Gated communities and Homeowners Associations were originally invented to keep black and hispanic people out. Simple as that. They are still used as tools of segregation from a paranoid populace.

Oh man, continuous 500hp, 1k short burst at each wheel. I think my car caught fire just thinking about it…

Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’.

I mean…that’s an odd take. Don’t know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.

Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

No arguments there though.

So I’ve been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.

I’ve been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they’re already off the market for me.

If you think I’m arguing for them, I’m not.

No, they put in a lot of money for these office buildings, and they’re sitting unused. They have leases they still have to pay.

I love cars because they’re part art and expression, and part joy/relaxation. They’re as unique as an individual’s personality, and can be customized to suit. Driving on the open road is this synchronized dance of metal and flesh that propels you far faster than nature ever intended (less so if you drive an automatic). It’s a testament to human progress. As someone who loves engineering in every specialty, cars blend mechanical, electrical, electronics, robotics, design…every engineering specialty there is, into 1 complete package that utilizes them all. Every inch of a car is meticulously crafted and lovingly sculpted by engineers, and its one of mankind’s crowning achievements of modern society. It is singlehandedly the most complex, and most beautiful thing many of us will ever own.

Racing in and of itself has just as many forms, each pushing the limits of this engineering to new heights, and is a wonderful test bed for people to wring the most out of the world around us.

And each year, I marvel at the concept cars and the art of cars to come. It just tickles so many of my fancies.

This doesn’t even begin to touch on the wide range that it’s given me and others to travel and experience new places.

BazziteDX? – It’s Bazzite but for developers

They kinda do. Aren’t memories typically depicted with a kind of hazy camera filter over them?

I thought this was linkin park

The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.

Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?

That’s why eating disorders are so damn hard for people.

The benefits to jailbreaking it are that you can change the layout of the device, remove store icons, and just in-general tidy up the UI a bit. I haven’t seen anything game-changing from the jailbreak; like adding apps or something.

It’s not a software problem, the Oasis has free cellular service for life.

If you turn your Wifi off on an Android phone for example - it still scans and uses the wifi to keep track of your location, for instance. It’s an anti-consumer pattern that companies are using. Airplane mode? – Sure, for YOU. But Amazon probably still allows cell service to connect every couple of hours for exactly this kind of thing.

The error message she received wasn’t sly about it either. It said something very direct along the lines of “We have determined that you are not eligible to read this book so we have removed it from your device”

I’ve been slowly filling my wife’s Kindle Oasis full of pirated books over the last 2 years. I got it initially because it had internet service everywhere and I could just email her the epubs to simplify loading things.

A couple of weeks ago, even though airplane mode is always on for this thing, (so no wifi either) – this thing wipes something like 400 books from her library overnight. Granted, they were all pirated, but they’re doing some nasty stuff there. It looks like there’s renewed effort to combat this.

Sooooo, I sold it and bought her a Kobo Libra Color. Now, I just have her open up https://send.djazz.se/ – give me the 4 digit code, and I can upload books to her that way. Goodbye Amazon. Don’t let the door hit you.

There are absolutely a fuckstick worth of George Floyd memes out there like this too. I say let people have fun. There are like 8b people on this planet, and far more important people than him are dying, like the people in gaza.

Maybe now is the time for me to transition back into IT work. :D

You’re a victim of your own failure to advocate. Ads aren’t just an annoyance, they are a security failure. Even “trusted” ad networks have been infiltrated and dispersed malware. If you are allowed the browse the internet at all at work, I would not ALLOW you to browse the web without an adblocker at minimum.

If you go far enough left, you get your guns back again.

My (American) kids love this song. :D

Games should allow you to discover their features, they shouldn’t be telling you directly. That’s the cool part of figuring out a new combo in Mortal Kombat, etc.

They don’t give you a clippy tooltip that says “Press Up Up Down B A Down Down to rip this bitches head off!” – You figure out the combos on your own, or with friends.

This idea of every little thing having to be presented DIRECTLY to the user is laziness. There are ways to help a user discover things narratively.