Keep fighting this shit.

As to the “flow” thing, it’s an extra 2 warnings and a mandatory 24 hour waiting period after you select to install apks from unknown sources. It can be permanently enabled, so the 24 hour wait will be a one and done thing if you choose the indefinite option. Googles stated reasoning for this is to prevent non tech people from falling for scam calls or messages using scare tactics like “your bank transfered out your savings” or whatever made to get people to panic and follow whatever commands they’re told to do and install before having time to speak to a family member or contact their bank or card company themselves.

For what it’s worth, I think that 24 hour part of it would prevent some people from getting scammed. There’s a lot of naive people who still fall for stuff like that.

My issue is that I believe this is just a stepping stone to make it even harder or impossible to side load in the future. Like, a year or so later or whenever Google thinks they can get away with it they’ll try removing the option to permanently allow side loading. So right now it will just be a few extra clicks and a 24 hour wait one time, but where will they move the bar next?

While disconnecting the battery for a while can sometimes clear out the codes, evap lights usually won’t clear themselves after the issue is fixed for usually 100 or so miles and a certain number of engine on\off cycles.

Han-Solo

I mean, you can do a pre-emptive surprise strike against a foreign military and still be the “good guys”. It’s just that we aren’t the good guys when we did this pre-emptive military strike against a foreign military… Or grade school girls… Because our top military brass has been replaced by retards loyal to trump.

A retroactive tax is pretty bullshit.

It being a one time tax with a “if you lived here 1-1-26” is also idiotic. The billionaires wouldn’t even pay. It’d just be tied up in courts for like the next 20 years.

Not beginning until you hit a billion dollars is also stupid.

It needs to start at a much lower net worth, be every fucking year, not be retroactive to a single date on the calendar that happened before the vote (cause that really is bullshit to do), and be on some sort of increasing percentage instead of just a flat 5.

The kind that can be better made with $20 and a trip to home depot?

I could agree, but who says that devs won’t take advantage of this once it’s in widespread use, and unlike motion sensing, PC gamers are very used to adjusting their settings to get the fps and look that they want. I can’t even think of a PC game where one of the first things I did wasn’t to go muck around in the graphics settings.

I look at the face and see one image that looks like a face from a game 5 years ago, and another that looks like that face became an actual person. You couldn’t make it look like an actual person without changing some of the details from the original.

Plus, if you don’t like it, it’s 1 click away from just turning dlss off.

I’ll likely never own a 5090 at all. Definitely not two of them.

But while a lot of you are hating how that before and after looks, the after image if just straight up nicer looking and more realistic.

It shouldn’t look so realistic? Man; I’m in my 40’s. Game devs have been trying to make people in games more realistic looking my entire life. Her before image wasn’t less realistic due to artistic choice. It was because it couldn’t be done easily or run on a system.

Lara Crofts tits didn’t start as triangles for artistic reasons.

I think you might have failed biology class :-|

You can’t do this and not say cleavage. C’mon!

Say anything against the grain and you’re banned from the instance. A problem with individuals having complete control of their instances, and there’s really no way to do it otherwise. Obviously that’s not all instances, but a lot of people who set one up also have their own personal narratives they want to push.

Cause everybody thinks they’re ADHD.

The article says this:

“Naturally, he refused the offer and brought up Australian consumer law, which is quite similar to the European one for these matters. In a simplified form, retailers are responsible for warranty claims and must replace or refund the defective item; then they take the issue to the manufacturer. When confronted by Goran, Umart went to the trouble of quoting the Australian Consumer Law but made a seemingly byzantine and twisted interpretation of it, reiterating that a refund at the original price was the proper remedy.”

Now it totally sucks, but there isn’t the faintest blip of a bastardization or a twisting to the warranty policy refunding the amount he paid for the RAM. It says in plain text that they have to issue a refund or a replacement. It does not say the customer gets to choose whichever they want, and a refund most definitely doesn’t mean you get more back than what you paid for it.

Now what umart did next is definitely a shit move that they should be on the hook for. Keeping the ram and sending it off themselves without first checking with the customer. Umart should pay for that fuck up.

Absolutely this. I do it on a small scale already. Occasionally I’ll order one of those “highly rated” things on Amazon and it’s a total piece of shit, or comes with a card inside and it says something like “leave us a 5 star review and we’ll send you a 2nd battery for free” or some shit like that.

I’ll write a review and out them for leaving the bribery card inside, or I’ll rate a shit product a 1 star review, and sometimes the company will offer me a refund and tell me I can keep the product if I take the review down.

I’ll email them back agreeing to take the review down after I’ve been refunded the money. After I get the money I’ll update the review to provide the information about trying to bribe me to remove my review.

Once, a company tried TWICE to get me to remove my review. The dumb fucks sent me a 2nd $40 Amazon gift card. Lol

Also, one extra note: unfortunately $250,000 doesn’t even go that far. I’m not sure if this volunteer department buys most of their trucks 2nd hand or not, but for new trucks prices have drummed up so high that a Pumper (type of firetruck without the big ladder on top, that you would typically picture in you mind if you were to think of a firetruck) costs $1,000,000 or more. A ladder truck can run $2,000,000. This volunteer department has 10 trucks already. I’d guess something like one ladder truck, two or three pumpers, a couple brush truck, and two or three tanker trucks for hauling lots of water around.

Depends on the local building codes a lot of times. My house is almost 20 years old and is still in pretty good condition. As long as the foundation stays good and you keep the roof from leaking there isn’t too much that will make a house not worth repairing.

It’s half a shit bill, anyhow. It limits very large institutions from owning “normal homes”, but opens up and loosens restrictions on manufactured homes. So they can still knock out a lot of owned houses. They’ll just be the shittier kind that won’t last as long before they go bad. Housing will be replaced by ones that last 30 years instead of ones that can last 75 years.

He wasn’t the only one.

I got a lil stone painted statue of a T-Rex 🦖 ripping apart some garden gnomes. It’s my favorite and I love it.

Just tried finding a picture to link, but I can’t see the one that I have. Mine looks a bit cooler than the ones I was seeing.