The Z Fold 6 is not very leak resistant, apparently.

There is a group of individuals who are attempting to gain control of Congress who would allow a certain person, if elected president carte blanche to do anything as “an official act”. A good portion buys the line that this former president declassified documents just by thinking so.

There is another set of 5 or 6 individuals that have happily shown they will prioritize their own beliefs and views over judicial principles their country had maintained over the last couple centuries.

We have already seen Congress try to hold a criminal President to account. It hasn’t worked yet and these rulings make it even less likely to.

Mhm as a Canadian, the entire last week of SCOTUS rulings spells doom for your country if the people of the US allow Trump and any other federal Republican to attain power again. Lots of cause to be alarmed.

Roe v Wade from before this week was absolutely terrible. Snyder v Grants Pass was downright awful, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo is going to have awful consequences for years to come. Trump v. USA to me is the cherry on top of this shit ruling sundae.

The best thing you can do is disseminate each of these rulings, and why they are bad to every person you know. The message for Roe is clear, as most non-crazies would rather have state governments not mess with the business in your genitals. Try and figure out a good way to explain each of the others as they are just as horrible.

How big the front side screen was and if it was a colour display? Unless you liked the look of phone that only had LEDs showing the time on the front.

What ringtones it had (remember this was the age of $1.99 ringtones).

Speed/specs wasn’t too much of a factor as much as looks. As long as it made calls, did texts, play Snake and if you could afford cellular data then receive emails and do light websurfing then it was good enough.

Oh, and in this age the smaller and more compact the phones were the better. Only with smartphones did the trend go into reverse.

How much do we have to pay to get someone to “accidentally” drop that table and all backup copies of it?

I had a nightmare one time when I was video calling my family from my phone who were on a plane that was falling out of the sky… since then I started checking flightradar once or twice whenever they go on flights.

Yeah the Constitution don’t say anything bout AI so according to the originalists, companies can do anything they want, lol.

Go to your local marina or their website and see if there are sailing classes.

I have experienced an issue sort of like that in the past, where my computer occasionally won’t do anything other than spin the fans, unless there’s a working connection to a monitor…

In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.

E - Speak of the devil: https://lemmy.ca/post/23948873

Someone reupload yuzu, stat!

The one rule I would dream of seeing is soft speed throttling to ensure that cars and trucks stay a safe 3 second distance or more apart from each other. That should be relatively easy to do with basic distance sensing and calculations.

What better place to use this meme:

Flying a VTOL aircraft seems out of reach for me as most are either helicopters or military, but an EVTOL seems like something that could be in reach for me within my lifetime.

Apple’s may start being salty and blame everything on anti-trust from now on.

Why were your beans cold this morning? EU’s DMA.

Why did you get delayed to your event? EU’s DMA.

Why did it rain on the one day you were planning to take a trip? EU’s DMA, of course.

Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.

If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.

Secret child-man? Or conspicuous man-child?

No one person/company/entity can know everything about me.

Well, they could, but the price would be high and I suppose I’d end up dating someone who went through that level of effort to know me anyway. :P

Azure needs him to care for Microsoft’s Golden Goose at his farm.

Ok. Just wanted to make sure the info is relevant to you.

If you have any connections to the IT departments of colleges or your work, see when they do overhauls of laptops and if you can be sold any surplus. They will be not amazing but solid performers, tend to have decent compatibility and a good deal usually. Watch out for Chromebooks as they might be a little harder to configure than your standard.

Use your local online classified (craigslist, kijiji, FB marketplace etc.). You will have to arrange pickup and payment 1 to 1, quality may vary but you will get a decent deal. Test for boot up to a login screen at minimum before you buy, and when you get it check that the speakers/headphones, other hardware actually works before installing something new and wondering if it was functional to begin with.

Avoid Bestbuy, Newegg, Amazon as they are way overpriced for what you can get through these other methods. Warranty is the main advantage, but I’d suggest Microcenter or to support your local computer shop if you go this way.

Stuff like ebay may work, quality could be decent but unless you can spot an amazing deal, prices are only a little bit better than buying from a retailer.