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My BIL is a Google engineer and he gave me (an iPhone user) a pixel 8 pro to test drive for feedback. The hardware is pretty darn solid and felt good in my hands and to my eyes. I really liked that it had both a fingerprint sensor and a facial recognition system to unlock. This made contactless payment a lot easier to use than an iPhone in my opinion. In general, the software is not as polished as iOS, but is more customizable and you can side load apps from alternate app stores like f droid, which is great. The killer feature as far as I am concerned is Firefox with uBlock.

I’m not technical enough to think it through carefully but I’ve always thought there was an opportunity for an organization like USPS to develop email 2.0 - something that gives people some kind of verifiable and secure email address so that users can easily find each other whilst filtering out spam (or to have spam taken into consideration in the design at the outset). You would design it based on strict standards that would be difficult to get around so that big tech could not easily co-opt it, and adopt for some kind of critical function (taxes, voting maybe?) so that it would encourage adoption en masse. Make it distributed so that users can selfhost it easily, safely, and securely.

Jealous that you’ve seen them in the wild!

Probably a California Condor at the San Diego Zoo.

Frivolous? Yes. Fun? 😬😬😬

Pfft. No wet sanding with 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000. Amateur.

It’s a good article. It explains rural America. It doesn’t explain the well off assholes living in Huntington Beach CA. It doesn’t explain the well off assholes living in suburban Inland SoCal. It doesn’t explain rich privileged shitheads like Musk and Thiel.

There’s no such thing as almond milk. You know how I know ? Because there’s no almond tiddies.

With apologies to Lewis Black.

Damn you now I can’t unsee that lol

Not to my understanding?

I’ve been trying to find a search engine that doesn’t use AI for this very reason, but with little luck. Any suggestions?

Five Guys is ok but is also 25-30% more expensive than most of the other places listed here, at least where I live.

The problem is that the cops are on their side.

their software is also super bloated. How hard can it be to write a mouse driver? 1 GB for a mouse driver???

Related question: are there sign language specific dad jokes? That is, corny jokes that work in sign language but not in spoken language?

Combustible lemons. But failing that, a portal gun.

The label is in Chinese (simplified characters common in China) and translates as “100 rainbow chrysanthemum seeds”. I have no idea whether the contents are what the label claims.

There are Apple Stores in Palo Alto CA that are approx 20 minute walking distance apart from each other. Pretty close but not 150 meters close.

Wireless APs are the way to go - make sure to get ones that support VLANs for better network security.

Would like to have a compass displayed on CarPlay. On maps or as a separate app I don’t care.