PetteriPano @ PetteriPano @lemmy.world

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And not in a good way

I remember when I bought my iPhone 3GS back in the day.

The only option was to buy it carrier locked on a one or two year plan in my country. Of course it was exclusive to a carrier that wasn't my choice of carrier.

I signed up, put it in a drawer and waited for the imminent jailbreak and unlocked modem firmware. It dropped two weeks later. After that one year of payments they unlocked it through official means.

The opening scene of Hackers (1995). Poor kid can't use a touch tone telephone or computer until his 18th birthday.

That's like taking away Mozart's piano.

I open a can of jolt cola every time I get in. That's why I'm so fat.

My wife has the 4a. She's happy with it. I love how it fits in my hand.

But, I've been pushing her to upgrade because it's been out of security updates for over a year.

Pants and shoes I try and buy in-store.

I've got my go-to brands for shirts and underwear that I know fit well, so I usually just buy a shitload when my old ones are worn out.

Outerwear is 50/50%.

Most online retailers will let you try and return goods. In the EU you can return anything bought online within 2 weeks, no questions asked (by law).

A lot of fast fashion stores might just burn returns, others might sell them at an outlet. And it cuts into they already thin margins. I try to avoid returns.

The CMF phone 1 is a lot of phone for little money.

everybody hates snaps because canonical owns it

We like of like things to be open so that we can review, or replace. The snap store is proprietary and controlled by canonical. I don't want my data collected and subject to canonical's EULA when using my choice of distro.

Canonical has a hisory of doing bad choices, so the level of trust is not very high. It feels like an attempt at embrace, extend, extinguish. Get people hooked on snaps and then make snaps suck on other distros kind of thing.

Finnish guy here, as well. I went to school in the 90s and the subtext was always that the local Lucia would be a blonde girl. We'd have one for our school, the town, and the country.

The mythical Lucia was burned at a stake, and I guess those flames both translated to the crown of candles that she wears as well as blonde hair. The mythical Lucia most likely looked pretty Hispanic.

I think the current Lucia wears the crown well, and the response has been that the charity organising it has received several times the donations it usually gets. I think we'll need to wait another generation to get rid of the racist pushback.

I like The Yule Fiddler.

And Rush Coil's mega man-inspired album.

Not quite Schrödinger's cat, but in programming we have Heisenbugs named after Schrödinger's peer.

It's when you have a bug/crash that is not reproducible when debugging it. Might be that you're reading some memory that you're not supposed to, and the debugger just sets it up differently. Maybe you have a race condition that just never happens with the debugger attached.

The decision is made. It just takes a while for the 27 countries to get their local legislation up to speed. Many haven't decided whether they'd want to be on standard time or +1. There's some business advantage to being on the same timezone as your neighbors.

And then software manufacturers need some heads up to get their shit together.

If you visit a representative of the Finnish government in their office, you need to check in and your visit gets put on a list that anyone can request.

The same thing should be done for phone calls. If spend all your day talking to tobacco companies while being the head of healthcare, maybe you should be scrutinized.

Stock ownership should be public information as well.

Is it really practical in 2024? I used pine as my sole e-mail client for many years.

In the last 15 years it feels like every mail expects the client to be able to render html, with no real fallback for text-only. Even when my client only blocks remote images some mail can be quite hard to decipher.

Company handbook even requires me to have a html signature with a picture of the company logo.. before that I've militantly only sent text-only e-mail.

The EU parliament had a vote to abolish DST, and it passed. They just forgot to hammer out the details, then COVID and Ukraine happened, so focus shifted.

I hope they'll pick up the ball again at some point.

Yes.

Mine does.

You can digitally "lend" a movie for a week and stream it once during that time. It's free, but more cumbersome than the high seas.

There's a lot of atheists in this thread.

The question was: what's your religion?

Atheism is as much of a religion as 'off' is a radio station.

I do it for Mario platformers. I just can't get any precision in my jumps when using my right thumb if it's already busy holding the run button. It looks weird, and it feels weird. I'd rather remap run to one of the trigger buttons.

When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.

It's not like that's what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.