The last few phones I had wouldn’t power on if they didn’t have a minimum battery charge, even when plugged in. That’s to ensure a minimal amount of available power to be able to boot the phone. I wonder if the phone would have the same restriction with a missing battery and not just a drained battery…

I assume you’re concerned about the battery eventually blowing up from being on the charger forever?

The most common thing I’ve seen are projects where it acts like a screen or control panel on the wall. Something that’s a fixture or art project.

You don’t need it for anything like music or games - your new phone will be more convenient and run those things better anyway.

A friend of mine stuck an old tablet on the wall and connected it via Bluetooth to his keg system. It gave him a permanent status readout on his beer temperature and how much was left in each keg. It just had a power cable plugged in all the time so it didn’t need to be charged.

That’s smart, Elon. First, pledge money to Trump so progressives hate you. Then go back on your word and piss off conservatives.

But this doesn’t make any progressives go back to liking you. You just pissed off everybody possible. That idea is right up there alongside “I should buy Twitter”.

Trump only listens to people who tell him what he wants to hear.

How do you remove a cult leader like that?

There’s a recent YouTube video where the creator watched a bunch of Friends and calculated how much time was spent on “not jokes”.

IIRC he found that 25% of the show was taken up by laugh tracks or cheering by the fake audience. That’s separate from the time wasted by commercials.

That show was incredibly successful considering how little content they actually put in it.

Yes.

I gave up trying to maintain a principled list of companies because globalization and supply chains make it too hard to really find a single asshole.

Your chocolate was picked by slaves. Your clothes were almost certainly made by exploited workers. Does that toy have a lithium ion battery? You’re not going to like how many of the raw materials were extracted. The name of the company on the sticker of the shit you bought is just a small piece of the rot.

People rarely leave a job because of their coworkers (they leave managers). People working closely together form strong bonds since they’re all working towards the same goal all the time.

It’d also a handy tool management can use to reduce turnover since employees will often stick around longer than they should have because they felt a sense of loyalty or attachment to their direct team.

It sucks to leave people, but at the end of the day, your coworkers are your coworkers and it’s just business. Even if you like them, it’s exceedingly unlikely you’ll remain friends for long after leaving the job.

My only advice is get used to it. After a couple of times, you start to see a pattern of how you get to know (and un-know) coworkers and it doesn’t sting as bad. The really solid friendships can remain, but most you can really let go.

Really? You think https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail is a far right conspiracy theory?

Do we know that for certain?

Thanks for following up after your fresh haul photo earlier! I love me some continuity in my maker communities!

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My thoughts to your squash.

Yes, but not for a good reason.

I’ve asked chat bots for some services (telcos, etc) for very basic questions that you’d think would have been easy to find from a search engine or their main FAQs, but they were not. The bot was at least able to reference some obscure, super old help pages that had otherwise fallen off the radar.

The bot was a solution to a problem only caused because their website was shitty. I guess it’s cheaper to add an ai bot than it is to organize your documentation.

I think the big thing here is which colours you’re into. Tastes change over time, either because of style trends or just age.

My childhood home had disgusting orange shag carpets. A purple toilet. A turquoise toilet. Fucking hideous by today’s standards, but I guess someone in the 60s thought it was awesome.

I’d pole your kids and ask for more detail. If they’re rolling their eyes because of “colour”, tell em to shaddap. If you’re picking really, really loud colours that don’t fit any particular motif, you can of course do what you want, but they might have a point on style.

Can you elaborate on a specific piece of policy?

No it’s not.

It’s in order of how impactful it is on the whole as a whole, I imagine.

And it’s in a takeout container, which means you paid too much for it and it was cold and soggy when you finally got it.

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I bought Terraria when I was really into Minecraft. Didn’t like it at first because the only Minecraft thing is “pick up blocks and crafting”, but once I gave it a fair shake I absolutely loved it.

Fuck, now I have the game music stuck in my head from thinking about the game!