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But it can make custom emoji! 🫨 That alone is worth the hundreds of millions Apple spent.

Probably the same as we have now, "be neat if and when it eventually arrives".

Thanks saved me a click on a video that didn't really have much to say. OP on this thread was right.

Consisting your friend is a huge movie buff I'm surprised it didn't bother the heck out of him, film fans usually turn that crap off as soon as they turn on the TV. Supposedly it's because sports, soap operas and a lot of low budget TV are shot & broadcast at higher frame rate than film - so when you watch a film with the frame rate artificially increased your brain goes 'I am watching low budget soap trash' subconsciously. I think people are just used to film looking a certain way and anything that makes it appear quite different is too distracting for them to relax into the fantasy.

That's OK, the Xbox 360 was heavily featured in Grandma's Boy, which is a much better deal.

I'd much rather use a password and a two-factor auth via TOTP code. It's fast, portable, I can store them on a variety of open source apps, and it's very hard to hack. I don't need to use a specific provider, or browser. Flexible and free.

Passkeys in their current implementation are comparatively a mess. Here's an article that runs through many reasons why:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/

Ah that is probably my bad then, I read it as being able to redirect arbitrary URLs, hence the need for geoblock and abuse protections - if it's only your own self-hosted/personal domains then yeah that absolutely makes sense.

Yeah this approach has definitely worked in Saudi Arabia, where public beheadings draw a crowd and people sell mementos of the occasion. Their people are famously anti-death penalty now - they even stopped sentencing children to death in 2020 by royal decree, very progressive. Though they haaave been increasing executions significantly over the last five years, even though up to two thirds of their executions are for non-violent crime. Hmm.

Public opinon polls are very rare in SA so let's check in on some opinions from SA redditors..

https://www.reddit.com/r/saudiarabia/comments/qsbbew/whats_your_opinion_on_the_death_penalty/

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Can I ask - why would anyone do this? Several URL shortening services of the past have shuttered and it has left the web littered with links to sites that can never be resolved (linkrot) - this to me just seems like a another surefire way to speedrun future deadlinks in forums etc. Why?

Edit - I have misunderstood the assignment.

This is targeted at self-hosted/personal-domain stuff only, not general internet site URL shortening/redirection.

Already happened to chocolate. Raw cocoa is currently around 10% more expensive than it was at the same time last year - but chocolate products at retailers has shot up 40% or more. Including brands where cocoa isn't the dominant component ingredient like milk chocolate.

Yet businesses like Lindt are celebrating a 7.8% increase in sales... Make it make sense to me cos I buy far less now. Who are the people who see these increasing prices and buy more 🤡

Source data: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa

No, 'China bad' because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.

The whole "you can't criticize China because you're from a country that also does bad things" is logically worthless. It's the appeal to hypocrisy fallacy.

Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i'm not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don't really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don't praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don't see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it's everyone else that's propagandized 🤔

It isn't on the default port either, it's on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

It isn't on the default port either, it's on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it's on the open Internet, they do.

I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I'm like "uh hi who are you?". They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.

I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called 'Flan'). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn't be much fun for them.

Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.

In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.

I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it's much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won't have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.

This might help someone, I recently found an Android app called 'DigiPaws' that is designed to block selected apps during 'quiet time' or 'focus periods' that you set up - so the use-case of the topic.

I know "an app to quit an app" but I've found it actually really helpful to stop me from touching social media when I'm supposed to be winding down to go to bed - I click on Lemmy/Greyjay and it literally closes the app and popup/toasts 'quiet time [period remaining]' and I'm like, "oh yeah shit I should just go to bed".

I have a bachelor's degree but when it comes to the dopamine loop of social media scrolling I'm dumb as hell, and just having this little app effectively slap the phone away from my hand has been great in the month I've used it (its fairly new).

Its on F-droid store as its open source, code on github. I know that's a big plus to most here.

Are you talking about the same Al Jazeera that Arab Islamist countries despotic leaders hate so much that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Libya, Bahrain and others added 'immediate and permanent closure of Al Jazeera' to their shortlist of primary demands during the Qatari diplomatic crisis from 2017-2021?

The same Al Jazeera English that's won multiple Peabody awards, the New York Festival TV & Film broadcaster of the year in 2022 & 2023 and the Royal Television Society Award in 2021 & 2022?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_awarded_to_Al_Jazeera_English

P.s. its OK I know they're trolling, I just like to spread education for others who may glance over OP's post and take it at face value.

All graphics cards interface with BIOS/UEFI when the system initializes - every piece of non-hotswap hardware has to or it won't be initialized and cannot be used.

The question is really why should a graphics card maker care to dedicate time to make their card compatible with BIOS when 99.999% of the systems running their cards will use UEFI, and they said 'hey actually we don't care' as far back as 2023 in the 7000 series but for some reason (clickbait) this is being dug up again.

I'm Aussie and came to the comments with a 'wtf is that abomination', glad to see they are already getting roasted haha

Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine's workspace. I've purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.