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Really? There’s something appealing to me about decoupling my cellular modem from my phone; I used an iPod Touch instead of a smartphone for years (with Wifi and VoIP).

At this point I have zero interest in a dedicated audio player.

And if I wanted one… my watch holds more MP3s than the original iPod did. I can just play music from my watch.

Or my graphing calculator.

Or, for that matter, my over the ear headphones which have a microSD slot.

I find that with black beans, I need to add a bit more acid/spice to gat a good balance

Let’s play a word game. You can say “kill” and “all Christians” on TV, but put the two together and you’re likely going to be censored for inciting violence.

Words have meanings and so do sentences.

“Oh, God” when taken literally just means that you’re appealing to some more powerful being to sort out what you’ve witnessed.

“Damn it” means that you want ”it” to go to hell and stay there, with no chance for salvation.

“God damn it” means you’re calling on a specific interpretation of a deity that is associated with damning things to do so on your request.

And that’s all stuff that’s OK to say if you mean it. The blasphemy comes in when you say it without actually believing or wanting such a thing to happen, but just use the phrase as an outburst of frustration.

Kind of like shouting “bomb” in an airport. If you really believe there is one, you’re going to want to do it; otherwise, you’re going to get in a heap of trouble precisely because those in charge don’t want the word to lose its meaning in that context, because then people won’t respond properly when it’s said in earnest.

Higher learning teaches students how to think critically (or develop a very good short term memory).

But it doesn’t necessarily teach students TO think critically.

They’re taught the tools they can use, but using those tools takes effort and causes discomfort. So most people choose to use them as little as possible.

So, the main difference is: people (speaking generally) who have some post-high school education have developed the tools to approach a topic in an intelligent manner. This means that, given enough effort, you can help them understand a topic. Without that toolkit, trying to show them how something is more likely true based on evidence is often pointless. But having that toolkit isn’t going to make them automatically come to evidence-based conclusions.

What do you think about him now being a millionaire?

Not much. I’m a millionaire and so is everyone on my street, and on all the adjacent streets. A million dollars doesn’t go as far as it did 60 years ago.

You should install an eBook reader like MegaReader; if you run your own Calibre server, it does a good job of reading books.

Realistically, there’s not going to be much you can do with an iPad 1.

An iPad 2, on the other hand, is still a very functional jailbroken device. SNES and older emulators work great, it can play streaming videos, works with various ePub and PDF readers, and handle email and site-specific web browsing (including Lemmy).

The other answers are missing out on the key reason: licensing.

Copyright law differs between regions, and so different groups need to be paid when the video is “sold” to a customer. Before the early 2000s, this was even more the case than it is today; the US hadn’t yet tied its own definition of copyright to all its trade agreements.

End result? Selling a US DVD in Japan would have been illegal; not because of the region restrictions but because the people who had to be paid to play it in that region hadn’t been paid so the DVD was effectively a bootleg.

Outlook: redundant dysfunctionality

It’s a meta-app that consumes other maps, does navigation, and acts as a dashcam at the same time.

Not really; turns out a bit different every time.

But an easy cheat is Everest brand; it makes a good base you can add chili powders, turmeric, cardamom and cumin to taste to tweak it how you want it.

It’s dal or dhal depending on where you’re from.

It basically means “pulse stew.” Technically you could make it with split peas or edamame instead of lentils — or kidney beans, brown beans or black eyed peas.

Just like garam masala translates to “hot spice mix”. Every area has its own version and it’s up to you to find the blend you like.

I do a dhal in the slow cooker at least once a week. Once you mix yourself a decent garam masala, it doesn’t really matter what else you add beyond the lentils. I usually toss in a can of diced tomatoes and a can of tomato paste; then some chicken breasts or some ground beef, or sometimes keep it vegan.

Adjust to taste, and it’s a meal that takes 5 minutes to prep in the morning for a delicious dinner ready to serve in the evening.

Usually I use green lentils.

Despite the fact that click death was avoidable with a simple bracket OR an updated driver AND only affected their very first product, I won’t really miss them.

If Jazz drives had been their first product and at a reasonable price point, things probably would’ve gone differently for them.

Depression is a clinical chemical state; people respond to it in many different ways; some respond by chasing dopamine highs.

Many socially active people are actually depressed, and the activity is their way of attempting to deal with it.

Many introverted people aren’t depressed at all, and enjoy their own company more than that of others.

And I move more to using OpenStreets, Organic Maps and Sidekick Pro.

Shame that Apple’s going the same way as Google.

They said your statement was incorrect; either there’s a way to salvage the planet in a habitable form, or there isn’t — but “indistinguishable from magic” doesn’t come into it.

Personally, I think energy is only a portion of the problem space; we need to slow climate change enough that humanity can continue to adapt with it.

After all, we survived multiple ice ages; will the climate destroy our technological advances, or will those advances enable us to adapt to a changing world?

The world is likely highly overpopulated at the present, but we can lose a significant chunk of humanity and still preserve the body of knowledge and many of the technologies that we currently enjoy.

Collapses are inevitable, but total collapse is still avoidable.

Mitigation is always possible. If we don’t do it intentionally, eventually the climate will force our hand. This will result in billions of human deaths, extinction of many organisms, and massive destruction of the current global ecology, but it will happen.

Remember, the Sahara wasn’t always a desert, and North America was more than once covered in ice.

We’re likely to die off due to poisoning the environment long before the climate makes a significant dent in our 8bn population.

We’re not going to escape sea level rise or some places becoming uninhabitable, nor a redistribution of water and total destruction of all weather models. But we can slow the changes to the point where we can adapt faster than the climate changes… and the more we mitigate, the more lives we save along the way.

I thought the ADL had done a pretty good job of discrediting itself?

I bet it moves to Windows 10.

Might not be up to the distros?

Most distros already have a non-systemd variant out there.

And systemd is also open source; if age verification is baked in, people can just modify it to always return a positive result.