We’re not sending our best

Just chiming in to represent the small minority of people who strongly dislike spiders in our houses

Saw it on a hike through social media, maybe

Not a near-term solution, but the Free Software Foundation just announced the LibrePhone project!

This is exactly why giving ID scans to online sevices is a terrible idea, even ignoring the privacy aspect.

Transaction complete

Did it just get warmer?

I’d love them, but like others have said, not if made by Meta, and not if they rely on sending all my data to cloud services to function.

Gozz is correct. You’re misunderstanding the nature of a digital signal. What the author did was convert a digital signal to an analog signal, store that analog signal on a bird, then record that analog signal. Whether it was redigitized after the fact is irrelevant. It is not a digital process end-to-end. This is the same as if I were to download a YouTube video, record that video on a VHS tape, then redigitize that video. Not only would the end result not be a bit for bit match, it wouldn’t be a match at all despite containing some of the same visual information, because it would be the product of a digital-analog-digital conversion.

For a shitposting community, it’s amazing how many people here don’t understand shitposts at all.

The only videogame my dad has ever gotten into (other than Pong) was NFS II SE. He wouldn’t race, he just liked driving around at 35 MPH and looking at the scenery. He enjoyed this so much he bought a wheel and pedals for it. I loved this game as a kid, and the fact that I could play it with a wheel. The song “Headless Horse” off the soundtrack is pure 90s cool as well.

Four.

Feces from a hiney, assuredly

That same house in my area costs at least 10 times that amount. I was lucky in that I had “only” $80,000 of debt from my bachelor’s, a housing situation via marriage, and a career path with solid pay (after going back for an associate’s while working in a low-paying job post-graduation for 7 years). I only finally paid off that debt 2 years ago and I graduated in 2008. I don’t know how a lot of people manage.

College graduates (PhD or otherwise) drowning in debt and not being financially able to pay it off is common enough here in the US that it’s a trope, and likely the basis for this “joke”.