TheRealKuni

ABS which has a glass transition temperature of 105C, so they will melt.

Well, they’ll deform. ABS won’t melt at 150°C, it’ll just become soft and flexible. But yes, it’s a bad idea for your earbuds.

There is a philosophical difference using Open Source software. To compare it to religion is pretty shitty honestly, even if you find it amusing. Linux is not faith it is logic.

Hoooooly fuck. I was just riffing off the other guy using the word proselytizing. I wasn’t trying to make any sort of point.

Go outside and leave me alone. Fuck. I’ve already explained this multiple times.

Linux is fucking awesome. But you all take yourselves way too seriously. You’re making the community look like complete tools.

I promise I wasn’t trying to make any value statements at all. I wasn’t speaking in favor of Windows or of the Catholic Church. Just something that made me chuckle. 🙄

I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?

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First, do you think Microsoft would do less shady shit if there were more Windows users? I’m sort of confused about where you’re finding that interpretation of the metaphor.

But more importantly, as I explained in my other reply I was just riffing on the proselytizing comment. It made me chuckle to think about someone being advised to change religions after voicing a (legitimate) frustration with their religious leadership.

It may be my perspective comes from western civilization, but do Buddhists have similar child abuse scandals?

I have no idea, that wasn’t my point with the metaphor.

I was riffing off the “proselytizing” comment and comparing someone complaining about some shady shit Microsoft does and then being advised to change to Linux, with someone complaining about some shady shit the Catholic Church does and then being advised to change to Buddhism.

It’s not a perfect metaphor, but it gave me a chuckle when I thought of it.

I picked those religions because Catholicism in its singular “what the Vatican says goes for everyone” approach mapped well onto Microsoft and Windows, and I thought Buddhism, a religion with many flavors, some of which are more structured than others, mapped well onto Linux and its various distros.

“I see you’re worried about abuse by priests in the Catholic Church. Can I interest you in Buddhism?”

I would love to be able to replace the teeth I broke in elementary school with regrown teeth, rather than crowns on posts through a dead root that I have now. I’d like to be able to bite into an apple without fear.

Maybe. If they’re following the rules they need you to agree to their privacy policies, and to do that you have to connect to the internet. I know from the time I did have it connected (before they rolled all this shit out) that they would let you use the TV without those policies accepted. They would just bother you about it constantly. Since I factory reset and didn’t let it connect, it hasn’t asked.

But that’s assuming they follow the rules. I’m not knowledgeable enough to find out if they’re doing this or not.

Exactly this. I love my LG, but it doesn’t get internet privileges.

I have an LG TV. Absolutely love it.

However, it’s not connected to the internet so it doesn’t do any of this shit. It’s just a really nice dumb TV that has the potential to spy on me if I ever gave it a chance to be smart, and I still get to take advantage of the various picture improvements that come from having the processing power of a smart TV.

Just need something else to do streaming if that’s what you want. Like an Apple TV, nVidia Shield, Roku, or game console. Some of those will also advertise to you, but I’ve had good experience with my Apple TV.

Nah. They didn’t do service during the flight, they had extras. Sure they can just roll that on to the next flight, but they plan a certain cost. Stuff like this makes a customer into a repeat customer without affecting the bottom line.

Nah man. There are uses for touchscreens in cars. Just don’t put everything there, and especially don’t put anything you’d need to use while actively driving in there.

But being able to have dynamic user interfaces is very useful for plenty of non-directly-driving-related features.

I consider myself more techy than the average person. I’m a developer, I used to use Linux, and I used to root my Android phones.

I stopped connecting my phones to my computers long ago. Hardly ever had a reason to do so once I stopped rooting, unless I was using the phone as a makeshift flash drive.

Transferring to a new phone, stuff transfers over wirelessly or backups download. I’ve got everything in the cloud these days. No real need to connect to a computer.

That said, I do think it’s frustrating if this is a limitation of the port rather than one of the cable.

The cofounder is famously quoted as saying “Good artists copy, great artists steal”, lol

Which, appropriately, is a quote he stole from Picasso.

Not necessarily, it could mean they’re storing the old salted hashes.

I’m pretty sure this is a setting in Windows group policy, I assume Microsoft does it correctly.