Good thing adblock didn’t work on the browser version of Prime video last time I used it after getting tired of the ads on the app version!

It’s possible they’re embedding ads now though

Yeah it is, my bad! It’s in the body of the post and I forgot lol

I’m conflicted here

On one hand, I play GTA Online, and the amount of hackers is getting out of hand. Most are chill, some are extremely annoying and blow up everyone in the lobby with 800 million explosions a second. In this case, I’m annoyed that I can’t play it and glad there’s anti cheat.

On the other hand, I didn’t realize that BattlEye would prevent Linux users from playing entirely. I’m not a Linux user (yet) myself, but that really sucks. Also, rockstar is extremely predatory with the shark cards (it was worse with Red Dead Online!) so they do kinda deserve it as some form of karma for being terrible

Edit: EAC -> BattlEye

The big trap that guy made that snares the bug and hits it with 4 sticks is so unnecessary but the concept is so funny to me, especially because the pattern of stick hitting swaps every now and then

Thwap Thwap Thwap

“ha, yeah, got him this time”

“can you go get a knife out of my a knife drawer?”

“Your what”

At least when you say certain keywords to your pets they show some emotions!

Try saying “potty?” to an LLM and decoding its response to gauge if it needs to go potty or not, Google!

11.6 mega bites

Absolutely, I was pretty upset when Google added Gemini to their Messages app, then excited when the button (that you can’t remove) was removed! Now I’ve updated Messages again and they brought the button back. Why would you ever need an LLM in a texting app?

Edit: and also Snapchat, Instagram, and any other social media app they’re shoveling an AI chat bot into for no reason

Edit 2: AND GOOGLE TELLING ME “Try out Gemini!” EVERY TIME I USE GOOGLE ASSISTANT ON MY PHONE!!!

I’ll definitely check some of those out, thanks! I have a little experience with Linux since every self hosted server PC I’ve built has always had Ubuntu Server, but even then I was tempted to try and dual boot Mint

As Microsoft adds ads in more places more and more, I consider moving over to Linux but I just have too many files and weird Windows only programs that I use that I can’t

I also haven’t really found a desktop environment I really like yet, so I’m open to suggestions for dual booting!

When I first saw that I was like “great, I have a virus”

Nope, just Windows

Almost every time I restart my Windows PC from an update, it sits on the “closing apps screen” or “restarting” screen then gives up completely and I have to force it to shut down/restart

And, just about every other time I restart with an update, it closes apps and then just fully shuts down after the update!

It’s super graceful! 😭

Figma apps!

I had a laptop a while back with a fingerprint scanner that would work for one day, then stop working completely. I reinstalled the drivers, and it would work for a day and then stop again. I eventually gave up using the fingerprint scanner until I “upgraded” the laptop to Windows 11, and it worked again. No idea if it still works, since I rarely use that laptop now

You could either have the world’s worst luck, or you are genuinely cursed

Alternatively, you keep spilling coffee on your devices and going into a blind fit of cleaning rage that blocks out the memory of the original coffee spill

I have them paired to a few things, but only ever use them on my phone and laptop. That’s why I was so confused when it connected to my desktop, since it was last paired and actually used a long time ago.

I guess it’s a complicated issue for me, since they’re paired with more than 2 things but only ever connected to 2 things

I have the Pixel Buds Pro and they kinda do that, but yeah not very well. I have them paired to my phone and my laptop, and sometimes randomly they’ll silently disconnect from my laptop and permanently pause whatever I was watching if my phone plays a notification. I can’t fix it until I disconnect from and reconnect to my laptop multiple times.

One time I was watching a video on my laptop and they randomly connected to my desktop! I hadn’t used them on my desktop in at least a year, until then!

All in all, they can flow seamlessly, but it’s 60/40 on if it works properly

At least the noise cancelling and passthrough are fun to mess with

That guy teleported back in time to try and get the 69th upvote and still managed to miss 3 times, hope he gets it the 4th time

I have a windows laptop with a fingerprint sensor that worked exactly like this lol

I’d reinstall the driver, it would work for a day, then stop working. One day I updated the laptop to Windows 11 and I think it fixed it, but is it worth the ads coming soon? I will see.

Something similar to this happened to me but I think it was for CSGO. The steam sign in page was a fake popup window inside the main website, draggable and all. I realized it was fake when I noticed it was light theme while my computer was dark theme.

Edit: I realized it was fake before I signed in, luckily

Ironically I’ve had an issue with Spotify not automatically playing when I wanted it to, unrelated to Android Auto lol

Also I think some cars do have cell modems, but it’s mostly to provide in car wifi