papertowels @ papertowels @mander.xyz

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Cowboys and aliens.

Man pitched this fever dream of an idea in 97, was laughed out of the room.

Folks only agreed with the same guy to make it in 2006 after seeing it was based on a best selling comic book.

That comic book was written by the person who initially pitched the idea in 97. He practically paid comic book stores to carry and give away the comic book so it'd be a "best seller".

Movie execs got hoodwinked lol

I think I remember the dual thumb, but I just remember being amazed at how responsive it was

Typing on this thing was a dream.

One of the videos in question has a direct call to action to support this bill

Considering he's their elected representative he ought to do some representing.

Something something single issue Gaza voters claiming the moral high ground

The shoe horn is the bidet of getting dressed.

Not quite what you're looking for, but playon tv essentially lets you DVR content from streaming services you pay for. The big caveat I've had with it is only the default language is allowed. There's a manual way to select another language before it starts recording but that doesn't scale, as you'd have to do it per episode.

If pirating is off the table for any reason, it's a great alternative to load up on entire seasons at a time of content, which can be annoying with disks.

I ripped like 40 dvds for the office once. Not fun.

I color code all my info. (..) Green means go, so I know to go ahead and shut up about it. Orange, means orange you glad you didn’t bring it up. Most colors mean don’t say it.

Michael Scott

Active noise cancelling - noise cancelling that doesn't just rely on making a seal between your ears and the earbuds/headphones.

Sounds like a you problem, I have it on good authority that it's pretty common:

how many times does the average person use wireless charging? Seriously, I haven't seen anyone do that yet, or know of someone who uses that.

and yet that's still a major feature in lots of phones

You've shown everyone that you can, in fact, listen to wired headphones and charge at the same time with "major features found in lots of phones", which solves your original complaint, which itself depends on some very specific scenarios.

Funny you bring up wireless charging.

Does that not solve your proposed problem? You can use a usb-c to audio dongle, which often comes with better sound quality than a phones DAC, and wirelessly charge, even via many powerbanks. These are features found fairly commonly in today's phones, so problem solved?

If I've asked a question twice and you've danced around it both times, that tells everyone what your answer is.

Sure, for simplicities sake let's just say it's impossible.

How many times has the average person needed to do so in a year?

If we revisit the "loud" vs "statistically significant" paradigm, while it is a shame you will not be able to charge the phone with a dac in without buying a specific cable, how often does the average person do so?

Here's a relevant stack exchange question. Regarding what an ISP can learn. Of note, everybody is ceding that the ISP can tell you're using signal, and they've moved on to whether or not they'd be able to fingerprint your usage patterns.

Any number of other people. Primarily the government.

Right, so if the header isn't encrypted, it'd be trivial for them to see who you're sending to, which is why that's important.

You never answered my question - do you think the network connection itself is encrypted? Or just the content of the messages?

You're talking about encryption and signal because you're worried about folks whose network you're connected to being able to invade your privacy, right?

I'd say it's a pretty reasonable suggestion to say we start with those guys. If you don't worry about those guys, who do have access to traffic info, then why bother with encryption?

If the header isn't encrypted it'd be easy to inspect, and thus easy to determine where it goes, which is why it matters.

Based on your questions, it sounds like you're expecting the network traffic itself to be encrypted, as if there were a VPN. Does signal offer such a feature? My understanding is that the messages themselves are encrypted, but the traffic isn't, but I could be wrong.

Would you? Are the headers encrypted?