Since I invariably wind up getting “name suits” types of comments, here’s the explanation behind it:
Around the turn of the millennium, I was trying to come up with a username to use on a particular site that had a shortish character count limit for usernames. My goal was something related to the fact that I would often be making my points in arguments with “holier-than-thou” types by taking what they were saying, and turning it on its head so the offensive stuff was directed back at them.
I also happened to learn shortly beforehand that many years ago “'ape” was somewhat commonly used as a verb to mean “imitate” or “copy.”
I’m sure you can figure the rest out.
Wonder if this will work on the innumerable obvious covers of popular songs by no-name bands which get listed as being from the original artists. Probably not, which is why I stopped using Spotify even before so many of their other shitty moves.
Honestly, I’d also bone an alien if she looked and sounded like Bebe Neuwirth.
Sorry, all I’d ever see or think of is Lilith.
*shivers in disgust*
Of course the cops keep using it - payments from the inevitable lawsuits don’t come out of their pockets, so why give a shit when there are quotas to make? No accountability breeds irresponsibility.
“My name is Microsoft, and I approved this message.”
Post title (on Lemmy, mind you) inspired by using the nuclear option in the game Lemmings?
I’ll have to add my wish that strangers would buy me things I want to my Amazon wishlist.
Playing them ain’t much of a problem. One that can also subscribe to and keep reliable, up-to-date, well-organized channel lists has been for me, which is part of why I don’t bother with IPTV very often.
Ars has been around since the mid 1990s. Granted the sale to Conde Nast changed them slowly over time, as well as broadening the focus significantly, but it was likely a case of grow or die since the PC nerd market isn’t anywhere near what it used to be.
Oh, so that’s the reason you & Dad are always fighting!
…let’s not get started on line endings
Aww! But, Mom…!
I mean… it wasn’t exactly difficult to predict this outcome. How many of their employees actually found it useful outside of the C-suite (where they thought it was fantastic because it bullshits just like they do)?
Like all the AI tech bros, Musk believes himself above the law (and unfortunately the current disgusting excuse for an administration is of the same mindset) so that wouldn’t be at all surprising, This is all just a game to them, with conveniently selective application of the rules just part of the fun of having complete disregard for the destruction of other people’s lives.
But they’d better not edit The Don, amirite? What a fucking nightmare this all is.
I wish I had the kind of time and money required for effing around like this.
The first two comments are must reads:
This is an elaborate joke:
amd64 only: modern x86_64 laptops and desktops with hardware bought from Temu or built by companies that don’t read the specs
How is this news? Wait, this is Phoronix.
And
Windows 11 Is A New NT For “Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash” Test Bed.
It mentions & includes a link to the NotebookCheck site as the source. It’s certainly NOT an unreliable site.
I understand all that, but there’s no reason for that to require a subscription. A reasonable per-use fee seems like it should be an alternative option. Even if the company doesn’t want to set up those abilities on each phone themselves (which seems odd to me considering how automated that process can be made - when provisioning the phone, pop it on a USB stand, fire up a script, and walk away while it completes), those events can’t be happening with such frequency that a subscription makes sense for anything but a larger company with a high turnover rate - one that implies said company possibly has bigger problems.
Those features aren’t free though – according to a note on the Void Phone website, “basic MDM costs are $2.50 per phone/month.”
At the 100pc minimum that’s a guaranteed extra $250/mo cost. I know that’s relatively cheap in enterprise terms, but what a racket for something that’s mostly going to be “set it & forget it.”
Quick! What crimes can we commit that require accurate time stamps to prove?
Mayday, Jeeves! Mayday!
I honestly didn’t know it was still around. Wonder how it compared against the sludge that is now Google’s crapified results. Guess I’ll never know.