TheRealKuni

The Railroad wouldn’t like you speaking ill of synths like that, you know.

What incompetence? There’s a balance that has to be found between fraud-proof and convenient, and the current balance is pretty good until someone convinces thousands of gullible people online to go commit fraud.

the companies shouldn’t have allowed it to happen, JPMorgan was aiding in check fraud

If I’m understanding what happened correctly, this is mistaken.

Banks let you deposit checks, and optionally make the funds available to you immediately because they trust you (sometimes for a small fee).

If you deposit a bad check, pay the service fee, withdraw the amount, and then fuck off with the cash, that’s not a glitch. That’s just you committing check fraud.

Sometimes people NEED to get the cash the same day they deposit the check. This is a legitimate function of banking and we shouldn’t be blaming the company when people take advantage of it.

We should be blaming the trolls who spread this “glitch” and tricked rubes into committing fraud. And perhaps whoever was responsible for raising and educating said rubes.

The word “xylophone” comes from the Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) meaning “wood” and φωνή (phōnḗ) meaning “sound” or “voice.”

So this instrument with metal bars that you hit with a hammer to produce sound is called a…?

That’s right! A “glockenspiel!”

(I stole this from someone else on the internet.)

backlit Kindles

As I understand it, Kindles aren’t backlit but rather frontlit (or sidelit) with a layer designed to diffuse the light across the page evenly. The claim is that the lack of direct lighting helps in the fight against eye strain as well.

Fallout was the last great game manual.

Nah man. MechCommander came in 1998 and that game manual was a friggin book, with full color pictures of each mech.

Star Wars Rebellion’s manual was also a book. Amazingly detailed.

Morrowind’s wasn’t a book, but it was still pretty great. Gave enough information that I was able to make a TI calculator program to generate accurate stats based on character creation choices.

Not saying there aren’t others, but these are great examples that came after Fallout. And maybe they aren’t at the same level as Fallout, but still great.

Safari offers ad blocking on iOS. You just have to get your extensions through the App Store. But other browsers don’t (yet).

There was someone on Instagram or TikTok criticizing her for flying from LAX to another airport like, three minutes away. As though she were on what was almost certainly a repositioning flight. I doubt she has a hanger at LAX.

People are kind of silly.

Essentially, yes. Ebonics isn’t inherently offensive or inappropriate, as far as I can tell, but it has connotations that are not attached to AAE. Linguists avoid the term today, and modern uses of it tend to be derogatory.

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Dude I’d totally ride a C5 in 2024

Just get a recumbent e-bike and slap some paneling around it.

Title Case: Capitalization of Titles, Headings, and Headlines

My Ford clearly has a touchscreen, and it’s nice, but I’ve also got buttons for everything I need while driving. That’s the way it should be.

I never got on the Xperia train cause my buddy had a rough experience with one (long before I went to the dark side and bought an iPhone).

But I did think the camera stuff seemed cool.

One of the few things I truly miss going from my OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition (greatest phone I ever owned, may it rest bricked in peace) to the iPhone is being able to open the camera without waking the phone first. Double tapping the power button to open the camera was great. On iPhone I have to wake the screen and then get to the camera, which is fast but not NEARLY as fast, so I sometimes miss shots I would’ve gotten with an Android phone. This should also fix that (as did the Action button in the iPhone 15, I think, but I don’t have that).

If the rumors for the capture button are true it’s pretty neat. Being able to zoom, focus, and snap a picture with the same capacitive button is neat, and would make smartphone camerawork be nearly as easy as digital cameras from twenty five years ago! 😅

Yeah but now they want to make him look bad. His team don’t think he can control himself when he’s not supposed to be talking, so they want him muted.

It’s ridiculous. Just stick with what was already agreed on.

Absolutely it was better. But it’s hard to believe that Apple, who was a part of the USB-IF, didn’t know USB-C was in the works. My conspiracy theory is they knew an open standard was imminent and launched lightning to keep getting those MFI licensing checks and purposely made that long of a commitment strictly so, when regulators asked why they hadn’t switched to the new standard yet, they could say it was to “help the environment.”

Oh probably. We know that by the time they finally dropped Lightning, MFi certification was earning them like $4b per year.

There was even rumor they were going to limit charging speeds over USB-C unless they were detectably “MFi” USB-C cables. Ostensibly to prevent damage to the phone from bad cables, but obviously an attempt to maintain MFi income. I don’t remember if they went through with it.

Because the world we live in is complex, and rejecting complexity for a simple view of the world is dangerous.

See You Can’t Get Snakes from Chicken Eggs from the Alt-Right Playbook.

(Note I’m not accusing you of being alt-right. I’m saying we cannot ignore nuance in the world because the world is nuanced.)

we promise we’ll use the inferior, proprietary connector

Honestly Lightning wasn’t inferior when it launched in 2012, two years before the design of USB-C was even published. And in some ways I actually prefer it physically (though obviously I would much rather all my devices use USB-C now as it is a much superior connector).

Lightning was reversible where Micro-USB was not, and Lightning’s female port is entirely a hole that the entirely-a-prong male plug goes into, whereas with USB (like with most connectors) the female side has something sticking up inside it that slots into the male plug. This means Lightning is much easier to clean, which becomes necessary because phones in people’s pockets collect lint.

I’m thrilled that iPhone has moved to USB-C, but people forget how much better Lightning was than both the 30-pin iPod connector AND Micro-USB.

I dunno man, part of me wants to buy the dip. They’re “too big to fail,” they’ll get enough corporate welfare to bounce back. The question is when.