It’s literally because vain idiots kept posting pictures of their credit card online and getting defrauded.

It means “put all of the screws in the holes in order to start guiding the surfaces that you’re screwing together into the correct position, but don’t firmly tighten down all the screw until you have put all of them in so that you can ensure proper alignment of everything before you lock it in.”

Suicide watch: they take all your knives and ropes and pills away

Distro watch: they take all of your external storage away.

I’m shocked there wasn’t a single minion or cry-laugh emoji plastered on.

The box Comcast sent me that I never asked for had all the features you asked for.

The one place where MacBooks having terrible cooling is a feature.

The puck mouse is why I’m so good at using keyboard shortcuts. I use vim, btw

Sure they might exist but the ones you buy off of That Website never are.

Are you by any chance using flat Ethernet cables? Those are not to spec and are vulnerable to radio noise. Friends don’t let friends buy and use flat Ethernet cables.

The main reason this will never happen is that the browser vendors make massive revenue and profit margins off of The Cloud and would really prefer that the core concept of a LAN just dies so you pay your rent to them.

Makes ya wonder what else it’s doing that for…

mDNS hasn’t been a just-Apple thing for decades. Do you still call it Ren-dess-voos like the Gaston character in Beauty and the Beast?

The main problem I have is waking up in the middle of the night worrying that ICANN pulled some more stupid corrupt bullshit that only makes networking worse and breaks my config.

Just look elsewhere in this thread: someone thinks that using .honk as a joke is safe. But what about .horse? .baby? .barefoot? .cool? (I stopped scrolling through the list at this point but you can see how arbitrary and idiotic things have become.)

Ah yes, the goldenshower age of the web.

Multiplayer doesn’t typically work in Proton :(