Rubby ducky on desk (Millenials, look up the “Rubber ducky debugging”)
or
AI chat bot burning 400 million KWh a day as well as pumping out millions of BTUs of heat into the atmosphere so that “line go up”

Who would win

So all that effort to spare 1 watt of “suspend” power? Running home assistant all day long probably burns 500x that power.

I have to be missing some detail because that sounds absolutely insane in my head.

I haven’t had anything beyond a hug from my mother in 10 years.

A boss of mine some time ago would sneak up and pat me on the back, scaring me most of the time. Back then I hated it.

These days something like that would make my whole week.

That switches you to a phone app platform that hides the ads but records everything about you from your telemetry and sells it.

Wait until millions realize they have Windows home and don’t have group policy editor

Doesn’t happen in other, unrelated fairy tales either.

Shame I can’t summon Randy Feltface

Independant my aching ass. Haier US is Haier corporate’s (Qindao) b*tch and everyone knows it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier

The only “smart” appliance to own is an offline appliance.

NVME screw: phases outside of our dimension before even reaching the floor

Also I really want to know why this can’t be tapped for a standard case screw or even a chassis thumbscrew. Been pissing me off since msata and nvme even became a thing. Such great storage and it can’t be mounted with a standard @!#%^ing screw that everything else uses WHY?

Sounds like a “you” problem, like you have a VPN connected.

The SMART thing to do is to buy a DUMB TV. Pay a little more and get a real TV- you know. A display, with speakers and HDMI inputs. Nothing else.

You pirate Windows server at work? We got a badass over here :D

When using Microsoft products and accepting their incomprehensible terms and conditions, you have no say and your opinion doesn’t matter.

Group policy doesn’t matter, domain administrator, GPO rules, all of it- none of it matters.

You’ll get dogshit and you will like it. (Friendly reminder that it was extremely overpriced also) That’s the tax you pay for being in their horrible, horrible “ecosystem” from hell. Enjoy! Grease up or take it dry, you’re “taking it” either way.

You can make any dumb American do anything you want if you lead with a threat.

The very instant they are threatened, any tiny amount of critical thought they ever had instantly goes out the proverbial window.

You son of a b#@^% you beat me to it

Holy #%!@ng sh#%.

But the scariest part of this story isn’t the holes, it’s the irresistible urge to go in…

I learned something today, thanks

Was it previously not Chromium?

The heck? UBlock works on Mac- ohhh is this an M1/M2 thing I was unaware of?

Nevermind, you said IOS not MacOS