Xerox did that ages ago.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

Reddit had no monetary cost.

It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?

I’m in a similar boat. Pledged but it’s been years since I gave them money and I’m not really following it closely anymore. Can’t say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.

I’m a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it’s not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn’t even notice if no one else brought it up.

I’ll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I’m not chomping at the bit.

People continuing to give them additional money now are simply deranged though.

That’s not a complaint specific to discord though. You just don’t like large chatrooms.

Encryption and hashing are different things. You can’t get the original back out of a secure hash. They’re used only to confirm that whatever piece of data you have now matches the one that was provided originally, because they produce the same hash. You can’t store hashes for any data that you ever want to be able to read.

Fine. Wear cargo pants and rock the Kim Possible look.

Hi. Person who has identified male my entire life here.

I have no idea what this “cell phone pocket” in underwear thing is about. Sounds like lunacy to me.

That said, give pockets to women who want pockets. It is baffling to me that this is still a thing.

Wow. I hadn’t thought about movie bob in years. Thanks for ruining that.

It’s also really bad even for AI.

Not only would it have been really, really easy to find a non-AI image, it would have been similarly easy to get better results from image gen. It’s like they went out of their way to find the worst slop possible.

I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.

For what it’s worth you’re actually spending the manufacturer’s money (or at least some of their profit margin) on a data collection device that they won’t get to use.

Smart devices are cheaper because the data collection subsidizes them.

…just to make sure I understand…

You boil water in an electric kettle or similar, then break your spaghetti and drop it into an empty pot before pouring the now just-short-of-boiling water on top of it and bringing it back up to a boil?

And you think this is an easier process than just boiling water in the pot then dropping the spaghetti in?

I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.

That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.

The responses to this comment led me to discover that some people don’t wait for the water to boil before putting the pasta in.

…you put spaghetti in the cold water before it’s boiling? What?

Boil the water first, then put the pasta in.

This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.

You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.

Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.

I don’t even have those anymore and now their absence is causing problems.

It’s much less risky than it used to be. Journaling filesystems reduce the risk of filesystem corruption to near zero and are fairly ubiquitous now on non-removable media.