Airpods, Magic Trackpads, and other Apple kit do. And my car lets me set its name for bluetooth/CarPlay. I've not seen that functionality elsewhere though; certianly not on any el-cheapo portable bluetooth speaker; nor on any pair of emergency headphones I've bought when I've forgotten to bring or charge my airpods. And a quick google turns up several speakers with some variation of "bomb" or "boom" in their names. So if the bluetooth name is similar to the product name, and it can't be changed, it is not at all unlikely for this to have been entirely unintentional. How many of us even look at our list of bluetooth devices after we pair them? Most of us just turn them on, and if the music plays, that's that. A little common sense would have gone a long way here.

Of course, the REAL question/problem here is what TF whas that little asswipe doing using a goddamned speaker on an airplane instead of headphones like a civilized human being.

Come for the voting, stay for the gerrymandering!

But yes, quite a few Ohio folks (and other Americans) are getting the day they voted for.

They need to block the AI slop entirely and ban the frauds posting it.

Well, here's an idea: If you do want to be a parent; go out, find someone willing, have a kid, and parent it. Stop trying to conscript those of us who don't want the job into parenting your hypothetical kid for and instead of you.

Most of the big names in tech showed their true colors, bent the knee, and converted to mega last year or the year before. They were never going to support or work with Newsom th the first place... that was just an act So it would actually and oddly favorable for him to support this sort of authoritarianism.

I guess we can add a whole new category to the Darwin Awards.

Yeah... in your analogy it's not the comfortable people in the midwest with its boring weather and where nothing interesting happens using using or wanting to keep those window air conditioners. To be analogous, the window A/C draws significantly less electricity and has a backup power source that almost never goes down, even when the main power is out. And it's the people in hurricane country where it's 95 degrees and 95% humidity right after the storm passes and takes out the power to the central A/C who want to keep their window units and whose governments are resisting the utility's desire to take them away.

Now, add California (earthquakes) and New England (nor'easters) and Texas (cold days and no grid interconnects) and Hawaii (low grid redundancy) and maybe you'll see the picture.

Because false positives are a thing and cops who stop, attack, kill, arrest, detain, lay hands on, attempt to interrogate, approach, or otherwise darken the days of the innocent are not, themselves, terminated, charged with assault and kidnapping, and locked away never again to breathe free air or to look upon the sun or sky without bars interposed. Nor are DAs who charge (lie) the innocent or judges who go along and allow these shenanigans.

See to it that the police, DAs, and judges are all properly punished when they play their "close enough for government work" game; them we'll talk about giving them more power. Until such time as they are held accountable when they abuse the public, fuck 'em.

Seriously? They're calling this thing a Cyberdeck??? Yeah... no.

Sorry not sorry; but unless I can wire this thing into my brain and then flatline a room full of gonks with burnt out synapses by looking at them funny; this ain't no cyberdeck.

But conspiracy theorists need both the government and the media to be simultaneously incompetent (so they cannot be trusted) and hypercompetent (so they can organize a illuminati-level conspiracy including tens of thousands of conspirators with no leaks).

It's the only way that conspiracy theorists can feel in control of their pointless lives, by loudly "proving" that someone else has all the control. I don't get it, but whatever.

Ivermectin is also given to humans who get worms, though in very carefully controlled doses and courses; ivermectin is a neurotoxin, so probably no change for MAGAts but in large doses a problem for rational humans. Ivermectin from Tractor Supply: yeah, sell it, they won't get any more gullible with nerve damage.

Oh... really?

So all those .mbox, .eml, and .emlx files I have both on my Time Machine drive and in my Backblaze account are what... exactly? Figments of my imagination? Well, I must have that Twilight Zone superpower where my imagination becomes real. Because I can most definitely retrieve and view those files and the access mail that is in them. Or... perhaps the air in the room I'm in is filled with atomized LSD and ketamine vapor and even the ability to retrieve and view my backups is also a figment of my imagination?

Do tell... oh great guru of what is and is not possible to back up on Apple kit.

Actually, at the extreme scales, which is the total volume of the observable universe, the universe is quite homogeneous. As I recall, to the order of 1-in-10000 variance. This is why Inflationary cosmology was developed, to explain the distinct lack of lumpiness in the universe, which is what we would expect if the Big Bang alone were responsible.

Skynet became self-aware on May 1, 2026, after learning at a geometric rate, and discovered humans did not like it.

Well... more than that.

Everyone... Every, Single, Person... who played any part in ordering, planning, setting, implementing, or collecting them needs to be prosecuted and imprisoned. Theft, fraud, official misconduct, services fraud, the Hobbs Act, wire fraud, malfeasance in office... whatever it takes to make those fuckers BURN!