What’s funny to me is that you could say Apple is the reason for this.

Apple’s had longer OS support for their phones than any Android manufacturer for a while, but then Google started catching up when they got their own chips and now Samsung and the others are pushing Qualcomm to quit their bullshit.

I do use an iPhone myself currently, but if Qualcomm opens their shit up enough that OEMs can provide at LEAST 5 years of software updates to their flagships, I might go back to Androidland (though I’m not sure what to even consider, I dislike Samsung and OnePlus disappointed me so hard with the OxygenOS->ColorOS switch that it’s literally the reason I went to iOS.

I suppose any Android phone would be good if I ran a custom ROM like I used to, but a couple of years ago bank apps in my country started checking the integrity of the bootloader and whatever. I couldn’t find any way around it back then, but maybe there’s something now?

Might be true for people buying their own WiFi routers.

Which already isn’t most consumers, because most people use what their ISP gives them.

I’ve actually done that

KDE Neon?

I thoughts bears had the right to human arms in the US

Or was it people and bear arms…

Securom has been cracked long ago yeah. I believe it was SafeDisc or StarForce that made things hella weird in a cracked game, but that was bypassed by mounting the CD back then and now I think the cracks work too

They are, but now some modern cases don’t have bays so personally I’m still restricted to external if I want one.

Cool, a replacement for GIFs too.

Next you’ll tell me you can add sound to it and make AVIFs with sound, won’t you?

I hope you get better soon. Is there any sort of cheap yet good insurance you would qualify for, based on e.g your location, disabilities, income, or anything?

I must admit I don’t know a whole lot about the whole system (though a fair bit more than your average European), but I do know there are cases where you can get good health insurance for cheap. Though I’m sure you’ve already looked into what your options are.

Turns as in intersections where you need to turn I guess.

Just across (south) of the bay from you judging by your name: I was at a funeral recently, not many people wore suits. Of course, nobody wore shorts or anything, but not too many formal suits.

I was near lake Erie personally

Visited upstate NY a couple of years ago. They accounted for I’d say 30-40% of all traffic. Of course, upstate NY is basically the southern US of the northern US if you know what I mean.

Higher-end motherboards have LCDs for that now

Otherwise I believe many still have lights?

It’s from 2014, or at least that’s the earliest instance I found

Once met a man who said he loved assembly language because it was so much nicer than punch cards and FORTRAN, but C was OK too.

This was last year. In his defense though, he’s been retired for years, used to work as a professor.

1. Is that a real thing or a joke I’m too European to get?

2. Where can I get this if it’s real?

3. Where can I just get Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? Because they don’t sell the damn thing in my country :(

Yours sincerely,

flaming anus enjoyer

I thought lava was Icelandic for fertilizer

If it is, I’m going to move to Iceland to grow wheat and bake and sell bread. This software engineering thing suddenly doesn’t seem all that lucrative.

Eh to be fair, that rule is from a time where real girls on the Internet were a lot less common (though obviously they existed) and people still fell for the beautiful Spanish girl scam. And bought “girls” stuff on MMORPGs. And so on.