MIDItheKID

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.

And what exactly is stopping me from scanning library books and uploading them online? Are you going to ban libraries too?

Actually, let's not give them ideas.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mentioned this in another comment. Take that second dism line, and put it in a batch script and make it a scheduled task that runs at login. Or use a Powershell script to make it a little smarter - check if it's enabled first and then disable it if it is.

Modern problems require modern solutions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You need to make a Powershell script or batch that uninstalls/turns off the feature and then make a scheduled task that runs the ps1/bat at login.

Its insane that this is what you have to do to keep this shit off your system, but it's effective.

I had to do this with New Outlook because it kept reinstalling after Windows updates.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have a "No clocks in the bedroom" rule. As a person who has struggled with falling asleep, having a bright glowing display constantly reminding me how tired I'm going to be in the morning just gave me more anxiety and made it even more difficult to fall asleep.

I still have my watch and my phone, but those are things I need to purposely move to look at.

A projector clock sounds like hell to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hah! Up until this exact moment, I thought it was "The cross eyed stare that you gave to me"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Alanis Morissette did the song named "Ironic" in which she gave a bunch of examples of things that were not actually ironic, which in itself is ironic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It actually ended up being great! She was very patient in the store and was super happy letting me hand stuff to her so she could put it in the cart. She wanted to help and she loved doing it! She was asking a lot of "what's that?" for everything in the store, and I got to explain to her what different things were and how I would use them in a recepie. It did indeed end up being a fun daddy/daughter day, and my wife was pulling up just as I got back to our apartment so she was able to help out with carrying the groceries. Then I was able to get some meal prepping done while my wife kept an eye on our daughter. We even were able to squeeze in a trip to the fall carnival in the evening and I got to take my daughter down the Super Slide for the first time. She absolutely loved it.

So now I'm exhausted, but all in all 10/10 day, would do it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My daughter is taking a nap, and my wife is out for most of the day coaching soccer. Things are peaceful now, but when my daughter wakes up, I have to do the grocery shopping for the week and start meal prepping. Not sure if you guys have dealt with a toddler in a super market, but it's a nightmare. Then I have to figure out how I am going to get the groceries up to my 3rd floor walk up apartment while wrangling my daughter. I can't just leave her in my apartment while I make trips because toddlers are basically constantly trying to kill themselves, and it's my job to make sure that doesn't happen. Then I have to start meal prepping with a toddler in my care. This is another set of challenges. I could wait until my wife gets home, but then I'm shopping late and won't be able to cook until tomorrow. And if I have to cook all day tomorrow, then we don't get to go on a family bike ride, and this time of year is so perfect for bike riding. I could order the groceries online, but they always fuck it up and then I end up having to go to the store anyway.

This might not be as big as some of the other problems people are having today, but man, I could really just use another set of hands to help me through today's responsibilities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I don't condone their actions or views but I remember when that sub existed and I can shed some light on the fat hate redpill train of thought.

They tried to justify it saying that fat people were a drain on society because of health issues. They took up space in hospital rooms that could otherwise be used for "healthy people with real problems". Like they saw being fat as an issue that the person could fix by themselves, and they shouldn't take up medical resources. And they drive up insurance costs for companies because being fat is like a pre existing condition etc.

But what was it at the end of the day? A hate group. I get that America and other places have issues with weight, but the solution is not hate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Absolute is crazy. I work at an organization that uses it. It lives in the bios level and is essentially a root kit. I understand how it is useful for lost/stolen devices, but it way over steps a lot of boundaries.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, my understanding is that these capchas were made to harvest data to use for AI/Autopilot driven cars. That's why they are always having you identify motorcycles, bycicles, crosswalks, stoplights, busses, etc. It's all stuff that automatic driving cars have had a hard time identifying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Did you know that if you took a blue whale and laid it lengthwise across a basketball court, the game would be canceled?

 

I have been living in the Samsung ecosystem for quite a long time now, and i finally decided to make the switch to Pixel because the 8 looked pretty great, and it was time for a new phone.

Big surprise to me, is that I can no longer use any of my Samsung Smart Tags, which I have quite a few of (Dog collar, Luggage, Car, eScooter, Keys, Backpack, etc).

I am pretty upset with this, as I purchased the smart tag pro's, and it wasn't exactly cheap. I previously had some Tile devices, but I found them to be incredibly unreliable, and I really don't want to have to re-purchase a bunch of devices and the things that hold them (collar, waterproof container etc).

With all of that said, is there any unofficial way to get the Samsung smart devices working on a Pixel? From my understanding, they are just bluetooth devices. I don't see why there would be any physical restriction to pairing them to my Pixel, it's just the software stopping it. Like is there some kind of jailbroken Samsung Smart Things apk that tells the app that you're on a Samsung device? I've looked around but haven't had much luck finding antyhing, so I thought I might ask here.

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