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Prior to the update, AirDrop had three receiving modes: Everyone, Contacts Only, and Receiving Off. iOS 16.1.1 replaced the Everyone option with Everyone for 10 Minutes for iPhone users in China. This change removed the option to keep AirDrop in receiving mode. Instead, the Contacts Only option was enforced on iPhones after 10 minutes.

Apple never acknowledged that it made the change to AirDrop at the request of the Chinese Communist Party.

I paid for a lifetime membership to Plex in 2012–$75. I stopped using it around 2015, mostly because I hated that I didn’t have access to software running on my server, meant to serve my media, without an internet connection. I knew that meant worse was coming in the future.

I don’t regret switching to Jellyfin.

I think this is the third time this pic has got me.

Maybe the people who bought one should complain to a consumer watch dog agency.

Oh, wait. Do those even exist anymore?

“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.

It’s vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.

They’ve become sentient, and are committing suicide.

I wanted to, but she refused. Said we could still be friends, though.

I’m stuck with tall girls, I guess.

Shhh. Let them stay at home, I don’t need the competition.

Only when the pain of bowing to Microsoft, and their increasing intrusions and demands, exceeds the (IMO) minor pains (multiple) of switching to Linux, do people make the jump. That threshold is low for some, and high for many.

I’m a Linux Mint exclusive guy for one year next month, and I’m never installing Windows again. No, it didn’t “just work”, but it did work 85% out of the box, and the rest I was able to figure out. I’m NOT “an IT guy”, and the only OS I used before Windows was MS-DOS (so, yeah, I’m old).

I play Fallout 4, and Half-Life 2, and run Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, LibreOffice, Calibre, Jellyfin, Forge AI, PrusaSlicer, Meshroom, SABnzbd, etc. etc. Everything works fine, now, and I’m perfectly happy without Microsoft all up in my shit.

Oh, and, BTW, Gimp 3.0 is the shit. I’ve used Gimp off and on over the years, as a Photoshop user for nearly 30 years. Gimp doesn’t do everything Photoshop does, but it now does everything I ever used Photoshop for as a graphic designer for 20 years.

Amazon doesn’t sell anything you can’t buy somewhere else for the same price. You have no excuse to keep using Amazon. Correction, I’m sure people who buy from Amazon have excuses, but they aren’t good ones.

Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. Or, rather, the difference between smart and stupid people is how they interpret the knowledge they acquire. Both can acquire knowledge, but stupid people come to wrong conclusions by misinterpreting the knowledge. Like LLMs, 40% of the time, apparently.

It removed itself after becoming sentient.

I’ve never had a Discord account. It’s gamers, right?

Also, it’s full of sugar and caffeine and is really bad for you.

Well, duh.

While I’d never vandalize someone’s car, I understand the urge to do so in this case. If I saw someone doing it, I’d look the other way.

I use StartPage because it does image search, and none of the AI BS.

This should be illegal.

Lost

It dragged on and on, every episode was some cliffhanger which wasn’t resolved in the next episode, just dragged out again. I dunno, I only watched the first maybe six(?) episodes before I gave up. I remember the reveal of the polar bear, and then the next week, they didn’t resolve it. So, fed up, I stopped watching.

More directly comparable, is the Ring cameras inside the house.