As far as I’m aware, the rule is “if it can easily be pronounced, it should be pronounced. If it can’t, fall back to spelling it.” For example, if it was the Federal Investigation Bureau, we would probably call it the Fib, barring some major marketing campaign to prevent that.

Working my way to 8, but I lack the monitor arms. So it’s three across and one-and-a-half above. In my defense, it’s three different computers.

I don’t have all my stuff plugged in right now, but when I did I used an AV switch or an AV receiver. For Dreamcast and Xbox, I recommend using VGA video if you can swing it, significantly improved video quality. But it’s getting difficult to find screens that take it as an input anymore.

I loved mine! Did exactly what I bought it for, emulation on my TV and playing media from my server. Replaced it with a Shield eventually, but don’t regret backing it on Kickstarter.

I use “good luck with that,” when I’ve been asked advice on a topic I’m knowledgeable in and they decide to go against my advice. It’s not “fuck you,” but it is “I told you so” in advance.

Half Life 2. Wasn’t a big fan of the first one, but the second had tons of hype, so I gave it a shot. The physics stuff was cool, but the gameplay, story and characters were boring and flat. And the “revolutionary” storytelling method of locking you in a box to talk at you rather than making a proper cutscene still sucks.

Strawberry jam. Made from the strawberries grandpa grew in the back yard, and like 9 lbs of sugar.

California has an indepenent committee that draws the maps. This action will require a statewide vote to temporarily override that committee’s maps for this purpose. I don’t think the vote would have succeeded before Trump won. Remains to be seen if the vote will succeed now.

Not just with every post. It updates your position every time you open the app.

Seconding a vertical mouse. I like Evoluent’s mice, been using them for years.

I actually react well to combative. Not right away, but it puts me into a “I’ll show you” mood that drives me down a rabbit hole of research. If you’re right, I come out the other side with the data and admit I was wrong. But I assume I’m not normal.

I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I’m going with both incompetent and malicious.

I know someone who died of fast colon cancer, and I’d be okay with ICE agents going the same way.

I’m not super bothered by Tue copyright issue - the copyright system is barely serving people these days anyway. Blow it up.

I’m deeply troubled by the obscene power use. It might be worth it if it was a good tool. But it’s not.

I haven’t gone out of my way to use AI anything, but it’s been stuffed into everything. And it’s truly bad at it’s job. AI is like a precocious 8-year-old, butting into every conversation. And it gives the right answer at about the rate a ln 8-year-old does. When I do a web search, I then need to do another one to check the AI’s answer. Or scroll down a page to get past the AI answers to real sources. When someone uses it to summarize a meeting, I then need to read through that summary to make sure the notes are accurate. And it doesn’t know to ask when it doesn’t understand something like a proper secretary would. When I go looking for reference images, I have to check to make sure they’re real and not hallucinations.

It gets in my way and slows me down. It needed at least another decade of development before being deployed at all, never mind at the scale it has, and it needs to be opt-in, not crammed into everything. And until it can be relied on, it shouldn’t be allowed to suck down as much electricity as it does.

My city does something like this as part of our homeless program and we’re at “net-zero” homeless. It doesn’t work on it’s own, but the tiny homes give people a stable place to keep their stuff safe and the elements off their bodies, it gives them an address they can use for things like mail and applications, and it gives social workers a place to find them reliably. It’s the start of a long process to help them back to their feet.

My understanding is that Samsung uses an odd standard that means they can’t quick charge from Anker devices. That was at least true a few years back. Would be great to know if that’s changed.

It was a team effort. Cory did the heavy lifting, but it takes a village to overthrow a tyrant.

I was very conservative. My drift leftward started before the internet was enough of a thing to have video debate spaces, but online debate has given me a lot to think about and pushed me farther left. I credit George Carlin with some of my early movement. He’s like an online debate, just against air.

The one I’ve used on my Samsung isn’t as fast as a wired power bank, but I don’t need to wrangle the cables like I do with the wired ones. I wouldn’t use a magsafe power bank to charge my phone from 0 (too slow). But leaving it attached gives me an extra couple of hours with just a little extra weight. Useful for things like conventions or travel.

I use one in my car - it’s more convienet for short trips or trips with multiple stops. I do keep a cable for longer trips though, especially if I need to keep the screen on for GPS - the wireless charger makes the phone warm enough to stop charging over the course of an hour or so.