Low-bandwidth cellular chip…

That’s a regular thing with Jerboa

No shit, right? While not all people in that group are racists, bigots, or homophobes it is the side which is more likely to attract such. Gotta have some real blinders on to think that a black, gay man is going to be welcomed by all as “part of the team”

Is there an audiobook version?

My phone has started glitching a bit over the last month or two. I JUST reached the end of the point out was paid off under my plan, which is kinda suspicious to me.

In there past, I’ve always bought phones outright but this particular one there was a sale where it was cheaper to finance though my provider.

They’re fine for certain things on an evolving menu etc, but not anything where a tactile sense might be needed to avoid distraction. A lack of volume knob is the thing that pisses me off the most in many vehicles, including my own.

Also, power should be a physical cutoff and NOT a soft button for head units. The one of my car is a software toggle and when the system started glitching, froze and also put out high volume noise with no way to kill it except to shut off the vehicle when I could safely do so

100% this. If they’re judging you based on your fucking phone, then THEY are not worth pursuing

To those people, if there’s no Devil then it means all the bad stuff in their heads and hearts is just them. All the temptations are them. All the hatred, including self-hatred is them. There’s no Devil that made them do it or think it, no external tempter or defiler to resist. They can’t take that.

These are great

But, what if the player from the other team trips and falls over one of them. They might get pregnant! - concerned soccer-mom

Raw high-def video and image files? But yeah, there’s unlimited and then there’s kinda pushing the limits of what’s reasonable. 233TB is more than the contents of some orgs’ datacenters

Which is a matter of how little they’re allowed to have. If there were some sort of minimums that might actual force them to be somewhat effective.

Instead it’s a race to the bottom of “your business is important to us, but nobody gives a fuck about your satisfaction”

Somebody should redo this but with Hanks’ actual arm and then a skinny geek-arm :-)

To scalp something though you’d have to have enough people want a thing that’s hard to get. I’m not sure that’s the case with the CT anymore

So, a third ceasefire now, with them starting new attacks within 30 minutes or less? Or are we past third yet?

But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the “you can’t buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut” which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

The common thing I’ve seen in more well -knowncases was the abuser striking up a relationship and pretending to be somebody younger, getting compromising details/photos from the victim, then threatening to release those to family/friends unless the victim follows their wishes (which often providing further sexual images/acts).

Not sure if that might be the case with a service like Omegle, but it was essentially what happened in the Amanda Todd case and other similar cases.

Yeah even mid-90’s “the Internet” started with a doodadootdootdadadoot and wasn’t exactly fast for the vast majority of little. Early 28.8kbps came out around '94-95, and real-time video of decent quality wasn’t so much a thing. More like RealPlayer buffering.

That said, there was still plenty of janky stuff around. BBS’s weren’t uncommon even before that and generally had people uploading all sorts of stuff. Porn was plentiful, though you often had to wait upwards of a minute for that file to load and see if there were actual boobs.

Newsgroups were full of weird groups as well as fairly normal ones where the occasional troll would post nasty stuff.

You could definitely still run across predators hanging around in various places. IRC had tons of them, and A/S/L is a pretty well-known intro to this day. There were some video chats, though it would have been a pixel, low-FPS mess.

Nowadays the internet is faster, more connected globally and with more people. There’s still terrible shit but I don’t know that it’s any more unexpected/unavoidable than back in the 28.8 days. Parents should be aware and children should be educated on how to be safe online, and platforms should do their best to stem abuse but that’s not really an easy thing without style pretty strict ID requirements, which are often strongly resisted for privacy reasons.

One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is “call history”, “contacts” or “text messages”

I’d assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn’t need OCR to do other things with that data

I can’t recall if I limited to Google’s IP’s or not actually. Just that I wanted to prevent their devices from ignoring the DHCP provided hosts