Nope, that’s the point. That’s how we trick them into get eaten.

Right from the start there have been adults only guilds in WoW though.

Right? They are angry, physically enduring, strong. Luckily they’re also constantly horny and therefore stupid.

I also don’t want to have to talk to it, so switching to Home Assistant with Zigbee

That’s what started it all for me. I have some Hue lights for TV backlighting and started looking for alternatives when Philipps first threatened making their cloud account mandatory.

Threw out the bridge, works like a charm and I have been buying new devices and return everything I cannot setup locally but it’s annoying because they don’t always tell about their crappy app and cloud accounts on the product info.

Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

That’s the big one, sadly.

Joke’s on you - I can’t even reach my Zigbee devices in the next room, your car won’t have a chance from the street. That’ll make it easier to convince it to come back home though.

I wish. Every fucking bank has their own shitty app for 2FA instead of just using standardized and proven TOTP, no way around that.

Same about school apps the article mentioned since it’s connecting to their (one of many) proprietary system, no website for that.

And recently got into the home automation rabbit hole. Lots of devices that require their fucking app, sometimes with mandatory cloud account, just to connect! And people in reviews even praise how easy it is, it’s infuriating! I don’t need light bulbs connecting to the internet, thank you very much.

I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.

Came here after the comment got deleted. Did that moron really claim that greentext dude is homophobic? He literally let himself fucked by his gay friend ffs.

I have no clue about any instrument but if that’s basic I don’t wanna see the pro version.

got highlighted in a horse industry publication

Wait what?

Edit: duh, he was a jockey. I should let the moment of confusion settle before replying.

It seems to be more complicated than that

However, when the modulated light source contains a spatial high frequency edge, all viewers saw flicker artifacts over 200 Hz and several viewers reported visibility of flicker artifacts at over 800 Hz. For the median viewer, flicker artifacts disappear only over 500 Hz, many times the commonly reported flicker fusion rate.

Here the relevant part:

This translates to a small probability of order 10^–16 for a single death in the entire population of eight billion people living on Earth at present. The likelihood of one death increases to 10^–9 if the current population size persists for another billion years, after which the expanding sun is expected to boil off all oceans on Earth.

Marvels like the Saturn V or JWST should be mentioned here, too.

He’s probably driving around in rural areas though. What’s the cost of living at your place? Not Silicon Valley, I hope?

Yes, it’s inconvenient but how is your future SO going to meet you if stay at home? She’s probably unsocial like you but you could still meet her family or friends by dating eventually leading to her.

Of course you could try your luck staying online too but I’d suggest something else than niche platforms where tech enthusiasts are overrepresented like the Fediverse.

Also, it points upwards, the satanic version is upside down (like the satanic cross).

The pentagram has far longer been a holy or symbol of protection for people who are into that kind of thing. Not sure if that matters though because it also applies to the swastika.

Why? It’s just the Black Tower.

He really is running low on soldiers, isn’t he?

I disagree. Scaled down to small and harmless it’s like handling kids. You explain what you don’t want them to do and what happens/you’re going to do if they continue. Now it’s crucial you go through with what you threatened them with.

If you either don’t deliver on the “threat” or don’t act as you said you would, guess what happens? They just continue or it even gets worse.

Of course it’s more delicate/difficult when handling with powerful and intelligent adults but it’s at least similar. Not issuing threats is just not communicating. If you then just act (violently), things are more likely to escalate.

Edit: or back to the kids analogy: don’t tell them anything but smack them once they went too far: may help in that instance but they’ll just learn to better avoid you and do shit behind your back.