I have never used Dropbox as a way to access my files live. Only as a way to auto sync between machines. Except in the mobile app, which doesn’t actually sync. I wish it did though since I too don’t want to rely on cloud services simply for access.

Yep. A lot of people also say that the rural US is typically about 20 years behind california in a few ways, which I also agree with.

Interesting perspective. I was in the rural US and my experience was probably closer to yours than you might think. 33-48kbps modems were insanely slow, even back then. Between that and my parents banning the Internet in the house, most everything I got my hands on was pirated, and either painstakingly (secretly) downloaded over midnight hours on the unreliable modem or from a floppy disk or burned CD from a friend! This was circa 1997-2001 until I moved out and got a usable Internet connection.

I think it’s a relative term. I can obviously see disagreeing with it, but if people in several countries watched your movies, I don’t think “superstar” is a big stretch. At least not at his peak.

Were you under the impression I don’t believe there were pc games back then? I didn’t say that, also, funny enough you say

The only good games on Mac were ones ported from PC.

But the only games I specifically named actually were on Mac first then later ported to DOS.

He was internationally famous. Now it’s internationally infamous.

I don’t know about better, but the Mac games I had in elementary school were awesome for kids that age. Oregon trail and number munchers. I don’t think pc gaming had really taken off much at all then. That was years before doom, even.

Number munchers and Oregon trail have entered the chat. Also the dozen other games on floppy disks (that my middle age mind cannot remember now) that we played on our Apple IIe’s.

My school system used macs before OSX and switched to Windows almost entirely when OS 9 was still the latest thing. Sounds like another user had the same experience. OS 9 was nothing like unix and had no terminal even, to my knowledge.

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If you had your way, Donald Trump would be godking until his death at which point we would resurrect Hitler to hand him the reins. Fake leftists need to go away. The blue wave happened and you’re very mad about it, that’s clear. The rest of us can put pressure on Democrats with letters and phone calls and actually do something besides sit on the Internet trying to mentally destroy hope in the types of people who want change.

I implore everyone to call out these kinds of comments and then block the users making them. I for one am absolutely fucking sick to death of their attempts to create despair and misery. They clearly intend to do harm to society with their bullshit. Take note of how 95% of commenters like this will never say anything about taking any political action to fix anything. They’re laser focused on what bad things will happen or what good things won’t happen. Even if they meant well (most definitely don’t) it would be a very harmful approach. All these users want is for us to give up. I will not. Fuck that.

Of course. He admires Putin greatly and that alone would dictate 90% of his actions and words regarding Ukraine

Only if you believe anything trump says

Shockingly, scientists do not receive a blank check and then only provide the word yes or no as the result of their study.

The problem with this attitude is that it presupposes that scientific discovery is linear, predictable, and evaluable without context or scientific knowledge, from an armchair.

For all we know, a study like this could accidentally reveal something about gut health in cats, which later is confirmed to be true about humans, which later is combined with other knowledge to treat bowel cancer.

When you devalue “dumb” science because you judge it at face value, you devalue all science. Republicans are very fond of doing this also and it’s helped create more scientific ignorance in the public and it has made less funds available for science.

There’s nothing more worthy of having money spent on it than science. You’re obviously not a scientist, and even if you were, you cannot predict the future or know what you don’t know. Scientific knowledge is like a giant puzzle and we don’t know what all the pieces are ahead of time or how they fit together.

Lol that’s horrible. The author of this article says that dogs are prolific farters but I’ve had two dogs and neither farted super often. Definitely not denying it’s happened but it’s not something I’ve noticed that much and especially not to the degree you just described!

Not all knowledge needs to be profound to be worth studying. This idea that science wastes so much money needs to die.

My first thought also

I’m assuming this is not just about the app being shitty and the face id shit?

Agree! It will never ever make sense to me that it can easily be proven in some cases that some rich asshole is knowingly lying in a harmful way and yet there’s never any attempt at consequences for it. Meanwhile us normal people go to jail for practically nothing sometimes. People getting executed in the streets for suspected shoplifting, but Nazi cunts spread lies that kill people and it’s fine.