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- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 2 days ago:
If the cursor can go on a monitor that’s currently off, there’s something very weird with your configuration.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 5 days ago:
I’m on one of the last versions from before the acquisition (8.1.1) and intend to use it for as long as I can while searching for alternatives. Thankfully my Prime key still works (email one, not Play Store), maybe the checks are hardcoded in some way.
What I’m thinking now is to get the APK and self-sign it as a way to prevent Play Store from auto updating it. I’m with a non-rooted device, this seems to be about the only way I have. I have already unchecked the auto update for it, but it still appears in the update list, and if I tap “Update all”, it would update. Does anyone have experience with this?
- Comment on A new quest appears... 5 days ago:
A matter of time before someone invents a clapper allowing you to doomscroll from across the room.
- Comment on Tips 3 weeks ago:
That’s very much in the spirit of “Stop being poor”.
- Comment on Huh? 3 weeks ago:
Speakeasies were still a thing last time I checked.
- Comment on Self-Care 3 weeks ago:
Earthquake detection kit.
On a serious note, my issue with these is that they’re plastic and when they eventually fall off they’ll become litter.
- Comment on Good luck 3 weeks ago:
Some of those with printing on them would fade pretty badly.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself. You’re probably a native English speaker and have it easy.
- Comment on Mafs 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but 4:20 originates as a time. The problem happens when you want to put it into a date as well.
Time is the only exception where I agree that the less specific part can come before the more specific one - just because more often than not one does not make sense without the other.
- Comment on Mafs 4 weeks ago:
At least 1st of May is a date that can actually happen.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 4 weeks ago:
I remember getting ice cream from McDonald’s - must’ve been 15 years ago. It was somewhat nice, but then the whole “the ice cream machine is broken” thing started and I haven’t bothered any more. Can’t tell about the rest of the food, but I share the sentiment that if it’s getting shittier and shittier, you shouldn’t support it.
- Comment on Please the Beans 5 weeks ago:
SASA LELE
- Comment on Evidence 5 weeks ago:
Common scenario to collect gullible people and scam them later - or just get them to like a certain page and then sell the page with the likes.
Local supermarket chain is giving away free cars, just like and comment this post. Oh, and by the way the page was created two days ago and has 15 likes - must be legit!
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 5 weeks ago:
Why Is Every Word Capitalised Though?
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 month ago:
Directional cables kind of make sense in an analogue, single-ended connection if it’s about the shielding being connected to ground only on one side… although I haven’t tried it in practice. Still, it has nothing to do with signal directionality, just noise rejection. The ground lift switch on some devices does the same.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Might be an allergy. I used to have something like this with some foods some years ago. What’s interesting is that now I don’t seem to have it any more with the same foods; it might be true what they say about allergies - that they come and go. Not a medical professional - just speaking from my experience.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
Context is everything.
“When are you guys coming over?”
“We were thinking 20th, but I couldn’t get off work then, so 21st it is.”
If you’re in that conversation, you’d be perfectly clear of what’s up. Imagine having to append “of December” to both dates (or also the year for that matter).
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.
In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 1 month ago:
Yeah, okay, I’ll somewhat agree on that one, but I was commenting on the “failed” part - it’s not like someone else (or you) was unsuccessful in masking it - it was deliberately masked enough to mess with automated flagging systems, but not enough to even start being ambiguous or unclear (like it would be with actual censorship). So… “task failed successfully”? I dunno.
- Comment on Foot In The Door 1 month ago:
I think it’s not censorship, just intentionally masking it like this, probably to avoid it being immediately flagged by OCR.
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
The sole fact that we’re here means that we don’t even have to think about those, but yeah.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 month ago:
For me it’s been mechanical keyboards as of late.
Maybe I should start stocking up on GMK sets - those seem to resell nicely.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 month ago:
Yeah, imagine the situation of “I don’t want anyone else’s ads, I’ll host my own and look at them by myself”.
Probably helped of the common misspelling of “ads” as “adds”.
- Comment on Construction magic 1 month ago:
So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 month ago:
Have you tried rubbing Ozzy Osbourne into her eyes instead?
- Comment on Do what one must! 1 month ago:
In the same line of thought: stop killing babies to make baby oil. /s
- Comment on Education is important. 1 month ago:
Yeah, but hamburgers are importanter.
- Comment on Don't leave home without it 1 month ago:
I, for one, always carry my two eggs, but for different reasons.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 1 month ago:
Someone forgot to floss
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 month ago:
You know why Santa is so happy? Because he knows where all the bad girls live.