Most Shrikes are like this. Their genus is Lanius, Latin for “butcher”.

(Also a fun piece of trivia for FTL fans.)

“Do cheap tickets encourage public transport use?”

What kind of question is that? Obviously they do??

Subnautica

Related: Alt + ., to cycle through arguments used in previous commands

Could you uh… elaborate a little?

STORM CLOUDS, FIRE AND STEEL

DEATH FROM ABOVE, MADE THEIR ENEMY KNEEL

SHINING ARMOR AND WINGS

DEATH FROM ABOVE, IT’S AN ARMY OF KINGS!

Or the original plot of The Matrix, before the studio execs decided audiences were too stupid.

“Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!”

• No one, ever

There’s that old chestnut: “you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine.”

RCS is an open standard, isn’t it? Are you referring to the E2E encryption that Google added to Android?

Ikr? Seems like a good thing to me. I want dumb devices controlled by a smart system.

Bold of you to assume no one will come up with a replacement date library rather than just getting rid of JS.

Alien might be the scariest movie of all time, IMO, so this makes perfect sense to me.

I do use Kodi for local content, but this unfortunately doesn’t help with streaming services, and even dedicated steaming boxes have ads on their home screens now.

I’m not sure how an email service helps here…?

*Pi-hole

Already got one. A lot of devices seem to route ads over channels that can’t be blocked without compromising other device functions.

My dad used to sautee them with bits of bacon or prosciutto. I don’t eat pork anymore, but god damn do I miss those Brussels sprouts.

I kinda disagree here - I have no problem using smart lights, etc., as long as they’re controlled by a non-cloud system like HomeAssistant. This just doesn’t seem to be an option for more complex devices.

You still end up with awkward, overcomplicated UIs that make using the TV in basic ways unnecessarily obnoxious.

A high-quality dumb TV.

Get your ads (and security vulnerabilities) out of my damn house.