Gated communities and Homeowners Associations were originally invented to keep black and hispanic people out. Simple as that. They are still used as tools of segregation from a paranoid populace.

Oh man, continuous 500hp, 1k short burst at each wheel. I think my car caught fire just thinking about it…

Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’.

I mean…that’s an odd take. Don’t know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.

Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

No arguments there though.

So I’ve been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.

I’ve been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they’re already off the market for me.

Being written in C++ doesn’t keep it from being reverse engineered in exactly the same way. All code can be reversed. It’s a little easier with Java because java isn’t turned directly into machine-code at compile-time.

Imagine legitimately believing Bedrock is “ahead” of java in any way, lol - There are “features” that bedrock has, which are the REASON Java is better. None of the coins bullshit, better and more developed mod scene, none of the desyncing issues where you fall to your death on the server, but it looks like you’re standing on a pillar on your local client, etc.

It is, but that code is run through a scrambler that makes it more difficult to read for a human, but basically a trivial task for a computer to undo anyways.

So we’re just burning CPU cycles by scrambling it, and then just unscrambling it anyways – so Microsoft is just saying “why scramble it at all then?”

This should, in theory, make it easier for people with less experience coding, to read and understand what’s going on.

If you think I’m arguing for them, I’m not.

No, they put in a lot of money for these office buildings, and they’re sitting unused. They have leases they still have to pay.

They kinda do. Aren’t memories typically depicted with a kind of hazy camera filter over them?

I thought this was linkin park

You can blame the courts for this one. They basically ruled “Apple isn’t a monopoly, because they don’t even LET other people compete in the first place”. (which is about a bass-ackwards as it gets but whatever)

Google saw this and went “shit…” so they’re rushing to implement the same thing.

The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.

Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?

That’s why eating disorders are so damn hard for people.

The benefits to jailbreaking it are that you can change the layout of the device, remove store icons, and just in-general tidy up the UI a bit. I haven’t seen anything game-changing from the jailbreak; like adding apps or something.

It’s not a software problem, the Oasis has free cellular service for life.

If you turn your Wifi off on an Android phone for example - it still scans and uses the wifi to keep track of your location, for instance. It’s an anti-consumer pattern that companies are using. Airplane mode? – Sure, for YOU. But Amazon probably still allows cell service to connect every couple of hours for exactly this kind of thing.

The error message she received wasn’t sly about it either. It said something very direct along the lines of “We have determined that you are not eligible to read this book so we have removed it from your device”

I’ve been slowly filling my wife’s Kindle Oasis full of pirated books over the last 2 years. I got it initially because it had internet service everywhere and I could just email her the epubs to simplify loading things.

A couple of weeks ago, even though airplane mode is always on for this thing, (so no wifi either) – this thing wipes something like 400 books from her library overnight. Granted, they were all pirated, but they’re doing some nasty stuff there. It looks like there’s renewed effort to combat this.

Sooooo, I sold it and bought her a Kobo Libra Color. Now, I just have her open up https://send.djazz.se/ – give me the 4 digit code, and I can upload books to her that way. Goodbye Amazon. Don’t let the door hit you.

There are absolutely a fuckstick worth of George Floyd memes out there like this too. I say let people have fun. There are like 8b people on this planet, and far more important people than him are dying, like the people in gaza.

Maybe now is the time for me to transition back into IT work. :D

The problem with the term “non-violent communication”, is that we don’t preface things that we describe based on their lack of something.

You might as well call it “non-love communication”…get it?

We don’t call driving to work “non-violent driving”, we just call it driving.

We don’t call our jobs “non-slavery labor”. You’re practicing absurdity in order to proclaim some higher order of thinking, but you’re just being silly.

Nobody is “dunking” on LGBT folks. The presented scenario is literally of a completely straight person invading those spaces. You really have a problem with reading comprehension, you know that? I’m even, quite literally, presenting them in a positive, helpful light in this scenario, as they’re being inclusive and presenting labels for this completely straight person to present with. So what’s your damn problem?