I don’t understand. Cars have computer chips in them, they have had for awhile. But what needs to be updated? What part of a vehicle, that affects its ability to drive, needs to have an over the air update?

Update when you take it to a dealer? I mean I guess? The question is the same but at least then it’s just 1-2 a year and updated while it’s in there so if it goes wrong then they are holding the bag.

But why? What has changed in the world over the last 8 weeks the needed to be communicated to the car…

And pay attention if you are buying one that you don’t need to connect it! Let the company know you’ll buy a “dumb” fridge to avoid their bullshit.

Thanks for the detailed response!

What big shifts would occur between the originals (which I read as a teen but that was ages ago) and the Peter Jackson trilogy? Coles notes for thekkids who didn’t pay attention.

Is it pronounced Jandalf?

Ripley was small, even for an Earth Pony.

How about Waps Factory? That would be a great movie.

Or is this a different Iain Banks… I feel like I tripped on this before.

I was listening to… CBC front burner podcast I think? And they mentioned that he has shifted his position on immigrants. He was quoted in the past saying any immigrant who graduated post secondary in the US should have a green card attached to the diploma.

Then some right wing nutjobs were mad about that and we’re targetting his events and harrassing him until he fell in line.

So yeah. He will change his mind, if he is bullies enough.

Also I think the group that were harassing his events was Nick Fuentas (spelling?) and now some of the coverage is indicating the shooter might have been a follower of Nick? I’m not sure how confirmed that is so do your own research.

But if it’s just right wing nutjobs killing slightly less to the right right wing nutjobs… Idk man.

Well now you are armed with that info for next time. I too have trouble standing up to misinformation. It’s a problem where I won’t just spout things I haven’t verified and can source, no matter how true I THINK it is. It’s baffling how others can just howl into the nothing about things they heard somewhere and are positive it’s true.

Last time I was sure of a point during one of those sorts of discussions it was amazing to see the deflation in the room. “What do you mean?”

I mean you guys are idiots, here’s where you can verify that. I didn’t say that because neither of them seem that far gone, they are the helpful idiots. And suddenly the whining about being a victim of a non existent problem quieted down.

Rainbow

Thank you for the short explainer.

Hopefully OP is genuine and will come back and see this and then tell his “friend” he is an idiot.

My dad’s and I both occasional partake in a specific ritual that goes as follows:

1. Crack open an ice cold Coke Zero (also works with coke. And probably other colas).

Take a few sips while you either pull fresh from the garden or out of the fridge:

2. Radishes

Wash them up. You can slice, quarter or leave whole.

Get snacking.

Enjoy your fresh, slightly spicy (or really spicy depending!) radishes with your cold bubbly coke.

3. Wait.

4. Burp

5. Transcend this mortal plane, bask in the glory of the radish and coke burps that follow.

Fin

So… Do you just have an extension or something that replaces TH with your b/p (thorn?) I see you didn’t use it when you use the word thorn.

Can you link to or provide an explanation for us curious folk?

I’ll give Linux Mint a go! Thanks

Thank you. I have heard that, and I’m interested in switch my home computer and “Netflix and YouTube on the tv” computer over.

Any recommendations on where to start with that?

I used Linux as a 11 year old back in… Late 90’s? And it was not user friendly but I was so cool it didn’t matter…

Until I couldn’t get a game other than Quake 2 running on my lan network.

Haven’t checked on it since but I’m overdue and ready.

Oh my. THANK YOU for that edgeblocker! Going to get that on every computer in my home.

Yeah I’m not “the boss” of my parents. My dad was very tech savvy, but he doesn’t have the same memory and cognition as he used to so when I set it up nice he likes it, but any friction sets him off to “solve” the problem… By doing some random totally different thing that doesn’t so much solve the problem as “gets it working, sort of” with a browser he recognizes. Then because there are ads he loses interest and just puts on the 24/7 news cycle. :(

So my parents use chrome even though I constantly install Firefox and hide chrome. Problem there is they end up with Edge so I stopped doing that. (Didn’t windows get in trouble for this kind of market control in the 90’s?)

So I had Ublock origin on chrome for them but it’s “not supported” anymore and my usual method of ignoring what it says and turning it back on are now failing.

Any help?

That sounds great. I’m bad at reading (not bad at it. Just don’t do it lol) but I’ll put that in my audiobooks for long trips pile. It sounds very much up my alley.

Don’t know why you’d get a downvote for personal preference. I would argue that a lot of the content I watch doesn’t have a suitable book form, so even if I did prefer that method of osmosis, I’d be out of luck.

Got a recommendation for a book (or audiobook) for a nerd like me? I’d describe myself but the internet already knows too much so… Conservation and technology (new or ancient)

Is that a fair ask?

I’m gonna come off as a dick here but sunzu2 is stupid enough to have YouTube on their TV? At that point might as well just buy a pixel.

(Maybe a polite link to ways to degoogle a phone would be more productive and make you less of a dick.)

Why should an employee give up some of their wages temporarily to other employees? Let’s pretend he decides to do that. Now everyone but him is paid. So is he supposed to go into work and work for free until the producers can gather the money for him? Or stay home until he gets paid? Because the first one isn’t acceptable and the second is what he is doing but with extra steps (and who knows what sort of tax implications)

That’s literally not his job. He is being a good brother to his fellow workers and standing with them until they get paid. If he wanted producer credits he could go negotiate for them now and then the production could use his money, but again: not his job.

Cranston is doing the right thing. Just because he is a very well paid employee doesn’t mean he should be expected to ‘bend’ the rules so Producers can make their movies. Any number of the producers are actually in a position to do exactly what you are asking of Cranston. That IS their job.