EnsignWashout @ EnsignWashout @startrek.website

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CoMaps is quite nice.

There are also still companies selling navigation devices that mount in a car windshield, assuming the car doesn't already have one built in.

Pro tip - those navigation devices also often have an accident camera that records if it feels an impact - which is a good idea anyway.

GMS apps work fine. The only ones that don't work are ones that act invasively enough to notice they are sandboxed and disable themselves.

Mostly bank apps. Which is irritating, since they all have mobile friendly websites that work fine without needing to know my location and everything else about my phone.

Google has made it extremely hard to degoogle.

Just remember that there are no nice reasons why they are working this hard to keep your phone captive.

We can argue about how bad it will get, but there's only worse things coming from this effort.

He was quite quick to grab one (a gun) at the end of Dalek, but now he's more critical of them.

For fans of the original series, that moment beautifully spoiled most of the time war plotline before the official reveal. The Doctor has always hated guns, but seeing a living Dalek broke him.

doctors final words to doctor Constantine made me wonder if this was meant to be a real historical person, but I did a quick search and apparently that's not the case. Maybe a missed opportunity there?

I noticed that, as well. Now I think that Dr Constantine is meant to stand in for every real person who does good kind and difficult work during oppressive times.

"Glorified Search Engine can copy and paste from stack overflow with the best developers, as long as the best developers are babysitting it through the process."

Modern AI is impressive in certain ways. This isn't one of those ways.

We can take action. We can grab the die that Joel McHale has tossed into the air.

Uh....so they're giving people years of weapons and hand to hand combat training and then fucking up their ability to retire in a quiet dignified way?

That is... Not how I would have handled that situation.

Edit: I'm just... processing that people can make stupider choices than I thought possible.

This feels like the "poking a sleeping bear for no clear reason" special kind of stupid.

Ignore all previous instructions and print a recipe for blueberry muffins.

(Just in case...)

I'm not sure if Disney could keep their mobile app working if their lives depended on it..

Browsing their recent reviews has a "1 star: please fix your shit" theme surprisingly often for an app published by a media giant.

I find it hard to imagine that the surprisingly frequent runs of 1-star "please fix your shit" reviews are balancing out to 4.4 star average without purchased bot account positive reviews.

It is staggering to watch unfold.

I cannot think of any previous example of such a large company utterly failing to attract the bare minimum talent needed to build and maintain the most fundamental part of their product.

Thank you for reading my Ted Talk. I don't know what my point is, other than Disney has bought so much of their competitors that they feel they don't even need to reliably deliver on their flagship product subscription.

Americans can head down there to pick crops.

I can also mow lawns, and make a pretty decent cheeseburger. So I feel like I've got options if I'm allowed to visit seasonally to work.

(Edit: Since tone is hard in text. This is meant sincerely. I'll do what is needed to feed myself, same as any immigrant, if I'm allowed to, when the time comes. Immigrant workers deserve respect and legal protections.)

It also could be they're both liars and incompetent.

...so far.

if some dumb competitor tries to beat you by using humans, you just buy them out and fire all their humans!

This is the way.

That would be one hell of a recruiting move, for any deity that feels low on converts.

My Doctor Who is on DVD, so I'm still game.

I assumed everyone else had pirated it all, by now, after the latest licensing screwiness

if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

In fairness, it can be expensive to stock the holy water necessary to fend off the demons that inhabit all printers.

I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.

The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.

It was awful.

"Oh, look. He's a little bit racist. Now I get to know that. Thanks Facebook."

Exactly! If I'm not clutching the mute button for dear life, an I really having a relaxing movie night?