Tbf that's been the standard in enterprise software for decades, hence free or subsidized "educational" licenses for CAD, image/video editors, etc. it's a predatory practice in every one of those instances but it's very much the norm

Yeah even the cheap new power tools are absurd compared to the hand-me-down stuff I've gotten from my dad, especially considering when considering torque or portability.

I thought I'd see more Depeche Mode references than I have given how hard they called this one.

Maybe it's just because I got way into TCGs at a young age or something but if l am presented with a mystery box and an "open it" button, I'm going to click it 9/10 times regardless of what it says above or below it

Exactly, it's not a coincidence that Facebook started lobbying for mandatory age verification right after tools to block them from gathering that same data became mainstream.

"Won't somebody think of the children?!" Remains the final boss of privacy killing legislation

Thanks to my first one being from when they only offered a Kindle with a CDMA data plan it's been unable to get updates for years and years, there's no WLAN functionality so it can't get online even if it wants to at this point lol

Well for one, when the process works, it REALLY works, it just dumps that stuff out when it gets going. Another thing that helps is recycling aluminum is one of the simplest procedures ever, and a commonly cited statistic is that about 70% of all aluminum ever refined is still in active use today.

Series of hard to explain and harder to run reactions that don't just stop on a dime. I won't pretend to fully understand the procedure but the process MUST remain oxygen free and must be run continuously throughout if you want pure billet on the other end.
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The short of it is aluminum isn't a standard metal where the main hurdle of getting it simplifies to "heat crushed rock until the shiny part comes out"(not that any metal is THAT simple but still), it's made with a complicated process that requires a continuous flow of electricity through a
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A battered wooden surface branded with the phrase "another fine product from your friends at Antithesis Labs" surrounded by several obviously failed attempts at branding the same message

A large electric woodburning iron with a brass brand screwed into the end sat next to a small soldering iron on a battered wooden table surface absolutely covered in brand marks from said iron.

A cardboard box flap branded with "Another fine product from your friends at Antithesis Labs" in all capital letters surrounded by a border

I got a wood brand recently and I'm having entirely too much fun with it.

If you lose a barfight though they throw you into a press that squeezes all the CO2 out of you so you gotta be careful

So there's a Ghost In The Shellfish? Man, Masamune Shirow was really close on that prediction.

I stared at that goobus many a time getting RuneScape working on Linux back in the day so I'm glad people are dragging him finally.

I'd be interested to learn more about this as I've had this gut feeling for a while that a lot of urban planning felt like a mix of wishful thinking, pet projects, and dousing rod levels of confirmation bias, but wasn't sure how to bring it up or ask anyone with expertise without offending them.

I had one of the early 505s as a hand-me-down in middle school back in the 00s, I loved that thing. Had next to no ports without the dock but I had a WiFi card for it and it could run RuneScape on Low settings so I was happy.

I really wish we had a word for the specific ignorance of "I've read two Malcolm Gladwell books and no one in my life challenges anything I say in a meaningful way so I've convinced myself I'm a genius on this and all topics," because whatever that is has been the root of a lot of problems lately

I felt embarrassed enough a while back when I realized I'm shitty at parking now if I don't have a backup cam, if I realized I no longer knew how to drive I think I'd either enroll in remedial driver's ed or sell my car that day.

I tend to like Pop for newer hardware support personally

there are exceptions though, because a bunch of them are highkey dumb as hell in a "I'm surprised you haven't drowned in the shower" way that's honestly impressive at times

I've been kicking around a thought that recommendation algorithms have conditioned a lot of people to think that everything shown *to* them online was necessarily made *for* them, but I'm not sure where to go with it from there so it's just been sorta bouncing around my head like the DVD screensaver

On that note, man is it frustrating to find what seems like a cool woodworking or outdoorsy YouTube channel only to find their most popular video by far is some insane far right propaganda or some project that "owns the libs."

I just wanted pointers on making straight mortise and tenon joints, man!

I'm with you a lot of the time, sometimes I just want to eat a ludicrous amount of savory foods until I'm surreptitiously googling "possible to die of cheese overdose?" Under the table

they had a whole slogan about how Obama wasn't "their" president even! Like, they specifically stated him leading the country was the condition upon which they based their loyalty to and love of the country!

I know it's not the point of the post but man I miss the laser tag places that did deathmatch so you could just go rogue and still get points. They're all team based with friendly fire off now, it's still fun but there was something rad about skulking the blacklit dungeon sniping everyone you saw

I'm just now realizing this is about electrolysis machines for hair, I've been reading this thread thinking industrial nickel and chrome plating equipment now looks like wonky tablets and feeling very confused. That said I'm now wondering if I could use the old gauge based ones for electroplating.

I dunno what it is with people who "leave the left" but it's like a switch flips in the brain as soon as they hit the "too many randos were mean to me On The Computer so I'm changing every political stance I claim to hold" threshold that makes them write like villains in a dubbed anime.

it's so good and it's hard to try and sell people on it without giving away a bunch of the fun twists!

Eh, "I often marvel" makes it sound like this is something I think about a lot, I guess it's more accurate to say whenever Block List Discourse™ comes up I'm suddenly reminded "oh yeah didn't someone add me to an 'imperialist swine' list or something? Ah well." And go back to what I was doing 😅

I do often marvel at how many lists and things I've been added to despite me mostly posting about like, low cost Android devices and minor gripes about electronics.