git gud = get good. Practice and become better.

If it’s just a nub, then it would point at the seat.

He probably needs to use one of these:

Microslop really should know better than to cry about it.

At the moment, they want to start nuclear war. Maybe we need to convince them otherwise, before we consider “giving the machines a chance.”

This is “not the onion”, so it’s true. Ordering now!

Raised in a bubble she can’t see.

I have no doubt she’s at least as horrible as we all imagine.

Remember when Billy Clinton admitted he smoked pot in college, but “didn’t inhale”? That’s when accusations of drug use amongst political candidates became useless for ending their career. Everyone stopped caring about drug use, not to mention adultery, and a whole raft of other vices that would have been a death sentence just 10 or 15 years earlier.

I think two-hour movies are soon to be a thing of the past. But, will people pay premium prices to watch a one-hour TV episode on the big screen? One hour is all anyone can handle anymore, and then only if they can also look at their phones, they get the shakes if they can’t look at their phones.

When we switch to XR/AR goggles worn every waking moment, that will be the end of movie theaters, and so many other things. Only a few will survive, like drive-ins today.

I don’t think it’s just the old man in me saying we’re heading in a bad direction.

The only ones as a group avoiding this are the “elite”. The filthy rich don’t let their kids use this tech. Their kids go to schools like they were before smartphones. Pencil, paper, and good grades required to pass. I mean the billionaires, there’s a huge difference between $100 million, which is rich to we poors, and $1 billion+. We down here tend to group them all together, but they are not the same. One-hundred million is the new middle class.

Trump eventually betrays everyone who trusts him.

My boy Antonio really just went with the first comparison that jumped to mind.

I imagine one could replace the hardware with something else to drive the display portion. It’d take knowledge and a soldering iron, but I’m sure it’s doable.

Probably they have some sort of sensor behind the lower screen that can tell if it’s covered. I wonder how sophisticated that is. Perhaps, rather than covering it completely, it could be obscured behind a crystal pattern plastic sheet, like is used for privacy. It would still let the light through, but it would just be an incoherent light pattern. Build a box to enclose the bottom half, and hold the sheet out a few inches in front of the panel.

EDIT: The correct way to deal with it is to disable the backlight on the bottom display. Found a reddit post about it. It’s cheap and easy enough to do if you have a soldering iron.

EDIT 2: Apparently it does not have a way to detect if the bottom screen is blocked. Fools. Just build a box around the bottom part, and you’re done. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qD-jaukv85U

Yep, that’s the headline. They get it right in the body text, but either some kid or AI wrote the headline, I guess. Journalism died 15 years ago, and the body is starting to stink.

No, she could, it’s hers to give. It just wouldn’t mean anything to anyone but Trump. It would be like if Cillian Murphy gave me his best actor Oscar–absolutely meaningless.

And, maybe because of that, it’s a good idea? This is the fucking world we live in now.

I tried to be surprised.

If you hand socially disenfranchised young men a bit of power, they WILL abuse it.

Remember when the bootlickers were responding, “We don’t have kings in this country, we have a President.”? Biggest fucking whoosh of the century so far. I’m convinced they sincerely missed the point, like they were reveling in correcting the semantics. Fucking idiots.

I taught my gen-z kid to read an analog clock because I knew no one else would. I know he learned it.

He’s 27 now, and living back at home. Recently, we were in the kitchen and the cat was asking to be fed. He said, “I don’t think it’s time yet…” and then went to his room to check the time on his phone. The same analog clock he learned to read is on the wall in the kitchen, where it’s been his entire life. Apparently, he didn’t practice at all after I taught him and tested him on it, and now can’t read it? I dunno, I didn’t ask, I didn’t want to make a whole thing out of it.

“Ten to eleven” would get a blank stare, too, probably.

Brilliant. This will definitely work. I’m sure no one will call it slop anymore. /s

What a fuckin’ idiot.

Good job, Satya, no one you pay will call it slop in front of you. That’s all you accomplished, but I doubt anyone was anyway. The rest of the world will now call it slop just as often, if not more often, to spite your stupid face.

Oh, sweet summer child, you thought they were actually trying to reduce drug use?