Even if you tried to deny him access, he’d still find a way to get it. After all, in that very episode he impersonates Picard’s voice to encrypt the computer.

You have absolutely no choice other than to trust him, because you can’t stop him.

In my opinion it makes Data’s character all the better, because all those times he’s being treated like a machine, when his very humanity is on trial, he could flip and kill everyone and take the ship and do whatever he wants, but he doesn’t - because he’s Data, and that’s not the kind of person he is.

Calling it a “car” as well I’m certain pisses him off. Beautiful.

Horny is basically evolution’s way of overriding shyness (and overriding a lot of other logical thoughts) to get the job done.

Marginally less environmentally destructive than the previous version

This always amuses me watching true crime documentaries.

The criminal’s mugshot comes up and they look like absolute shit, and then the guy playing their part in the reenactment is a total looker.

I guess NOT being pretty is a very difficult and unconventional start to a successful career in acting.

This is a defence only until it isn’t - although thank you for the tip.

That’s how Windows has been going for years - adding more and more crap and make it all default enabled, and people are like “Oh just turn it off bro.”

Then every update adds more unwanted options that get increasingly difficult to turn off, or randomly turn themselves back on, and before you know it we’ve reached a point where every new install soon needs an entire checklist to go through to make things actually usable again.

That is not how life should be. I want something that respects me by default, and if it wants me to try a feature I might find even slightly objectional, I should have to explicitly opt-in and say YES.

Firefox is setting a precedent by moving in this direction, and they’ve showed their hand. There’s only more where this came from, and I won’t tolerate it, even if I can turn it off.

When the Firefox terms and conditions drama happened some months back, that was the push I needed to switch to Librewolf. It’s a Firefox fork with privacy-respecting settings out of the gate, no sponsored content, no ads, uBlock pre-installed, and absolutely zero AI. If you’re a Firefox user, I recommend you try it too.

Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.

The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.

The catchphrase doesn’t mean you should be wary of free software, it means you should be wary of free services.

If a service costs you no money to use, and yet costs the operator money to provide, you should think carefully about how the operator is financing it - because it may be via capture and sale of your data, or other undesirable means.

Amazing and benevolent free software does exist (and lots of it!) but there’s a reason FOSS and self-hosted are often said in the same breath. Giving away software for free costs nothing (aside from the generosity of the developer’s time) but hosting software as a service costs money, and that’s why if a service is free you should exercise suspicion.

Also - a shoutout to our Lemmy Admins as proof that this isn’t always true, and for hosting the fediverse for free out of their own pockets, simply because it’s a cause they believe in.

And HDMI port came back. And shitty butterfly keyboard went away. And physical escape key came back. And touchbar went away.

A whole load of mistakes that had to be fixed.

A store worker had some plausibly-deniable fun putting the decorations up.

Hell yea

Children’s carols aren’t obliged to make any kind of sense, but I always imagined it as an aristocratic lady with a huge country manor getting lovebombed with outrageous gifts from her suitor, just because he can.

Endless birds is less annoying when you can be like:

claps hands “Sebastian, put these in the dovecote with the others, would you please?”

“Certainly ma’am.”

The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS

It’s an office though - not as if one person is sitting on all that RAM.

I agree.

See you there 🙂 <- slightly fake or sarcastic

See you there 😀 <- TOO excited

See you there :) <- Natural, relaxed, and just right

The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.

I’ve encountered a pretty annoying thing on Linux several times.

When copying a large file to a flash drive the transfer appears to complete very quickly, yet if you eject and remove the drive (which the graphical file manager will happily do without complaint) then on taking the flash drive where it needs to go you’ll find your file is frustratingly corrupt.

This happens because the write to the disk is cached in memory, and the file manager is apparently unaware of this cache.

You can avoid this by opening a terminal and executing the command ‘sync’ - this will ensure all cached file writes for all disks are fully written. When the command exits (which may be immediately or may take some minutes) the USB write is definitely done, and you can safely unmount it.

Not sure if this behaviour is distro-dependant in any way, or if other file managers deal with it better, but it’s definitely one of only a few times in modern Linux where I’ve had such an unintuitive experience and was super disappointed it didn’t do better. Normally if I shoot myself in the foot it was at least clearly my fault!

From the user perspective, if I copy the file and then ‘safely’ eject the disk and it lets me, I’ve done everything properly, right?

Non-technical users must get caught by this all the time, with the difference being that they can’t figure out why it is happening, or what they should do to prevent it.

At what point does a twig become a stick? Are all twigs also sticks?

I feel like the difference between twig and stick must be not intrinsic to the stick, but a property of the observer. To a bird, a twig is already a stick, and to a giant, that which we call a stick is surely nothing but a mere twig.

Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.

You shoud definitely build it soon, even if just to test it.

If you don’t, it will invariably be your bad luck that a component doesn’t work and you are then past the return window…