Zircom

Do you know any examples? I've literally never had or even heard of a smartphone refuse to boot up for lacking a sim. I use several of my old phones around the house as security cameras and all of them work fine without sims.

Just make sure you're cats never see it turn itself on, two of my three cats refuse to use it after watching it cycle and I'm back to having a separate box for them that I clean everyday, honestly thinking it selling it if I can talk anybody into buying a used poopbox

For the one cat though it is definitely great, he's kinda fearless though so your cats may not quite be brave enough to face the beast everytime they go to the bathroom.

Edit - my name is Zircom, I have a litter robot 3 for the record, and I recommend it as long as you don't have scaredy cats.

You're being disingenuous, when people(including the comment you're replying to) say "memory" when they're talking about people they obviously don't mean the same thing as when you're talking about a computer. He's clearly referring to his longterm recall which is directly analogous to "hard disk" as you put it.

Haha yeah I couldn't care less, I just thought it was a funny anecdote and it's probably not entirely just because of the color, that's just what she said when I asked her about it a couple years ago. And excluding me from the group chats and having her relay everything to/from me is probably for the best anyways, I'm terrible at checking my texts and my friend/family know the fastest way to get a hold of me if Im not replying is to text her instead :p.

I doubt even 1/4 of those are actual fires, in my town firefighters show up to car crashes and heart attacks and shootings and all sorts of things that aren't on fire.

>iMessage. Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. Teens may feel more "cool" and "in" to use the same type of device, and iMessage also cements that.

My girlfriend is 21 and often doesn't add me to groupchats when we're organizing stuff with friends solely because the messages will be green instead of blue.

If you're letting it get to 5% when you're within 1 minute of a charger I don't think a more efficient CPU is gonna help you, you're just gonna end up leaving it off the charger for longer and still find yourself in same exact situations, just postponed a couple extra hours or so than they would've happened.

It's not legal, but the amount of people that will just rollover and take it is incredibly high, and the absolute worst case scenario is that end up having to pay what they would have anyways so there's literally no downside for them pulling this bullshit.

So for any kind of emergency care they are not allowed to "gotcha" with out of network providers at in network hospitals, this has always been the case. However, according to my quick Google research apparently anything else is state-law dependent so what I said doesn't apply equally in the country.

>The anesthesia was out of network and didn't get covered by insurance

This actually is specifically illegal, it's a pain in the ass to fight it against both the hospital and your insurance but if you insist hard enough they will cover it and you'll only pay what you would normally through your insurance. As long as the hospital itself is in network they aren't allowed to play "gotcha" with specific doctors/providers just not being in network all the sudden.

I'm sure you've already heard this a million times, but you telling yourself that you're broken and unfixable is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy until you decide to stop repeating it. The damage your parents did to you as a child isn't your fault, but you're an adult now and you're responsible for and capable of addressing these things and changing and growing into a better, healthier person.

As someone who's gone through this myself, all I'll say is it's not fun and it's not easy. I had to take a lot of long, hard looks at myself and even when I knew I was making progress frankly I still didn't like what I saw for a long, long time. I questioned whether it was really worth it, and even if I did change what did it matter because no one would love me even if I fixed myself anyways.

But eventually you realize that you're not doing it for anyone else, you're doing it for yourself, and that's the important part. You have to want it for you, because other people will come and go and if you're doing it for them you'll give up once they leave, but you're stuck with yourself forever.

That's when it'll all start to click and things will come together, and you realize people are capable of change and we do get to choose who we want to be, and you decide which parts of yourself are important and work on keeping them, and which parts aren't and work on letting them go.

It's a slow, gradually process but years from now you'll be looking back someday and realize just how far you've come without realizing and know it was all worth it.

Of course I don't expect you to believe any of this right now, that's just human nature, but maybe hopefully it'll set you down the right path at least.

Anyhow happy new year, and just know that someone somewhere is wishing and hoping for a better life for you. I think my email is in my profile, feel free to reach out if you'd ever like to talk about anything at all.

I hate motion interpolation with a burning passion and have made it into practically a vendetta and will turn it off anywhere I see it by any means necessary, including downloading a remote application onto my phone and using the IR blaster to turn it off in restaurants and waking up in the middle of the night at friends houses to sneakily switch it off.

Having a separate number/SIM solely for 2fa makes it harder for attackers to know the number they need to initiate a simswap in the first place, since it won't be publicly associated with you the same way your normal phone number is, like being listed on your LinkedIn or resume, or obtained from a social media or other account info leak, or able to be socially engineered or phished out of friends/family.

That seems like a personal decision to get into the already crowded car instead of waiting for the next one, I don't imagine someone is standing at the station platform and forcing more people into the train car against their will.

You get to put it in your social media bio. That's all a lot of them want. They don't want treatment, they don't want to get better, they just wanna be able to tell people they have it. It's a whole thing on Til Tok right now.

Music not being available due to licensing stuff isn't really a Spotify issue, sometimes (like the Garth example above) rightsholders won't play ball no matter what. And the original comment was clearly generalizing, no one is expecting literally every piece of music ever to be available on Spotify.

So if we're going to be pedantic, you can add local files to Spotify on the desktop app and they will sync to your phone, so technically you still can listen whatever you want on Spotify.

Regarding Garth Brooks specifically, the lack of availability of his music on streaming services is entirely his own decision. He owns a streaming service called Ghosttunes that exist /solely/ for hosting and streaming his own music and refuses to make his catalog available on anything else.

Edit: actually looks like he sold it to Amazon a few years ago and it was absorbed into Amazon Music where his catalog is now available. Regardless, Garth owns the rights to all of his music except for his 2014 album "Man Against Machine", so the lack of availability is again entirely his own decision.

So Kindles don't support epubs, and for whatever inane, absurd reason Amazon does not let you use their send to Kindle function with their own ebook format azw3. You have to convert them to mobi if you wanna email them, which is missing some QOL features last time I checked, which was admittedly a looong time ago so maybe that's changed.

I bought a Kindle and that was nice, but I'm terrible at remembering to bring it with me when I leave the house, and the (admittedly small) effort of having to connect it to my computer to load epubs onto it is enough friction to stop me from doing it in the first place a lot of the time. I usually obtain them from less than legal sources and buy a hardcopy if I like it.

For awhile I was buying ebooks straight from the Kindle store on the device itself but something about paying the same price for a file as a hardcopy left a bad taste in my mouth. I'd rather have something to put on my shelf and I can loan to friends. Plus paying for the book up front is a bit of a risk if it sucks, because I can't return it or resell it or even give it away to someone else.

The past few months I've just been loading the books straight to my phone and I've read more new books in the last 3 months than I have in the last 3 years. Definitely a game changer.

I remember reading an article on how relatively cheap it is to "buy" politicians, on the order of just a hundred thousand dollars of donations in some cases, for favorable votes on relevant bills and whatnot.

I would assume if normal,everyday citizens started banding together to buy votes the corporations would up the ante and price us out pretty quickly, but as things stand right now there's no point without competition. Power of the free market baby!

You're right it won't do much good, but it is nice to see a country take a principled stand and actually practice what they preach and be the change they want to see.

It is[1] popular to recommend MPC over VLC in the anime fansub community, especially on /a/. When H. 264/10bit was newish and had just started to come into regular use in the scene[2], I distinctly remember a lot of people shitting on VLC because at the time it didn't handle it very well right out of the box, and there were tons of guides floating around on how to download/setup MPC-HC with CCCP or k-lite and haali media splitter for a supposedly better viewing experience.

[1] Or at least was, my recollections regarding this are nearly 10-15 years old at this point.

[2] There was one specific person, Daiz from the Underwater/UTW fansub group, that was one of the first people to start encoding his releases in H.264/10bit, and he would get a lot of hate because they tended not to play very well on improper setups, vanilla VLC being among those. "Dammit Daiz", they would say. He eventually bruteforced a tripcode to have H.264 in it just to mess back at them for all the hate. Fun memories.

edit: here we go, a contemporary HN rant from the man himself regarding MPC vs VLC. Looks like summoning Daiz works here too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6449420

We have a pretty bad relationship with one of my neighbors. Not gonna get into specifics, but they're quite immature and petty and vindictive, and just generally not pleasant people.

Anyhow, late one night we saw something popup in the list when I was pairing my headphones. "$crappyneighbor's TV". And we saw an opportunity to be a little petty back for once. We connected my phone, and apparently their TV model features no confirmation because it went right through, and started blasting Rick Astleys "Never Gonna Give You Up" until my phone disconnected a couple minutes later. Bit of good harmless fun at their expense.

Not really, the comment posted didn't degrade to it's current state over repeated postings, it was just created to mock the original by someone sick of seeing it posted all the time.

Not sure of the exact short story he's referring to, but it must take place in his Laundry Files series

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files

He also has another series which he just finished that is very good as well about a family with the ability to step between diffrent timelines that's an interesting deconstruction of the trope.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_Princes

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While it starts as starts as a fantasy series, it eventually comes out their magic abilities are remnants of advanced nanotech from an interdimensional empire. Apparently a publisher he didn't like working with had the rights to his next Scifi series, so he had to start it as fantasy to get around the contract.

This is me exactly. I hate parties, love game nights. As long as there's something everyone is doing I can participate in, I have no problem being part of the conversation, even if the subject has nothing to do with the actual game we're playing. But as soon as there's nothing to do and I just have to talk to people and that's the only thing that's going on, I can immediately feel my energy just draining away.

Yeah you'd be surprised where it happens. I used to work on the help desk for a company that operated nuclear power plants, and their password system would only accept 8 character passwords, alphanumeric only. However, the length checking would randomly fail and users would be able to set a longer password and the system would silently truncate it without throwing an error or alerting the user in any way.

It's more or less impossible to know the psilocybin content of any one specific mushroom offhand, and it can vary greatly even between mushrooms from the same batch, thus microdosing with actual shrooms is an inexact science. You can grind them up into powder and mix it together to average it out, but the total psilocybin will still be an estimate at best.

There is 4 aco dmt, which is supposedly gets converted to psilocin just like psilocybin and I don't believe is illegal in the US, however it degrades very easily into psilocin if stored incorrectly so can be dicey to have since psilocin itself is still illegal.

I just enrolled this past weekend actually, I got my associate's in CS a few years ago and am finally in a financial situation to finish up my the bachelor's.

What exactly is the course content like? From previous online courses I've taken from Coursera/Pluralsight/other platforms video lectures seem to be the the norm which I actually really hate, I rarely attended lectures and instead would just read the material, turn the HW in, and come in for quizzes/exams. Watching and listending is just not the way I learn, something about reading it makes it sink it better. And do they still require you to buy additional textbooks or is all the necessary content included in the course modules?

How engaged/competent are the instructors assigned to the courses? If I have questions is it easy to get a hold of them, and do they actually know the material enough to be able to adequately explain things and guide students to better understand the material?

And in the same vein they also have no obligation to solve her problems for her just because they choose to write a story on her.