So the reasoning I heard about this is she did this to annoy her boyfriend who loved sports.

She deliberately made it an unbalanced rule because she knew it would really annoy him.

At the time, I doubt she knew the book would become a cultural icon, nor that most of the English-speaking world would know what the word “Quidditch” meant.

I misread this as “I am 9”.

And I thought, “well, I’ve got bad news for you, pal”.

What happens when it’s an occupying force? i.e. mainly around civilians.

It’s going to be a special kind of hell.

There’s still books I need to read

L’Nux

I watched a great video the other day with ai voice, but the creator had a disclaimer at the start saying (in his natural voice) that he thought his accent was too strong for people.

All the comments (barring a few chuds) were people encouraging him to just use his natural voice as it was perfectly understandable and the AI voice was quite jarring in comparison.

So yeah even as an accessibility tool, I think people just find natural voices more trustworthy.

If it’s a choice between the two, sure.

But let’s play the odds here.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the councillor did it themselves to demonize the anti-data-center people

Surely if they blow up the refineries, Russia has less ability to take advantage of the soaring prices, as it has less oil to sell.

I’m looking forward to the top looking less tarnished than the bottom in a few years.

That’s a really positive outlook and I love it.

Astroturfing is only allowed from premium accounts.

Don’t worry, the market will adapt to solar becoming a better product.

Isn’t that what you always tell us?

I actually don’t know a lot about those models.

They last so long I tend to skip a few models at a time, and only bought my pixel 8a about 6 mths ago. So there’s been no need to research.

I’m sure there’s some good reviews or spec comparisons online. They tend to be excellent phones though.

I’m a tech snob but also a cheap bastard and they always fall into that middle part of the Venn diagram.

You can get a pixel in the “a” series for a lot cheaper than the main series or pro.

I always run them and they last forever.

For example a pixel 8a is just under $400 full price.

Graphene also runs better than android due to lack of bloat, so you won’t notice the lower specs quite as much.

Graphene is probably overkill for a simple (commercial) privacy use case but it seems to be the best for confounding google and also stability. So that’s why so many people use it.

And there’s not much in terms of downsides.

thERe arE no sTRIngs ON mE

That’s what I mean. It might force Linux underground.

And just when the year of Linux was finally arriving 😉

Imagine if the new age-verification-on-OS laws are actually sponsored by windows to shut down viable competition.

Just go to the grapheneOS website and it will walk you through it.

I have a medium competency with this kind of thing and the actual install was shockingly easy. Took about 15 mins.

You just change a couple of settings on your phone (it walks you through everything), plug it in and then press some buttons in sequence on their site.

Just make sure you back up everything you need from the phone first.

Follow orders or be “lightly” tortured.