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That’s it

In doesn’t matter. Sophisticated models are open-source and have already been forked and archived beyond all conceivable hope of regulation. There’s no going back.

Because it relying entirely on the dominance of the iPhone isn’t really a post-Jobs action. It’s actually the exact opposite: relying entirely on something he captained in order to make sales.

They also removed the headphone jack from the phone, so it doesn’t really count. Airpods followed the Sony approach: telling your captive audience they will buy the thing or suffer.

Yeah but that’s just marketing bullshit, just like how in real life, (normal and attractive) people don’t pull out a Nintendo Switch and pass around joycons to play Mario Kart on the phablet-sized screen at trendy rooftop cocktail parties.

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It’s an outstanding bug, Google has been ignoring it for years.

Bicycling requires strength and endurance.

So does cleaning a house, but that’s “women’s work”.

Is it that you’re in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?

That’s it. You didn’t get it at first because made the mistake of associating manliness with things like patience, strength, hard work, endurance both of toil and hardship; all things that do make up ideals of manliness to normal people. But you need to approach it from the perspective of a wastrel, a weak, foolish, and lazy person who demands the respect and deference of being manly without putting in the hard work—something he has avoided all his life. He might praise hard work in abstract, but he has no discipline for it and doesn’t respect those who actually do it, he just considers them beneath him. To such a person, the defining aspect of manliness and machismo is mastery, mastery over others and their wills, and since mastery through work is a waste of time to him, he turns to shortcuts.

From there, it’s not hard to see where the thought process goes. Since strength is to him based on control and mastery, he picks something that gives him more command over the road in a direct and in-your-face way. The man who drives a lifted Ram 2500 can confront you by running you the fuck over. By contrast, in his opinion, cyclists are entitled jackasses in miniscule booty shorts who can only confront you on the road by screaming “CRITICAL MASS! FUCKING CAGER!” and throwing sparkplugs at your windows. The difference in power dynamic is proof enough to our friend of who the “real man” is.

To take the mentality to its conclusion, the easiest way to gain mastery in general is through authority, and the easiest way to get that, even easier than joining a gang, is by becoming a cop.

Given the number of times I’ve seen cops on police forums and r/protectandserve use terms like “bikefags”, I think it’s just the typical cop disgust of anything they perceive to be weak or effeminate.

My office complex is nearly 1 km from one end to the other and a whopping three stories tall, and the third floor is much smaller than the bottom two. If you count the parking lots, it’s almost twice as big.

I’m surprised they don’t sell “How to Rip off Idiots”, a giant, $500 leather-bound hardcover book with over 1,000 heavyweight blank pages.

This will keep happening till we legislate financial and criminal liability for data breaches. As it is, the losses from this are the cost of doing business and probably cost 23andMe less than better security would have.

I hear a lot of positive things about cloud gaming from both astroturfers and unabashed shills, does that count?

As business barons are fond of saying, verbal agreements are only worth the paper they’re printed on.

It depends.

Naturally-aspirated: lesbian with a shitty haircut, a denim vest, and 500 granola crunchy hippie stickers

Turbo: straight white male with a chinstrap, fake diamond stud earring, and 500 aftermarket parts supplier stickers

In the United States, where I used to travel often and widely, you have to pay for dialysis and it’s extremely expensive. In New York it cost me $1000 a session.

It’s worth pointing out that this is because the author is a foreign national. Americans with permanent kidney failure are guaranteed Medicare even if they’re under 65, and Medicare part B covers outpatient dialysis in full. Signing that into law is one of the few good things Richard Nixon ever did.

Only thing really missing is Wallet and NFC support

It’s for this reason I keep having to temper my recommendation of degoogled Android, because I often forget most people don’t consider that a feature.

If everything stored solely in the cloud was suddenly lost forever, that would probably be a net boon for humanity.

All good things must come to an end.

And also Linus Tech Tips.