Native bluetooth trackpad would be nice too.

All I will say is: wait till it encounters a Scottish accent. Sigh

All the more reason for them to be transparent, name the problem, remove the affected stock from sale, set up some kind of recovery and/or compensation service, and write off the loss. Otherwise “SanDisk” will mean “you have shit on your shoe” forever. In the storage space a brand has to mean “safe” or its dead.

Maybe they are still finding the edges of the problem. Maybe.

Welcome to your self-wiping stock price WD.

Surely they need to be completely transparent at this point to avoid the Ratners effect? I am certainly never buying SanDisk / Western Digital labelled storage ever again and I will be researching carefully next time I need storage to make sure I don’t buy relabelled stuff.

I currently have SanDisk microSD cards in my DSLR so I will have to think about getting a different manufacturers card in there and saving to both in parallel just in case. I might just bin the sandisk card just to be sure, though. Their name is in the gutter already - do they realise that?

Some are just a long con.

I really hope Elon starts complaining about his baby being deadnamed in the media.

The only government department that actually listens to us when we pick up the phone.

Also don’t feel like you have to tie yourself down to your family. My mum turned out to be an utter shit so I was delighted to be free of that surname choice anyway, and my dad had passed away years before I came out as trans and, while he had a kind heart, who knows how he would have reacted to the news? Don’t be afraid to forge your own path. Don’t feel like you have to associate your new name - first name or surname - with your assigned-at-birth names, even if your current relationship with your family is good.

Well, I knew from a story my mum told me ages ago my dad wanted us all to have biblical names, which is weird because he wasn’t religious in the traditional sense at all. He must have just liked the idea? And sure enough my assigned-at-birth name as well as my sisters names were from the bible. I wrote a list of female names from the bible that I could remember as a way of honouring my dad’s memory and one just popped out at me.

I had already picked my mums maiden name as my last name because I was changing that too, because my original last name had a glottal thing in it that always annoyed me and sort of tripped me up? And when I put them together it was so obviously … me.

Speaking to other trans and non-binary people that seems to happen a fair amount, but don’t worry if it doesn’t. Names grow on you especially with use. As it happens I got married, changed my last name and added a middle name, and I prefer this version a lot more so who knows.

I hear you all about having nice, starchy pasta water but it is important to have enough water that the pasta can move around freely or else it can end up being cooked unevenly. I think that’s probably where the water ratio recommendation comes from.

Dilution will kill Reddit. Wait until the AI scraping gets into a feedback loop with AI posting.

Thank you for the immense amount of work you have done over the years. It is not diminished by this episode in any way. I hope you can find a new community to enjoy in whatever capacity suits you, here or elsewhere.

I have always found it far easier to control the heat on a gas burner, either by getting low and setting it by eye for simmering or by lifting and varying the height of the pan over a high heat for stir frying. For slow cooking I can stick a metal thing with holes in it (forget the name of it) between the pot and the flame to dial down the heat even more.

Maybe induction would be more flexible but I have always found electric to be fully on or no heat whatsoever, and when turning the heat up or down I always ended up with too much or too little. I can literally see what I’m doing with gas.

Oh that’s interesting. Does Google Home work on an unconnected VLAN for lights? I use it for lights and kitchen timers. I don’t see myself adding anything more complicated or invasive though.

Probably my gas (well we have LPG here) hob because I suffered with an electric hob for so long in my last place.

Or possibly my stainless steel copper bottom sautée pan but my husband just scoured that with steel wool (you can probably imagine the stunned look on my face). I want to get some cast iron cookware but stainless steel is so versatile for sauces and risotto.

Twitter was a hellsite before Musk took over. Even if it could be restored fully to its “former glory” it would still be a hellsite, particularly for minorities.

Not sure why that image is upside down?