potoooooooo ☑️

That’s where I got my start, too. Shifted to lemmy.world when it so sadly went away.

I also presume some level of common-sense. Don’t do it near cameras, destroy the notes immediately, etc… It’s not air-tight, but it’s a surprisingly useful approach in many contexts where very expensive technology can fail.

Obviously, yeah, it wouldn’t work in the middle of a Target. And given the AI tools that can use keyboard typing sounds to determine what was typed, it’s even theoretically possible there’s some bleeding-edge capability to circumvent it. But in general, if you’re in some context where you’re not sure if you’re being listened to/monitored, handwritten notes would definitely work, because your biggest concerns are e-mail, text messages, phone calls, GPS, etc…

Only tangentially related, but in the vein of privacy and circumventing surveillance, one communication idea I really like in that vein is from the show The Leftovers–the way the “Remnant” group communicates only by simple handwritten notes.

I just like the idea that something so rudimentary could theoretically overcome a lot of very high-tech snooping equipment. Good luck using your Stingray cell tower simulator to intercept my notepad scribbles.

With tiny hands, obviously.

Speaking of which, a recent Android update (I know I should change OSes) got rid of the little Lemmy.world web app icon thing I had installed and I haven’t been able to get it back, so far. Does anyone know how to fix that? That was working great as my RIF replacement. I read it all again and I’m such a grandma. :(

I’ve enjoyed my NVIDIA Shield, though it’s arguably a bit long in the tooth if they’re still full price.

Kindly refrain.

To me, Discord feels like someone shoehorned a bunch of features into an old '90s instant messenger. Like if the only way you could access Wikipedia was by searching through your MSN Messenger chat history or something.

XenoForo

Just looked it up. $60/mo is the “starter” price!? Are forums normally so expensive to run?

oh ok so we’re just allowing straight hate speech now cool

Just Value Content

Literally right there in the title.

It’s a really catchy commercial, too. “Winston tastes good like a…cigarette should.”

Who are you going to listen to? This guy?

Or Fred Flintstone?

Namely disrobing at inopportune times.

Is Caroline like the new Nicole? The site’s moving too fast already, I can’t keep up!

This was literally the photo that finally got me banned from Reddit years ago.

What about the dragon type?

Counter-point: he won the race by being the fastest runner. But I grant you it took him awhile to decide to run the race relative to average life spans and the age of the likely typical marathon runner, so we can just call it a draw.

Edit: Okay, I read the rest of the article. Quite a ride.

I find this true of so few actual races.