Yeah, that’s not a thing. Interacting with an assistant is just simply the fact that you’ve got a microphone on. If you connect it to a phone with an assistant…tada, it uses that mic. And earbuds with their own apps on a smartphone are how they do the things like EQ adjustments, because bluetooth doesn’t have a standard for that; and get this – the apps are completely optional on all of them.

So…what about current bluetooth devices are “enshittified” or did you just see the word on your word-of-the-day calendar and have to use it?

Enshittification is used for platforms that are great in the beginning, and then slowly are designed to wring money out of their users. Bluetooth anything doesn’t really fit that description.

Some of us are fine with murder when it comes to the relative outcomes. If I can murder someone to save 100 lives (and there’s no doubt at all that it would), I wouldn’t even flinch before driving the knife into their skull.

In this hypothetical, we already know our targets body-count. So it’s easy to make the math work.

Personally, I’d remove Ronald Regan.

Aww…lol It’s okay, they have a totally different type of home for you.

This is the biggest one. I use Keepa for things, and I’ve heard other people suggest camelcamelcamel. Always check the pricing history first, don’t get sucked into the “Save money!” trap. You’re not saving anything if you wouldn’t have bought the item in the first place.

Yeah, I probably used too harsh of a term there – It’s not stupidity or laziness, but more ignorance. You can’t exactly chase something that you haven’t been taught about.

And you’re right, the process is daunting - many of the people that argue against it are those that have to live in the city, and refuse to live further out in order to get better pricing. I’ve got plenty of housing around me being built in the 200k-300k range (2/1 and 3/2) - in Florida no less. But it’s in the country.

I went the “buy a slum house and live in squalor, putting whatever extra money I have into it to fix things” route. I learned a lot about housing maintenance; installing your own appliances, replacing well pumps and tanks, electrical, etc.

A buddy of mine is shacking up with his brother and they’re buying a house together for now so that in 10 years they can sell it an split the equity for their own individual houses.

It’s all possible, though for sure - you may have to do some things that we’d consider unconventional today. It’s definitely not ideal. The big guys are going to find out sooner or later that not paying people for jobs ends up with nobody having any money to spend.

Many states have first-time homebuyers programs that will absolutely shunt the issue of transitioning to Rent/homebuying. Most people are too lazy or stupid to take the initiative though. Every person I have talked to about renting vs home owning has always managed to make excuses why they can’t do something, instead of working to make it happen. It’s daunting as fuck, for sure - but it’s possible if you scrimp and do without for a while. That short-term of doing without, ultimately ends up with you paying into something you OWN. You’re building your personal equity with a house, and many people will argue against that because of learned helplessness.

Fuckin’ Smarrrrrrt. You’ll be one of the ones who doesn’t get fucked if the housing market crashes, because your interest rate won’t balloon through the roof.

I dunno, I’m with you on this OP. Ban implies permanency, suspension implies temporary.

Hell yeah, one of the smart ones. I hope you got a fixed rate mortgage.

Well, the simplicity of the upvote/downvote buttons are what also cause the drawbacks of people using the system as “Agree” and “Disagree” buttons. I’m a solutions oriented guy. Everyone always bitches and moans over what the problem is, and nobody ever suggests solutions.

I honestly wish there was a moderation system like Slashdot. You got a limited number of points each week, and you could vote comments “Insightful, Informative, Funny, Overrated, Spam” etc. Comments, etc could go up to +5 or down to -1; and you get a slider to determine at what point value comments are hidden at (+4, +2, etc)

It makes it so people can’t be buried into the ether by brigading (they’d have to keep up a sustained downvote campaign to continually knock it down to -1), and can ‘come back from the dead’ so-to-speak, and also allows categorization of comments and may even allow the filtering of joke-comments so that conversations stay on topic or just so that you engage with the serious content instead of low-quality stuff. This encourages people to comment more genuinely and productively.

I’d go to college. I’d learn all the things I had to teach myself, but properly. I’d spend as many of the remaining minutes of my life with my family, giving them the things I always couldn’t. As a father, you’re expected to work your ass off to provide for your family, and doing so trades away all the precious moments you could have had. My kids are almost adults now, and I regret every day not being born rich.

WoW, CS 1.6, Warframe, and ARK

I think something like 5k hours into Warframe, 15 years into WoW (at least 2 of my characters have 1+ year of playtime–so 17k hours just on those 2; and I max-leveled every class of character up until Battle for Azeroth) and so far, 2 years into ARK. Just over 3.5k hours of playtime between ASE and ASA.

The Montech cases are really good, come with 6 RGB fans preinstalled, and a glass side (not plexi)

Lawyers who have nothing to do but make your life a living hell if you sue us, LLC

I can’t tell if I’m supposed to name my organization like the top one or the bottom one.

I pronounce it Forgejo.

Ding ding ding folks. Wilhoit’s law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Now do Microsoft.