I’m sure Google contactless payment works really well when the phone is dead. Or you drop your phone in a toilet or off a bridge. It’s far easier to loose a phone than a card in a wallet in your pocket. If you lose your phone, you also lose access to all your money.

At the price of the Pixel 8a, I would suggest getting the Pixel 8 instead.

I’m running Graphene OS and its been solid. A few issues here and there with app compatibility but it is fantastic.

It’s almost like people should know how their job works

Yeah that’s the one I saw

There are even companies slapping AI labels onto old tech with timers to trick people into buying it.

I do not consent to ads.

They need Linux developers to do that

I’m running LMDE, I wonder if that will ever get updated.

I’ve heard this a lot but haven’t seen any mention of anyone dying. Do you have a source?

None of my coworkers that want Trump to win are registered to vote. I don’t know if that means anything.

Why would I spend the time and money on a vacation just to waste it on being lazy? I can do that at home. On vacation I’m up before sunrise, take a shower, and grab breakfast before I start my itinerary for the day.

Ah see I knew about Tarkin going in and saw the CGI. I just recognized it at that, nothing weird.

I still don’t understand what the uncanney valley is exactly. I’ve read the definition but not I don’t experience it that way I guess? I don’t know what people are talking about when they say something is uncanny valley.

VR is a gimmick, it’s funny Apple waited so long and outpriced themselves.

Reality show aka scripted

I love to hear it. Linux has done pretty much everything I’ve needed it to to and it’s great to see a lot of programs are available for Linux natively.

I switched to Linux Mint Debian edition when the Reddit thing happened. I’m glad I did before Windows got this bad.

I had quit in October of that year because I found a much better job that I ended up working at for 11 years. In those few short months though it was wild all the things that happened in that store. That store was in a mall and it didn’t last a year after I quit. They had a going out of business sale and I got a ton of arduino stuff for 75% off.

I worked at Radio Shack in 2012 for a few months and was told by my boss that if a customer wasn’t there to buy a cell phone, be as little help to them as possible.