I used to love turning town loud TVs in bars back when IR blasters were common.

We’re all the way back around to IR diodes now? Is this just early 2000s retro stuff, and we’re going too get physical keyboards on our phones again soon?

I’m not making any argument other than why you may experience some skepticism.

but why would I post it if that wasn’t true?

Dozens of reasons, really. People do irrational stuff all the time.

Sure, I get that. But I can also just as easily say the same thing and claim it is one of the largest companies in the world.

You are 100% corect that we should not trust companies with our data. No argument there. Please just realize we might have some skepticism.

I appreciate this post, but this is also a lot of “trust me, bro” to…well, trust.

Only for hand jobs.

This is 1 million% what’s at play here. Tech bros HATE that they have to deal with stupid laws, and putting a server outside of the jurisdiction of literally every country is a dream. A giant server ship has to dock, it needs fuel…not so with something in orbit (in Elon fantasy land anyway)

I love so much that there are real, hilarious consequences for overzealous early adoption. You can’t make this shit up.

Even better!

Not the OS.

The OS “provider”

Linus Torvalds ain’t gonna check my ID. And i don’t want him to, either.

All Americans should have frozen their credit years ago.

This is over the top. I’ve had this trying to get a rarely used email account back, but if you own the account that can reset the password…why do this?

Whew - all the things I’m missing having switched to Linux a couple years ago.

But now I had a new bug: Chrome would randomly lock up for about 30 seconds when a video was playing

First - I can’t believe people still use Chrome. Second - Chrome has done shit like this for 10 years.

Homeboy here is a classic example of a frog boiling slowly. Glad he made it out.

Not hooty owls, it’s a conferencing thing.