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As everyone knows, “Sans” is just short for “Satan’s!” /s

Yeah, they probably shouldn’t have used the phrasing, “vibrating strap-on device” if they wanted us to take them seriously. 🤣

“this isn’t going to last, enjoy it while you can”

that was of course the original assignment by OP!

I am with you, although I don’t understand the logic of movie theaters. The ticket is stupid expensive, the food is even worse, and then the quality of both the movie watching (if you get a bad seat) and food is absolutely terrible.

I haven’t visited since Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (2022), where before COVID I’d go about once a month. Some of it may be due to movies being duller these days, but the vast majority of my reticence is the terrible experience and cost/value ratio.

Good to know!

MoviePass. Although it looks like they relaunched in 2022 in limited markets.

As usual, he who suggested it should be the first test subject.

You kid but that’s the point she was making. She claims the lesson to learn from the Holocaust is not that we should help the weak when they are being pummeled by the strong, but, apparently, something like that Israel can do no wrong.

It would be easy enough to force vendors to make the URL the device connects to, configurable and to publish the API the device is using. Two minuscule changes that can prolong the life of devices by decades.

Online banking can frequently be handled via the web site on mobile phones.

I speak Italian, German, and French. The rules for when to use the formal address are complex, differ from language to language, and are changing every day.

The formal address is largely deferential. You invoke it both to imply status and emotional/social distance. That’s the common thread I noticed in these three languages. Italians being more informal, you end up using the informal address with a lot more people; German society is more formal and you keep your distance even from people (like coworkers) that you have known for a long time.

But I would say that in all three of these languages, formality is becoming more and more infrequent. I think this is illustrated very well by the way media and web sites address users and visitors, which is going quickly from the formal form to the informal.

There seems to be also an influence from English, which has no formal address. I notice that in dubbed media, like movies and TV shows, that frequently don’t really know what to do with the different forms available in the context of source material that doesn’t have it. Sometimes it’s amusing, like the scene where Captain America (I think) used the informal address to his superiors, which would have been absolutely insulting for a military officer, akin to calling them “bro” in English.

I’ll put it right next to my $999 monitor stand!!!

Let alone open source!

Ricotta and dark chocolate for a dessert pizza

By a wide margin the many different projects for an open source phone OS. From GrapheneOS to PostmarketOS, from Ubuntu Mobile to Plasma Mobile.

I am sick and tired of corporations telling me how I can use my phone. I am sick and tired of corporations deciding what apps I can install, from where, and what data they are allowed to collect. I am done with enshittification and the gradual disappearing of all useful information, either behind a paywall, or replaced by monetized content.

The last straw was when Google Maps decided to replace the “gas station on the route” feature that sent you to the cheapest gas station to some other logic it didn’t disclose, but that stinks of affiliate preference.

That’s why they call it the Silver Tongue!

I think Obama got it simply for not being George W Bush, imperial war monger of international note.

One of the South American variants of Spanish, probably Argentinian. And I say that despite not speaking any Spanish.

The language itself is a contact language and heavily influenced by centuries of cohabitation with speakers of Arabic. That simplified a lot of the Indo-European complexities away.

The phonology - the sounds - of the language are clear and predictable and sufficiently different that a non-native speaker and their accent are not too troublesome in comprehension.

The language itself is already a world language, ranking 4th in number of native speakers.

I like the suggestion of Esperanto, which I do personally speak and which has all the advantages above, except already being a world language.

Mine did, too - until it didn’t :-( But aside from that, it was an amazing color printer. HL- 4150CDN

Does it have WiFi though? Brother swears they didn’t remove third party toner functionality, but they definitely installed new firmware without asking.

I’ve had great experiences with Brother laser printers, until my color laser started refusing 3rd party cartridges. Someone else reported there was a firmware update that made that happen, Brother swears they didn’t do anything.

For that reason, I would not buy a connected printer, ever. The setup I have now is a dumb printer connected to my local network using an RPi Zero W as print server. I would do it this way even if the printer had WiFi connectivity.