My partner has the same name as her mother.

It’s not the only way I’ve got a raise. I also got a raise once by saying I was planning on leaving. But I guess that’s pretty similar :)

Not going somewhere else to get more money isn’t the same as losing money. That’s like saying I’m saving money by not buying $expensive_item when I wouldn’t buy that type of thing anyway.

If I’m a painter, I’m not losing money by not being the CEO of RandomOtherCorp. Conflate ye not.

Replace “nobody” with “nobody who contributes to society; nobody I gave a shit about in the first place” and you’re on track.

I have a Binatone one in a crate here with essentially the same selection of games on it. It was a really common thing to clone, there was one chip that played them all.

No, Radofin was a UK-only brand.

You could definitely kill a villain with my laptop, if you fired it with sufficient force from a cannon.

If you click “Why am I seeing this?” does it just say, “America”?

I have no problem with using Gnome. It stays out of my way and Things Just Work for the most part as 99% of what I do is in a browser or a terminal anyway.

I’m shocked to my core.

This is not a particularly relevant comment, but you reminded me of when I was a kid and a friend had a TV on a stand opposite her bunk-bed. She didn’t have a remote control, but she did have a long stick, and she was amazing at pressing the buttons from like 2m away. Proper life skill.

Which is incidentally the opposite of proprietary products, where if you give it another go in a few years it either doesn’t exist or is enshittified.

1. The same is true for Bsky but people don’t complain about it there. It asks you what server you want when you sign up, etc., which is what people complain about in the Mastodon journey.

2. Most people aren’t on locked servers. By which, I mean the majority of mastodon users are on the .social instance which is the default when you sign up on the official app/site and is open to anyone.

3. Not an accessibility issue.

I’d be amazed if this works, since these sorts of tricks have been around since dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and most bots will use pretty modern zip libraries which will just return “nope” or throw an exception, which will be treated exactly the same way any corrupt file is - for example a site saying it’s serving a zip file but the contents are a generic 404 html file, which is not uncommon.

Also, be careful because you could destroy your own device? What the hell? No. Unless you’re using dd backwards and as root, you can’t do anything bad, and even then it’s the drive contents you overwrite, not the device you “destroy”.

Just read some of his other posts. Every one is the same, what a horrible person.

most firmware releases will be to fix something with the online service anyway. If it displays stuff coming down a wire from your PC when you buy it, it probably never needs an update.