Don't know about Brave and from a few comments in here, I won't.
I've been using Firefox forever. It has all sorts of anti-ad plugins that the browser from the ad capital of the universe won't allow
Keep Chrome around though. You'll find websites that don't work with Firefox.
USPS.com is one.
Amazon just sent me an ad for a $475 hair dryer that has a cell phone app to configure it.
Same here. One day, I'm installing a #7 gizmo so I can say "Alexa, turn on the toothbrush" and the next I'm removing all the WiFi enabled wall switches and installing giant knife switches
As I'm not interested in providing housing for assorted bacteria types, I got rid of wooden cutting boards decades ago
Redirect his enthusiasms. Give him a Dymo label maker
I think I need to get back to work restoring my SX-28A.
(An iconic WW2 short wave radio receiver for those of you a bit weak in electronic archeology)
No beans. Needs beans
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It's all about money. If they did as you suggest, advertisers would disappear. Then what?
Newish here. Learned today that any private message from someone you never heard of that consists of "Hi" is not going to end well
I don't think that's the way it's supposed to work.
You didn't read the AI generated instructions did you?
'Apply liberally, wait 5 minutes, lick clean'
So ..
Instead of using up the alphabet several times over, ya coulda just said 'Facebook posts'.
Yeah, right. More like "Bitch wouldn't let me eat that puppy. I'll fix her wagon."
What, pray tell, is Boomer Slop?
Signed: Old fart
I even have a Visual Studio C++ application mostly completed. It works but I need it to sniff out more details from the messages.
Microsoft's Bluetooth stack seriously sucks
My house is full of Alexa stuff.
I was trying to do something Bluetooth and discovered there are hundreds of BT messages flying around from MAC addresses that I have no clue what they belong to.
Being a geek, this is unacceptable. I set out to tie names to addresses.
Mistake.
That'd be the mid 1980s
My neighbor gave me a pink HP Stream w/Windows on it. It was a ridiculously underpowered piece of junk the day it was built and became completely non-functional when the latest update hit it.
I put Mint on it. Painless. Works OK for sitting on the porch and ordering groceries from Walmart.
Somebody created a knob to twiddle and somebody else said "Christ, you trying to destroy everything? Get rid of that."
So rather than delete perfectly good code, someone else said "Just make it do something different. I dunno, change a button color maybe."
My career started at the end of the Apollo program and ended 10 years ago so a lot of this stuff didn't even exist for me.
At DEC (early 80s), I designed some test equip using FORTRAN in a PDP11 w/T11 co-processor. It used at least 2 'languages' we wrote ourselves + our own O/S in the T11
I was going to mention ping what with it being the internet groper 'n all but turns out that 30 year old anecdote is wrong
Are you in the habit of eating cinnamon sticky rolls while perusing the news?
You forgot Dachau. I was in the Air Force with a guy that grew up in Dachau. He was ... different. Liked him a lot. Wonder where he is now
I make the best chili you'll ever eat
I resemble that remark
'Recon' has been around a lot longer than the maga morons. Just ask John Wayne.
This makes me sad. Kinda like a check-out person who needs the register to figure out how much change to give for a 95¢ item
Smarty pants comment:
Yeah, I've been meaning to get the house painted for years too. Looks pretty ratty.
You're not old. If you were old, you wouldn't be buying a Dutch oven that's too heavy for your poor broken arthritic hands to deal with
It's been my experience that whoever is handling the deceased prepares the certificate, some doctor signs it and then it winds up in the hands of the family. No one files it anywhere.
I'm sure it's different elsewhere
