I haven’t encountered such a setting on android myself but perhaps some have and I suggested as a good starting point to ask around on the topic.

Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.

If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.

Secret child-man? Or conspicuous man-child?

Trrra… Tut tut! Tut! Trrra… tatatut!

Looks good

Did you post the correct link? Body of the article doesn’t seem to match the posted headline.

look at patients as revenue generators

Yep. Treat sick people like piggy banks to shake out until all their coins drop out, ruin their life then kick them on the street or let them die. That’s the best™ way to do healthcare.

So?

Azure needs him to care for Microsoft’s Golden Goose at his farm.

Ok. Just wanted to make sure the info is relevant to you.

If you have any connections to the IT departments of colleges or your work, see when they do overhauls of laptops and if you can be sold any surplus. They will be not amazing but solid performers, tend to have decent compatibility and a good deal usually. Watch out for Chromebooks as they might be a little harder to configure than your standard.

Use your local online classified (craigslist, kijiji, FB marketplace etc.). You will have to arrange pickup and payment 1 to 1, quality may vary but you will get a decent deal. Test for boot up to a login screen at minimum before you buy, and when you get it check that the speakers/headphones, other hardware actually works before installing something new and wondering if it was functional to begin with.

Avoid Bestbuy, Newegg, Amazon as they are way overpriced for what you can get through these other methods. Warranty is the main advantage, but I’d suggest Microcenter or to support your local computer shop if you go this way.

Stuff like ebay may work, quality could be decent but unless you can spot an amazing deal, prices are only a little bit better than buying from a retailer.

What country/geographic region are you in? I have Canada and US specific sites about what sites and stores are good, what are overpriced.

You should be able to get Linux running on most laptops, whether every feature will work (camera, fingerprint sensor, audio, dedicated video card) can be a crapshoot but I’ve heard it’s gotten better on the software side in recent years, just use Ventoy and distrohop until you find one that works. Trying to use a Nvidia laptop graphics card is a huge pain in the ass, I’ll warn you in advance.

Old ThinkPads are a solid choice if you can scrounge one wherever you are.

It’s a coping mechanism if anything I guess, thinking we could do something to mitigate or at least delay the crisis.

The best carbon emission bang for buck would be making cities cyclable and walkable. The best long term carbon reduction investments per lifetime $ are by replacing car and flight intensive travel with rail, highspeed rail and bus transit, reducing our reliance on oil. Imagine if these “carbon offset” scams were instead grants to building dense, affordable housing units.

Even if humanity dies a horrible death due to our insatiable need to consume, it is better for our collective conscious to say we died trying to fix it rather than deny it completely, even if such distinction is futile or practically insignificant in the long run.

Reminds of that post a month ago…

Officer Douglas, we’ve recovered 2000kg of the gold stolen last year!

Good job, Detective Webster. How did you locate that 1900kg of gold?

Idk, Uvalde police might need it to cover up childrens’ screaming next time.

Depending on when the collection was amassed. If it’s 90’s digital porn quality then that amount could last for decades.

The only thing I heard recently is about a Toronto-born artist Drake being accused in a song by Kendrick Lamar of being a pedo. Might be that?

Having heard him make a deposition, Lindell’s the kind of guy I could see insisting on representing himself against better judgement.

Hmm, I have no clue how to get JUST the date format to show a certain way, whether it’s 月火水木金土日, MTWTFSS, LMMJVSD, and pick very specific parts of the locale like that. Is using the “Japanese” way common in some regions in China?

Perhaps related is getting dates to display like 19 June 2024, June 19 2024 or 2024/06/19 without changing your region?

That’s why the dude John Leonard was hoping for a Harriet. Maybe an old Soviet warship would have sufficed for 7,000,000 Pepsi points if they still had one in storage.