She Don’t Use Jelly…

I didn’t care who won but still shouted, “YOU IDIOT!” at the TV when he ran it out of the end zone!

TL;DR: Repairable, but no long-term OS support and not easy to load an alternative OS on.

The specifications pages for the HMD Fusion and HMD Skyline explain the phones are only guaranteed to receive two major Android operating system updates and three years of Android OS security patches. There’s no guarantee of a release schedule for security updates on the Skyline, while the Fusion will get two years of monthly updates and quarterly updates for the last year.

I think it’s a valid criticism. I was a longtime Android user (at least a decade) but my last Android was a Pixel 2 that I bought at launch. That was the first Android phone I’d had that I wasn’t dying to replace after 2 years. I made it to 3 years and then the phone stopped getting security updates, a Qualcomm problem as much as a Google problem at the time. Meanwhile I looked at my stepdaughter using my wife’s old iPhone, which was 6 years old at that point and still receiving updates and still easy enough to take to a local shop for repairs when she would break it. That was my largest reason to make the switch.

I’m glad to see Google is now promising much longer support on its phones, 6 to 8 years on more recent Pixels, and it seems fairly easy to put an alternate OS on. Other Android brands should really try to follow that lead.

I’ve been assuming that their user engagement is down. Fifteen years ago when I was fresh out of university I had several hundred friends and could spend hours every day going through posts from dozens of different people. Now it feels like I can spend ten or fifteen minutes to see everything and mostly it’s from the same half-dozen people, and I’ve realized most of them are people I don’t really know as well and frankly am not as interested in seeing. At first I thought it was because they were the most prolific posters and I’d inadvertently trained the algorithm to show me more from them by interacting with them the most.

But over the past year I’ve noticed if I actually click on someone else’s profile, maybe having seen their name on a memory or just randomly think of an old friend, most of them only make a few posts a year or haven’t posted anything at all in years. Their accounts still exist, but they’re not using them.

If your feed was only this, a few posts a day from a few people, you’d have no reason to be on Facebook much. So they fill it in with junk from other places that will hopefully engage you. If it doesn’t they’ll try other posts. Whatever it takes to keep you browsing longer.

Yikes. Are you already in a relationship where that could also cause an issue with your S/O? Making them feel jealous/nervous that you would leave for the attractive nurse if you had the opportunity?

Maybe they can use AI to finally get people the titles for the cars they bought

Thanks; it’s a very minor thing but makes the experience better

I always liked Siouxsie and the Banshees’s cover of this as well

Some but not all of the instances you mention in the blog don’t have links. Are you able to make them all links? It would be slightly easier on mobile to check them out. I’ve never even heard of Bookwyrm.

IIRC dubbing tries to be an exact translation of the dialog whereas looping takes more liberties to try and get the audio to more closely match the on-screen mouth movements. A scene should still convey the same overall story but the dialog might not be directly comparable.

Yeah, I feel like I trust Steam as long as Gabe is calling the shots at Valve. I’m sure it helps that they’re a private company. Hopefully whoever takes over after him will have learned the lesson that you can make a nearly unimaginable amount of money in this industry without putting the screws to the consumer. If they were public or let the business “experts” in I’m sure there would be all sorts of moves to extract more money from customers that would end my trust, but I feel like overall I have a couple of decades of experience at this point that Valve isn’t actively trying to hurt me.

An unexpected one for me was the commentary for Godzilla 2000 on the American/English release. I kind of laughed when I saw it was an option because this is one of the Japanese-made films that was dubbed into English and I had no idea how they’d handle that. Would it be in Japanese? Would that be dubbed? In fact it was the director of the English version explaining the whole process of creating the English release, including that the dialog was not dubbed but looped, and what that difference meant. It was a fascinating look at something I knew nothing about.

In case you’re like me and knew it was bad but couldn’t remember what it was, it’s when the embryo attaches outside the uterus, usually in the fallopian tubes. Generally causes pain and bleeding and is very rare for the fetus to survive.

This whole thing is horrifying, but the last paragraph is especially disturbing:

Since Herrera himself has a young daughter, and since there are “six children living within his fourplex alone” on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the government has asked a judge not to release Herrera on bail before his trial.

Even more disturbing is it said he was also producing content.

I’ve been looking off and on for a few months, but it seems like there aren’t many options anymore like there were 20 years ago. A couple I’ve found are FlatPress and WriteFreely, but I haven’t tried any yet.

Not having read the article, assuming this is just watching the ordinary program on the same streaming service the general public has access to, this feels more like she doesn’t want to for whatever reason. She certainly seems like she’s smart enough to figure out how to reset her password if she wanted to. Maybe there was some odd code she needed to use to get free access or something, but again that seems like something she could get resolved if she wanted to.

Similarly, she can surely afford to buy the show on disc. I’m guessing she wants free discs but hasn’t received them from the production. I feel like that would be a fair request for a production she worked on. If I was heavily involved in a show or movie I would like a copy on physical media that I could keep in my collection for the rest of my life, not some discount code for a streaming service that will inevitably disappear someday.

I first heard of these from the ValuJet crash, but didn’t realize until reading this that the canisters standing by for emergency use are right there in the overhead compartments next to the masks, and there are a whole bunch of them (one for each mask compartment).

I think that’s common in Europe, or maybe they list it along with kcal

My understanding is it can actually run on a pretty wide variety of fuels (in general; not every specific model can run on a wide variety).

I had a friend from college (female) who had some guy with the same name in Atlanta constantly using her email to sign up for things, like gym membership, dating sites, utility bills, etc. This went on for a decade at least. She even tried calling some of the companies to try and get his phone number. I’m not sure how she ever got it to stop.