I have a petty one:

1. Go to Settings and disable Apple Intelligence
2. use Siri voice control for a task
3. the Siri icon thing remains at the bottom of the screen because it’s listening for the next command.
4. tap elsewhere on the screen

Expected: Siri goes away

Encountered: the tap does nothing - Siri will continue listening until you say “thank you” or turn off the screen.

Workaround: restart the phone and the problem goes away.

Everything is a drinking game for Pete Hegseth.

Burn corpo shit

The tariffs will be lifted in no time.

This is the man who for over a decade has climbed onto his soapbox and complained endlessly about how you have to flush modern toilets 10 times. This is the obese man who subsists off fast food. That man uses a lot of toilet paper.

OH MY GOD I SAW A TIT

This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.

In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.

So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.

So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.

He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”

40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.

The short answer is no.

You can do an easy experiment to see this using image files. Grab a random JPG file and open it in a graphics program and save it as a BMP format image.

JPG is already compressed, and BMP is absolutely not compressed. Then try compressing each image. You’ll find that the JPG doesn’t get much smaller, or might even be a bit bigger when compressed. Now do the same with the BMP - that one makes for a smaller RAR!

The main issue here is that compression is about removing empty space in a file (it’s a weak analogy but bear with me). If the file itself already had some kind of compression (basically every AVI or MP4 or MKV you download probably is already compressed), then there’s already a lot less empty space inside the file. RAR doesn’t have much empty space left to work with, so it can’t really reduce the file size any more.

It’s worth doing some testing on a single movie to see how this all works. You’ll probably find that it’s best to just leave the files exactly the way they are. No RAR. No ISO. No tricks. The gains simply aren’t there.

If you’re looking to save on some disk space with your movies, you’d get a lot farther by just deleting one movie you don’t really want that badly. The amount of space you get back from that will exceed your compression gains. It also means you don’t have to go and uncompressed the movies every time you want to watch one.

Guys I don’t think this is real. It’s possible AI was involved.

If you look very closely, you’ll notice that Elon Musk looks young and is ripped. I don’t think that’s right.

The rest checks out.

Half an hour is “we just broke our SLA” level bad. I guess if your org has been stripped of all its talent that’s the new standard.

Oh my god. What if Skynet was never an accident of AI evolving outside its intended parameters? What if it was a hilariously obvious and preventable apocalypse caused by a tech bro tweeting in the middle of the night while on ketamine?

Thanks for that summary. I think the big gap in my understanding is that the PM doesn’t even have to be an elected official. They essentially always are, but not having that codified is a surprise.

In my nightmare scenario, the cons eke out a majority, toss Pierre, and name Elon Musk as PM is Canada.

Is this reporting true?

After maintaining frontrunner status throughout the two-month race, the former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor will become this country’s next, and 24th prime minister within days.

How does an unelected banker walk into becoming Prime Minister? Doesn’t he need to be elected by Canadians first?

If true, that seems like a horrendous hole in the system.

ORDER CORN

In a way I’m relieved. I thought the existing, laggy, unhelpful ChatGPT integration was the entire feature they’d been hyping so hard.

Little did OP know that while they were watching this strange performance unfold, the other guy was sneaking up behind OP and stole their wallet.

Either it was an accident and wasn’t at fault at all. Or it was a coordinated stunt and Justin owns 50% of it, if other production people weren’t also in on it.

But Janet got shit on because she’s a woman and black and Justin somehow walked away unscathed for decades. Fucked up.

It wasn’t that long ago that the world almost ground to a halt because some people saw Janet Jackson’s breast.

Now we have this, and there will be zero consequences.

He’d try to eat the chess pieces and then blame his choking on New Zealand.

“Dad, I can’t do this anymore. You do you and I’ll do me and let’s touch base again in 4 years.”

Hey now, everyone deserves a chance to get their first real job. Unlike government, car washes provide training.