If you’ve been around a while, you might remember that Verizon used to be completely obnoxious when it came to forcing you to use their phones and their shitty apps. At one point, Verizon wou…
Didn't get to it this morn either, actually didn't surf the web at all, just wasn't feeling it, and won't be bothering tonight. Woke up a bit meh, dragged and ran errands before going to work a bit early, including hitting MickeyD's as I had a craving.
Tonight is much the same, mostly skipping the web, I'm tired, and my shoulder hurts bad. Ice and reading.
Reading is the big reason, although some of the stories I'm tracking on FiM Fiction do have updates, I'm not feeling it, so I started reading some of my Read It Later stories. Right now I'm on the 5th chapter of A Phoenix Beyond the Veil - The Philospher's Stone, and I'm rather taken with it.
Sunset Shimmer in the Harry Potter universe isn't unknown, but it isn't super common. However, those always use canon SS, a teenager who uses a portal mirror after the mirror showed her a future where she was an Alicorn, because Princes Celestia won't make her one. This one is more mature, what if anything she saw wasn't brought up, instead, she's gotten fed up with Celestia not teaching her like she used to, so she decided to go somewhere else where she can learn more. None of the desire for alicornhood, nor a plan to conquer Equestria, just a desire to learn more. Despite expecting to come out of a statue by a high school, what happened in canon, she comes out of a mirror in the Grainger household, something she blames on Philomena, her pet phoenix that came with her, because she perched on the top of the mirror where the focus is before they used it.
Any how, I'm finding the writing to be to my taste, and while SS is overpowered, the way they're handling it is quite good, she's happy to learn, experience new things, and help people. It makes it quite enjoyable to see how she interacts with the world.
What really has me engaged at the moment? I just reached the point where she tells Hermine's parents that she can give them magic, or more correctly, she can unblock their thaumic passageways. Apparently this is a known problem in Equestria, and she's been reading an advanced medical magic book, and feels capable of fixing it for them. Interesting idea, muggles, or at least muggles that have magic capable children, are capable of magic themselves but have a malady that stops them, wonder where this'll lead.
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This is absolutely true. Americans are the biggest suckers in the history of man. We believe in the trickle down economic theory after proving it wrong again and again for decades.
Microsoft email asking me to verify my age on an account I registered 20 years ago to prove I'm over 18. You know what? I don't actually need Xbox Live. Certainly don't need to have my driving licence on the internet.
This is I don't know if you would call it a meme or just a gif
But it's a picture of David Brooks The New York times columnist with the caption that David Brooks was lambasting the Democrats for being overly enthusiastic about releasing the Epstein files, and it turns out that David Brooks is in the Epstein files and he never mentioned his conflict
I don't do really do boycotts, but being anti-consumer, no company gets much of my money, and when I do have a source choice, while local isn't much of an option here, I certainly will use the best choice possible, and price isn't a driving factor there unless there's a huge difference.
@Mark Wollschlager You mean buying from them? In our household, we've only bought one Intel computer in the last 5 years, my husband's Ace magic which might become my main computer once I test drive it, his last two main computers were Apple devices, and mine AMD Lenovo units. I did buy a pair of used Intel based POS units, but I don't think they count.
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
It seems like that happens fairly often. Like for some reason they just don't communicate well sometimes. It's kinda' weird. But, this worked, I can see it now.
I read that thread yesterday. I would rather they make any AI stuff an extension that had to be added and approved rather than opting out. If they come through with a one click "we pinky swear it's all off" 'kill switch' then maybe. It has been a bit of a drag having to look through the settings and about:config to check for new checkboxes to deselect ai tidbits.
So someone posted their favorite sign over on Mastodon, and I replied with what is my favorite sign, the 'No Straight' sign.
First time I saw this was on a new intersection where one side is a highway ramp, and the other a two-way road, apparently 'Do Not Enter' signs weren't enough, so they put one of these up. Honestly, I'm surprised to know its a standard, Missouri isn't exactly known for sticking to standards, whether its abbreviations like LA for lane, or the non-standard all text signs on the road to my house announcing the road closure ahead and the truck ban on it.
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