yeah, regular AOSP-likes that need you to manually flash them after support for your device is finally added are not particularly relevant compared to a security-focused fork that’s supported by several flagship phones at release. the latter can actually make it into the hands of the average person. the former, not so much. imagine trying to explain to your elderly mother how to flash lineage onto her phone.

nobody ever seems to detail what kinda bloat they mean when they say that, i don’t think they actually thought about it that deeply. nobody complains about anything specific like XUL support, for example.

not just the worst, but they somehow manage to release new locks that are worse than their old ones, as well as new locks with positively ancient design flaws that every lock manufacturer absolutely knows about, like not including a rear shield in the core, meaning you can just… stick something in there and open it trivially. i’m talking design flaws from the 1800s and early 1900s. their most secure core is used in a PLASTIC LOTO LOCK and none of their metal locks, for no fucking reason. the incompetence is unbelievable.

how about a free prescription for lake city quiet pills with unlimited refills?

back in middle school, everyone was trying to figure out where to find a weapon in goldeneye called the “spyder.” turns out the klobb was originally called “spyder” before it was renamed for ken lobb, and lots of sites on the early internet still used the previous names even after the game released, creating a new schoolyard legend.

i would have just used the home assistant integration for blink and then have it also play the sounds.

if you pay with a credit card, your cc provider likely provides this shipping insurance already. and there’s chargebacks for the rest of cases.

don’t worry, i already know what it is, but i also googled it for you so you wouldn’t have to actually read anything yourself and you can just stick to speculating for attention on social media and live in a performative ignorance bubble.

it’s third-party shipping insurance. but your credit card almost certainly offers the same protections already.

“vegetable” doesn’t mean “plant” the same way “fruit” doesn’t mean “not a vegetable.”

the opposite of “enshittified” isn’t “good.” some stuff sucks for fresh, new reasons before it enshittifies and turns to full on exploitative rent-seeking.

for example, anthropic quietly pulled claude code from their pro subscriptions and made it a separate subscription. that’s enshittification. and stupid AI bros are gonna fall for it every time.

seriously, i’d be all over free bldc motors in the very least

the heinz beans i see in the US are just the ones imported from the UK. if anything, the US would be bush’s.

… people are still blaming taco bell for taylor farms’ latest fuckup? even after taylor farms has fucked this up multiple times in the past and taco bell was the first to pull stuff that wasn’t safe to sell?

i really hate these things, because they always require chrome. i can’t update or customize the firmware in my keyboard because it’s only done with fucking via and that barely even works in chrome as it is. my previous keyboard was just QMK and i wrote the firmware myself, updating was just a quick flash from my terminal.

please just let us flash firmwares the so-called “hard way” too, these browser tools suck shit.

ok but please don’t go to the few existing third places we do have just to scream

somewhere in one of my parents’ photo albums is a picture of one of these that i put together in 1st grade in ~1992

everyone thinks they can pull it off just fine, but believe me, it’s not a bad bet that your IT dept knows better than to bend to someone just dangerous enough to be a problem. it’s probably happened before and that’s probably why the policy is in place.

no way, sadists use gentoo. i vastly prefer arch because i often need libraries that are newer than most package managers get in a timely fashion. i use fedora on my server for the opposite reason, but for my workstation, arch wins easily.

a linux beginner would probably need to be a sadist to use arch, but anyone who knows what they’re doing will have a fine time.

itunes also has that in its EULA.

a modern sidekick would go so hard, discord kids would absolutely love it.

i’m really tempted to get a clicks communicator if it doesn’t suck.