I recall this meme from a year or so back with a different joke attached.

That’s their hope. The administrations of some governments are purposely doing moves to embolden terrorism, embolden racism, embolden hate. Then when someone with the wrong skin color does something terrible, they can say, “see? War were declared.” Let the wartime profits rain in!

Jewish people are great, the people of Israel seem to be smart and clever, their engineering seems first-class. Their government? Up there with the USA Federal government on the list of terrible things that need to go away.

They probably also likely removed it, because if you open your browser’s debug window, it identifies clearly that T-Mobile is the backing carrier, not “the big three carriers” like they claim. It’s T-Mobile’s classic MVNO coverage map, if one is familiar with it (which will include possible roaming on other carriers, so they’re not “lying”…)

That coverage site is also running on a very old system, IIRC, so good luck finding an engineer that still works there and knows how to fix it to “update” the gulf.

(Cell nerd deets, Mango-Mobile is using Liberty Wireless as their backing MVNO, which is an MVNO on T-Mobile’s infra. Liberty was also already terrible. MVNO’s are virtual cell carriers that live on real ones. It is NOT using Verizon, AT&T, or even Dish, except possibly in the case of roaming agreements.)

T-Mobile also use Muskrat’s Starlink as their mediocre sat-to-cell service, and they also leveraged Mango’s position in his first term to push through M&A’s to acquire 5G spectrum to artificially accelerate/cheat past the others. John Legere fans, cover your ears, he actually went to Mango’s FCC quite a bit to get this going.

tl;dr: probably a good idea to add T-Mobile to the boycott list next time one’s looking for cell service. (As well, any T-Mobile MVNO like Mint, MetroPCS, etc. Here’s an MVNO List that can be sorted by host network.)

He gained access to a trove of government data that he Starlinked back to his lair. He got more government military contracts and he got the FCC to revisit a bunch of hardline fiber broadband that will now end up going to Starlink or T-Mobile home broadband, as T-Mobile seems to be pretty ingrained in his money camp. Why give America fiber when you can deploy wireless affected by all sorts of extra physics problems? He also likely got a pass to keep poisoning communities with his AI datacenter running on a fleet of unfiltered backup generators.

He wanted money and access, and to feel special, like all of their types do.

Go to bed at 2, wake up at 10, same sleep and wake duration as go to bed at 8, wake up at 4. “Day” as in daylight will be different, sure, but that’s about it. It is all relative.

Can you assign a car or speaker audio profile to that Bluetooth device in Bluetooth or sound settings? Some phones have this option.

Their manufacturers think they do own us.

You’re supposed to take it to the Apple store, where they will charge you $800 to “clean” the keyboard, by replacing and throwing away half the computer. This is the correct user experience. /s

Apple hates making functional serviceable machines anymore.

Aww, how cute, he wants to choose the prison he will rot in while awaiting his execution.

Try Quake LAN parties. You also gotta drag that tower around and belt it in. Oh no, it slipped on the expressway and knocked you out of 4th gear into neutral!

That doesn’t change the fact tech companies just marketed it as an excuse to make one feel it is now “safe” to use their phone in bed in a flim-flam interpretation of science. You ever look at those blue filters on phones? Blue is still very present.

Books still exist, other non-blue reading mediums, as do non-blue lights. Thus the “real science behind that” part.

There is real science behind that. However, tech companies just created an adjacent flavor filter of dubious actual value to increase user engagement and avoid potential lawsuits.

People have read books in bed for centuries without issue via all sorts of light sources.

It’s all down to good lifestyle behavior.

Probably an ARM computer running skeleton Windows and RDP.

Why bother with such a thing when a NUC could do the compute locally in the same form-factor? Other than corpo data theft paranoia, but the risk of lost productivity from cloud failure seems a bigger risk than that.

It is what their owner men want.

Think about it this way: They were literally the most spoiled highest quality-of-life group of humans to ever exist on Earth in any timeline.

• Ubiquitous access to healthcare and vaccinations for longer life.
• Access to pensions and retirement options no longer available where the employer did all the legwork to ensure they had a future post-work so they didn’t have to learn a thing about investing or retirement savings.
• Infrastructure that was borne from the Great Depression, so they had roads, bridges, dams all built up to last their lifetime with no care about maintenance, as they figure, “oh it was always there, it will always be there,” so no money was committed to maintenance we are now having to do, freeing that money up to live like kings and queens in the short-term.
• Easy to access jobs, homes, boats, cars with little to no education or financial acumen. Just that “walk in and hand them a resume” trope they love to perpetuate.
• The most modern travel technology and geopolitical climate to go on vacation pretty much anywhere on the planet, and access to time to have vacation.
• Relatively calm planetary climate so they didn’t have to worry about things like today’s weather weirding with tornadoes where they shouldn’t be, hurricanes going inland, hail everywhere, and on and on, all the while driving their 5 MPG giant SUVs all over the country while tossing their food wrappers on the side of the road.
• Cheap (during the majority of their lives) to relocate anywhere in the US or abroad if they wanted to work or live somewhere else, or be “snowbirds” when they’re too wimpy to tolerate the winter in their home states.
• The same geopolitical climate prevented them having to grow up in war-torn anywhere.
• Access to any kind of entertainment imaginable any time anywhere.
• Artificially post-world-war inflated US economy that took some decades to spin down (that “Great Again” they fap to) - which only happened because the US joined so late and had few losses ourselves. The war never happened at home, so we got out for minimal effort/casualties/infrastructure loss.
• And they got to adult in an age of computer technology that enables them as olds to not have to drive their car, pick up food, or do any errands they don’t want to do themselves, all without having to learn any technical skills because the tech was designed for idiots.

No human generation before or after them got to, or likely will ever, experience such a prosperous story-arc. They should consider themselves damn lucky and act like it, while supporting future generations to have a sliver of what their spoiled asses were able to enjoy.

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho is an American treasure. Have the respect to say his name!

(/s obv)

There are pit toilets up in the Rocky Mountains at parks that have a vent pipe up above them.

Well, when the wind is blowing around 9,000+ft above sea level, (which is frequent) you get a blast of cold mountain air up your rump, like a York Peppermint Patty of freshness. It is quite an indescribable experience.

You should 100% do that. Efficiency gains are less and less, they love baking in “eco” features that are to work around deficiencies in design, and modern home appliances suffer from poor cold solder joints failing causing the whole machine to die frequently. Easy to fix if you have a soldering iron, but should be unacceptable.

Only reason I ended up replacing my old old dishwasher, for example, was that a leak developed in the bottom of the wash pan and it started leaking on the floor, and at that point, 20+ years old, it was likely going to have cascading failures of other parts, and mold mitigation and replacing the subfloor were not worth the risk. Otherwise I’d have kept swapping parts as they failed.

Ended up going with the Bosch 500 due to friends’ personal reviews, as well as Consumer Reports and the like backing up that it does its job. Didn’t buy it for cloud, didn’t buy it for apps, bought it to wash dishes.

The extra price was annoying versus a cheaper model, but better build quality and less noise is what that extra price is paying for. The app/cloud stuff is just silly bonuses that don’t matter.

Definitely keep the old stuff though, it’s generally simpler to repair and maintain and more reliable, unless you hit a critical failure that increases risk too much. (There’s some statistical analysis rule about that, with each new operating mode, each new feature, that adds a multiplicative factor to chance of failure.) Sometimes you get a pleasant surprise too, replaced the main controller in a 20+ year old stove and the modern flavor of the controller cycles the heating coils differently, it actually produces more consistent heat than the old controller board. It was like a free cooking upgrade.

You could also just pour that into the rinse aid dispenser…

On the 500 series, it needs a rinse aid refill about once a month using it once a day to once every other day.