I’m just a person who works there and hates AI bullshit.”

Me, too, National Archives employee who chose to remain anonymous. Me, too.

No. Just…no.

Screencaps are very difficult to find online, but I do have the series on DVD. Had to pop one in and screenshot this for something I replied the other day.

I swear this post was not sponsored by Centrum Silver 😆

Yep. Migrating to that from Snapdrop is on my to-do list since Pairdrop natively does the internet sharing I had to patch into Snapdrop. Just one of many things I haven’t gotten around to yet.

Absolutely, and they’d still have to put her in old lady makeup because she looks fantastic at 75

Wear a mask and wash your hands often?

And that’s not even touching on the part where the “inter-dimensional space wizard who will send you to the torment nexus” is just a pretense for controlling and subjugating people.

Snapdrop or PairDrop

Those send over WebRTC through the browser, and there’s also apps that can tie into the Share menu. You can also self-host it if you want. The data doesn’t go through the server, it’s peer-to-peer, and only devices on your local network can see each other.

If you long press (mobile) or right-click (desktop) you can send text strings which is great for sending URLs and such between devices.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think old school Bluetooth OBEX is even part of AOSP anymore.

I patched Snapdrop to tie into Authelia (uses the display name passed from Authelia instead of a random name) and removed the local network requirement which lets me send files to anyone authorized to use my instance even if they’re not on the local network. The Authelia requirement is relaxed on my local network, so if someone is on my wifi, they can just connect and send (it uses the random usernames if there’s no auth header).

• Github: Snapdrop
• Github: Pairdrop

I don’t know, but I hate that, too. Modern flashlights have every advantage over the ones of old, but they ALL seem to have stupid things like that.

Clicking through multiple brightness levels is one thing, but strobe, SOS, and 5 levels is ridiculous. Just give me on/high, low, and off.

We’re so far beyond satire at this point, I have absolutely no idea if that’s real or a joke lol

Do you have space to compost? Cardboard will eventually break down once you get all the tape / labels off of it. Not sure what happens to the ink, but my (non-food) garden doesn’t seem to mind it.

Another option, if the boxes are in good shape / large enough, is to donate them as moving boxes. Put up an ad on some local classifieds listings (whatever form works best) and maybe check with local thrift/secondhand shops to see if they want them.

It’s a perfectly cromulent sentence in my neck of the woods lol.

Fair enough. I suppose my point is at some point, people are going to have to start making sacrifices and say “enough is enough” or nothing is going to change. There’s no incentive for companies to de-enshittify or support new platforms as long as people keep accepting the ever-worsening status quo. Change is hard, I’ll agree.

“I really would like to switch to Linux, bUT muH gaMEz!”

Like, just get a console or a Steam deck and tell MS to piss off. Until their market share plummets noticeably, they’re going to continue this crap.

Some people…lol.

I’ve got a “tough” phone that’s made for construction workers and such, but I still baby it because I want it to look nice.

It doesn’t matter how many candidates third parties pull from.

If no candidate gets 270 votes, the election is decided by the House. That’s at the electoral college level, but see jordan lund’s breakdown above and how a majority “not Trump” votes will be split among candidates but Trump still wins the state because the “not Trump” voters couldn’t get their shit together and coalesce around a single candidate.

And if the election goes to the House, Assuming Republicans maintain control, take one guess who they’re going to elect?

In a world without the electoral college (or in one with a House that actually represents the majority of the country), sure. Vote your conscience. In reality, we live in a two party system where the third will always be a spoiler, so voting needs to be approached from a harm reduction standpoint.

Lol, yeah. The article I linked is from earlier this year and about Biden/Trump/Kennedy, but the gist of it still applies.

And remember: a “protest” third party vote is a vote for Trump.

If neither Harris nor Trump gets 270 electoral votes…

[If] No one gets to 270 and the House of Representatives, voting on behalf of the 50 states, is entrusted to pick the next president. What could possibly go wrong with that constitutionally mandated solution?

– What if no candidate wins 270 electoral votes?

Edit: I feel like this fact is often overlooked.