The Christian god is just a spurned lover who wrote in their diary about how stupid and mean their ex is and they should never have dumped him.

Satan is the dumper and has moved on long ago.

I tend to do my primary shopping at a place where you bag your own. The order is generally produce and bulk items first (it tends to be the bulk of the purchase), then frozen things, boxed/canned things, and finally squishy things like bread, eggs, and uh, delicious Hostess fruit pies.

For me, it was the surprise song in Dragon Age Inquisition, when they performed “The Dawn Will Come.”

You’d just had a huge battle, the hero was a low point, and they break out into this… thing. It’s stunning and so well done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxE0dwLICU

Mirab, with sails unfurled.

All cool, but not what the FCC can do.

To pass laws, look to Congress. Remember to vote for the candidates you think will help accomplish those sorts of things.

Fine! Geez.

Space aliens could teleport in next to sun, fling a bunch of Star Trek red matter at it like Spock did to the Romulan star, destabilize the star, and cause a, I think it was a black hole? where the star was. And we wouldn’t know for 8-ish minutes.

The sun could’ve gone nova 8 minutes ago and we wouldn’t know for another 20 seconds or so.

Devices that are no longer supported and kept up to date with security updates contain known, but unpatched, vulnerabilities. Some of them are software based, but some are a function of the hardware itself. Connect these to a network, manage to do something that gets them compromised, and you’ve given bad actors a foothold on your network.

Because most networks, especially home networks, tend to be configured in a way that trusts local network traffic more than external traffic, such a foothold can further compromise your systems. Very few people have the resources, or technical know-how to properly segregate potentially dangerous or vulnerable devices on a network.

That’s what.

I would note that, because it’s so old and out of support for everything, anything you got running on it would be full of security vulnerabilities.

Like, do not connect this to a network you care about kind of vulnerable.

I’d frankly just find a way to recycle it safely and learn to do that earlier with devices you’re not using, so others can use them instead of just sitting in a closet. (It’s not like I’m not guilty of the same thing.)

Until about maybe six months ago, Edge was great (please ignore the massive amount of data it sends to MS) as a browser. The user experience was top notch.

Some product owner with shit for brains was hired and started cramming Bing and AI nonsense into every corner.

MS needs to ease up, fast.

Usenet has long been a place to find binary file content.

Not ban. No.

However, I would tax it at exactly the same rate as the corn and farm subsidies lower its cost, to make its actual price reflect reality.

Remind everyone that there is no one true religion because there never was one before, there isn’t one now and there never will be be one.

“Yes, all the religions before were false, but ours is the right one!”

I do this, and employ frequent and rapid blocking on social media.

Instead of engaging, dick wads get blocked without comment.

'Twas a thing of inspiration undertaken in asking twice Google for random words and combining at syllable boundary.

Visa does not care about interest. The issues bank does.

Visa makes its money on transaction fees. Every time you use your card, the merchant is charged an additional fee, usually a percentage of the amount this of the sale.

In these agreements, T-Mobile is buying transaction info from visa. The level of detail varies, as you say, but it’s just more ways for companies to track consumer habits and later sell you something.

I pass by the front page to hit my porn-filled multireddit (hey, leave me alone, the non-straight content on lemmy is still lacking). The front page is stagnant, it’s pretty bad out there.

Nothing. They just talk about Biden destroying the economy with Hunter’s laptop and Hillary’s buttery males.

“That was two golden parachutes ago, what do I care?”

Those all sound like problems for later!