From the article:

literally

Look; if you’re a journalist, pretend you know other words. I’m so fucking done.

You’ll pry email from my #coldDeadHands, but I haven’t had a phone number for a decade.

Compatibility and requirements:
Only works on phones with the camera2 API enabled;

Recent apks may not work on older Android versions;

Neat. What’s the check for ‘phones with the camera2 API enabled’ ? How ‘older’ is ‘older Android’?

I’ve seen fog with better definition than that list.

Nothing, we stopped signing credit card receipts

Ha! The comma splice makes it looks like you’re calling someone nothing.

back to water mills

Hydroelectric has grown up since then. See: hoover dam

gravity batteries where nice reservoirs happen to exist already

soooo, dams?

They called it an Axe Man, in my time. I’ve been at two companies hit with them, and I follow them AND the CEO who stepped down (once a reverted permanent one and the other a long-term leave) to see which companies are fucked next.

everytime

Not a word, my dude.

Latvia is not Russia

Yet.

And if you look on a Russian map, I’m sure it’s there already.

money to fix all the exploits in that spaghetti software.

This decade for SURE! We promise!

Libre Office.

Honestly - and flame away - I hate the name. I hate saying it. It’s the ‘moist’ of borrowed words. Leeeeeeeebr. And I’m a Canadian who did French up to university-level conversational “explain something for 20 min” French (from a gorgeous caribbean dynamo teacher, but I justif–uh, digress) so I know how to say the word and what it means.

And I still hate it. I’m a horrible person – even before I continued French study because the prof was so engaging and energetic and brightened every room and every day and made French interesting just on inclusion.

why not just do:

microsoft 365: 6.99

microsoft 365 + copilot: 9.99

Make the easy thing the better-for-sales thing, obviously.

But seriously, negative-approval has been a sales enabler for ever. People will often just roll over and accept it vs churning to something else. That’s why ‘loss-leader’ works, as people will start with one product and sunk-cost fallacy will keep them from churning as the vendor tightens the screw.

NO one using Microsoft is doing so by choice. If we haven’t learned in 30 years, then fuck us.

Yeah. So it’s

1. thunderbird
2. some add-on

right? I forget the name of that add-on.

No, that’s not it. I thought it was Open-Xchange; yeah, that’s it. But it’s only web-based, and not Tbird-based. Let’s ask Co-pilot again:

THERE it is.

But I learned there’s a second alternative, so that’s cool. See? Co-pilot has value!

I remember interviewing at Google years ago (if you’re keeping score, it was 2012/2013 just before their stock hiccupped and my onboarding was killed as I was only a 97% fit), and the guy was religious about page load times. “We cut 200 lines of code if it’ll give us a millisecond of page load speed”, that kind of thing.

How they’ve fallen.

If you believe my therapist friend who is also non-normative in a relevant fashion, demands for pronouns are often ‘othering’ in result, and thus go from farce to force.

So, I write fewer email.

2025’s version of Gone Goat Farming ?

1. One party continually tries to pass legislation for safety nets and consolidated services and is blocked by the party that’s controlled the show for almost 40 years

2. That party goes for tax cuts and havens to keep it’s rich donors happy while blocking anything that helps the other 99%

3. You: “both sides. I’m smarter than all of you”

Really?

I wish I lived in a world where this seemed absurd.

They hate us first.

Source: lived there 8 years.