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I remember stepping people thru reinstalling DUN so many times I could probably still do it in my sleep to this day.

Being one of those gamers, I do question why a lot of the games targeted at us (looking at you Path of Exile) has to have so much goddamned pointless busy-work clicking. I play a league, then skip a league, which means I skip buying a supporter pack, just because my arthritis can't put up with their bullshit interface year-round.

T-Mobile gives me full speed when I set my APN to B2B/IPV4.

It always just gives me the hand emoji and tells me it doesn't want to talk if I correct it. That was like a week ago. Not sure what it's doing today.

I doubt the guts of something like an Echo would be capable of containing any kind of speech to text model. It'll probably be a lot more of a concern in a few years when speech models like that are getting baked into cheap chips for consumer devices, though.

There was also that P51 Mustang dogfighting game for the CoCo had 3d space to fight another player over 300 baud modem play.

what happens if they send germany the bill for damages?

indeed.

i really do not like being the guy that goes "but chatgpt" in threads about other topics, but i have found it to be pretty good at generating simplified recipes.

counter cultures that aren't advertiser friendly for the tech giants seems to simply get stamped out nowadays.

i am just happy to be back on the timeline where we type in what we want the computer to do rather than going on a widget hunt.

“Then Apple could explore its records, query the original owner if it wants, but then at the end of the day if there are no red flags and the original owner does not protest within 30 days, the device should be auto-unlocked."

so, they only have to detain you for 30 days before the lock expires. nice.

search has always been a peeve of mine, too. then i had to work on a self-hosted magento project and saw how resource expensive search is compared to everything else.

so tired of hearing about amazon, though. it's like we've got a new demographic of people who are incapable of going to best buy or target without turning it into some "fight the power" internet activism.

if anything, reddit is an example of what's wrong with the web.

massgravel on github is probably the easiest route if phone activation doesn't work out.

that dude seems like he'd be cool news source if i were 16 and into crypto.

i felt like it might be an embellishment. mostly because i interviewed so many infosec people in the early 2000's and like a quarter of them had some similar story from when they were 10-12 about contact with 3-letter agencies or other nonsense that "got me started on this path at an early age".

that's how i knew 'voice stress analysis' tests were trash. when i was a teenager, it was all the rage for companies to put candidates through these and i'd sit there lying all the way through it and still get the job every time.

now, any of my ex's can agree, i'm the worst liar in the world and if that test thought i was being honest, there's definitely something busted with it.

just be happy you didn't get caught up in the g+ debacle. i did exactly what they told me to do to keep from using a real name across their services and they fucked me 10 ways to sunday for doing so.

brand account worked great up until ~2013, then they changed something and my settings are all greyed out. can't update phone numbers, can't view mature content, etc. all i can do is collect adsense while the account lasts.

praise that brave reddit moderator for rushing in there to lock down the thread and remove any content that might hurt BoA's feelings.

Wages in San Francisco are way higher than Alabama, too.

this is really cool. by the looks of it, i'm going to need more than a vocoder to fix my voice.

when i was a kid trying to dial bbs numbers by tapping them out with the hook switch was like its own form of entertainment.

there were other variables to contend with on those old at&t phones everyone had, as the pegs you release to off-hook the phone moved faster than the switch under them. this means you had to tap fast enough for the CO to see them as dial pulses, but also slow enough that the peg and switch mechanism doesn't separate and cause inconsistently timed or missed pulses.

I'd be excited if it were an open-source project like SD. I've got zero interest in feeding OpenAI any of my data.

The thing that always bothered me most about Grindr is the fact they do not allow any connectivity from VPNs, even if you have an upgraded account. This doesn't seem to jive well with the need for privacy or anonymity in places where it's dangerous to be gay.

I learned this lesson in 1998 while working for MindSpring. A customer spotted my company shirt while at a gas station and threatened to kill me over tech support hold times.

I never wore another employer-branded shirt in public.