If you can’t afford Starfield, how can you afford a computer capable of running it?

Why not use a full-size computer for all that stuff?

You could have said the same for factories in the 18th century.

Everyone who died as a result of their introduction probably would say the same, yes. If corpses could speak, anyway.

Since the kebab menu is inside the location/search box, I’m guessing it contains search-related options.

I’m typing this on a ten year MacBook Pro

Lucky you, I guess, because I sure haven’t had such good fortune.

that is running a currently supported version of MacOS

How is that possible? The almost-dead MacBook I mentioned is younger than yours and is stuck on Monterey.

and runs as fast as the day I bought it.

Probably. I didn’t say anything about how fast they are, because all common platforms in use today still run reasonably well on decade-old hardware.

If it had 10ish GB of RAM, at least. Browsers eat RAM like popcorn.

I have a pile of Dell and Lenovo Windows laptops of similar age that can still run but are basically doorstops or suitable for beater Linux or BSD machines, definitely not daily drivers.

I’m guessing you didn’t pay $2500 for them, though. That’s down to specs, not manufacturer. Apple hardware is almost invariably high-spec and therefore quite fast, but Apple thankfully doesn’t have a monopoly on fast computers.

Similar longevity to Apple products isn’t a high bar.

I’ve only used SMS and Steam 2FA so far. I’ve been avoiding 2FA as much as I can.

How do I feed the generated QR code back to GitHub, then? Can I upload an image of it?

I can do that with alphanumeric codes, yeah, but can I get alphanumeric codes from GitHub, or is it going to be a QR code? I can’t write down a QR code…

Printing recovery codes would require me to either be price gouged by the printer ink cartel or use someone else’s printer, and using someone else’s printer is begging to get my account stolen.

I have no idea how to hammer things into metal plates, but I’m guessing that’s even more expensive than printer ink.

I personally am afraid of this. What if something gets botched? I’ll be permanently locked out of my account!

There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw

Those do happen, but it is probably also possible to unlock the boot loader and then replace the boot loader itself with one that merely pretends to be locked. How would you know the difference?

the kind that would get patched very quickly.

Obviously criminals aren’t going to install security patches for vulnerabilities that they are exploiting.

This right here is why electronic locks could be way more secure than mechanical ones, if only their manufacturers would hire well-trained programmers and not boot camp graduates to write the firmware.

Instantaneous time warp. One moment, I’m relaxing on the table before the procedure. Next moment, I’m being told the procedure’s done.

It’s like a human SIGSTOP, for all you programmers out there.

That was pretty much IBM’s excuse, if I recall correctly. Then it turned out IBM execs were well aware of who was buying their equipment and for what purpose…

I’m reminded of IBM’s dealings with the Nazis.

Adobe: “You need to pay us over and over to edit PDFs! Suckers!”
Inkscape: “Hold my beer.”

The Grim Distro Reaper has been busy this year.

Anybody remember BitchX and the various scripts for mIRC? '90s IRC was edgy.

You realize IRC servers can read all of your messages, right? If you’re trying to hide from Israeli intel, that’s not how you do it.