Ok, I was on the “old.” skin; let’s try the standard skin.

Nope, it doesn’t work on the standard skin, either.

Hmm, weird. I notice that you’re using Firefox; maybe that’s the deal. I am too:

Aha! I think that might be it! I can’t on Firefox either.

Edit: Nope, just tried it on Boost, and that didn’t work either.

Maybe not exactly the same thing, but I have had pretty heavy Minecraft building binges that leave me looking at IRL buildings thinking, “huh, I wonder how I’d build that in Minecraft. Obviously I could put a full block there, but that detail would be sub-block, so maybe I could imply that with a chiseled variant…and that’s brick, but it’s a dark and weathered red brick, so I guess I’d have to use…maybe terracotta? And dang, that curved archway would be murder to recreate accurately, this building might need to be at 1:1.5 scale to even do it justice…”

Oh, bummer. But yeah, I remember being simultaneously bummed about the Fry’s closing, and also feeling vindicated that they were going out of business after how bad they had become in their last years.

Greetings fellow Hoosier. The Castleton Best Buy is particularly awful, though I guess the website is not necessarily a reflection on that. Did you check the Micro Center to see if they have what you’re looking for?

Microsoft is already getting their money from the corpos, it’s the ‘freeloading’ public they are trying to squeeze revenue from.

Yeah, those bums who only paid for the software once.

We just did this a month or so ago. My wife’s old Pixel 4a got a data-only SIM, and we locked it down extensively with a profile for each of the older kids (9 and 7). Websites and apps are allow-only. They can call or text us through Google Chat, and we also allow Pokemon Go and a couple of other things. We call it the “Family Phone,” and they don’t have unlimited access to it, but it’s handy to have something to hand them when they leave the house without us.

Oh! Yes.

For vaccines in general, yes. But kooky people that think this is some kind of trick are worried about it being an mRNA vaccine, which is indeed somewhat new. The idea has been around for about fifty years, but the first human clinical trials were only about a decade ago and COVID was the first large-scale human deployment.

Now, in fairness, they were almost entirely ready at the time. I would imagine, without COVID, we probably would’ve still seen mRNA vaccines become mainstream already, though maybe last year or this year instead of in 2021. But COVID stepped up the final stages of approval significantly.

Did billions of people end up getting the mRNA vaccine? I thought the traditional vaccine was more widely deployed outside the United States.

In any case, the objection is nonsense. On populations this large, the number of side effects was slightly less than might have been expected at the outset. The researchers did good work.

Have they been subject to medium to long term safety testing on humans?

Yes. For over two years now. Using a population of hundreds of millions of people and a control population of people who xerox misinformation and hand it out to strangers in grocery stores.

News flash: the vaccinated ones are doing way better.

Better do it Glitchless if you don’t want to get the permanent, console-locked anti-achievement “misdemeanor conviction.”

Because this one is going over America, and Americans think the world revolves around them. In this case more literally than usual.

Microsoft login works just fine with any TOTP app, like Aegis. They just heavily push you toward their app.

EEE only works if you can corner the market for the technology. I almost guarantee you nobody is dropping Linux in favor of WSL.

Linux user: “I wish 2024 would finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.”

Monkey’s paw: curls

Ghouls be like, “yo, I know I’m a shambling mass of undeath and negative energy, but Kushner, take it down a notch man, you’re giving me a bad name.”

Actually I find the picture thing to be helpful. There’s a house on the next street over with the same house number and a similar street name, so we get packages misdelivered from time to time. If I see their porch in my delivery picture, I know where to go get it.

Just the other day, Doordash delivered somebody else’s Chipotle to my porch. Because the driver took a picture, I saw the actual customer walking by, comparing the photo on their phone to my house, and then coming up to get their burrito bowl.

And having the photo that their employee took of a house that’s obviously the wrong one has also been helpful in getting refunds before. Not me, but one of my friends; they had their package delivered to a house they didn’t even recognize, and the number on the door was clearly wrong, so the company refunded them.

So the photo thing I’m actually cool with. Yeah, it was probably originally conceived as a CYA for management, but it does actually turn out to help. I’d rather they give them time to be human beings while they’re doing deliveries; the photo thing isn’t really the big problem here.

I bet their phone was too slow and took the picture a half second after the driver hit the button, while they were turning away from the porch.

They’d need to allow drivers to take enough time to appropriately do the job, so that’s never going to happen.

When you have to make as many deliveries in an hour to require breaking the sound barrier during your shift, you don’t have time to check house numbers.