I lay a lot of the blame at J.J. Abrams’ feet, not necessarily because he directed both Star Trek and Star Wars (though somewhat because of that) but because of Lost specifically. He largely started this trend of every episode being a cliffhanger and every plot point needing to top the last. At the time it was a fresh way of seeing a story which is why it became the trend, I don’t understand why it won’t go away though. In the end, Lost is largely remembered as having lost the plot much like Game of Thrones or more recently Stranger Things. They don’t start these things with an actual plan anymore and frankly I see that as the big problem. Take MASH for instance, they knew they that no matter what happened in between the show would end with the end of the war. They don’t even start shows with that little a plan anymore.

My single gay friend adopted a kid in Oklahoma in the mid 2000s. This is definitely one of those your mileage may vary things.

Kent State happened, he doesn’t need to look outside the US for ideas.

Paying money to prevent spam is different than paying money to avoid helping people and doing your share in society.

They already said less shit.

In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.

An anti-static bag wouldn’t do anything. I assume you mean the Faraday cage bags, which would prevent your phone from pinging anything as would a hardware switch but wouldn’t prevent them from searching it if you get arrested.

No SIM wouldn’t really make any difference, all (US) phones must be able to make a 911 call even if they aren’t currently in service (that’s what SOS in the signal meter means too, you aren’t roaming or don’t have roaming turned on but the rival carrier’s tower that you are hitting legally must allow you to make a 911 call). Just because your carrier doesn’t support those frequencies anymore doesn’t mean there aren’t other carriers that do or that the mobile cell tower spoofers won’t still scan for those frequencies. If you trust that it will stay in airplane mode and that the custom rom’s Bluetooth stack is locked down enough to not ping any Find My devices or similar then maybe but standalone Meshtastic device sounds like the best bet to me, or maybe something like IP over HAM radio. Maybe it’s time to dust off the Cybiko!!!

Don’t take your phone to a protest. Even if you turn it off or in airplane mode. iPhones ping the Find My network even when turned off for instance and Google has their own version of the same thing. Feature phones, insofar as they still exist won’t save you either, in the US all cellular devices are required to have a GPS built in (it was part of the same law that made the Amber Alert).

Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.

My problem with the combo machines is that, not only do they apparently take longer, but you can only do one load at once. With two I can have a load ready to go in the dryer when the previous load is dry.

We absolutely saw those photos in school in the US… maybe this person just didn’t pay attention?

The Malt-O-Meal brand I used to get started being really bad about that to the point that it was almost rarer to get a single piece rather than a combo piece.

I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.

I’m curious about the due process of getting shot in the face…

The US is turning against white people. It was already against everybody else.

For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.

Precedent for an exception would go to Ceres not Pluto.

America wasn’t fascist then for white people… I think people forget that the last skirmishes of the Indian War happened after WWI and non white people couldn’t effectively vote until the 1970s.