Unless it’s free because it’s open source!

I genuinely believe most forms of advertising on the web are ableist because they try to make them as distracting as possible. Removing those ads is accessibility.

I don’t consider ads at the start and end of videos to be ableist, but they’re still annoying. Mid video ads, pause screen ads, and banner ads are all ableist.

This is so annoying. If he wasn’t allowed to or able to or supposed to, how did it happen???

Too late! That and requiring TPM and SecureBoot made me switch. I love it.

The thing they’re protesting isn’t peaceful.

This is gonna make me want some. When I was a child and my parents would take me to my grandparents to visit my parents would always buy some on the way to Dahlonega.

I saw at least one comment saying they’ve never heard of them. I heavily associate them with the rural Southeast US and/or Appalachia. As suburban sprawl crept our further I saw them less. The area I’m in now I don’t ever really see them.

They’re very much one of those snacks where you can buy them from the store and convenience stores, but it just isn’t the same. Sometimes restaurants have them and they’re pretty good, but it just doesn’t feel the same.

Damn, that sucks. When does my Arch support end?

I love love love that we use ounces for both weight and volume 🤩 I love love love that we use volume for measuring things like sour cream in recipes but weight in the store! America number 1!!! 🇨🇱

I haven’t ever seen Lovense’s products not at ~50% discount. I was buying something on Christmas and rushing to beat the sale in case another wasn’t for a whole, but as soon as midnight rolled around, lol and behold the Boxing Day Sale went live.

I’d only invest in total world ETFs, but specifically investing in foreign ones (so a “manual” split between US and non-US) in non tax advantaged accounts gives a minor tax credit.

Prior to me switching to Linux, the main reason I preferred Steam over others was the Steam Workshop. Modding is typically so easy on Steam. As far as I’m aware, none of the other stores have that. I’d love to proven wrong though, because that just means more games can use mods.

But now, as far as I’m aware, Steam is the only major one that supports Linux.

FOR THE HONOR OF GRAYSKULL!

NI!

NO RULES!

The sound of a balloon inflating.

Stealing from the poor to give to the poor.

We’ve got driverless cars and CRISPR gene editing. Those weren’t around 20 years ago. You don’t think those are major advancements?

I feel like y’all are just being contrarian doomers. Listen, I get it. The ruling class of billionaires use technology for nefarious purposes to control us and extract every penny of money they possibly can by selling our attention spans in ever increasing ways. I’m not saying they don’t. I’m not saying we live in a utopia. I’m just saying that there have absolutely been a lot of technological improvements in the past 20 years.

Folks saying “actually PDAs had internet access in the '90s” are, fuck, not even missing the forest for the trees, they’re just covering their eyes and refusing to acknowledge that they’re surrounded by trees.

We’ve got driverless cars. Yes, they’re far from perfect, and I wouldn’t really say they’re adequate, but we do have honest to god driverless cars. Electric ones too! And they aren’t just a gimmick, they really do give gas cars a run for their money. 3d printers are a home commodity now much like traditional printers have been in the past. CRISPR lets us modify genes. The idea of watching a 4k video on the Internet in 2006 would’ve been crazy. AI has improved a lot, and I don’t even mean the modern generative AI like LLMs or Stable Diffusion, even prior to that machine learning was a huge thing.

Relevant XKCD.

That was released in 2014. You know what I can do now with my phone? I can take a picture of a bird and search to see what kind of bird it is. Reverse image search has been around for a while, but it used to just find things that were mostly pixel for pixel matches. Now it’s much more capable.

Again, I was a teenager. The TomTom was a gift. Sorry they didn’t give me a damn iPhone, I guess? 🙄

Why are you being so condescending about this and making so many assumptions about me? I wasn’t a “late adopter.” I was a teenager. I didn’t have a smart phone. I didn’t have a “new car in 2010” nor a built in navigation system. I was using a standalone TomTom GPS in highschool in a 1996 Honda Accord. That was 20 years ago. Technology is significantly better now.