wizardbeard

I still spend 30 minutes as an adult when I can, except now it's just enjoying the warm and stretching. Extra time with the humidity helps my sinuses too.

If you ever are inclined, Stardew has a very strong modding community. I don't play it without using one of the handful of mods for extending the time.

I'd treat this like one of those "pay us in gift card" scams, and get the bank involved.

If they cannot/will not provide the contract terms, then there's no way this is valid. I would start with your parents' bank, see if they have a fraud or consumer advocacy group. Ask about your options for a chargeback or a stop payment. I would strongly reccomend you go in person to a bank location to run this down so you can just lay out the situation to a human being rather than trying to find the right resources yourself from the outside. It will likely take multiple in person trips.

It may also legitimately be cheaper to hire some legal services (a lawyer) to fight this for you, if you're looking at 4 years worth of charge for cancellation.

Glad to see another voice of sanity regarding Windows.

If you haven't learned by now, on Lemmy the only valid option for dealing with Windows configuration and basic Windows admin tasks is to yeet Windows and go to Linux.

And the Police won't investigate because of whatever mental gymnastics of the day they come up with to avoid the paperwork.

"You never actually recieved it, so it was never your property to be stolen." Or something.

Everyone knows that if you don't eat the cork then you aren't getting your money's worth.

New Yorker put out an article on how AI use is homogenizing thought processes and writing ability.

Our friends on the orange site have clambored over each other to all make very similar counteraguments. Kind of proves the article, no?

I love this one:

All connection technology is a force for homogeneity. Television was the death of the regional accent, for example.

Holy shit. Yes, TV has reduced the strength of accents. But "the death"? Tell me again how little you pay attention to the people you inevitably interact with day to day.

I would be surprised if this didn't hold true for many companies, especially when adjusting for inflation.

Yes, you're correct.

But that rollout doesn't make headlines like all the ones from the US government telling people to use encrypted messaging like WhatsApp or Signal. That's what got them to WhatsApp to begin with. FBI tells everyone very loudly to get off standard texting. They jump as a collective to where half of them already are.

As I've already alluded to: this has precisely zero to do with the technical aspects of security. Ease of use does matter (why pushing to Signal didn't work at the time the FBI spooked everyone), but only a little bit, and is overshadowed by momentum of where people already are.

I might be able to get my family off WhatsApp with the recent article about it being banned from (I think it was) Congress's phones.

But again, this isn't a technical problem where you can just point at what's obviously the better choice. There are complications of personal relationships, individual resistance to change, whether or not you're willing to train your family members, etc.

My grandmother is in her late 80s and it is astonishing that she can even manage WhatsApp to pariticipate in the family group chat. I'm not upending that and causing her the added stress, work, isolation if it fractures the family groip chat, and signing myself up for all that extra work to try and drag people to new platform and hold their hand through the bumps... just so I can be comfortably principled, using the best option, and trying to prevent Meta from getting info about me for a few more years that they likely are getting through other means.

I'll revisit as the elders age off.

I care about my privacy, but I've thought long and hard about my specific threat model and what is and isn't important enough for me to make a big deal out of. For me, this is an acceptable sacrifice.

Doesn't have to be that way for anyone else. Just has to work for me and my life. And it does.

Ultimately I'm just trying to give reasons why people are still on these platforms. I took the initial comment I responded to at face value. I'm not really looking to debate here, and my opinions don't invalidate anyone else's.

Shit would be sucked back up into his ass, then he'd eventually regurgitate food from his mouth. He'd eat shit with his ass and poop food with his mouth.

Shit would never touch his mouth, that'd be disgusting.

How is that fucking legal?

Give us this very sensitive information, we promise we won't misuse it, and we'll let you fiddle our AI as a treat.