Yeah, I remember checking out Gab / Dissent a while back, because I’m against censorship. All of the comments were just racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQIA+. No rhyme or reason, just hundreds or thousands of crazy people screaming into the void.

I just hope I can buy a graphics card without having to sell organs some time in the next two years.

“I’m New Clippy. I’m here to help you, like it or not!”

I haven’t actually synced a new phone to Signal, does everything just carry over? I assumed you needed to transfer your account from phone to phone, not just link a new device.

The chat continues on all linked devices from the point in time that they are linked.

Imagine two people having a face-to-face conversation, then a third person walks up and joins in. The third person doesn’t know what was said before they joined the conversation, but all three continue the conversation from that point on.

Linked devices are like the above example, if two of those people were married and tell each other every conversation they’ve had since their wedding.

From the Australian fair work ombudsmen:

When overpayments occur, the employer and employee should discuss and agree on a repayment arrangement.

If the employee agrees to repay the money, a written agreement should be made which sets out the:

• reason for the overpayment

• amount of money overpaid

• way repayments will be made (for example, cash, cheque or electronic transfer) and how often (this has to be reasonable).

Granted, this is generally for overpayment of wages and not specific to redundancy pay. There may be clauses in their contracts with varying terms that allow them to reclaim, but I’m just some dude on the internet.

It’s EA, I’m surprised they’re not making the minimum requirements Windows 11.

Scraping through a website at the scale they are talking about isn’t really viable. You need access to the API so that you can have very targeted requests.

This is why reddit changed their API pricing and screwed over everyone using third party apps. They can make more money selling access to LLM trainers than they could from having millions of people using apps that rely on the API.

Back in the day.

This makes me feel old.

It does.

My money is on them being re-enabled after every update.

No drawbacks for my use case, but there are a few quirks.

Some apps that I’ve dabbled with might show vertically, but most of the Android TV compatible apps were fine.

Some apps seem to expect a touchscreen input, and don’t really show what’s highlighted or selected very well, so navigating with just a TV style remote control can be tricky. I have a mouse and keyboard that I also use, definitely the easiest option.

Lastly, the Shield is a pretty powerful device, so I always kinda feel like I’m not using it to its fullest potential. I haven’t really tried any gaming with it, I don’t use it as a media server or anything, just a simple stream box. That’s less of a quirk with the device itself, and more an issue with me feeling like I should be putting it to better use.

Happy to answer any other questions you may have!

I have an Nvidia Shield running LineageOS.

The setup process wasn’t too bad, but the Shield might be more money than you want to spend.

I use it for Netflix and Plex, as well as Spotify, with no problems. It tells me that Netflix is not optimised for the device, but plays fine. I’ve heard that Netflix may limit it to 720p, but the quality is as good as you can expect from Netflix anyway.

Plex works perfectly, can stream 4k from my media server with no issues. I will eventually transition to Jellyfin, once I convince the 4 other households that have access to my Plex library to sort themselves out.

Am I the only one who thinks the Saloon looks like a Countach?

That was a couple of years ago, Vince has already forgotten.

Gotcha, rescinding my snark.

For those using reader mode, the caption under the image says:

The HEAP excavator at the construction site – an overlay on the boulders at left illustrates how each one was scanned prior to placement.

Knowing Apple, the other option will be to not allow users to message people who don’t have an iPhone.