So nothing of value was lost.

Like many others, I've simply been waiting for a logical choice. I'm getting _symmetrical_ gigabit fiber next month, for like $65. Comcast wants $100/mo for 100mb down, 10mb up. Fuck 'em. They can choke on it for all I care. Hell, with the rollout of Starlink - Comcast is going to hopefully go the way of the dodo.

Nokia had a Microsoft Exec implanted at the helm of the company like one of those fungi that infect the brain of insects and lead them up to a high point so they can burst from their head and spread more spores. They purposely dumped that company into the pits so that Microsoft could buy them up on the cheap.

If this were a reasonably priced device, at say the $300-$600 range, I'd be far more excited. However, like you -- I am happy that Microsoft is releasing Linux hardware to the masses. Mobile has dominated desktop, and Linux runs most of it. We don't need a "year of the linux desktop" anymore, because desktop is largely irrelevant to the masses. Linux won. There's no doubt about it.

The one thing all these stupid pearl-clutching myocarditis trolls are also failing to mention is that myocarditis resolves in a few weeks and isn't long-lasting.

It does apply to everyone equally: https://www.blumenthal.senate....

Captain Marvel

They stopped the long/multi story arc thing because people were too stupid to realize what was going on. You hear people going on about Moffat all the time saying "oh but he introduced a bunch of stuff that was never resolved!" -- mostly because they didn't watch the series to realize that yes, they were resolved -- in longer story arcs. And some of those arcs weren't limited to a single season, but managed to span multiple seasons, sometimes multiple doctors.

No, it was literally about time traveling space-nazis that wanted to stop rosa from sitting on the bus. It was really about the most horrible writing you could have imagined.

Bat Woman, Super Girl, Wonder Woman... All Female Rehashes of their male counterparts... they've been doing this for ages. They don't develop women as their own thing, they just make it a woman-ified version of the male superhero.

I've got two children under the age of 12 who _cannot_ get vaccinated as of this moment. So, there's more than "just the idiots who won't get vaccinated". If I had the ability to get them vaccinated right now, I'd do it in a heartbeat -- but they haven't determined proper dosages, etc for those under 12 yet. Hell, they're opening up schools in the area and they aren't requiring vaccinated children, and they're saying masks are optional. It's a complete shit-show out there.

Well, Aussies lost a war to a bunch of birds, so we don't really care what they think.

Happens in the design world too. Look at the iPhone. Rounded edges, square edges, back to rounded edges again... It's actually a part of planned obsolescence. If they make everything the current fad, people want to upgrade instead. Same with special edition car colors, etc. If you just rotate through some predefined options and make some small subset of those options artificially valuable, the trenders jump on it because they always want to be seen with the latest and greatest thing. It's better than just putting shoddy capacitors in everything at least, so there's at least that.

Wait until I tell you how many people died who didn't get the vaccine!

That's the guardian boundary - it's there for protection, it has nothing to do with "calibration". It's to ensure you don't smack into something or run into a wall.

And no, you have the option to choose stationary and you don't have to do floor-level setting at all. If you play in the same place every time, it even remembers boundaries and re-configures them automatically for you. That's not calibration. Calibration is "to standardize (something, such as a measuring instrument) by determining the deviation from a standard so as to ascertain the proper correction factors". You're not setting the boundary to correct for anything. The hardware works with or without it.

You're setting up safety-measures. And yes, you can turn the guardian off in the settings. Which means, if you don't like the safety measure - you don't have to use it! Which would be a lot easier than spreading disinformation on the internet.