Gamers do, because game devs suck up to Microsoft by not putting PC games on Linux or macOS. Sadly, even “indie” devs.

Clarification: You can disable all the AI stuff with one switch.

Furthermore, the hardened forks of Firefox don’t have it.

Still better than contributing to the chromium monopoly.

Unless you absolutely want to contribute to the chromium monopoly, Firefox is right there and still free. If you’re concerned about the telemetry, LibreWolf is worth looking at.

Well, the reason All Might stuck around is kinda spoilery, it’s revealed in the last season. But it’s also not really plot crucial. In the last season, we learn that Midoriya no longer really reveres All Might. He did when he was younger, but since he’s inherited his power and made it his own, he now has his own goals and ideals. He still wants what All Might wanted, to be a Symbol of Peace, but there’s more to it. He outright states that Uraraka is his hero because she’s kind of an underdog and she fights for reasonable things, for personal goals. She goes above and beyond, but she isn’t over the top like some of them (and not just Bakugo). Also, All Might reveals that Midoriya is his hero now, because Midoriya carries his own power. So, that’s why All Might stuck around, he was genuinely concerned for Midoriya’s advancement.

He was never really gonna make a comeback since he was getting worse and worse. He did, however, come back a little in a Batman or James Bond sense with a bunch of gear. It was cool to see but was a little extra and kind of unnecessary. So I stand by my assertion that Horikoshi should have killed him off.

At that point we can just say that, let’s just let the girls and boys play together so the Trump-Epstein coalition doesn’t come in to examine their genitals.

Well, my wife’s fandom is My Hero Academia and my most controversial opinion on it is that All Might should have died in the USJ incident at the end of season 1. He was pretty useless anyway after that, and it would have been a great “holy shit” moment that would have motivated Midoriya more.

Most in the fandom don’t agree. I stand by it.

I think it’s newer EVs charge faster. Fast charging was originally a premium feature in smartphones. Then they all did it. Then it came out that iPhones (and some Android phones) charged faster with an iPad (better) charger. Then year after year they got faster and faster.

Faster charging can degrade batteries faster, but also newer batteries guard against it better.

The newer the battery/charging tech, the better things are.

Essentially it’s what a chocolate bar is.

I forgot; around the holidays you may see “peppermint bark.”

Pro: You own your computer.

Con: You own your computer (and you have to work on maintaining it).

I’m mostly joking. Generally if you have a problem with Linux, you can get help on it. The myth that there are more Windows users, so therefore it’s easier to get help with Windows is problematic for a few reasons. One, the number of Windows users who are actually passionate about it are comparable to the number of passionate Linux users, or Mac users. I’m not sure which one leads the others in power users who are happy to help, but I feel like it’s Linux. Nobody has Linux because of the computer they bought (or, almost nobody). Windows and Mac have a lot of users who just use the computer they bought with the software that came with it. Virtually no one has Linux who didn’t choose it, and they chose it for reason that are important to them, and it’s in their best interests to help you learn it, too.

The other myth is the command line. Windows, Mac, and Linux all have a command line/terminal. It’s not needed on any of them, but on all of them, there are a couple things you can do that are not easy to do in the GUI.

Honestly if you have Windows, get a live distro and run it. You can run it inside Windows. The performance won’t be the same as running it on bare metal, but you can see how it handles your hardware. For most distros you shouldn’t have a problem.

(Disclosure: I’m a happy Mac user. I’ve used Linux off and on (mostly off though) for over 20 years. My favourites have been Red Hat (when it was a home OS; it’s called Fedora now) and Ubuntu. I prefer the GNOME interface. I’m comfortable with the command line. I understand that macOS is UNIX, and I also understand that it’s not and why it’s not.)

Also, everyone (including me in my other post) is going savoury — how about sweet? Aero bar, in mint. Perfection. Bark candy mostly only comes in chocolate, or dark chocolate. Sometimes vanilla (white chocolate, which is not chocolate, it’s vanilla and vanilla should own it because “white chocolate” is awesome, though it should really be called “Vanilla candy bark,” but “bark candy” is really only known as… chocolate… hence “white chocolate”). Fun fact, I’ve had all kinds of bark candy. When I was a kid, I got it in orange and raspberry as well. Now it’s only chocolate and… what I mentioned. Oh and mint chocolate, like Andes mints, but also those pastel-coloured mints that sometimes have the little white balls of hard sugar on them (I think those are just straight up mint bark though).

Again why TF don’t we have bark candy in other flavours?

Shepherd’s Pie, though I confess I’ve never made it with mutton. If you use ground beef, it’s called Cottage Pie.

I use hot Italian sausage. I don’t think there’s a name for doing that. At that point you’re mixing up Cottage Pie with bangers and mash (mashed potatoes and sausage). And I’m okay with that. All those dishes are good. Mixing things up is what I do.

I thought that was kind of the point of all of them.

I have the ChatGPT app on my iPhone. I don’t love it, but I do like it for what it is. I also don’t pay for it. Siri and Apple Intelligence made a bunch of empty promises. Hell, Star Trek: The Next Generation set us up for so much disappointment in the 2020s. The fact that you can’t just talk to your phone and have a full on conversation with it is pretty damn disappointing in 2026. Well, you can with an app, but it’s creepy and it’s driving up the cost of computer parts, so it’s one hell of a monkey’s paw.

But at the same time, I was giving a coworker a ride home, and Michael Jackson came up in conversation. I was a big fan in the 80s but really stopped caring about him in the 90s (not because of the allegations; I just moved on to rock and metal). My coworker mentioned a music video with Magic Johnson in it, and I asked ChatGPT what it was. While driving, because it has a voice prompt. I spoke to it like I’d speak to any passenger in my car. I said — this is right outta the app’s history — “I heard there was a music video that Michael Jackson did that Magic Johnson was in it. Do you know what that is? I’m just gonna take what I said.” That last sentence wasn’t to ChatGPT, I just didn’t hit the end/send button hard enough and it kept recording. The context baffles me, too. Anyway, the video was “Remember the Time” and it gave me four paragraphs about it, but I was driving, so it just spoke them, through CarPlay.

I don’t love ChatGPT, but this is the kind of shit we were promised with Siri 10 years ago. Just to be able to ask it a question and have it answer you, no muss, no fuss.

There’s no reason why you should ever have to touch your phone. You should be able to do it all by touch if you want to. Especially if you have earbuds, you should be able to ask it 90% of what you’d look up manually and have it just tell you. That’s the future. Google is probably most of the way there, and I like Android, I like customising the home screen, the lock screen, widgets, I like having a keyboard that doesn’t censor you and change what you say after you say it because what you said wasn’t politically correct — in no uncertain terms, fuck iOS for that — but I also don’t like Google and their data selling policies. Google is pretty much scum. Not that Apple are saints, but I still think of them as the computer company that made the Macintosh. I use Macs at home. I don’t like how they’re getting into services (though I do love Apple Music). I do love that they’re getting rid of the bean counter, Tim Cook, and getting an actual engineer as CEO starting in September (John Ternus). Tim Cook seems like a nice guy, but I don’t think he took Apple in the right direction, though I’m sure the shareholders vehemently disagree since he made them rich. Also, the M-series Macs have been great. I just hope Ternus makes them better.

They distracted Americans with the Iran war. Note that in other countries, they actually did something, like how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Formerly Prince Andrew; he was stripped of his titles when he was found to be involved. Sure, he wasn’t prosecuted for being a nonce, but the United Kingdom did more for someone accused of less than the Americans did with Trump, who was notably accused of far more.

What the Americans did do was punish more working-class paedophiles. Sure, they all deserve to be rounded up and jailed indefinitely if they’ve harmed a child, but the American response to people in power hurting actual children was to step up enforcement of people who merely looked at pictures or watched videos of them, and others like them, doing it. I’m glad those people are being rounded up, but if you’re gonna ignore the ones actually doing it in those pictures and videos, what’s the bloody point? It would seem that the point is, the crime is not being a nonce, it’s being a nonce who isn’t rich.

You’re not far off if you’re implying I’m a Boomer. Gen X. But younger generations call us Boomers anyway (e.g. Boomer Shooter, in reference to games like Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, and DOOM). So if you call 1979-1980 and back Boomers, then, guilty.

I will grant you that my love for the older Mustang is nostalgia for the way it looks. I do not actually want to own one.

It isn’t propaganda. The site I mentioned that showed me the price said 41 minutes charging. Maybe “close to an hour” is an exaggeration and I apologise if you read it as anti-EV propaganda. Read my comments, I’m actually kinda pro-EV here. The thing is, I don’t own one. I’m cautiously optimistic about the future, and that’s the truth as best I can tell it.

I will grant you I’ve heard of faster charging. I was just going off of what I read. Which IIRC was covering a newer electric vehicle — the new Subaru?

Nah, like I said, the Mustang EV is fine, but like you said, it shouldn’t have been called a Mustang. I suggested the Galaxy name. I think with a different name I would have been fine with it. The Mustang has had a few identity crises over the years, from Pinto look in the 70s to the boxy look in the 90s, to this pseudo-retro look from 2005… but it has never been a mom-mobile for a soccer team. No, an SUV/crossover isn’t a minivan, but it’s close. And I liked Ford’s minivan, the Aerostar. I can’t speak to its mechanical capabilities, but I liked the look of it. The one whose front is a straight ramp from the top of the grille to the roof. A lot of people didn’t like them. I thought they were neat (looking). Even wanted one, at one point. Figured I’d take out the seats and turn the back into a living/hangout area. Some people actually did that, mostly with full size vans. I only thought about it.

I don’t own an EV either, nor do I have any financial (or otherwise) stake in any EV company or technology. Actually, I don’t have any financial stake in any company, except the one I work for because they employ me, so it’s in my interest… anyway, I’m getting off track.

Point is, on your road trip, you had to stop for food. The idea is, you’d refill and eat at the same time. Unless you were really picky about your food, you could just eat at the gas station (which also has chargers). That’s the idea they’re going for with these “rest area charging stations”.

You make a lot of trips, which means you spend a lot in gas. Again I’m not saying you should buy an EV. What I am saying you should do is, try to find out what that trip would cost you in fuel and in charging. I bet you pay less than half for the charging. $10 vs $20 (assuming USD because you said miles) isn’t nothing, but it’s not a vehicle purchase decision. $100 vs $200 isn’t really a purchase decision either, but it’s a bit more substantial. If you had a way to figure out your fuel costs over a year and then figured out what those miles would cost to recharge in an EV, it would at the very least be some interesting numbers to look at.

Sounds like you’re asking about Linux but the comm isn’t OS specific.

At work I found that Windows can make scroll bars always show. Auto hide is so annoying. I’m not a “Windows user” but I do use it at work. I don’t hate the corporate version of Windows 11 so much. I have it set up the way I want and it doesn’t shove AI or gaming up in my face like the Home and Pro versions do (Pro to a lesser extent).

On iOS, some scroll bars do jump down on tap, but I think the developer has to enable that. The real killer feature is tapping the top of the screen to jump to the top. One developer, Christian Selig (he’s a public figure, not throwing his full government out for no reason), made his app (Apollo for Reddit, now retired) let you tap the top of the screen a second time to jump back to where you were. Super cool.

Rude. But not inaccurate. Brave pretends to be better than Chrome and Google, but also Mozilla and Firefox at the same time, though Firefox has always done it better and has never contributed to the chromium monopoly. Greed over diversification of the Web and competition between browser engines to effect real change. The least Brave could do is make their own engine.

Charging stations are getting more and more common.

I was reading that a lot of gas stations are transitioning from “stop and go” (or “stop and convenience store and go”) to a more “rest area” format. As in, there will be things to do there while your EV charges. Brands like Sheetz and Wawa and Buc’ees that already provide food (and, by some accounts, it’s better than your typical “gas station” fare) are looking into other things to keep you hanging around. Before, gas stations wanted you to leave ASAP so you free up a pump for another customer. But now if you have to take an hour to charge, they want to keep you fed and entertained so your time is not wasted. (But, by the same token, they’re going to want you to vacate your charging port once you’re done, so another customer can charge. Imagine waiting not only to charge, but for a charger to open up.)