Coworker’s story: Trying to fix a prototype in a hotel room at a European trade show. Soldering iron on hand, but it was a 120V iron and glowed white hot when plugged into a 240V outlet.

So they had one person solder and the other person keep unplugging and replugging the iron from the wall at roughly 50% duty cycle.

Friend’s desktop was so fried from Kazaa and Limewire, that he couldn’t even open a Windows explorer window. Ended up opening Notepad and copying all of his files to a thumbdrive using the file open dialog box before reformatting.

“Um it says that you’ll never ask for this code”

It’s actually an ongoing problem with closed source Linux games. Devs don’t want to update, and don’t want to open source.

A lot of the time the Windows version will play better through Proton/Wine.

With modern deepfakes, you don’t even need to actually kidnap a physical person.

They’re sold at the checkout at Dick’s sporting goods. Pretty sure some woo woo people are picking up on them.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980012/

First, we find that evidence for any direct vagal parasympathetic efferent innervation of the adrenal glands is weak and likely artifactual.

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

Acupuncture[b] is a form of alternative medicine[2] and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body.[3] Acupuncture is a pseudoscience;[4][5] the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge,[6] and it has been characterized as quackery.[c]

Nobody told you life was gonna be this way

Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

It’s to help you forget the key and effectively destroy the data.

I thought In Time had a really cool premise and could have been a great commentary on wealth disparity, but it didn’t do much with it.

Check out Nebula. Lots of YouTubers host there. Subscriptions go straight to the creators, and they cut the sponsor blocks out of the versions they post there.

Funny that this came up in my feed immediately after: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/two-americas-one-bank-branch/

Just encrypt your data and don’t tell them the key that you’ve memorized. If you have trouble forgetting things, use a hammer.

for free, essentially!

Say that to the Facebook Portal: a fantastic product five years ago that is now having its features gutted because Meta couldn’t figure out how to make money off of it.

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

I saw someone make a denim dress which they called a jress, and I just about had an aneurysm.

Meanwhile, LG: Download our app and scan this QR code for diagnostic information.