

You’re forgetting that the cruelty is the point.
You’re forgetting that the cruelty is the point.
I am sure the idea of disabling the app stores in Australia has been discussed! I don’t think they’ll want to pull out of the Australian market, but I do expect some kind of childish backlash.
It will be very interesting to see what the response from the companies is and how this unfolds.
That’s a rather unnecessary oversimplification. A lot of sleep apnoea sufferers are not overweight:
I use Pi-hole, except that I originally retrofitted after setting up DNScrypt years ago to connect to Cisco OpenDNS. That’s not the only DNS server you can use with it, though, and it’s added more features since.
To use DNScrypt with Pi-hole on the same device, set DNScrypt to listen on 127.0.0.1:54 and point Pi-hole to that as the DNS server.
The only time I have ever had any trouble with this setup and DNS resolution is when the network is recovering from a power outage; there’s a race condition somewhere between the Pi and my modem/router that I’ve never found the time to pin down (given outages are so infrequent I just haven’t gotten around to it) and it’s easily resolved by rebooting the Pi.
Evangelicalism encompasses many styles and streams—fundamentalist, holiness, Bible churches—but none are as dynamic and fecund as the Pentecostal sects. Each has a singular approach to MAGA, Trump, and Epstein, but none are more ardent than the Pentecostals. Disparaged as Holy Rollers and Tongues-Talkers for their highly emotional worship and ecstatic prayers, even by fellow born-again believers, numbering approximately 600 million worldwide, with ten percent of them in the US, making them the dominant strain of evangelicals. A subset of Pentecostals, called Charismatics, form the core of MAGA’s religious adherents. Within that group is another theological variant often called the “prosperity gospel,” referring to a teaching that purports health and wealth as marks of divine approval.
Being familiar with these types of Christians here in Australia, this checks out. This particular type always struck me as being emotionally driven (rather than using reason and logic to make decisions). It makes perfect sense that they’re the majority of evangelicals that support Trump and MAGA.
Frustratingly I have just a few applications that are Windows-only and don’t work under WINE. I’ve filed bug reports but haven’t had the time to learn how to debug it myself, so am somewhat stuck dual-booting on one device for the near future (everything else is now Linux).
I know, but that year will be valuable for a certain family member who is stubborn and needs time to be eased into a new system. The problem is that now I have to set up a MS account for them just to get the extension!
Yes, I am likely to shift them to that as well.
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Family members have PCs that can’t support Windows 11 (not that I’d want them to get it anyway) and I’m not yet in the position to migrate them to Linux.
This type of behaviour makes me glad I’m most of the way to ditching MS entirely on my own systems.
Hmm, could use some more variety. When will the calico or gingers be back in stock?
They’re probably trying to stop low-income people from having some means of learning about the world (at least until the Trump Administration manages to control their part of the Internet like China does) and reducing their ability to organise en masse.
I’ve known a few narcissists and they definitely weren’t out to please people! They just seem to have a much better grasp of charm and know how to behave in order to get what they want; once they’re high enough up the food chain, treating anyone decently is no longer required.
Ouch! I am glad I generally get to choose when the radio is on or not (most of the time it’s when I have to run an errand and so have it on in the car and can pick which channel to listen to).
What has been particularly telling for me as an Aussie is the sheer number of radio ads I’ve heard in the past few months trying to get people to travel to the US, or offering competitions where the prize is a US holiday (which, if I was the type to actually phone and enter radio station competitions, would be a deterrant for me!). It’s clear that US tourism has taken a nose-dive and plenty of us non-Americans don’t want to visit any more (it’s a bit disappointing as there are a few things I would like to have seen, but wouldn’t risk going there now).
Having worked with JavaScript, I understand the usefulness of a “less strict” equality comparison like this, but the coercion of objects still does my head in…
(And for the record, most of the time I did use strict equality).
Been there, done that. Then people can’t understand what happens when you hit autistic burnout and can no longer function.
Depressingly, narcissism is more socially acceptable than autism (and I suspect narcissists can “play the game” more easily, too). My impression is that this more applicable in western culture with our emphasis on individuality, with the US taking top place with its “American exceptionalism” (to be fair, my own country did export one of the worst - Rupert Murdoch).
Oh, there are definitely those that would take advantage of WFH arrangements, but on the whole the productivity increase from everyone else seems to more than offset them. I’d also argue that a lot of the issue should be resolvable through appropriate employee management without being invasive or too overbearing (e.g. many companies already have daily standups or weekly progress meetings as well as employee development processes which should make it obvious whether an employee has become less effective after starting WFH).
I fully expect tomorrow’s update to include a sixth and possibly seventh cat.