Noob. Those are positively amateur numbers. Come back when you’re at least a couple orders of magnitude higher than that.

Every so many months I’ll “Share all tabs” on my Android Firefox to a text editor with no file size limit (which can take a few minutes just for that), save the file, close all tabs to wipe the slate clean, and never open the file I saved again.

It’s like I’m prepping for the day I win the lottery, and suddenly have as much time for this stuff as I did when I was a kid. But even were that to happen, I’d still have more responsibilities taking up my time than kid me ever did - and I’d still be trying to keep up with new stuff at the same time. sigh

“Good” is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn’t changed much, but instead you’ve become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.

I literally just abandoned a comment in another post because I got stuck on how to spell a word, and by the time I figured it out I had completely forgotten what I wanted to say. Still can’t remember. Ugh.

Kinda hard to ignore them running/ruining the federal government. RFK Jr’s idiotic war on vaccines will affect us all. Then there’s the fact pretty much my entire family are MAGAts, so I’ve had to cut contact with them all as the lesser of two evils regarding my sanity.

Before this year, I’d have agreed with you. It’s unbelievable how quickly shit has devolved since. I wouldn’t bet on being an ignorant asshole being a detriment anymore.

They’re good for your health,
They’re good for your heart.
The more you eat,
The more you fart!

I hear they call you “Beano.”

Watch out for low-flying brown missiles!

Speaking from personal experience, that person is very likely depressed AF. The bubbly person you see at work is her putting on a brave face to get through the day without making things worse by putting people off in showing her real self. The “jokes” are a subconscious attempt to see if anyone actually cares enough about her as a person to pick up on the hints she’s dropping. If you approach her about it directly, tho, she’ll put up a wall because she doesn’t know your true intent - do you actually care, or are you gonna make her life worse by doing something like trying to have her committed?

If you truly care enough to get involved, and try to help her then doing it well is going to require some commitment to subtle and supportive interactions. You can try to privately let her know that you’ve picked up on the hints, that you get it, and that she can come to you for support if and when she’s comfortable with doing so. You likely will have to give her space and time to figure out if she can really trust you while also occasionally (i.e. don’t push it or otherwise overdo it - let her be in control) reminding her that you care and were serious about the offer of support.

If that’s more than you’re up for, then maybe just let her know you’ve noticed so she doesn’t feel completely ignored, and offer to help her find mental health options to deal with her depression.

At least this is what I’d want as somebody who has lived through several decades of inadequately treated depression. I, too, am a sincere, straightforward person who likes to help, and find living in a world full of people who routinely aren’t so honest (even or especially with themselves) extremely depressing and difficult to deal with.

Not really - they’re quite tiny, so she shops for them at Babies-R-Us.

(Are they even around anymore?)

That’s because there’s no “thinking” behind LLMs - it’s just pattern-matching on extreme steroids. They work by looking at all the text & such that they’ve been fed, and coming up with something that looks like an amalgamation of all the stuff they’ve seen on the subject you asked about. There’s absolutely minimal (if any) reasoning or logic involved in what they do.

Yeah, that’s why it’s still in the “considering” phase for me as well - especially considering Trump’s tariffs crap. It also seems a tad underpowered for the price, and they still don’t have the promised removable battery replacements in their store.

It’s worth remembering, though, that the cost covers the constant software updates, as well as their user support. As such, it’s much like the Apple model of business, except much more open - so in the end it’s probably worth it.

That would just continue to ensure lock-in, and at least the EU would never go for that (& neither would I). Sideloading should still be allowed.

Google’s Play Store security has never been all that stellar, anyway.

Taking Google at their word for a moment, it’s far too easy to scam the clueless masses into selecting the first one. Might work okay if it’s strictly an ADB command, tho.

Thankfully, for those of us without the time for all that there are Linux phones such as this one I’m considering.

Not so fast.

Except in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Only within so short a period that some don’t know they’re pregnant yet in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, North & South Carolina, and Utah.

Fucking control freak Republicans seriously need to DIAF.

You know they’ll just double or triple the number of them when replacing them, and harden them to make it more difficult to destroy.

They are the party of “do as I say, not as I do.” Total control freaks, the lot of them. That’s why they refused to give up their info, but are just fine making everyone else do so.