Masks off (literally) on selfishness, greed, fascism, and anti-intellectualism.

If only there had been a higher delta in survivability between the vaxxed and unvaxxed, the pro-plague nutters could have removed themselves more thoroughly from existence.

Unfortunately far too many of them still walk among us.

If we start at the shift selector as per the article, it is radically different. It’s a solid stick, it has no boot.

Sorry, slip of the finger while distracted. I meant the 2024 4Runner.

Edit: jeez, my fingers are potatoes today.

I wonder if there is an equally in-depth info for the 2004 2024 4Runner. Have someone else who’s totally nontechnical who wants this done.

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Just some basic browser protections, and I get this. Is this enshittified Cloudflare v2.0?

I am in IT, and personally speaking, with my own machines, I have never had these power settings not be obeyed.

And the only time when I have seen these settings “not be obeyed” in other systems is because either,

1. Someone or some other non-Microsoft software had dicked with power settings through the registry/GPO, or
2. I’ve been able to trace things down to hardware malfunctions or hardware discrepancies.

I have seen that type. The keyboard is usually inset a mm or three along with that indent extending to the edges, allowing airflow to continue even when the lid is closed.

And why couldn’t they have done that to the student loans system?

Like JFC, they could have instantly made themselves immune from trial-by-jury anywhere in America by doing that one tiny thing.

How do so many tech people not know about the power settings that can let the laptop run 100% even with the lid closed and on battery power?

Like, how stupid are they? Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?

Now if only Apple will let Firefox run its own rendering engine instead of Safari’s.

Like, that’s the only thing I don’t get. Other apps which are not web browsers, fine. Use Safari. But an actual web browser? FFS, let them use their own engine.

TL;DR: people don’t like being packed in like sardines. Give them space to have kids.

Credit card imprinters.

In western Canada the electronic ones used to be called sliders (from when the magnetic strip was still widely used, before chip & pin), and these were called strikers (from how the card was pressed or physically struck onto the paper).

Or a vertically-sliding blade of some kind. A lot more theatrical, that one.

Your example can be wholly explained by inadequate knowledge of visual design (UI/UX, to be specific), especially from a consumption/access position. That’s a technical outcome which is a result of ignorance or failures, not a sales outcome from an explicit strategy of obfuscation.

To put it another way, people making too-small signs for their yard sale that drivers just cannot see at speed, is not the same as companies going “call for pricing”. That would be the same as signs saying, “call us for the yard sale address”. The former is wholly unintentional and borne out of ignorance, the latter is completely intentional anything but accidental.

Thankfully that’s one of the first things I uninstall with every Windows computer I set up.

Downside is that this update might force a reinstall. Shit.

OpenOffice wanders into the chat

Some, like ImageGlass, provide workarounds. Like, they provide a separate install but it also comes bundled with the Opera browser (which itself has become two shakes away from raw spyware as of late), so you do have to be careful to deselect that option.

The 2017 full version of SketchUp is similarly free, FYI. You just have to dig for it on the website.

I can’t believe that marketing people are this fucking stupid.

Like, full-on knuckle-dragging morons.

They intentionally drive away more paying customers than they could ever “channelize” with this method.

Because most people realize that prices are only ever hidden for malicious, anti-consumer purposes.

gmail is the only provider still sending me directly to spam

Do you have a gMail account? Start a convo with yourself by sending from the gMail account first. Also add your other eMail to the gMail address book.

It’s been about two decades since I had to do this for myself, but it worked well at the time.