In the eyes of a member of the ruling class, she fades into the background of the faceless proletariat.

Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.

Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)

Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!

To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.

Tim Sweeney traveled to Saudi Arabia with Donald Trump’s entourage this past week.

You don’t even need root. Developer options -> USB debugging, then run Universal Android Debloater on your PC.

I had one that loved to chew on plastic, but in more typical cat fashion: she was picky. She only liked the crinkly kind that’s used as a safety seal around jars and bottles.

D’oh, it should say “another target Cleric” to avoid confusion.

This image classification, which does not currently apply to videos, works on-device and is powered by Android System SafetyCore, which “doesn’t send identifiable data or any of the classified content or results to Google servers.”

It’s opt-in for adults but automatically activated for children’s devices.

So it’s creating and adding new data that didn’t exist in the original image, presumably using “AI” since it requires a server-side update.

I saw a laptop ad where they referred to the storage as ROM, e.g. “500GB ROM/16GB RAM” 😂

Then again, EPROMs are rewritable yet “read-only”…

They go out of their way to block Linux. There was “Vinegar” bootstrapper, then “Grapejuice”, leading to the current closed-source “Sober” client that streamlines running Roblox for ARM Android on x86_64 Linux PC.

Play Store… Don’t forget that Google can take your apps away. I bought PicSay Pro for making memes over a decade ago and now it’s no longer available. Of course I dumped it to apk for manual transfer to other devices but how long before “unknown” app installation is taken away?

I’d like access to serial port over USB for running 3D printers and robots off of devices that would otherwise be e-waste, but it’s hit-or-miss and the battery charging problem that was already mentioned here.

The “vulnerability” was only that F-Droid wasn’t keeping up with their builds, leaving everyone who installed it from F-Droid out-of-date, during a period of known Firefox bugs being exploited.

Rip out your USB port and use wireless charging. It at least slows the authorities down, they would have to fix the port first.

It sounds like these are modchipped if they come with a USB stick of games (that the owner then burns as they wish?)

Aye, mate!

raises flagon of grog

Choosy moms choose Dzhif.

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Anyone know about family sharing “tools” as opposed to “games”? I bought RPG Makers but can’t share them because they’re classified as tools and not games.