Radiant_sir_radiant @ Radiant_sir_radiant @beehaw.org

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I wouldn't start worrying yet. Elon might 'invent' a feature next week that does a similar thing, only it costs something.

Apple products are generally well-designed, but in addition to the occasional genuine screw-up, which they just handle in spectacularly arrogant ways, Apple's engineers are absolutely no strangers to planned obsolescence.

Personally I've only witnessed their habit of using capacitors rated 85°C next to the 90+°C CPU instead of ones rated 105°C and costing a fraction of a cent more.\ Guess which small part fails after a few years and makes a logic board replacement necessary (or 30min with a toolkit and SMD soldering station if you know what the problem is). It's difficult to believe that this is an honest mistake.
\ The Lightning connector has a design flaw that wears off the contact surfaces way faster than it should.
\ There are many other stories in self-repair forums that I can't personally vouch for, but at least to me they look credible enough.

IIRC Louis Rossmann has done a YouTube video on it, which I can't find at the moment as the plane wi-fi blocks streaming services.

In other news, metereologists suspect the tornado near Unity HQ has been caused by furious backpedaling...

From what you write it sounds like you're already doing more than most people. Whether that's enough for you is for you alone to decide. Just let me quote something that's helped me tremendeously:

It's not your job to unfuck the entire world.

You cannot possibly fix every problem. Not least because "problem" is very subjective and not everything that you perceive as a problem even wants to be fixed.
\ You'll never convince a group of peple to stop being misogynistic, homophobic or otherwise bigoted or just backwards. That's a losing battle. But maybe you can get a few people to question their beliefs? It's up to you to decide whether that's good enough for you or whether you give up and move somewhere more tolerant.
\ Either way, I for one salute you for doing what you do and fighting for what you believe is right.

Same here with v0.0.46. It appears to crash whenever it's supposed to display a post. Inbox works, Profile works, Settings works, but Home crashes as soon as it's finished loading. Force-closing the app, emptying its cache and rebooting the phone don't fix it.

EDIT: Crash log, in case anybody can use it:

FX File Explorer has that functionality (among other cleanup tools) and is generally a great file manager. It's free with limited functionality after a trial period, or a one-off fee of about three bucks for the Plus version.

Yeah, imagine the reactions to such a post on r/askreddit. 😅

but I would say that your statement that her being naked around you is also a cultural “line” that’s not written in stone

I agree with you in principle. Let me elaborate.
\ There's nothing wrong with nudity per se. However, in this particular case, suddenly walking around in the nude would be so much outside the norms that we as a family have lived for years that it couldn't not be a statement of some kind. So maybe I should have written "it would definitely be inappropriate for her to walk around entirely in the nude without explaining the reason to the other family members first" instead.
\ Also, friends might come over unannounced, and they're not guaranteed to be as nonchalant about it or not stare, so...

Unfortunately, studying any form of therapy doesn't automagically remove all of your own issues. Just think of all the therapists and doctors having a screw loose themselves. This subject is one of my blind spots and that's why I'm looking for outside opinions.
\ Knowing her, bringing it up like in the original post would probably make her uncomfortable, and I wouldn't want to do that without a good reason, so I've decided to have my feelings challenged in a neutral place first. If Beehaw decides that there's nothing to worry about, I've learned something about myself and there's no need for that talk!

This has to be the definite answer. 😂

The other day she wanted to play "just the tip" for a fancy dinner and looked angry when I only gave her a tenner. Kids are so greedy these days.

You bring up an interesting point, and I have an answer in my head that makes perfect sense to me, I'm just not sure I have the vocabulary to convey it.

A lot of sex- or genitalia-related things (or intimate things in general) depend on the context more than on the act itself - e.g. even though my urologist has seen & handled my wedding tackle in the past (and I've even paid him for it!), it would be considered rather unprofessional of him to want to do exactly the same thing if we happened to meet at the pub. My masseuse only touches my butt during a massage, etc.

Nudity is not a bad thing as such. It's just that we're not a nudist family at all, and so if anyone walked around in the nude, it would be way beyond the social norms (for lack of a better word) that we as a family have been practicing for years. I would at the very least expect them to give us a heads-up and explain to us why they suddenly want to stop wearing clothes.
\ The social norms we have don't always make perfect sense, but may still be important to either maintain or challenge as a group because other people's comfort zones depend on them.

Also, as a male in the perfect age group for a mid-life crisis interacting with impressionable young females that are somewhat dependent on me, I always feel like I need to be super-duper extra cautious.

I hope that makes sense.

I get what you're saying and I'd have no problem admitting to what you're describing, but can honestly say that I'm really not attracted to her. Apart from the age difference (which is a real turn-off for me) and the fact that I'm married to her mother, she's just not my type. (And I'm thankful for that - I can only imagine the ways it would complicate things). I wouldn't consider her to be my daughter any more if I were her biological father.
\ Even my dick agrees, and he's known to have made some wildly inappropriate statements in the past.

We also need a law that prevents them from changing the terms of service on a product someone has been using, then locking them out of it if they don't agree to the new terms.

This. So, so much.

With mandatory jail time for the managers of companies who break this law, and/or fines that are guaranteed to send the stockholders howling and demanding the executives's heads on spikes. The current fines clearly aren't enough of a deterrent and just considered the normal cost of doing business.

I share your sentiment, but personally I don't like the GPL's Borg-like assimilation of anything it touches.

How about "every crawler using the API must provide the same API free of charge for "?

At the height of the protests, "spaz" was (still is?) actually the name used by AutoModerator in some forums in reply to posts referring to the CEO. It would surprise me if that were the only instance of that 'typo'.

Scuba diving. SO and me signed up for a course some two years ago out of curiosity. Now I've got about €7-8k worth of equipment lying around which, besides our 2-3 diving tours a year, I mostly use in our small swimming pool. I still enjoy the peace & quiet down there a lot though.

I may be a bit cynical here, but to me, current smarthome systems are about two things: a) vendor lock-in, and b) holding your house hostage to push you away from one-time purchases and onto subscription services, much as is already hapening with computers/smartphones and modern cars.

From the seller's point of view, subscription services have several huge advantages: they can milk you have a guaranteed revenue stream for the lifetime of the system, they can collect/sell lots of data about you, and they can ram any TOS changes down your throat which you will accept as long as you care about being able to turn on the lights in your kitchen.

Interoperability is really bad for vendor lock-in, so I'm curious as to which supplier will implement it to what degree.

As for our house, it has some smart things, but none of those are connected to the internet, nor do I expect they ever will be.
\ For all its faults and risks, a smart home can still make your life a lot easier.