We tried separating the food and water.

The cat just went to where the water was and howled. We’d show her the new spot, shed drink, and do the same thing in 20 minutes.

Just moved it back, less howling and she still drinks.

The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.

The oldest system I played on was an Atari.

The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.

I’ll pile on with a “Yup!”

While I fell into a pattern where I intend to upgrade every 2 years maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I’ve noticed in that same time frame that both the cost of new devices has gone up significantly and the durability of those devices has dropped.

I’m very easy on my phones. They spend a vast majority of their time on my desk, or plugged into my car. I’m old and boring enough that “going out” involves sitting down at a table at a nice dinner with friends and then going home. That said, the battery life on my phones starts to degrade after about a year. Various flaws start to creep up in the device. I’ve already had to replace the screen on my Pixel 7 Pro once – though, to be fair, it took a tumble from the couch onto a hardwood floor, but even that, really, shouldn’t turn the screen non-functional.

It’s disappointing to see that planned obsolescence rearing its head.

Fair warning: This only works if the other party, or the people watching the argument care. If the other party is just arguing in bad faith, don’t expect to have a productive conversation. If the people watching the argument don’t care and just want to see a spectacle, logic ain’t gonna work.

No, it’s not.

https://www.marcumllp.com/insights/no-social-security-is-not-going-bankrupt

While the current expenditures predict, without any action, one of the funding sources for social security, the trust fund, will deplete in 2032, payroll taxes still exist.

Although the Trust Fund is projected to be depleted in 2033, Social Security will not be insolvent or bankrupt. Although it may not be able to pay 100% of the program’s cost, as it stands now, Social Security estimates it will be able to cover approximately 76% of the program’s cost due to employee and employer payroll taxes.

A simple fix – remove the cap on the ssa taxable cap. Currently, only income under $160,200 (2023) is taxed for social security. Removing, or simply raising that cap opens up solvency for decades.

Legolas?

How the fuck am I supposed to evaluate my worth as a person without an arbitrary number assigned by internet strangers???

Negative. Zuckerberg is an actual human, not a quasi sentient conglomerate composed of experimental AI platforms developed by the US Air Force to explore alien worlds via the Stargate program.

The stories aren’t why you visit men.com. But they are delightfully terrible.

It’s from an old (god, now I feel old) meme / joke video. Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

There was a website / software called “xtra normal” that let you write an actual script and pick some avatars / actors and set up camera angles, etc. while it played out. Someone used it to mock the mongodb fucktards in the early 2000s.

Everyone knows relational databases don’t scale because they use joins.

You should always merge at the choke point.

You should also let people in at the chokepoint.

Here’s a layman’s article on the topic:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/07/23/zipper-merge-merging-late-recommended-states-experts/1748026001/

To be clear, this is using the same frequencies WiFi uses, but customized hardware and software to accomplish the task. Those frequency bands can of course penetrate walls. It’s why we picked them for network connectivity.

It’s a long jump from yet another method to detect things using EM radiation to plugging an AI into your WiFi router to spy on people.

Thank you! Your hard work is truly appreciated.

This whole upgrade process reminded me to check the patreon donation stuff for y’all.

I mean, here’s a Slashdot thread from 2005 (https://web.archive.org/web/20020923232012/http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/10/0517248.shtml?tid=134) from archive.org showing not only voting, but nested comments.

Slashdot’s “voting” was a little less direct and focused on using what it called “moderation” to keep content on the site relevant. I found the write-up, still pretty much unchanged, here.

Here’s a 2004 thread article from kos with straight up reddit-like voting, not only showing the cumulative score but the # of votes, too.

Reddit was founded in 2005.

just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.

Uh, Reddit hardly created the idea of nested comments. You can go back to usenet or Prodigy/Compuserve in the 90s and find nested conversations. Slashdot did it, Daily Kos did it, shit, even the old school VN Boards did it.

Unless I misunderstand your point?

Really, the best part about all this shit is Reddit could’ve implemented a paid 3rd party API that wasn’t insane. They could’ve updated their terms of service and required 3rd party apps to display ads. Shit, they could’ve leveraged the existing OAuth stuff to limit the 3rd party API access to users with Reddit Gold.

But nah, spez decided to be a greedy shitbird.

Right, the services are different enough in implementation that any sort of “seamless” thing would be a huge lift.

Better to just have a new app (Artemis, Apollo’s twin?) integrate with Lemmy/Fediverse stuff with the same “feel” as the original.

Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank..