The device only was for privacy. When the data was stored in the cloud, the government had unrestricted access. By making it device only they need to get your device to get that data.

There’s no privacy concern. They sent you the tablet so you could watch the training video. They need to know you watched the instructional video so that’s not a privacy intrusion.

Watch the video and turn it off.

Yeah if U2 is grunge based on time period, then Motley Crue and Michael Jackson is grunge.

The did it with “continued on page 10”. This forced you to flip through several pages of ads to get to the rest of the story. It wasn’t just on the front page. They did it inside as well.

Old newspapers were filled with ads too. The only thing that makes current ads obnoxious are the pop up’s, video, and JavaScript tricks.

Do you have any natural wood around like the desk? It could be a drop of resin that came out of wood.

Hotel food always sucks. I was in Corfu last summer. There were plenty of great local restaurants.

The article says they had kebobs but claimed she couldn’t eat them yet wanted sausages and bacon for breakfast.

Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati?

That’s Les Grossman.

He grew up in New York and only recently moved. He’s got that New York attitude. Yeah it’s off putting.

Forward it to Louis Rossman. He’ll make an entire video about it and add it to the wiki tracking these scummy companies.

You can solve 2 layers with logic. The 3rd requires patterns. You can discover patterns on your own by doing repeated motions until the cube returns to its original state. I came across a pattern that swapped colors on one side. That got me all the way to everything but 2 corners that needed to be rotated. On my own, I never discovered the pattern that rotated corners.

It’s the definition. Trans exclusionary RADICAL FEMINIST.

They put women’s rights first.

I think because I warned some users a couple of times over a year ago, that he thinks I’m a sock puppet of the person/people he has banned. When he got angry about my warning the user, I didn’t engage at all. But a year later in that thread about Discovery, I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice that I replied to him.

He seems to have a lot of drama around him.

Is there a Lemmy equivalent to karma court?

Look at my history. That wasn’t the reason I was banned. Over a year ago I warned another user that I saw that mod ban an account for arguing. That post history was there and flying squid warned him to not do that sort of thing in Ten Forward. A year later I made the mistake of replying to a post that he posted to me. The post was about the writing in Discovery.

You can see my last post on tenforward that got banned. He deleted it but of course in Lemmy it’s only hidden so you can still view it.

So yeah, not only did he ban me but he lied about the reason.

Here is the proof.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14647300

I got banned from tenforward for saying the ending of Star Trek Discovery didn’t make sense. No name calling, no back and forth arguing, just my statement and a reply explaining one point of my previous post. But that reply was to a mod who didn’t like my explanation.

I messaged mods and nothing.

Yeah corporate has expanded but so has the niches. There’s a huge amount of info in niche hobbies that has expanded over the past 20 years. Although I do hate how everyone makes a YouTube when some info would be better presented as a web page.

Imo things fell apart by the late 90’s when everyone stopped using Newsgroups and switched to Website forums for monetization.

It’s called Eternal September and it’s been going on for forever.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

It’s all still there, you just don’t read it because there’s not as much content just like in 2005.

I don’t understand this “the old internet was better” and I was first on the internet in 1985. (Technically bitnet)

What exactly are you looking for?