I feel this. It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.

I’d make it unlawful for any entity including the U.S. gov’t to profit from the suffering of others. This would, of course, immediately crash the economy. Suffering is our leading export.

Consider crack cocaine as a safer alternative.

Thanks for asking instead of down voting me!

This is what bit me. Hadn’t used the handset for a while. Ran updates and did a factory reset. The only fix is mainboard replacement, which our pal Google won’t do for out of warranty devices despite it being their fuck up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2024/07/05/google-pixel-6-bug-brick-android-14-update--factory-reset/

Another, apparently unrelated issue:

https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/google-pixel-phones/android-15-feature-is-reportedly-bricking-pixel-6-phones-what-you-need-to-know

If you want your phone to be permabricked by the manufacturer at some random point in the future, it’s hard to beat a Google Pixel.

For me, I think it will. Love my moto.

Had mixed results on Samsung Z Flip 4. One had the inner screen die right after the warranty was up. Other is still going strong, though the permanent screen protector has separated at the hinge.

Coincidentally watched The Man Who Would Be King for the first time last night. 😆

Still trying to decide if Huston (or Kipling for that matter) intended the anti-colonialism or if that’s just my reading.

Did you read the article? Biden made many of Trump’s tarrifs permanent and Harris, while critical of Trump’s tarrifs, hasn’t put forth her own plan or disowned the Biden strategy.

Edit: Fucksake, Lemmy. It says this in the article. I said nothing positive or negative about either candidate or their positions on tarrifs. 😆

Not embarrassing or thrilling, but way back when I still ate meat, I’m pretty sure Waffle House tried to kill me with a bad batch of Bert’s chili. At least, that was the featured odor/flavor in all my bodily effluvium (which was copious!) in the several succeeding days. I didn’t die but I do remember wishing I was dead. The experience turned me into a Waffle House skeptic and shortly thereafter, a vegetarian.

If by graphics card you mean 3D hardware acceleration, then it was a Canopus Pure 3D. It was equivalent to the first Voodoo add-in card but IIRC it had 6 MB of RAM instead of 4. It wasn’t a standalone card so it had a VGA passthrough from your 2D card when it wasn’t active.

As for 2D cards, idk. Unless it was pro reference grade like Matrox I don’t remember EGA and CGA cards being branded.

Fuck driving. You’d be lucky to get me off the couch. 😆

Obviously ACAB, but…I have known a few jackasses who thought nothing of driving while high. Just don’t. And don’t reply to me about how you “know your tolerance” or that you can “handle it”. Fuck you, you’re impaired. Don’t do it.

I can’t speak to Bluetooth as I don’t know much about it from a software development perspective, but when I first started working with USB I was surprised to find that the hardware is really simple but there’s a ton of software that makes it work. Specifications evolve over time to add features or improve efficiency. This neccesitates code changes, and those code changes have to be made at both ends of the connection if you want the devices to continue to be able to talk to each other. Aside from maintaining the interface code, there are probably also changes and improvements to the device itself. Thus, firmware updates. Make sense?

I’ll take a look. Thanks for the suggestion!

Good advice on balance, but we’re a small company. In addition to being SSE I’m also what passes for IT. 😆

I’ll check them out! Thanks for the tip.

The upgrade turned out to be extremely uneventful!

I’ll keep your advice in mind. Thanks kind internet stranger. ✌🏻

I maaaay have layered some stuff that I couldn’t find flatpaks for. 🥺

This’ll be my first Silverblue major version update. What am I in for?

DOM me daddy ✌🏻