FauxPseudo

Italy did that. No lessons were learned. No fix is in sight. It gets worse every day.

I deleted my archive when they started sending those emails. I could see nothing good was going to result from ignoring them or giving them permission to keep it.

https://people.com/crime/btk-killer-daughter-dna-led-to-arrest/

The OED, like all dictionaries, goes by usage. One person using a word in a different way, is never going to make it.

His DNA doesn’t need to be in any system. These days there are professionals that take DNA results and comb through the databases to find close relatives that are in the system. It’s how they caught the BTK Killer.

The OED would liy to know your location.

What an unfortunate thing to happen on free dozen eggs night

Take a bunch of sheltered early 20th century peasants and tell them they are the best soldiers in the world. Send them off to war with instructions to kill one of two groups of people that look the same, sound the same, dress the same and carry the same weapons. They were never meant to survive.

Dan is the guy that knows stuff. Jordan is the loud sidekick comic relief.

I need to know that Dan and Jordan will get access to the desk.

I keep refreshing my pod feed waiting for the next episode.

I am waiting for the next episode to drop. Biggest episode ever.

Please, let’s not do this. Lets just enjoy sites that aren’t toxic without making them toxic by written articles with headlines like this.

I’ve seen the effect. It’s just like after Brazil cut Twitter off. My very niche account has been gaining new followers by the hour.

I have no idea how people interested in Heathcliff are being found by new people. Much less people interested in Heathcliff without Heathcliff.

This seems more like an announcement for a wallpaper contest. Though that’s pretty much what an Xfce update should be. Keeping it basic.

What an unfortunate thing to happen on free dozen eggs night.

OEMs only recently started offering 5+ years of security fixes. Two years was common until just 6 years ago. Apple got a lot of crap for not supporting older models but the truth is they supported longer than anyone else and only cut support when the hardware literally couldn’t take it. Yet everyone ignored that most android makers might not even release a single update much less more than the two years worth needed to cover a phone for a two year contract.

I don’t like saying that because I can’t stand apple devices. But it’s what happened. Then the EU started getting involved. They hated all this ewaste caused by people constantly upgrading. IT security people were speaking up too because phones were a complete risk with people using them for work but not getting updates that stopped them from being owned. It was getting bad for OEMs from multiple angles and they needed to act before the US government made them. And all those factors are the only reasons we are just now seeing all phones come with 5+ year plans.

As right to repair laws get integrated into new releases we will actually be able to take advantage of these 5+ year plans because we will be able to replace the batteries that are normally useless after three years.

I wish most phones had a battery saver option that would stop charge at 80% unless you manually overrode it each and every time you wanted to go over. This would dramatically cut down on the need to replace batteries.

But here is the rub. Even if you convince the majority logically that their phone is still good at year three they are going to upgrade at year two when the phone is paid off. The people that use phones as an identity and brand marker are still going to upgrade as fast as new devices come out.

And devices are going to continue to come out yearly. If you don’t ship a new flagship product each year then shareholders will revolt. There must always be something new for the customer. Technology moves fast. If you are an OEM not releasing then you are an OEM that isn’t keeping up.

All these forces of market, psychology, legal and repairability and more fight each other to create a situation where most people will upgrade in two years or less. Only a small portion of people will ever try to get 5+ years out of a device. Even the population trying to get 3 years will be two standard deviations out of the majority. Even if the battery is replaceable and the security patches keep coming.

Never make it without a ton of subsidies…

Read the room

I’m hoping that the important assets get sold to the Knowledge Fight podcast. They’d be the ones able to do the most good with them.