It’s pretty bad. I’m having to back out of the stream every few minutes. Maybe Netflix should stay in their lane.

And for the record, I’m watching on a hardwired Nvidia Shield with a 1 gig fiber connection with nothing else running.

More money

Carlin had it right 30 years ago

“X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

There’s the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

Or a good clam chowder

I’ll have a snickers

Haha I call that warp snow. It’s fun game of hope you know the road as well as you think you do and that nothing or no one is in front of you.

It’s worth remembering that much of his wealth is likely tied up in the stock market, so he is probably sitting on a number of vouchers towards a pile of gold, in a addition to the swimming pool at home that he Scrooge McDuck swims in.

Ah gotcha. I just remember that they used to do it for I think the original iteration of e911 and thought they kept it around for other purposes, but I didn’t realize the necessary equipment and financial details involved, so that’s fantastic news. Thank you!

GPS is kind of a tossup since your cellular provider can just as easily triangulate your position with their towers, and there is no escaping that outside of putting your phone in a faraday cage.

Regret

Iirc phone calls and alarms still work after a reboot in the lock status, it just disables biometric unlock and keeps the filesystem encrypted

I keep mine on in case of family emergencies, it’s also my alarm clock

Alright how about ethics laws. Make knowingly lying or blatant dishonesty a felony.

It seems like it’s already beginning. For one, Firefox is getting blocked more and more often as being “out of date” (it’s not) while a chromium-based browser is fine. My VPN keeps getting flagged as malicious (PIA). It’s getting really irritating.

“Wikipedia is not a source, anyone can edit it! You can’t be certain anything on there is true!!”

Now wikipedia is probably the last bastion of decent information online. At minimum, a well-souced article gives you an excellent starting point.

Before MILF was even a term

“Get off the dang computer, your grandma could call any minute!”

My uncle was on Wall Street in the 80s, and he distinctly remembers everyone mocking email as a passing fad later in the decade

The DNC does not have the peoples’ best interests in mind. Not to say they aren’t the same as the GOP (not by a wide margin), but they are the political extension of their corporate donors. This is the reason why they don’t push forward with universal healthcare, why they’re cowards regarding Israel, and why not much meaningful legislation makes it through the gamut that puts the populace first. This is what conservative voters are done with, and many Democrats are fed up with as well. The GOP, for all their evil faults, actually do execute on the issues that their base cares about, though those action tend to be reprehensible.

Any mainstream Democrat candidate will NOT put forth or affirmatively vote for legislation or policy that goes against their donors’ wishes. The GOP are the same way, but at least they’re up front about it. But it hasn’t been just this election cycle, they’ve been this way for a long time. This is why many call them spineless, but it’s not about that; they aren’t paid to represent the people, they paid to pretend to care while preserving the status quo (their corporate “donations” far outweigh their salaries for the “right” politicians). Everyone and their mom has been screaming corporate greed for the last four years, yet not a single political committee has put forth an honest effort to go after corporations for price gouging, because they’d lose their campaign donations, similar to how any candidate that goes against Israel would get financially throttled.