Rephrased, “it’s not just fixing things that is my job. It’s also important that nobody else besides me can fix the things.”

My friend in high school had a dog who didn’t like women.

It would have made a difference. If the Russian-puppet leaders had stayed in place then there would have been no fight and just controlled by Russia the easy way.

That’s nice, dear, that drivers were a thing in 1976, but the topic under discussion was Windows Update. Windows Update was not a thing in 1976.

I don’t think Windows Update was a thing in 1976

(he’s now CEO of Hertz, and Hertz has stopped arresting customers!)

What?? Has anybody got more detail about this little throwaway line?

Is Ubuntu Touch usable now?

I just spent the weekend trying to get my non-techie anti-Google relative’s Pine Phone working. Ended up on Mobian with broken camera app due to (old) reports of Ubuntu touch crashing frequently.

Is there a better way?

He’s Russian. Everything Russian is sarcasm. They need an opposite non-sarcastic /s tag except if anybody used it people would assume they were using it sarcastically.

All my serial devices need careful handling and will happily destroy themselves or start a fire if given the wrong instructions — my 3D printer, my laser engraver, my inverter/solar/battery monitor-programmer.

None of them are remotely prepared or hardened in any way to protect from malicious or careless commands.

I don’t generally trust websites and I do not want any website to discover those devices and interact with them.

I do not want this.

Oracle are not fast movers. But also this is not their first recent layoff.

Reddit went absolutely bonkers overboard every year with dumb April Fools posts to the point where it crowded out every real topic and made the site unusable for the day, even back in the early days when it was otherwise very usable.

I personally never saw that level of bullshit overload anywhere else.

One of the things I like about Lemmy is that it avoids (somewhat) the everybody-piles-on-same-joke plagues that swept through Reddit. I’m hoping we as a community can keep avoiding them (somewhat)

Sorry for all you beans and Stör enjoyers. This place is big enough for the both of us but sometimes it does get uncomfortable.

This shit is dumb. It was dumb on Reddit and it is dumb here. Why do we want to make ourselves suffer obnoxious fake news once a year?

What is actually the attraction of reading progress indicators on webpages?

I get that it’s fun to do active things with CSS instead of javascript, sure.

But aside from goofing off and/or tech demos – is there a target audience who is excited and happy to have a progress bar on their pages and misses it when absent? I’ve been seeing this feature frequently and for me it’s kind of annoying.

Yes, that’s the confusing and un-detailed instruction I was talking about :D

Do you ever wear neatly crisply pressed and ironed business-formal shorts to work?

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I don’t know where you’re at but I got an eyeful in New York City a couple years ago.

People walking to work in the morning on Manhattan — women sheer and braless and obviously on their way to an office job. Multiple such women. 🤯 This is not how people dress where I come from but apparently it’s a thing now at least in The City.

Also men wearing shirt and tie and leather dress shoes with no socks and a kind of garment I can best describe as “office shorts.”

I learned on that trip that I am not a fashion person.

Edit: also this user violet08 appears to talk mostly about sexy shit so 🤷

High something Not Rich Yet — people who have a shit-ton of income but blow it all on whatever instead of hoarding it properly

Well, it’s 100% linked to your contacts in one way or another because when you install it Signal will happily alert you to which ones of your contacts are already using Signal. I can’t see how they could manage that without slurping up your contact information.