While the Santa is up you can store the skeleton back inside of it

Apparently the octopus has lungs in it’s head too

and a mew nozzle

Glad they were responsive, I’m used to customer support lines just pussyfooting around.

Hopefully they weren’t just trying to prevent you caterwauling

I wonder if the old fan failed due to tin whiskers?

I’ll see myself out

For non-fiction I’ve read Chokepoint Capitalism and The Internet Con. The Internet Con was a lot like his online essays, to the point where it felt redundant, but he does good essays so if you haven’t read them it’s a good way to get around his work. Chokepoint Capitalism was a little more novel (probably in part because he coauthoured). Neither were very dry, which is significant for the genre.

Fiction, I’ve read Walkaway and Unauthorised Bread. Walkaway is good worldbuilding with both fascinating and bizarre ideas, but I don’t think it’s good fiction. Unauthorised Bread is a short story available online and is excellent.

I assume this is specific to his fiction?

Very much my experience with Walkaway. Unauthorized bread (short story) was a little better executed imo.

Gaskets are consumables, whatever bottle you get, make sure you can source additional gaskets.

Conversations.im

Has an onboarding wizard, includes text, voice and video calling, OMEMO encryption, group chats etc.

But more importantly, what have you tried and why didn’t they work for you?

That’s regular.

The vast majority of micro USB cables are A to B cables, but USB A to micro USB B. Maybe if they had been introduced now when super thin laptops are a thing they micro USB A might have become more popular. Or more likely, the problem with the A/B distinction would have become more obvious sooner

Graphene is focused on security, not privacy

Micro USB also has an A and B connector

Automatic butt ejector.

The name is really just branding - Chromecast, Google Cast and Google TV have all been used for radically different Cast Receiver products. The important part though is that my device doesn’t have Android TV installed on it; it doesn’t have Apps and I can’t install VLC on it.

(If you meant VLC was on the mobile device, I believe this is a separate system where you stream from the mobile device to the Cast Receiver thingy. The big value of Chromecast (the standard) is that the mobile device doesn’t do any real work, just tells the Cast Receiver where to look for the stream. If I misunderstand the situation let me know, I’m eternally hopeful)

The people writing the legislation are the same people who don’t see a problem with a government-furnished app using Play Integrity

I’ve read this as “Fury O.S.” dozens of times before now but your subtle implication has fixed that, thank you.

I don’t disagree, but it’s very funny that LinusTechTips went through that exact process a moment before publically destroying his desktop on PopOS

I realise you’re being facetious, but if anything Google made my phone more expensive with the certification process.

Yeah, I’ve got an actual Chromecast, not a Google TV, so I can’t install anything on it. I have enough computers around that buying anything new would be redundant, but nothing works quite like a Chromecast.

The only reason I’m on a Google rom is because I can’t get confirmation that I can cast Netflix to a Chromecast with microG. It’s the only Google ecosystem thing that matters to me. If they try to break my phone then I finally get to get over that hump, no loss. Almost everything in my phone is F-Droid (“side-loaded” is such a loaded phrase)

I’m also hopeful that this move will get struck down given the recent anti competitive practices cases they’ve lost.

I remember this one, and it’s pretty old, pre twitter takeover. I think it was around the time he called an emergency responder a pedo for bruising Musk’s ego, maybe just before