Dumb phones. I’ve grown to hate smartphones, apps, and all that goes with them.

Ah, yeah. I don’t Discord or Twitter so wasn’t thinking about those. ArsTechnica would benefit as well. They still do the forum-style inline replies which is hard to follow.

Don’t most lemmy clients do that?

edit: thinking about it, you probably were talking about people on the fediverse doing this out of turn and not the example I was thinking of.

I was. Collective “you” and not a personal “you”. Could’ve been more clear I suppose. I usually try to say “one” instead of “[collective] you” but sometimes that makes the phrasing awkward.

Edit: For clarity, the “you” used here is the collective you and not “you” as in the account I’m replying to.

For the record, I agree with your example and personally won’t eat/buy The Lord’s Chicken™. But do you really think you’ve changed anyone’s mind? Probably not. All you’ve accomplished is making yourself feel morally superior. You don’t like something? Fine, more power to you. Don’t buy/support the thing (you should see the ever-growing list of companies and subsidiaries I won’t buy from). But also don’t slide into the DMs of other people’s lives and shit all over what little brings them joy. Why is this hard?

Go for it. You don 't even have to credit me. I consider everything I post to be public domain anyway, double-so if it’s used for good.

Apparently I still have some curating to do on my subscription/blocks. It’s not about any one specific person - just the Debbie Downers that pop up.

My saved items / wish list is full of stuff I want and could use. When I have some extra money, it’s difficult to choose one thing, and I get stuck in limbo. So given I could set limits and hit a button, I feel like it would help me.

Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).

Heh, that’s happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.

Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just “Preparing to hibernate due to low battery” and I was like “wait, what?!” and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn’t always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn’t plug it into the outlet

Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.

Also they lazily copied …

In film school, that’s called an homage. /s

I think Nedry’s death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.

This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

1. There’s a secret science place where science happens
2. At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
3. The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
4. The secret science place blows up in the end

That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

It’s from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill from there (both the situation and the franchise).

• Does it have USB-C video out?
• Do you plan to run any custom ROMs / Can it run custom ROMs?

Yeah, for sure. I tend to use WebDAV with that to connect to my Nextcloud more than the actual Nextcloud app. Works great.

That kind of puts the scene where Rick keeps reanimating in different universes in a new light. Forget the episode, but he keeps coming out of his lab in a different universe and they’re all fascist hellholes. He’s like “Is this, like, the default setting or something?”

Assuming you mean SSH for file transfer? Material Files supports SFTP, and I use it to connect via SSH to my machines to transfer files.