Becase some devices require a signal on their comm pins to negotiate the correct voltage to charge the device. Also some devices are dicks and needs a proprietary signal in order for it to charge. Looking at you sony.

Unfortunately the problem now is corporations are people now and the rest of us are just commodities and slaves.

All those jobs are the most in demand to boot.

So with EBay you have the problem of drop shippers they basicly buy it on Amazon up the price and send it directly to you.

Is creglist even a viable option? i think Facebook Marketplace has basically destroyed their marketplace section.

Buying through facebook is like saying dont want to buy from this bad guy and then straight up buying from the devil himself.

Buying directly from the manufactur is always a good option unfortunately they dont have too many sales to not undercut their retail partners.

At the end of the day Ken Thompson’s lecure Reflections on Trusting Trust applies

Yeah i mean on a level where breaks the kernel and MS is forced to stop allowing these kinds of kernel modifications like they were talking about doing after the crowdstrike incident.

I’ve also worked with people that worked on the NT kernel. I couldn’t agree more. Im just waiting for the day someone exploits these anticheat kernal hooks to create the ultimate rootkit. It’ll make crowdstrike look like nothing.

Toys R Us anyone?

Same reason ken named Sierra On-Line, Inc but sold offline single player games

Mine too was in the beta and was blown away by the graphics and scale. I tried the private servers after the official ones shut down had a lifetime sub. But it was a bitch to install and patch to work with private servers on linux the last time i tried.

Holtburg in Asheron’s Call there was a Tavern there that was a great hangout spot in Dekarutide

Thats what valve was talking about games optimizing for the reference platform this is great to hear

Buddy EMTs would be an awesome movie

Little Inferno

Easy answer next time you are intimate with your partner choreograph the whole session and have your boss watch and see if you get aroused.

Checking for Correct Answers with ChatGPT is a scary thought.

If ypu read about Johanna Haarer a lot of conservative/ fascist mindset makes a lot of sense. That lady was a psychopath.

Overall an okay episode but hats off to whoever snuck their D&D campaign storyline that they cribbed from for this story arc. Nice touch to write out Batel but also give Pike an Inner light happy ending. Only major critique I had was the villain was kind of one-dimensional like you’d see in the D&D campaign so would have been nice if they fleshed out that more before bringing it to the screen.

FF6, bubble bobble for the Nes, Master Blaster

Good retelling of enemy mine but the continuity connection was completely unnecessary