Password managers. People will use anything but that: paper, notes app (without any security), using the same password everywhere…

The correct name is “waste of time”

Man, I loved this game as a child. To think that I managed to complete it on my own, without looking up anything on the internet (because it wasn’t a thing for me yet)… honestly, I think the hints to the hidden paths are there, but very very subtle

Probably an ice age

Why Russia isn’t actually collapsing (RealLifeLore on YT)

It’s a bit long and I don’t remember everything, but a good part is that Saudi Arabia reduced their oil production so that the price goes up, and Russia is still selling a lot of oil to China and others

Adding to the “no standard bootloader” point: you can’t boot your typical smartphone from a DVD or USB stick like you do for a PC. The procedure to flash a new rom is probably meant only for recovery purposes by tech support, rather than the end user

It’s mostly not your fault. Apps, games, and socials are intentionally designed to be addictive. That’s because the more time you spend on them, the more ad revenue the owners make.

If sheer willpower doesn’t work, find other ways around it. Someone else already suggested going to a library or another place, that’s good advice. Of you phone is an issue, you could turn it off and allow yourself to turn it back on after you’ve been productive for an hour, or after you have achieved a specific goal.

Don’t take the Bible too literally

I’ve got a fast connection so I don’t have to wait 🎶

Ability to regrow lost teeth

Pleas fix the bug that makes the stats decrease automatically after level 35

My bet is USA vs. China over Taiwan

Shit bubbles

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so

Depends on what you expect them to do exactly. Today’s transistors aren’t much different than older ones, just smaller mainly. People of, say, 20-30 years ago may have the technology to inspect them (electron microscope or something like that), and the knowledge to understand them, but not the equipment to reproduce them.

If you go much farther back in time, say before integrated circuits (1960) or even transistors (1947) were invented, I think it’s unlikely that someone could reverse engineer the thing

Don’t forget Netflix and Apple

… and this is why I should actually read the articles before commenting lol

We’re likely talking about lossy compression here

https://pluralistic.net/ by Cory Doctorow, his insights on technology (especially what is going wrong with it) are eye-opening

Easy, just invert the polarity of the microwaves