Does building a guillotine count as working with your hands?

Yeah this is what these companies do every time they get some heat. They never actually listen and fix their shit, they just back off and wait a couple of months until people are outraged about something else, then add it back in when they think nobody’s looking. Rinse and repeat until everyone’s too sick of hearing about it/tired of fighting it to continue.

As a Brit who emigrated to Canada, I’d be delighted if this is how I finally get my EU citizenship back.

I worked retail for a decade. There is no bottom to the barrel. There are people driving around in cars who genuinely shouldn’t be left unsupervised with metal utensils.

Coworker: Hi

Me: [Waits for more info, nothing comes.]

Me: Hello

Coworker: So

[Several seconds pass]

Coworker: What’s up with that file from yesterday?

Me: [Waits for more info, nothing comes.]

Me: Which file

[No response for literally 10 minutes]

Coworker: The one we sent to client B

Me: [Rather than keep trying to extract information, search through history and find file which was sent to client B yesterday, find nothing obviously wrong with it, and it was nothing to do with me anyway]

Me: [Sends link to file] You mean this one?

[5 minutes pass]

Coworker: NM I figured it out. Thanks!

My other favourite is the coworker who does the same thing but instead of saying hey types “Pssst” and if you don’t respond within about 5 seconds they start sending GIFS of people knocking on doors and stuff.

Civil War. Pretty good movie IMO that is sadly becoming more relevant as time goes on.

Edit: Not a movie about Linux though lol

Best I could find was a reddit AMA from the cofounders of the company, who say in one of the replies that you can request a code to unlock the bootloader. (Ctrl + F bootloader should show it up.)

I have an ungodly amount of time logged in Civ V, and CIv VI is catching up. I don’t want to even think about adding up all the Civ games as one thing lol

I feel like if the US can ignore the sovereignty of Denmark, the founding principles of NATO and pretty much the entirety of international law, the rest of us shouldn’t really stress too much about US patents TBH.

This is why the benevolent spirits gave us energy drinks ✨

I deleted mine the day after Musk took it over, which is somewhere in the middle I think lol

In this case, perhaps to put the idea of shooting at ICE cars out into the universe without getting in trouble lol

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Also the thing where you try and show the problem to any other person and it starts working just to make you look dumb. Me and my SO do that all the time: “This thing isn’t working, I know you don’t know how to fix it but can you come over and look at it not working so it’ll work?” And I’d say at least 50% of the time it does lol

Full disclosure, I’m also not American. But I was thinking of the Patriot Act, which IMO was a huge power grab by the Executive Branch and paved the way for a lot of the problems (especially widespread indiscriminate surveillance) that are present today.

It’s up to the Americans of course, and I remember there being protests about it, but I was really surprised they just let that go on without getting rowdy.

Since like 2002 TBH

Sometimes things just stop working for no apparent reason, and you phone the doctor then play the “well, hopefully this isn’t permanent” waiting game which is fun. Current case: earwax or just deaf in one ear now?

As someone who lives in Canada, same here. I’ve been in the past (IE. Pre-Trump) and it was lovely but I probably won’t go again. In our household we don’t even buy American products or shop in American stores anymore if we can possibly help it.

I know a lot of people who do the same too. I don’t think the US has quite grasped yet how much it has pissed Canada off, and how long the road is going to be to start fixing that up, if they even want to try. Certainly at the moment they seem to be set on making it worse and worse each day.

I had an idiot friend as a kid who set some off by hitting them against a metal gas canister and I ran away 'cause I thought it was going to explode lol

I’m still on a 4a too! I’m kind of thinking about upgrading 'cause I run GrapheneOS on it and nowadays whenever I reboot it I get a warning that it’s no longer supported, but also it still works so whatever.

I think maybe if I see a newer Pixel that’s cheap second-hand somewhere I might think about it, that way I can keep using GrapheneOS and not give any money to Google.