why would I care to?

bye

true, I always forget that

scales back?

I just got an update that puts a persistent copilot overlay in the corner of Excel, blocking my cells. and the same update seems to have added a context menu that shows up on left click on a squiggle word in Word, which again blocks my document unnecessarily. I use neither of these features. I want neither of these features. I want to use the fucking program to do my goddamn work

ah, but in medieval US, very common

only the porn that republican politicians were caught looking at, though

except for the CP, obviously

disagree. I have an expectation of not having my dick being recorded when I’m pissing in a urinal in a public washroom

those are like Canadian prices. how tf are americans paying so much yet making so little?

that’s probably why they put an actual value in the title preceding it

I cannot upvote a paywalled source

yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall

just like headlights that are so bright that they blind everybody in front of them

I never feel safer than when I’m approaching the crest of a hill on a corner with a 15-ft deep rocky ditch to either side at 80 km/h on a narrow road with almost no shoulder and I can see the night sky lit up in front of me like it’s a football stadium because the car on the other side of the hill has LED high beams on. Then we reach the point where we can see each other’s headlights, and I am flash banged from the intensity going directly into my squinting eyes. I see a barely discernible flash as their auto-highbeams recognize that I am a vehicle and it switches to low beams, which are the exact same intensity and still going directly into my eyeballs, except now it’s not lighting up the night sky as well as the treetops.

I turn my own LED highbeams* on in response in an attempt to see some of the road in front of me so that I can avoid the ditch, and I steer towards the middle of the road where there is only a chance of danger instead of guaranteed danger from driving off the road. Hopefully the other driver sees me well enough to avoid me if I get too close to center or even go over the line.

We complete the pass, my night vision returns over the next 30 seconds, and I start saying a small prayer thanking God for how safe I was kept during that interaction, but I am interrupted by the exact same scenario happening on the next hill.

• I installed LED highbeams bulbs just for this reason, trying to see when somebody is blinding me. I only use them in this situation because my halogen low beams are enough for all other driving conditions that I find myself in. I disabled the DRL module so that the LED bulbs don’t come on unless high beams are on.

spell check probably “helped” them

it does that shit to me all the fucking time nowadays. I’ll write a perfectly fine and appropriate word for the context, and spell check will just change it out for the wrong spelling or just completely the wrong fucking word. it sucks now. probably driven by AI or something.

lane keep isn’t exactly self driving

quarterly profits have been great or something

yes, it would. their elected officials did this.

right, meaning everybody will need to get a VPN, defeating the purpose of the law

looks like I know what my next phone purchase will. and new, even.

I do recommend against things that suck, however

which is just about everything microslop touches

well they won’t literally have performance metrics. they’ll have data that they will use as performance metrics. important distinction

It’s capitalism

again

yes, but which tree?