They never change. I used to repair laptops for a well known laptop brand, this was around the release of Windows Vista, 2006 or so.

We were getting a lot of warranty repairs where the issue was “laptop slow” or words to that effect. The only issue with them was that they didn’t have enough ram to run Vista smoothly enough. The whole system chugged. But as there was nothing wrong with the laptops, we’d send them back to the customer largely untouched saying “buy more ram.”

At some point, a couple of suits from the company came to look around the warehouse and meet the team. I was primary diagnostic at this point, so I would inspect most of the laptops and confirm their issues. I was getting around 15 laptops a day at this point that were just low ram for Vista, so I asked the suits “why do we sell laptops with Vista that can’t run it properly as they don’t have enough ram?”

His response was that “Microsoft sets the specs of the laptops. Nothing we can do.”

How did I know they were targeting a queer nightclub before I read the article?

but it’s nice that the game recognises that gay people would have existed regardless of the cultural attitudes at the time.

The late mediaeval period was actually fairly accepting of gay relationships, with a legal doctrine of Brotherment being practiced in several countries, where two men would legally join their lives and assets, and which often included declarations of affection.

“I guess apparently they had made a pledge to the public at large that they would make their club a safe space for all people, and that they would ban anything they deemed transphobic,” Chappelle reacted on his “The Midnight Miracle” podcast at the time. “This is a wild stance for an artistic venue to take, especially one that’s historically a punk rock venue.”

This guy doesn’t understand any subculture, does he? The punks are, historically, very anti-fascist, and the ones I know are also some of the strongest queer allies I’ve ever met. And this guy is surprised that they didn’t want his bigotry masquerading as humour.

I’m keeping hold of my pixel with GrapheneOS while also keeping an eye on the new Jolla Linux phone. If that achieves even a half way decent experience, that’ll be my next phone. Android is too much work to keep control of your own data.

So it’s the best bits of Kotlin in normal Java? Looks nice. Will give it a play.

Yeah, that’s just to normalise rentable levels. Once it has been begrudgingly accepted, there’ll be one that requires premium currency. Never buy EA.

That’s called vertical integration.

The difference is Rowling hates you for who you are, Moore hates you for what you’ve done.

And he has the records.

It was called Dodgem Logic, and it was glorious. It ran for 8 issues, was filled with articles written by Moore and others on whatever damn subject they wanted, from supernatural to philosophical, to just plain weird (a comic called Astounding Weird Penises). There were also short stories and illustrations. I have every issue and they have a place of pride in my collection for how wonderful they are.

And before that, we were doppelgangers that had stolen people’s children away: https://youtube.com/shorts/WH5zYErWmAQ

Meatloaf is simple, but yummy and filling.

It’s a euphemism for “I heard you have oil, want!”

Being anti Israel is not the same as being antisemitic, it’s being anti-zionist.

Unfortunately BT’s systems are a hodge podge of different systems written and built over the last 40+ years, in various states of development from brand new, bleeding edge, to abandoned, running on an excel spreadsheet. To say the overall system was “designed” is to misunderstand the size and complexity of BT and its legacy systems. The fact that it works at all is a miracle borne out of the sweat and talent of great engineers hampered by busybody managers.

and when a corporation rolls out lazy software with obvious flaws, who’s responsible for the damage?

Google. Google is responsible for the damage. Sue them. Please.

When I do commute to work, I unfortunately take a bus after my train, so I’m affected by the traffic. I avoided commuting in December because the traffic was so bad it more than doubled my commute time from 1.5 hours to well over 3 hours. Thankfully I can work from home, but I do like working in the office with my team when I can.

I’ve had so many conversations with coworkers about not having a car, and most of them just don’t get that yes public transport is slow, but it’s only as slow as it is because everyone has a car. If more of those who are able to use public transport did, traffic would be so much less for everyone and public transport would be a fast option.

It’s not about subliminal messaging, it’s more the Illusory Truth effect, where a lie or misinformation is repeated enough that it is believed. Some people are more resistant to this thanks to critical thinking skills, but none of us are immune to it.

Reggie’s wife could learn a thing or two.

The way I see it, there’s more money in everyone not having computers in the traditional sense, but having low powered, cheap devices that need replacing every couple of years, and all compute is done through cloud services and AI platforms. So there’s currently profit in data centres eating up all the available hardware, increasing the price of those components to the end user, and eventually pricing everyone out of owning any device that can actually compute until our only option is another subscription, and another, and another.