Yes we'll all have to go back to not having AI any day now. That's why I'm using twice as much while I still can!

There's still plenty of people with access to Fable/Mythos. You sound deranged TBH.

It beats my phone TBH.

Monster Cables weren't being hawked by the president, though. That's an important distinction you're glossing over.

Because Firefox is ass, and Chrome basically is the de-facto standard web developers test against. While I hate Google's privacy sucking as much as the next guy, I have very limited tolerance for futzing around with alternate browsers when Chrome just works.

I've been running the "lite" version of uBlock Origin and it seems fine. I'm sure there's some esoteric situations where it falls apart, but I've yet to run into them.

I'm surprised HTC is still making anything for the US market. I had a Droid Incredible back in the day and it was pretty decent for what it was.

... watched Idiocracy and thought "this is fine."

It was Trump or Harris. Biden dropped out mid-race.

I will give you though, that it was an incredibly boneheaded move by the Democrats to yet again assume that because Trump is so awful, their own candidate's extreme lack of likability is irrelevant.

There was never an "ObamaPhone". There was just subsidized devices and service for people who passed a means test. Granted, there was a bit of crony capitalism involved with that, since it was a guaranteed revenue stream to the companies that provided the services, but on the whole it was nowhere near as screwed up as the president having his own branded MVNO - which is the case with Trump Mobile.

Aww, you broke my suspension of disbelief right there. If Florida ever did have gay beach parties, that's something DeSantis put the kibosh on.

I attended the most recent Gay Days at Disney World... it was... depressing. Seems like between the economy and people who do have the money just not wanting to spend it in Florida (can't say I blame them), the whole "Don't Say Gay" thing is sort of doing what it says on the side of the box.

Ironically, the current political climate also has caused a non-trivial drop in support for all things pride related, with the fallout being less (or none at all) made-in-China rainbow colored kitsch being sold at places like Target. I have mixed feelings about it. I never was much of a fan of rainbow capitalism, but the vanishing representation (even if it was just corporate marketing) comes across as a bit of a concession to homophobia.

Yeah, that's what I was implying - that any IP worth watching got sold to The Mouse.

So that just leaves the sportsball and right-wing political tripe, which I'm sure they'll revamp the Roku UI to absolutely shove down your throat. Wonderful. I guess this my cue to disconnect my Roku TVs (hey, they were cheap) from the WIFI.

At least it's no great loss, as I use those cheap Walmart Onn streamers with the TVs anyway.

More like AI is just the elephant in the room. Everybody knows it is still there, but nobody wants to talk about it.

Housing is really cheap in Japan, though. Sitting here, looking it Florida's real estate prices... now where'd I put that Infinity Gauntlet?

Which don't actually work as well as you might assume.

The part they don't tell you about ADHD drugs is that the medication isn't really for your benefit. Recent long-term studies have shown your likelihood of becoming successful is roughly the same with or without the medicine. It is given to children in public school so they can sit down, shut up and stop being a nuisance to the rest of the class. Nobody is forcing you to go to college if you can't sit and pay attention though, and there's plenty of alternate career paths that are more compatible with ADD/ADHD brains, albeit with the aforementioned caveat that they might not pay the best wages.