The only innovative thing most companies’ R&D budgets support is making stuff spy on you using either WiFi or GPS. And old solutions are a no-go, of course. They’re people with standards, you see.

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Sounds lovely, until you and the employer stop being on the same page about the tiniest of things.

Then it starts spiraling into a personal housing security crisis.

And you can forget about thinking of changing jobs any time soon. The moment your 2 weeks end, you’re homeless.

The tenant and labour union stuff sounds nice, but they’re not a magical fix. They can and often are bought and controled. While better than the alternative, they’re not a guarantee of protectedness.

This doesn’t mean the model is dead on arrival. It’s just not one I’d choose. I’d rather have a seperate boss and landlord, thank you very much.

My personal pick is Thunder. Probably has less bells and whistles than some other choices, but it still has everything I need and then some. Looks pretty nice as well and follows the revised Material aesthetic so it should fit in nicely with the rest of the Graphene UI.

And as a cherry on top it’s both libre and gratis!

The fact any computer can mimic any other computer (given enough computing power) is a mathematical fact of life. Said like this, it does sound pretty surreal.

As long as it’s profit, not revenue, even 50% is little.

Once it’s revenue and they’re in the red will the fine be more than a regular business expense.

The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.

I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.

I would also like the car to be “smart” enough not to beep that it’s in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.

And you know what’s the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.

I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.

Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.

I’m not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!

I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I’ve had the opportunity to be in are asinine.

Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone’s actively dying on life support.

One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.

Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don’t need to pass a practical exam before driving it.

One thing I really dislike about the Mobile ecosystem is how much different each device is to each other.

I thought you were sarcastic when I first read this part, since way back when phones used to be innovative in both hardware and software. The current market offerings are all carbon copies of eachother with a strong trend towards converging into the exact same lineup.

Multiple cameras, one in front, 2+ in back. A power button and two for volume. Reader apps may hijack it for scroll. Gesture movements. Fingerprint and face id. Less and less conusmer freedom in software choice. Irremovable battery. No removable back plate. A rectangular brick. A near-100% display area. No headphone jack or SD card, with SIM on the way out.

Covers the vast majority of offerings on the market, with a few slight adds/subtracts. Dumbphones are a rounding error.

This definition covers even tablets, and it isn’t even deliverately vague.

Without much experimentation and development on the hardware front, no wonder software’s behaving exactly the same.

There just isn’t enough interest for proper innovation and experimentation.

That’s nice to have. For both GIMP and the industry’s sake, priorities should be:

• good UX
• feature-wise competitiveness
• in any (sensible) format

GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop. It isn’t a psd reader.

Being the format jack of all trades yet master of none isn’t too great of an idea. It’ll just exacerbate GIMP’s main current problem: an ancient UI Photoshop enthusiasts dread. A lot might consider switching if the bad GIMP UX was better than the also-bad Photoshop UX.

If I had to say what my main design gripe with gimp is, that’d be modularity. Seperate the ui (skins) from the tools, effects and rendering (formats). The UI is especially egregious in its hard-codedness while effects are pretty well-supported.

A few more apis would go a long way. Hell, even the closed Photoshop has open(ish) apis, since even Adobe know the value of an ecosystem and not just their internal r&d department!

Maybe that’s what it was. It doesn’t necessarily need to be that going forward, as project putlooks anf goals change with time.

Also editing is quite a lot of more work to support than mere viewing. As all tools and actions need to behave correctly - not jusbt the renderer.

And something proprietary can hadly be a “industry standard”. It can be “most common” or a “de facto standard”. But all “industry standards” are by definition open as any industry worth its weight doesn’t rely on or include a single point of failure anywhere within itself.

my understanding of the lore may contain a bit of non-canon fanfiction

The catholic canon is but the biggest canon, and all of it is fanfiction. In fact, religious people are the most hardcore fans of them all!

If anything, your interpretation is likely less off-the-rails than theirs.

Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say “Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn’t think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn’t. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well.”

Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it’s sad that it took this long for this non-question “legal question” to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.

Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.

It’s also an opportunity to reconcile. Not that OP seems to want that, nor would the aunts most likely want that, but sometimes such events just make things… Click.

Having okay relations with relatives is important, and afuneral is an opportunity for things to improve. That’s just pure sociology. You aunts will spin it into “God works in mysterious ways”, but it’s the same core thing with a culty religious spin.

So my take is: bite your teeth and attend the funeral. It’s a one-time investment of a few hours. Odds are the aunts won’t want to make issues. Maybe it fixes things. Your fathed did ask nicely, after all. And it’d be nice to honour his request. Any semi-okay relatives would respect that, religious or otherwise.

YMMW if they’re as fake as you say they are (religion is a hell of a drug), but if it doesn’t go the ideal way, you did your part and they failed theirs. If you don’t go, it’ll be the other way around because Christians unfortunately eork like that. And they like holding grudges. A funeral is (unfortunately) one of the few “chances” to reconcile. Shame someone needs to quite literally die for them to be this open to reconcoliation.

Speaking like an ex-christian raised in the tradition: this could be your opportunity to get things to smooth over. They’re bound be as open to reconciliation as possible. Just don’t force it. Keep your distance and honour your dad’s wishes. Forcing things will have the opposite effect of seeming disingenuous. No action other than showing up necessary.

The amount of families reconciled at christian funerals I’ve witnessed is in the low 20’s.

the default web UI

Isn’t that the Tesseract from the recent trama?

A “10-month lead” less than a month ago at that

I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.

As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.

Torx screws are almost as common as philips and flatheads as they’re long out of patent protection and vastly superior.

It’s almost impossible to strip them without actively trying, unlike the others mentioned.

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