Thanks for helping me liberate about $100 before breakfast.

Beats my D36

Downdetector isn’t working in the app.

I find it mildly infuriating that people don’t know what kinds of posts are mildly infuriating.

gif is pronounced like “gift” without the “t”

I don’t care about the initial sounds of the words in “graphics interchange format”

I think the creator was either trolling, failed at being clever (“choosy moms…”), or is an idiot.

the real woke is always in the comments

ai has lots of problems, but lack of accountability is one of the big ones

So you’re saying DNS is Loss.

Well, I’m the family IT person, and I’ll never recommend Belkin ever again. I’m asked throughout the year on tech buying decisions. There are plenty of other options out there.

I did, too. It was actively developed until those shitheads bought Nest. Then the only “upgrade” was to add clicking noises when changing the temperature that don’t respect the OS keyboard clicks setting.

Just think how much bandwidth and computing and human resources they’re saving money on. Oh, wait, it’s hardly anything to change the temperature and they’re a billion dollar company. But how will they sell more if they don’t fuck over the early adopters?

Belkin is pulling the same stunt with their Wemo switches and plugs.

We understand this is a letdown, especially if you’ve relied on Wemo in your daily routine. Reliability and trust have always been central to Belkin, and we recognize that this transition may not reflect the experience you’ve come to expect from us. We are genuinely sorry for the disruption.

Bullshit! If you cared you’d support your enthusiast customers. Again, we’re talking about very little resources and a very large company. Just leave these lies out of your announcement email.

If they were genuinely sorry but still committed to pulling the plugs on the backend, they would ad least do this:

When these companies want to cease updates and shutdown their servers, they should be required to:

1. Provide a path to install open source or third party firmware
2. Fully document the communication with the the device requires to function
3. Allow pointing the device at an open source or third party server

high

We and our 938 partners value your health.

We and our 938 partners value your health.

“Babe, but it feels better without a condom.”

Started pondering an orb while wearing jeans jorts and eating beans… and just never stopped.

Debian + KDE

gPodder

When you set up email, I think you’d say you “choose a provider” not “a server” even if that’s essentially what you’re doing.

Donald said that people who say stuff like this should be taken off the air.