Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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Because that starts us down an even worse path.

I mean, I've only very recently realized that I'm on the spectrum. Not diagnosed, but several online tests coalesced around an 87% chance. It would explain a lot.

Also makes you a really kickass editor.

I mean, you train entire generations to just have things spoonfed to them from the almighty algorithm, and this is one net result.

Music discovery used to be a process, and it was a social endeavour. Friends would suggest something or force you to listen to it, and -- in my case -- it was almost always wrong. But there was still the social experience.

As someone who rarely listens to music with lyrics, I want to draw my own conclusions and emotions, not some slop that I could have written in sixth grade as a terrible English student.

Huh. They were still around in the age of streaming?

They don't have different "needs" ... they just don't realize what they've signed up for. It was very easy to get rid of Facebook ... I sent a final message letting them know how to get a hold of me. If they don't want to engage elsewhere, it's relatively easy to determine the depth of our friendship.

I've been in solitary confinement for going on seven years. I doubt you'd enjoy it as much as you think. We're social creatures.

I do want to point out, as I was a bit snarky in my last reply, that I appreciate your more balanced tone here.

Usually, I'd have a diatribe. Here, I'm just realizing this is all worse than I thought. They're intentionally going multigenerational on hate.

Fuck all of them. Without lube.

I mean, I left Facebook in 2014 and have never been on Instagram or TikTok. You act like it's this huge endeavour to not be on such sites. I used WhatsApp to stay in touch with my family in Europe, but once Facebook bought that, I was done. Told them to message me on Signal.

I'm asking people to give up parasocial relationships. They aren't useful, so no loss there.

And it's not my fault they can't see that.

you have to provide a significant advantage to make it worth the pain, and there simply isn’t one.

Ah, but there is. Privacy. Some of us are old enough to remember when that was an enshrined right instead of us just being data providers to rich guys.

I don't know why you think you have the moral high ground here and are being so argumentative and making specious analogies, but, yeah, there are people who don't like being part of a surveillance economy, and as paid-off lawmakers aren't going to do jack shit, we need to have options outside of just being pawns for Google and Apple.

How this escapes you is beyond me, but I'm not going to be an asshole like you've been in every response on this thread.

I hate Android. A bit over a decade ago, I ran across an ArsTechnica article about a sale on Windows Phone, so I figured, for $55, may as well give it a try. Turns out I don't hate the form factor; I hate Android.

I got a much better Windows phone shortly after, and I rode that for about two years. When I first got into the ecosystem, pretty much all apps were available (The Economist built a WP app!), but as uptake went nowhere, the apps started disappearing, and I had to come crawling back to Android.

I hate this fucking thing of "no, no, let us control your hardware." And software options. And sell your location data to anyone willing to buy it.

The ceasefire has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza triggered by the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed around 1,200 people and seized 251 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

Gunmen? Come on, CBC, you can do better. Hamas didn't go into a rave and start shooting. These were rocket attacks.

I'm still fucking pissed that MS stopped Windows Phone development. My Lumia 950XL was the height of my smartphone experience. Live tiles, so, like, I could just look at my home screen and see how my accounts were doing (yeah, I used to have savings and investments and such) alongside weather and ... a Jedi needs not these things.

But when you get laid off three times in a year, the calculus changes. "Sorry you're fucked, but we don't care" -- IRS

I wanted to try GrapheneOS on an old Pixel, but when I pulled it out of the box, the power button was gone. And you can't really fake it with a ballpoint pen.

I mean, in the past eight years, I've noticed my mental acuity sharply falling off. I'd imagine some hope for the future might turn that around, but I've been burned enough times that the high point of my day is usually hearing from the ex-wife I tried to kill myself because of twice.

Separately, would someone please hand The Verge a stylebook?

Round Rock Police Patrol Division Commander Andy McKinney told NBC that it could even “cause a SWAT response.”

The Salem, MA police department summed it up best in a statement saying, “this prank dehumanizes the homeless, causes the distressed recipient to panic and wastes police resources.

With no dateline or prior reference to Texas, apparently Round Rock has been elevated to dateline-city status. Meanwhile, in Salem, Mass., they're slumming it with USPS abbreviations that aren't used in any style I've encountered.

"Police ask kids to stop doing things" has a stellar success ratio.

They're fully mask-off on "capital needs workers to subjugate, and you aren't making enough new ones. But we'll gladly sterilize you if you're darker than Trump's bronzer."

Kinda surprising there are no dystopian works that saw this coming.

I mean, before I worked in a newsroom, I never really considered bylines. "Staff report" and its ilk are clever ways of saying "Sweet! We filled 10" without having to pay!" while intentionally looking like we did much to the copy (oh, I still copyedited the fuck out of it and spiked more than a few stories on account of needing a second source for this to be in the vicinity of journalism ... simpler times).

This shit's generally stuff that should have to run under a "Sponsored Content" header, but if the advertiser can show a modicum of restraint, it can slip through, especially as there's likely no copy desk to spike it and run AP copy of an out-of-state quilting bee.

Oh, yeah. That byline gives it away.

Contributed Report = press release

Staff Report = press release with minor changes

Courier Newsroom = press release

$50K isn't enough to live on single in a lot of places.

Christ, is this a blowjob piece. I mean, suggesting Rufus is a great alternative, but shit like:

If you've still yet to upgrade, I'd encourage you not to worry too much, as I've found Windows 11 to be perfectly usable. Although I miss the Windows 10 era and all it represented, there's little to get up in arms about over Windows 11. There are some quirks that weren't present in Windows 10, but the transition should be relatively painless. Well, once you've managed to actually get the installation media onto that memory stick, that is.

is just shoddy journalism. This smacks of "don't consider Linux," which, fine, this is PC Gamer after all. Other than ads being introduced to the OS, the shedloads of telemetry, constant UI changes (Start menu, Settings app), and the nags for OneDrive, Xbox and more, I guess there's little to complain about

Sodium-ion is fine for fixed storage. The energy density isn't there for EVs.