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  • You’re absolutely right. In the case of an adult, I’d just take more of a stance of, “look at this crazy thing that happened! lol! Omg I wonder what went wrong” and try to elicit her awareness that way. Then teach through soft suggestion, “maybe we shouldn’t XYZ, huh. Crazy.”

    1. Thank your daughter for helping you with chores.
    2. Bring her to the mess and let her see it for herself.
    3. Kindly ask her why she thinks it turned out that way.
    4. Ask her what she thinks she can do avoid this kind of thing next time. (This is your opportunity to explain to her how to do things.)
    5. Kindly ask her to do it again, correctly. (Consider doing it together)
    6. Tell her she’s awesome for helping out, and that you really appreciate it.

    Never be angry. Be patient and supportive. Don’t let frustration escalate.

  • I’m no fan of meta, but I’m so used to seeing “but the children” get thrown about as a power play that I’m actually less inclined to believe Meta did anything wrong. Or at least any worse than expected.

  • All reasons I personally had for sideloading my iPhone went out the window when I bought a steam deck. Now I don’t really care what happens here.

  • I thought Reddit was down to just sell data to whoever was willing to pay for it. Where do 5th amendment protections fall under that circumstance?

  • Advertising existed fine before the tracking part became an entitlement.

  • You’re probably right, but we both know companies would go on for years if nothing intervenes. Then blame it on the dead man when there is no money left.

  • randomizing can make you stand out more as an outlier

    I’m sure, but if you have a specific set of colors matching a specific picture on your phone that nobody else has, I imagine that would be more easily traceable than if it were automatically switched out every once in a while. Granted, the other aspects you mentioned might be enough to just render the effort redundant anyway.

  • Got a recommendation? Preferably a privacy-respecting one?

  • Tapping in a text field used to just put the cursor there. Double tapping would select the word, and triple tapping would select the whole sentence. At least I think that’s how it was. Now tapping almost always selects the word (sometimes it weirdly doesn’t, and it’ll select the first word of the next line if you tap the end of the line above… why would that be intended?).

    If you want to place the cursor between two words, it best to use the cursor by long pressing the space bar or physically dragging the cursor (unless you’re very good with where you tap). If you want to add some text to a middle of a sentence, you’ll have to think very carefully about how to accomplish that without redundantly needing to retype some words that you had intended to keep.

    Also, if an incorrect word gets auto-typed, hitting delete just removes the whole word instead of allowing you to just delete something like the last letter.

  • Some things change that never needed to. Editing text in iOS inexplicably got so bad in 17.

  • One of my biggest concerns with subscriptions has to do with death. It feels gross to imagine companies just entitling themselves to my bank account after I’m gone, providing no value to anything, until someone comes along and cancels everything. Feels like one last free cash grab that could go on for years. I imagine board members congratulating each other for legally looting a dead man’s corpse.

  • Basically Android will change its UI coloring to align with your background image, and 3rd parties get access to knowledge about your designated UI colors, right? I get how that can be a privacy concern.

    What happens if you set your wallpaper to automatically change every other hour or so? Does android allow that?

  • For me it’s Jessica Chobot replacing the journalist in Mass Effect 2.

  • I wonder if their long-term game is to open their own storefront on PC to better compete with Steam and Microsoft.

    I think if they were to do that, simultaneous PC releases would be far more likely.

  • Okay. So they do this in Japan. The plastic used in the wrapper is different than the plastic in the bottle. They require different processes to recycle. It’s also far more efficient for regular people to just rip it off and throw one in one bin and the other in another bin in their own homes than it is for a sorting facility to go through mountains of this stuff trying to get it right every single time. Frankly I wish more places did it this way.

    I hope this explanation will make things even less infuriating.