ve dived deep on wifi. I feel the same way about wifi.

Will they be raising their rates in India? Because that’s where Spotify thinks I live now.

It’s getting to be less common. A lot of newer/trendier places are giving their wait-staff tablets (which are also handling ordering, seating status, etc), or at least portable payment terminals.

Some of the big established chains have kiosks at the table where you can order apps/drinks directly, pay, play games.

I’ve also been to several places that’ll put a QR code on the receipt for payment. They may also have their menu online that you can get from a QR on the table. As an added bonus that usually means their online menu is actually kept up to date.

I do. But sometimes I sit out and get stoned with them, and give them dialogue. It’s a bit like watching family guy.

Would you name your daughters “Vagina”?

I think of that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry has a new girlfriend and he can’t remember her name except that it sounds like a body part.

I’m most of the way to ditching MS entirely on my own systems.

You can do it, Aussie. Bite his freaking head off.

Oh for sure, but at least Alexa’s rankings were rather transparent and somewhat trusted built up on a reputation.

I hadn’t even realized Amazon bought and discontinued the service, but that’s clearly exactly the type of instance that needs to be guarded against. I’m sure that a big part of why Amazon wanted that Alexa gone was because it would show rising competition, and Jeff can’t have that.

But that just tells you all the people that have visited the site and downloaded a script.

I find it hard to believe that OpenMandriva is the most popular distro. I distrohop quite a bit and never even came across it (currently using Nobora on my PC, KDE Neon in the living room, tumbleweed on the kids laptops (though I may move them to silverblue or another immutable), and Pop on my laptop. It takes me a minute when I sit at any console to remember which package manager is the right one)

If you want honest results of actual use on general-purpose PCs…I’d wish for something like Alexa Page Rankings that could get deep enough to know Distro, but that’s not possible (I don’t think, without every distro having its own User Agent signature in the browsers), and Amazon bought Alexa and discontinued those services

Is this post secretly a logic question?

More seriously, though…They don’t need to actually control the weather, just the information. They’ve been saying climate change is a liberal hoax for decades and they are out to prove themselves right by any means necessary.

And the space lasers. We took that back from the Jews, dontchaknow.

Surprising no one, as this was laid out in Project 2025.

Excuse me. This is America. We like to change our minds after it’s too late.

They drained the swamp and now people are starting to realize that the swamp was actually a very complex ecosystem necessary, teeming with diverse life and preventing hurricane storm surge from sploshing all over the eastern seaboard.

They drained the swamp and now they are left with the stench of all the rotting carcasses decaying in briney mud amidst the hottest and driest summer we’ve ever seen.

Oh man let it be Texas with their practically no building codes and already ridiculously poor public transit (in spite of tons of railways and massive, albeit quite stunning, urban highways).

Would love to watch a bunch shoddy rushed lowest-bidder stadiums on live TV. Do it.

As an Armchair Olympian, I would gladly give up my dreams to say fuck you to Trump.

We can’t trust anything that comes within a Bacon-Factor of 5 to this fucking administration.