Unfortunately, that’s not how this works.

This is late stage capitalism, execs are judged on how much money they managed to squeeze out before the company died. They’ll be hired immediately specifically to do it again somewhere else.

The company dying in incidental.

A perfect fit for the EU then, is what I’m reading…

EU needs to formally invite Canada to the union in response.

Never been to America, no idea where Alabama is, but it’s a well known fact that they… love family very much.

The scary thought here isn’t that they’re actively listening in.

It’s that they know enough about you to know that something will be of interest to you before you even realise it yourself…

That’s the most unlikely story I’ve heard in a minute… Even assuming there’re some deep rooted kernel level shenanigans, which no one has found yet, how would you fiddling with some settings expose that?

Probably just got a dropped call, and it resumed the playlist in shuffle, I’ve had it happen where the music comes out as if in a phone call (messes up frequencies) for a few seconds before it goes back to normal. Occam’s razor and all

Yeah, especially stuff like “start/stop” or “on/off”, that universal language by now.

Ok but where are the bananas

If you point Google Lens at it, will it translate it?

A consensus of elected people. Also INDEPENDENT from the government.

Can you please educate yourself? That’s not my burden.

Governing authority, as in government body? Absolutely none.

There must be absolute separation from the judiciary, who are responsible for upholding the law.

I’ll make it really simple: YES.

if they’re a political extreme who preaches intolerance, they must be ruthlessly crushed, driven out and silenced, by any means necessary.

Probably in a similar way that Apple is a registered trademark for computers, but you wouldn’t be able to register it for fruit. Alkaline here may not even be an actual characteristic of the product, or assuming it is, it’s supposedly so distinctive that it sets the brand apart from others.

That said, it’s very unlikely that the trademark could be defended if a competitor challenged it, but maybe the goal is just to use the ® as a gimmick, to increase the perceived value by the customer, and if it became commonplace they’d just come up with some other marketing strategy…

I stand corrected, thanks. The mini was bad, the micro in the PS4 controllers is god awful.

Mini-USB sucked, big time. Not so bad as micro, but yea it was bad.

The main advantage of C over all previous versions is that it’s reversible, you can’t plug it in wrong. The shape is also… “flat”?, so it’s easier to fit into the socket, mini had that wavy like thing going on.

My data source is my small kid: he’s broken 3 (and counting…) usb-mini micro connectors by tugging the charging PS4 controllers, and he has to ask me to connect the cable to charge them, he’s unable to do it himself yet. With his tablet, 0 usb-c connectors broken and he can plug it in himself.

Alternatively, they may be complaining about the typo…

Hey fellow programmer! This is definitely a thing for me too, it’s uncanny how frequently some random tidbit about a piece of architecture that I’ve tinkered with as a hobby years ago becomes relevant, and I just blurt out to a colleague “oh, do this and that, and it should work”.

But on the other hand I have to pause for like 30 seconds up to a full minute before answering when is my kid’s birthday, just to make sure I’m not getting it wrong somehow. 😭

As in croissant?

I’m with you, I’m the one who read my wife’s car manual.

One of life’s pleasures, for me, is getting home with a shiny new thing and going over the manual and trying out the features, and of course it will work as described, and somehow that’s very satisfying.

I might be on the spectrum though, my experience is that people find that weird and nobody bothers to read manuals.

This article is just a sham, it boils down to “people who were warned to take action or they’d lose their data, didn’t take action and lost their data”.

Who could have seen it coming, I mean, surely no one’s expected to read one of the several emails Google has been sending throughout the last few months, riiiight?

Just to clarify that I’m not defending Google, they’re monopolistic scumbags and this is misleading because it won’t really help anyone’s privacy, it’ll only save them a buck on storage.