The interesting thing is if the manufacturer is shipping them that way by default.

I’m on ml and it seems pretty general. It has a bit more fringe contingent than world, but everything else is there too.

Irc works fine, people I know are there, and matrix has always seemed too attention -seeky for my tastes.

Irc still. No matrix so far.

How about elephant jokes? There are so many of those.

Two angry men on separate occasions have made comments to me about masking and how I don’t need to do it. I just stare right through them and ignore,

I just say thanks, I prefer wearing it and I’m more comfortable with it on. That generally works.

but why are they so angry?

Might go back to the conflicting and stupid instructions we got when the pandemic started. The public health establishment lost all its credibility and continues to mess up.

Try charging more so people will take you more seriously. That works surprisingly well a lot of the time.

Try here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017580

Those sorts of jobs are filled from low-wage countries.

Florida isn’t one of those states though, but on the other hand Trump’s felonies are from NY and are under appeal. So OP’s question is interesting.

NZ reversed that ban 1 year after announcing it and decades before it would have gone into effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Well, a good scandal might have come along to take out a few of the candidates, though that didn’t happen afaik. Other than that, I mean, what is the hurry? I don’t follow politics all that closely anyway, but there are a few local organizations that I like, so I figure on mostly going by their endorsements. It usually takes me about an hour to fill in the ballot.

I’ll try to fill mine in today. It wouldn’t have been any easier to do it earlier, and it’s preferable to do it on election day or close to it, so you have all the information available. The main contested elections in my district are local ones, and stuff is always happening.

I’m an antifan of Apple but the M4 Max is supposed to be faster than any x86 desktop CPU, and use a lot less power. That’s per geekbench 6. I’d be interested in seeing other measurements.

Those used to be called coffee shops, though now they are likely virus spreaders.

This is about installing on a Nexus 5 which is from 2013. Sounds painful.

ELIZA? Or maybe just a rubber duck as used by programmers.

NK already has missile tech, just not clear whether it has real intercontinental range. The US and Russia did that in the 1950s though.

nuke delivery stuff

That’s what space tech means, I thought.

It seems like a pain in the neck because of the difficulty of writing code for Android, especially older versions, since the API’s keep changing and the older SDK’s might be hard to find and use (I haven’t tried). It helps if you can root the phone, but that isn’t always easy either. Plus, a phone-sized PC display doesn’t sound that useful. For a wall or desk display, you might be better off with an Inkplate (e-reader with reflective e-paper display) or similar.