Amazon - the logistics company - is just a front end for (and leech on) various drop shippers, lately, anyway.

Amazon used to carry quality guarantees, and have meaningful reviews, but lately the wild West crapshoot of the rest of the web is just as good.

(And at least on the rest of the web I have some idea who I’m buying from, and can avoid them after a bad experience. On Amazon, it got to where there was no way I could tell.)

The bigger problem right now is that unlike revolutions of old, this time there are millions of people who adore and cherish their overlords and would literally fight to the death to protect them for no other reason than ideological.

This is a message the media owners want us all to accept.

In my experience, very few people want to die or commit violence for some billionaire’s agenda.

Most people just want to live their lives and maybe live to see the assholes in charge have to pretend to care what the rest of us think.

Crazy how ethics work. Like a pig might be more physically and mentally capable than an individual in a vegetative state, but we place more value on the person.

I looked this up in my ethics textbook and it just went on and on about pigs being delicious.

I think I might try to get a refund.

Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.

I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.

(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)

I’m sure they will grow out of it, by the time they turn 21

(This is intended as an amusing reference to DOGE’s habit of hiring surprisingly young professionals.)

Oh, that makes sense. Local multiplayer on SteamDeck can still be pretty rubbish, so I probably just didn’t notice.

I will warn that some of the Lego games are rather buggy on PC.

I had the same issues on my Windows PC. But they run great on my SteamDeck.

I would never scribble my password on a whiteboard. It’s important to write in large clear letters so I can read it from across the lab.

My little sister has two, and most of her friends do too. It’s weird.

I suppose that makes sense. Support has gotten much stronger, in the last decade or two, for using multiple monitors.

Plan to share a link so the hackers can check your work?

I’ve heard good things about vibe coding primary use cases for common problems.

I have experience vibe coding unusual use cases. The AI was worse than useless for those.

So I’m curious how the corner cases and security stuff on common problems turn out. (I always get that kind of thing from a framework, so I have no experience vibe coding those cases.)

(Genuinely curious. And obviously, no worries if you don’t want to risk sharing.)

I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.

The picture was slow to load for me, and I expected Beanie Babies or some kind of precious metal or BitCoin.

Have you considered turning it into a paint ball arena?

It probably wouldn’t be a good investment, but it would make a great story.

I’m a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.

Even if I weren’t, there’s enough software options out there that I don’t have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.

So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.

Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.

I just expect more from most of my software, now.

I’m happy to pay for software, but I want more than just permission, I want long term security that my investment in the tool will last.

If IntelliJ would open source their oldest versions, I would make my boss buy me a copy of the newest version every year.

the smog monster voiced by Tim Curry. His song made me feel things.

You’re in for a real treat if you haven’t seen “The Rocky Horror Motion Picture Show” yet.

I hear you. Gadget Hackwrench is the one. I’m actually a little afraid to watch the 2022 movie in case something bad happens to her.

It was fun, and Tress delivered another delightful performance. Her total screen time was less than I expected, but I guess the movie was trying to fit a lot in.

And to every other bidder, too, of course.

How many people around you don’t own a computer and only use their phones for everything?

Seven.

I assume future me would just pass me a piece of paper with a couple of stock tips… and maybe a sports almanac.

The comics kind of address this:

Killing the holder of the Infinity Gauntlet usually results in someone equally bad picking it up.

So just killing Thanos often isn’t a complete solution, after the stones have been gathered.