No mention of Enpass? Stores more than just passwords, can be synced locally over wifi or in the cloud without using Enpass servers.

Same time plus minus one for me. Not only did nobody have a reason to call me (at school). Literally nobody else had a mobile phone.

I got myself a magnetic wireless charger for the nightstand. It’s great.

litter also means trash. you wouldn‘t want to be called rubbish.

Well at least that one came with an explicit warning: Part One.

The latest Jurassic World film comes to my mind.

The script felt like they had a 1993 video game that had to be turned into a movie. There’s not a single authentic character or memorable scene in it. All the actors are terrible, even Sam Neill. The score is as forgettable as the special effects. What else did I forget?

Only if you define vegan as to strictly avoid any animal product (and define humans as animals). A somewhat looser Definition says to avoid animal exploitation.

So a product made by a non-domesticised animal in a natural way - e.g. Penguin guano - could be seen as vegan. The animal produces it anyway and the product isn’t won through keeping the animal captive and / or “stealing” from it.

After all I wouldn’t be too strict with definitions here.

The one with Sandra Bullock? Concept-wise it was quite realistic. But the hacking itself, man that was some unbelievable stuff. I don’t think they got any fact or term right. Almost as if the OG Clippy helped: “It looks like you want to make a hacker-related movie…”

Facebook / Meta is one of the few data hoarding companies that doesn’t have “full control” of how their products are consumed / used and how much data gets collected in which way. Apple has the Mac, TV, Watch, and iPhone platforms. Google has the Pixels, Android, and Nests, Amazon has Kindles, Fire, Alexa devices, and so on.

Facebook doesn’t have any of these. The best they can do today is being a parasitic add-on to a platform they have no total control over like “the others” do.

Making their own hardware is a key element, not a burden. But they’re still treating it like the latter. If the Metaverse would already have been the New Thing ™, they’d have been the quasi-dominators of that territory because they’re pioneering the hard- and software. But along came AI which doesn’t need it’s own hardware platform, and still nobody wants to live in the Metaverse.

CarpetCara?

Didn’t ask for them, won’t use them. WhatsApp is not Twitter, is not Insta, is not TikTok, is not [insert social media name].

Guesthouse Paradiso. It’s hilarious!

I don’t know what time in the past you compare the present to, but my current PC boots quicker into Windows, starts up Steam, and launches a 70 Gigabyte game than a 286 could count its two Megabytes of RAM on POST.

To “double-click an .exe file” one had to manually launch DOSShell or Windows, because else one would have to traverse into the game’s directory (by heart). But launching a game via Windows would often leave the machine with too few resources to run the game.

Did I mention the constant reboots to switch RAM and driver configurations because not every game would just run? The hassle to setup sound cards? Having to have the game disks ready all the time?

Many of these tools share practically the same set of features, so I like Enpass’s ability to store files (i.e. certificates) and any kind of key/value pairs even more.

Yeah, I think I’ve lost him (to the Colonies).

Not if you’re exclusively consuming Black Adder and old Top Gear videos online.^^

That’s a point current generation children are actively working on by following English-speaking streamers, communicating in predominantly English Discords, etc. The worst: my kid chose to prefer American English. Where did I go wrong?

SOMEBODY SET US UP THE BOMB

Because nobody said so. You don’t have to draw the line, but if you did where would you put it? And even total avoidance of „sharing“ your personal data just means you drew the line at “none“.

• Being unable to open (kick in) a wooden door as a level whatnot Dragonborn because it is “locked”. Looking at you Skyrim and Assassin’s Creed.

• Being unable to jump over a small hurdle or being allowed to climb only in certain situations like in Far Cry 6. Like, is this a Parcours game now or what? There’s even a Parcours “armour” set.

• Terrible inventory GUIs. AC Valhalla is one of the worst games inventory-wise. Decades ago video games did the job perfectly, there’s no excuse for best practice degradation