…and moist.

To be fair, that will stop any 5g chips from affecting you.

That’s interesting stuff, thanks for the links. I was under the impression that eSIMs were more integrated than that. That makes the whole eSIM nonsense even more ridiculous, as the manufacturer isn’t even saving much.

The author seems to have a rather idealistic view of this. At best eSIMs were a way to cut costs for the manufacturer by leaving out the SIM slot, socket, and supporting circuitry. They were always supposed to be a trap for the user though.

eSIM promised frictionless switching, but carriers kept the friction

They never promised frictionless switching. Whereas with physical SIMs you just remove one and either put it in a new phone, or replace it with a new SIM, eSIMs require interacting with the carrier to coordinate pushing the config to the phone, with all the attendant headache, and additional friction, of doing so.

Moving your number between phones is now more complicated

Well, yes, you no longer have control of the process.

The idea is still good, but the ecosystem isn’t ready

The idea was never good, but the ecosystem is exactly where carriers want it. The extra hassle “encourages” users not to make changes.

Perfectly preserved bathroom corpse surprise

That’s my new band name sorted.

I have made the bigliest number lies of any president in this GREAT nation of USA! My uncle worked for NASA, he’s a very smart man, and even he hasn’t told as many lies as me. Men come up to me with tears in their eyes, big men, strong men, and they say “Thank you Mr. President, you tell the bigliest lies, the best lies”. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Corfeffe!

(I’d have tried harder, but it makes me feel unclean, and stupider trying to imitate his gibberish)

Most days I wish I could “cancel my subscription” to the overall scene.

This might sound a little preachy, and I don’t mean it like that, but… you can. Just stop engaging with it. Stop checking social media, “news”, blogs, videos and all the miriad other ways others try to capture your attention so frequently. Develop an attitude that, when you see an a link to “10 things you didn’t know about corn! Number 7 will shake your world!!1!11!”, you think “a) I probably do know them, and b) I’ve managed to live without them so far, so I’ll survive not clicking on this obvious clickbait”.

The same with news. You don’t actually need to read about the fresh new attrocity of the day, you’re already aware of the cascade of awfulness that’s occuring, so give yourself a break. You can always choose to catch up once a week or so to make sure you’re not too far out of the loop.

I’m not going to say any of that is easy, at least to begin with, but it is all doable, and the benefit to your wellbeing is likely to be massive. You don’t need to stop completely, but, at the very least, check these things only occasionally, and for a fixed amount of time.

I can confirm, pretty much every UK household has one of those, they’re just one of those things you have in the kitchen.

I believe we refer to “shaking Mr. Boopsy by the hand”, not “cranking my Mr Boopsy”. How uncouth! Tsk.

Bravo! A delightful tale of the first meeting of Mr Boopsy and the Wrightie sisters. I do hope that we shall read more of their adventures and undoubtedly growing friendship in future.

Similar shorthand was used when sending telegrams, as they were charged by the character too.

Oh the LLM’s attempt is nonsense on all sorts of levels. The board is too big, conponents only have one terminal connected, the socket is on backwards, there’s random holes in the board, and I initially wondered if it was trying to use a power delivery IC, which would be massive overkill, but it looks more like a transistor, and it appears to have connected all if the terminals together. Oh, and unless d1 is a tiny LED, it hasn’t actually included the very LED it’s supposed to light.

Gaving the LLM desugn the board as an experiment is fine (result: fail), but sending it to be manufactured without even checking it was astonishingly wasteful. It’s just more e-waste. The more I think about it, the more cross I get.

It’s a USB-C connector, so it would need slightly more that a single resistor to trigger power delivery. If I recall correctly, you can get away with two resistors formong a voltage divider on a specific pin to trigger a basic 5v supply though, so it’d be three resistors.

It will forever be vi to me.

Good, good, spread the true word!

And pico for that matter.

HERETIC! UNBELIEVER!

Come on in, <esc>J us, soon you will learn to love the one true editor. Launch vi and be <esc>:w. Soon you will want to <esc>:%s/other editors/vi/g. <esc>dd your hesitation and do it.

Well, to be fair, it probably will stop the daemon running if he aims it right.

“I can’t believe it’s not beef” brand beefy granules with genuine imitation beef flavour.

Why, and please understand that I ask this in a spirit of genuine enquiry and desire to expand my understanding of the scope of the human mind, in the name of all that is good and reasonable in this world, would you do such a thing? I’m trying very hard not to imaging the smell if it were opened a few years from now.

I’d prefer they have “a very harrowing almost escape to Moscow, then a long time contemplating their misdeeds in prison”, but I don’t think that would fit on the poster.

What???!? Say it ain’t so!

You know, the more I hear about this chap, the less I like him, and I’ve heard a lot about him.