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Comment Re:Intentional distraction (Score 0) 190

James Comey didn't cost Hillary the election, he saved her from jail. If he had done his job ethically and actually enforced the law, he would have announced an indictment for mishandling of classified information. He claimed that they found no intent, but the law as written has nothing to do with intent.

Comment Re: Intentional distraction (Score 1) 190

Regarding Epstein, here's one thing that doesn't get discussed outside of the "conspiracy theory" crowd. Prior to Epstein's last arrest, Alex Acosta, the prosecutor who arranged Epstein's absurdly lax plea bargain was nominated to be Secretary of Labor. During his confirmation hearing, he was asked about why Epstein got off so easy. Acosta's response was that he was told Epstein "belonged to intelligence". As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any real follow-up.

As far as Q being a LARP, it's pretty clear that the person or persons currently responsible for the Q posts has insider access within the Trump administration. Q has posted photos from within Air Force One and the Oval Office that were not previously available, including a photo of Trump getting off Marine One that was taken from behind. Maybe it's all some staffer or Secret Service agent playing a game, but if that were the case, I'd have to imagine the administration would be turning over Heaven and earth to uncover who was responsible.

Comment Re: I know who it was (Score 1) 75

Nah. It's the best we are made aware of. Who knows how many DM's or other interesting stuff they got their hands on.

The "Trends Blacklist" item on the Admin panel screenshot is interesting, since Jack claimed in front of Congress that the Trends are determined by algorithm and the company doesn't manipulate them.

Comment Re:Too many choices... (Score 1) 439

LOL.. It's REALLY hard to just stuff more votes in the north west corner of the room unless you have bodies to throw that way.

I suppose you could go dig up some bodies... But emptying graveyards is another whole level of ballot stuffing and you don't want to get caught with those ballots in your trunk..

Well, posthumous voting is a well-established tradition in Democrat Party electioneering.

Comment Re:About to break? (Score 1) 246

modern cars have belts, they just don't drive fans that often anymore, as they use electric fans so the ecu can control them. but the belts still run things like AC and power steering pumps, and your alternator.

people still call them fan belts even if they dont run fans.

The term you're looking for is Serpentine Belt, though I'm sure if you walked into any parts store and said you needed a fan belt, they'd know what you meant.

Comment Re:No, you really don't want right to repair. (Score 1) 246

Those "Warranty Void If Removed" stickers are actually illegal. Under the law, the manufacturer cannot void your warranty because you opened up something you own. If you open it up and break something in the process, they can refuse to cover what you broke, but that's because you broke it - it wasn't a manufacturing defect.

Say, for example, you have a Nintendo Switch, and one of the buttons stops working. You decide that, before you go through the trouble of sending it in for repair, you want to try opening it up and cleaning the contacts. Nintendo can't refuse to fix it unless they can demonstrate you broke something in your repair attempt.

Companies can't even legally void your warranty for using 3rd-party parts, unless they can demonstrate damage caused by those parts. If you drop your Switch and break the screen, and fix it with a 3rd-party replacement screen, Nintendo still can't refuse to fix your flaky button from the example above.

Back in 2018, the Federal Trade Commission started cracking down on companies doing the "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers.
https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

Comment Re:Not a bad idea (Score 1) 174

My first thought when I saw the summary was that, instead of going portless and relying on wireless charging on the iPhone, Apple should go with something similar to Magsafe.

I've never owned an iPhone, but I've been using wireless charging on 3 different Android phones and a Palm Pre. I always liked the convenience of being able to just set my phone down on the charging pad... except it wasn't usually that simple. It was usually a matter of setting it down, then nudging it slightly, then just a bit more, (except for the Palm Pre which used a pre-Qi-standard, proprietary setup that used magnets to hold the phone in the correct orientation.)

I was a little annoyed that Motorola dropped wireless charging on their last few generations, but I just got a magnetic charging cable and found I like that a lot better than wireless. I've modded one into my dash mount, and integrated one into the phone stand that sits on my nightstand. This isn't the same one I use, but it's the first Amazon result that was similar:
https://www.amazon.com/TOPK-Ma...

Comment Re:Apple is all marketing (Score 1) 273

...And why would you even bother to lie about screen cracks - Androids crack all the time as well. Glass cracks. It's that simple. They all buy their fucking glass from Corning. It's not like Corning would reserve the extra shitty cracky glass only for Apple, and your $40 Android gets the super duper uncrackable glass.

Not to defend the semi-coherent post you were responding to, but there are Android phones with shatterproof screens. My current phone, a Moto Z2 Force, has one as did my previous phone, the Droid Turbo 2. When I got the Turbo 2, the salesman at the Verizon store would demonstrate it by setting it on the counter and literally smacking it with a claw hammer.

Unfortunately, the Z2 Force was the last shatterproof model Motorola produced. It's not an option on the Z3 or Z4.

Comment Re:YOU GOT IT FOR FREE (Score 1) 107

For a less sketchy variation, find a Windows 7 key on a dumpster-bound PC. Those keys will work with the official Win7 ISOs that Microsoft has available for download, though I've found that online activation usually fails and I have to activate by phone. (Never had a problem with the phone activation.)

As you mentioned, the Win7 - Win10 upgrade still works, as long as you do an in-place upgrade. If you don't want to create a Microsoft account to link to that Win10 license, you can use the Product Key Recovery tool at nirsoft.net to find the product key for your install. That way, you have it if you ever need to reinstall.

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