‘this could have been a subspace communiqué’

4th panel:

sam beckett leaps in…

‘oh boy!’

it’s not ‘ai’, it’s just a poorly trained voice recognition system that’s trying to decipher any random person’s voice. voice rec has a difficult-enough time when trained on a single person in a professional setting (lawyer, doctor, etc)–which is work we used to do here. it’s going to absolutely fail in a ‘drive thru’ environment.

android phones made by Samsung and LG

LG hasn’t made a phone in over four years.

about to make a comeback in wisconsin–vapes were essentially banned in that state starting september 1st.

we used to have mac tonight at a piano, muzak, black ceiling tiles and club lighting. now it’s the same remodeled mckitchen as everywhere else, stuffing delivery orders into bags and letting the in-person experience go to shit.

… only if you pay extra for a little happy time.

all those old ‘unsupported’ systems with old processors and old-school hard disk drives are more compatible with windows 11 than a new one.

that was the first thing i looked for.

that look of judgement that every cat feeder knows comes later.

i use similar–a laptop with a ulv cpu, configured to run closed (stays cool, even under load) and wake/power-on by keyboard (wireless with trackpad).

one of my favourite lunches.

and by ‘lunch’, i mean it could be breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper… or anything in-between.

https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google

thanks for this one. i’m currently trying out their encrypted and adblocking dns on the hotspot i set up on dietpi to isolate ‘streaming’ devices, comparing its effectiveness to pihole and adguard home.

openoffice is an apache project, created when oracle gave them the code and rights to the openoffice project. ibm later donated symphony to them. anyone familiar with apache knows they do things their own way, and usually slowly.

libreoffice originated from a fork when openoffice’s status under oracle was in doubt. it progresses faster than apache, as most developers also switched.

onlyoffice is an entirely different application. decent enough, but with its own quirks. it can also be slow on lower-spec systems due to the heavy reliance on js. originally a latvian-russian project, it was reorganized (via new corporate entities in uk and sg) to hide the russian ties for ‘reasons’.

on the linked page, i get a giant header image and headline, followed by the article text (which accounts for just 15% of the vertical space on my 16:10 screen).

when i scroll as you have, there’s no elements glued to the top getting in the way.

(ubo and um both enabled)

sounds like a ‘service problem’ someone once spoke about…

acquire your ms office ‘elsewhere’ and never link it to a ms account. same with windows. no msa, no ‘cloud’ to save to.

and there is a service problem here.

the new libreoffice won’t run on your vista.

watch some nutjobs in robes rule flag burning to be a ‘hate crime’ against white male morons, or a ‘threat’ against the ‘president’

the walmart here must be experiencing a high rate self-checkout ‘discounts’. they’ve added more ‘watchers’ who are actually watching everything. enough extra bodies now that they could just staff the regular registers, and with less waiting in line for the customer.

that’s where most of my ‘issues’ come from when upgrading an old debian… upstream version changes to major software packages (python, php, even apache 1.x to 2 back in the day) that require some manual intervention