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Yeah, after years and years of hoarding lots of hardware and cables that's how I operate now. I have so much less tech trash in my house now, LOL. Keep a few extra cables of sorts …

Whoa now. Consider that getting the government out of healthcare would mean all the rural hospitals close. Consider who that would most-hurt, while saving you money, before you jum…

There’s weirdly-weak evidence that the layoff-happy strategy is actually better for long term company health than trying to retain workers through down periods. Like, it’s kinda ju…

There’s no “precedent” needed, Russia and Ukraine are simply choosing not to do certain things to avoid widening the war in the ways you mention, because they don’t think that woul…

My wife really disliked masculinization of the main character in the new She-Ra. The original was maybe her favorite cartoon as a kid, and what appealed was that She-Ra was a prett…

That part, and the player-death sequences(!), plus some other cutscene stuff, really weirded me out. It all read to me as way more sexualized (in a specific, fetishy sort of way) t…

I touched on it in my way-too-long post elsewhere on here, but I think this is exactly it: there's a (fuzzy at some boundary, sure, but useful) distinction to be drawn on something…

I'm struggling to think of a medium other than video games that isn't dominated by women. ... and actually, wasn't it the case that before the discovery of the "whale" brain-hack t…

> In my opinion a 'civil servant' sees their job as serving the American people to the best of their ability even if they don't agree with the outcomes of the latest election. Sure…

I figured the same thing, was expecting a lament about the demise of the glorious bench seat.

Can confirm, the "stuff" costs basically nothing in the scheme of things and nearly all of it can be had used. A bunch of it's also not really all that necessary. Clothes and toys …

I've observed that a whole lot of people absolutely do not keep putting kids in car seats once they're about the height & weight of a petite adult (us included). So the guidelines …

Option-up/option-down? Two keys rather than one, but makes up for it by not being way off in some oddball part of the keyboard. You can one-hand it pretty easily, since there's an …

To have own the business? Purchases that wouldn't go through if they didn't reduce competition shouldn't happen anyway . Banning those kinds of restrictions would help with that.

Before LLMs, the em-dash glyph was a decent tell simply that... the author was using a Mac, because it's a simple and easy-to-remember (or even guess!) key-combo on there. Not that…

Those are all really poorly-performing.

I have learned that you must have data. I have also learned that rarely does anyone care if it’s any good, or means anything. This is generally true, but it’s especially true if yo…

I'm fairly sure the only reason a lot of sites haven't been broken in Firefox for as much as a decade is that fixing your Chrome-first site for Safari tends to fix most of the prob…

> No it's not. It's just the cheapest. If you set it up so it's convenient and usable by everyone in your house, including visitors, just like Netflix, it's not much cheaper. Elect…

They haven't been relevant to anything user-facing at all since they sold the Thinkpad line, and their "golden age" was over by ~2000. Their hardware was awesome in the '80s and '9…

I disagree with "original iPad" being the highest-placed product in that line. iPad 2 should have that spot, no question. A product so successful they sold it for a really long tim…

The list of potential cataclysms on Earth for which being on Mars would be preferable to still being on Earth despite the cataclysm is pretty short. Mostly amounts to whole-crust-l…

"Mushroom hunting" is a fairly common phrase in English, too. It appears to have the top-level title for the page about that activity, on Wikipedia, even (mushroom foraging, mushro…

I recommend reading the law on which this action was based.

Strongly agreed. I think there was ever a good reason for this to be a topic outside those with a direct interest in various sports governing bodies. Those should be making these d…