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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • We have a wireless Android Auto dongle. And it takes an age to auto connect. Not to mention the problems with it still wanting us to pull over and put the car in park to switch, something I thought would be circumvented when I bought it but somehow is not. Usually it’s the person in the passenger seat trying to change something and not being able to. I’m not advocating for distracted driving. I’m pointing out that someone else in the vehicle who’s not driving can’t interact to change certain things even though it’s perfectly safe for them to do so.



  • I have equally bad experiences with both Android Auto and Apple Carplay. I don’t really want either and am fine with what I’ve got (only 1/3 of the cars I own even has Carplay/Android Auto). I mostly dislike how it’s been implemented with “safety controls” that require the phone to be plugged into the infotainment center in some cars and the requirement that I only connect it while at a stop with the car in park. If someone is driving with me and they want to change to their phone I have to pull over and that’s stupid.

    The infotainment centers themselves with their stupid touch screens and lack of buttons are where my real problems start, and the end with the tracking BS and telemetry data. You can keep the new cars. I don’t want them.


  • No. No. I think you misunderstood. I’m not saying people should have ill will toward her. I’m saying that the ill will is an expected part of how society functions when a person gets notoriety for doing something wrong.

    If she had been outed by the papers in a less public way, people she doesn’t know who we’re were not affected by her actions would still be judging her.

    Most people would judge the average person who got caught cheating if they knew about it.

    She had to know going into her relation with a married man that there was the potential to get caught. She had to know it would be unlikely to receive anything but vitriol from people who’ve been cheated on. She went along with it anyway.

    There’s a possibility that because of the power dynamic between her and a man who was her boss, she was taken advantage of. That’s why I brought up and compared her to Monica Lewinsky. However I don’t have energy to waste on worrying about what ifs.

    I don’t follow the story and didn’t even really remember her until this post popped up. I can’t even tell you what her name is without googling it. I’d wager most people are equally ambivalent. It’s most likely a very loud minority of people who remember and are giving her shit about this.


  • If she were a celebrity would we feel the same?

    Because really what it comes down to is she knowingly helped a high profile person cheat and got caught. I’m not saying she deserves it. I’m not saying it’s a good thing. To me this is on par with the whole Monica Lewinsky thing.

    I personally bear this woman no ill will. But I also don’t really think we should be expected to have empathy for something she did to herself because she couldn’t think ahead to what the potential repercussions of her actions were.








  • They do this because it allowed them to track how often you shop and what you normally buy. This helps them to manage their stock, keeping popular items that regular shoppers buy in stock etc.

    The way it normally works though is that the item is $1.99 but if you have their club card or member card the item is $1.50.

    This means you save money in exchange for allowing them to track your shopping habits.

    Don’t get me wrong. There are a lot of … We’ll call them questionable reasons why business want to track your shopping habits, and that tracking doesn’t necessarily stop as just tracking what you buy.

    But it was never meant to be item is less expensive but you only get the less expensive price if you have their card. It was supposed to be, we’ll give you a deal on said item if you let us track you in exchange.






  • I wonder if this is a holdover from when you could navigate windows completely without a mouse using only the keyboard and shortcuts.

    Obviously there might be some overlap between some keyboard shortcuts (and a very much targeted use of Apple’s shortcuts for certain programs that MS has ported to Mac). So office/365 programs get Mac shortcuts and everything else is using Windows standard shortcuts built up over time. There’s not reason for a mac user to use Windows version of notepad.

    Either way, truly a mildly infuriating niglet so my upvote is yours.