android phones made by Samsung and LG

LG hasn’t made a phone in over four years.

we used to have mac tonight at a piano, muzak, black ceiling tiles and club lighting. now it’s the same remodeled mckitchen as everywhere else, stuffing delivery orders into bags and letting the in-person experience go to shit.

… only if you pay extra for a little happy time.

https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google

thanks for this one. i’m currently trying out their encrypted and adblocking dns on the hotspot i set up on dietpi to isolate ‘streaming’ devices, comparing its effectiveness to pihole and adguard home.

openoffice is an apache project, created when oracle gave them the code and rights to the openoffice project. ibm later donated symphony to them. anyone familiar with apache knows they do things their own way, and usually slowly.

libreoffice originated from a fork when openoffice’s status under oracle was in doubt. it progresses faster than apache, as most developers also switched.

onlyoffice is an entirely different application. decent enough, but with its own quirks. it can also be slow on lower-spec systems due to the heavy reliance on js. originally a latvian-russian project, it was reorganized (via new corporate entities in uk and sg) to hide the russian ties for ‘reasons’.

the big companies have always had ‘ulterior motives’ driven by their insatiable lust for more profits and higher share prices.

the joy of not having any microsoft accounts.

although i still do have to deal with this shit every day for other people. the ‘best’ ones are those with only a voice number on their account for a verification, from back before they went sms-only for phone numbers.

‘remove from package’.

i’d get that one correct.

‘upon arrival’.

that one too.

‘refrigerate’

well, only as necessary until it’s gone. i’d get half credit for that one.

so, overall, i’d still ‘pass’… but hey, “c’s get degrees”

i’ve had more issues with forced updates from pc manufacturers–whether via their own update mechanism or through windows update, including bad bios updates that literally bricks a pc to the point a board swap is needed.

windows ones almost always ‘install’ correctly… it’s often more a question ‘why tf do i want this shit?’

the ‘automatic’ updates should strictly be security patches and critical non-security bug fixes. new and substantially-changed features should be optional or deferred to… ya know… the big updates each year called ‘feature updates’, and not rammed down users’ throats every month.

all the magats here are glued to fox ‘news’. many even pay the $100+ a month for cable or satellite and literally never change the channel from it.

it wasn’t the ohio river, it was the lake in caesar creek state park, which feeds into the nearby little miami ~ 50 miles north of cincy and the ohio.

dumping this one that specifically limited exposure to the trash bits of windows and instead launch a new variant for gaming handhelds that, while ‘optimized’ and limited in the crud that runs, will most definitely be focused on driving gamers to game pass subs and store sales.

the intel alder lake-n and twin lake-n have some chips with very low tdp… basically just the “e cores” from a desktop cpu, drawing as little as 6w tdp. nice chips if you don’t need the raw compute power of the desktop’s performance cores. they make for nice little servers and laptops for ‘normal’ users. minipc form factor desktops with them are very affordable.

i like my laptop ‘server’. low power chip that never throttles up to its max 15w tdp, runs cool with display off and lid closed, needs no kb and mouse attached, and the battery is just a bonus ups. it sits out of the way on a shelf like a book.

they priced the new one too high, so now they’re raising the old one up so people (especially newcomers to the platform) will think it’s not so bad?

don’t forget to pick up the original, which is also free. i put in way more hours into it than i care to admit when it was a new game.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/postal_classic_and_uncut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

the two originate from the same company, iirc.

this worked. was already logged in. loaded that link in a different tab, went back to the other and refreshed. saw the cart had something, loaded it and was able to check out.

wasn’t that coca-cola in 2012?