u/undermark5

When the government is run by a bunch of businessmen...

There is at least one individual in my town that any time anyone mentions that they dislike flock cameras responds something to the effect "you know you're already being recorded everywhere you go right, security cameras, nest cameras, doorbell cameras, so just accept it, flock cameras are useful". Very much a supporter of the surveillance state... I'm like, sure that may be true, there are a lot of other cameras out there that may be recording me, but a lot of them don't create a nationally shared searchable database that's handed to law enforcement on a silver platter, and, who are you to say that I like any of those other cameras? Also, the other cameras aren't directly being paid for by my taxes rather private individuals and businesses.

There was also a recent traffic incident that was caught on camera (presumably a traffic camera, not an ALPR/Flock camera) and I'm pretty sure this individual was posting on Facebook about how the flock haters shouldn't be allowed to view the footage, or that by viewing the footage that it was somehow indicating support for flock cameras.

It frustrates me.

Wait until you hear about vegan hunting.

Yes, and no. Basically the only reason I ever call or chat with customer service is precisely because there is an issue that's not covered by FAQs or cannot be done online, so the online support directs me to call, but then the system is like "DId YOu kNoW yoU cAn DO stUfF OnLIne???" , and I'm like, if I could have solved my problem online, I would have, it was your stupid online chat system that sent me calling... Like if only those two systems coordinated at all. Give a transcript to the person, and give me an extension and code to enter and skip me through all of the menus and crap...

I remember saves the zoo

Interestingly enough you can buy it for Android (probably iOS too)

It should say that regardless. I didn't know what star icon they were referring to, until you pointed out AI and Gemini. ⭐ is what I was thinking, and Gmail does feature a "star" system for marking emails.

Pretty sure that people have already tried with mirror glucose.

Much better link to actual source https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-new-framework-laptop-16-with-nvidia

https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-new-framework-laptop-16-with-nvidia

Clearly, they're not a very technically inclined person when it comes to networking jargon. Doesn't help with these all-in-one modem/ONT, router, AP devices that ISPs love to "rent" out to you.

People are going to use WiFi to mean Internet in general rather than simply the wireless connection...

I'm not sure what you're meaning with this?

If the hotel can shut off your room's climate control (or put it into a different unoccupied mode) while you're not there, surely that would save them money?

OPs tip is not about how the hotel can save money, OPs tip is about how you can possibly maybe still provide power to your room without using your key card (because if you've only got one, you'll have to take it with you when you leave so you can get back in), clearly bypassing the "money saving technique" the hotel has employed.

Charging a subscription fee for software that the user downloads and runs locally is ridiculous. Remember when you could buy a license for that year's version of the software for a one time fee? That's the way that all locally run software should be paid for. Charging me a subscription to keep a license active for the software to phone home about every time I launch it is stupid. Also, it's unlikely that I'll need next year's update anyway because what updates do they actually make year to year? Maybe 5-10 years down the line I'll consider upgrading again. At some point the companies realized that businesses that need the software will kinda pay whatever is asked because it's just the cost of doing business and they'd likely want annual updates because if they don't get whatever new feature they may lose out to a competitor. They then figured, "hey, what if we tried the same thing with general consumers, if it works, we can show them this smaller recurring payment that actually costs more than selling a license for a single year's version for a single year, they'll automatically get next year's version for 'free', and it costs us basically nothing to make this switch meaning significant higher margins for us" and then stupid consumers just kinda went along with it because the company either simply no longer offered the lifetime license for a single year's version or made it incredibly hard to find out how to do that.

Charging a subscription for software that's run in the cloud on the other hand at least makes some sense, but I'd still prefer to run my software locally (or in my own "cloud" myself).

As others have stated, if you're referring to the imitation game, there were a lot of creative liberties taken with that movie and it is at best historical fiction, meaning it is fiction loosely based on history.

Something like this? It's basically Silly Putty (pretty sure Silly Putty is shear thickening) that has fine magnetic particles added to it.

Edit: I'm not exactly sure as to how good it will be at stopping bullets though. I'm sure you can find plenty of YouTube videos of silly Putty being shot at with guns, and if not, at least SmarterEveryDay has a video of shooting Silly Putty with the supersonic baseball cannon.

Edit: also, perhaps not as liquid as you might desire.