Don’t forget old people glued to FOX News telling them “Democrats are evil” 24/7.

The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.

The oldest system I played on was an Atari.

The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.

I’ll pile on with a “Yup!”

While I fell into a pattern where I intend to upgrade every 2 years maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I’ve noticed in that same time frame that both the cost of new devices has gone up significantly and the durability of those devices has dropped.

I’m very easy on my phones. They spend a vast majority of their time on my desk, or plugged into my car. I’m old and boring enough that “going out” involves sitting down at a table at a nice dinner with friends and then going home. That said, the battery life on my phones starts to degrade after about a year. Various flaws start to creep up in the device. I’ve already had to replace the screen on my Pixel 7 Pro once – though, to be fair, it took a tumble from the couch onto a hardwood floor, but even that, really, shouldn’t turn the screen non-functional.

It’s disappointing to see that planned obsolescence rearing its head.

It’s worth noting, despite the terrible campaign, Clinton still won the popular vote.

That is a 50 state strategy. The electoral college is a problem, too.

In the short term, a series of collapses as we reach ever closer toward that singularity. There’s a great many constraints on our ability to grow while on Earth, and it’s proving difficult to get off the planet in any reasonable method with our current technology. I suspect we’ll need to fall down and rebuild a couple times before we can reliably spread to other planets, or even simply exist in orbit.

Once we get up there, though, and we’re no longer constrained by Earth’s resource limits, we’ll grow signficantly. I suspect we’ll move toward a machine-based society, both in automation and robotics, but also integrating technology into our bodies.

At some point, someone is going to figure out how to do that mind to machine transfer, and we’ll diverge as a species. The organic humans and the composite AI / machine-based humanity.

Knowing how stupid we are, though, we’ll probably end up becoming the Borg.

US Cellular is the only one, and they’re planning a shutdown of CDMA “soon”.

I’d advise OP to seriously reconsider. GSM won that war.

From the article, emphasis mine:

“Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably,” the moderators wrote. “But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we’d be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.”

I think they’re wrong. I don’t think Reddit has the funds.

Good news! It’s a private company who will totally treat your data respectfully and secure it properly!

Student loans are a complex beast. The loans that anyone in the government have any real control over are only loans owned by the federal government. Private student loans, including loans that were refinanced, are rarely owned by the government and are, essentially, private party loans. There is no realistic path to forgiveness for these loans.

Of the loans owned by the US Government, the actual entity that owns the debt is the Department of Education.

The theory for forgiveness runs that the debt already assumed by the Dept. of Education. It’s already on their books, as it will. Forgiving some of the debt would be amount to a ledger change - Bob used to owe $25,000. Now Bob owes $15,000.

It’s not spending per se, any more than lowering taxes is spending.

I have been casually browsing during work on my desktop.

The quality of content has dropped significantly. To the point that this morning I replaced the reddit link with a Lemmy one.

It’s an interesting case.

California has a law on the books that grants immunity to government officials while performing certain tasks. One of those is during “prosecution” of a crime. The intent in immunizing those prosecuting a crime is to protect the attorneys and investigators associated with the prosecution effort from civil suits meant to intimidate or hamper that prosecution. It even goes as far as immunizing state actors even if they are engaged in “malicious prosecution”, weighing the net gain against the obvious downside.

State appeals courts have, since the mid-60s, interpreted that statute to include the “investigation” officers do at the scene, or before charging an individual, creating an “investigational immunity.” That’s what the CA State Supreme Court struck down here. The prosecutorial immunity remains, but applies only to those specifically noted in the laws, as written.

I look forward to seeing Justice Alito tell us why a hedge witch from the 1300s in Scotland while investigating poisonous berries and how her pact with the underworld has granted her an immunity is applicable to California State law.

And don’t forget under construction gifs.

I got you covered: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

The Lemmy web app is progressive, and you can “install” it on your android phone’s home screen easily enough. But it’s still a web app, and it’s kind of janky, compared to a “real” app.

Though, I’m comparing it to things like Reddit Sync and Apollo, which are fantastic.

It’s a real danger. The first time anyone with an ( R ) next to their name wins the Presidency, he’s getting a pardon, maybe even posthumously.

It’s not a danger because I think he’s a jackass, but because, by all evidence so far, he’s broken the law, and such an action would be — even if he is not proven guilty — conceding that some people in this country are above the law.

If reddit employees start engaging in actual content moderation, reddit will run up against the DMCA’s safe harbor protections, which means reddit becomes responsible, as a company, for all the content on the site. Or, at least, in those subreddits.

Ain’t no way the legal team is going to let an employee do the actual moderation work. But you’re right, they’ll find someone who will do it for the power.

The official app was a third party app until Reddit bought it.

Jesus Christ, can the GOP stop being shitbirds for like, 10 minutes? Please?

I mean, based on the requirements, we’re going to end up with essentially little embedded servers in all ours cars, running some sort of tweaked version of Linux with “drivers” for various parts of the car’s systems. Probably tapping into the same things that the OBD port uses.

Hopefully, it’ll be something like a Raspberry Pi that can be both easily upgraded and hopefully replaced during warranty service when the inevitable vulnerabilities are discovered.

One of the biggest concerns is when you start trying to see secure APIs and such, you quickly realize that what you did 5 years ago isn’t nearly good enough today.

And most cars stay on the road for 14-some years.

I bet I could straight brute force any consumer grade security measure from like 2009 with the phone I’m typing on right now.

How can we expect auto manufacturers to secure their systems for 15 years?

I was going to say, “Gamers are being buttholes? No way.”