Ah I’m no connoisseur but was lucky enough to visit many years ago and loved Havana Club.

Cuban rum is 🔥

Well done. Second one will be easier. :)

It’s… Just like looking at a car crash in slow motion.

Like renewables just keep on giving and provide so much energy security. I honestly can’t see why any country, even with the vast reserves of fossil fuel that the US has, willingly ignores the future. Wild.

Edit: yer man is so uncomfortable saying this and it’s not discomfort with public speaking. This is money hungry fuck territory.

I have a story to tell you about “steak and chip” on a menu in China that I assumed was a mistranslation and was in fact, not.

That chip was fucking huge though

there was bunch of people reporting that the power button doesn’t work to lock the phone anymore…

Allow me to introduce you to my favourite app…

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.blumia.pineapple.lockscreen.oss

It’s front and centre on my home screen. Just so handy.

If you can, I would upgrade just for the security updates.

The Riva line were absolute bangers tbh. Mad props to the driver developers who were always playing catch-up on the hardware (mad props to the hardware designers implied) but always delivered the goods. I honestly hope they’re rich AF.

Yeah I agree that steam offers them a decent marketplace and we’re definitely seeing lots of great games from smaller studios or individuals as a result.

I’d prefer if sales were “taxed” lower than 30% up to a given threshold instead of fluffing Gabe’s already massive bank balance though.

Like 10% on your first 50K, sliding scale upwards after that for example. I’m spitballing but you get the idea I hope. He just doesn’t need that level of payout from smaller folks.

I’m as surprised as you but apparently so.

$1.2 billion net worth!

https://www.forbes.com/profile/bruce-springsteen/

I feel most sorry for small developers having to hand over 30% of their entire work’s value to “uncle Gabe” who’s already sitting on over 9 billion. Fuck that noise.

It’s not a contradiction because the way Gabe runs his business is good.

It… Very much is. He runs a business that doesn’t make people piss in bottles. Great, but that’s a low bar.

He runs a business that looks after customers, that’s great but Amazon does that too so I consider it a cost of doing the billions in trade that he does and a cost of effective monopoly maintenance. If they weren’t pro consumer folks might actually leave.

He pays his employees better than others, great, but he’s sitting on 9 billion in wealth so let’s not pretend he couldn’t pay them more or squeeze small developers less than 30% (and he’s probably squeezing them more than big houses).

You can’t have that much money and be ethical. You can be less shitty than other billionaires but again that’s a low, low bar.

He’s a billionaire. There are no good ones. Some are worse than others, but none are good. It’s a disgusting amount of hoarded wealth.

Just three for me. I don’t fancy that comedown.

Welcome!

I only recently discovered the power of the thumbs down in the car. It is magical.

Your ma wears high heels with tracksuit bottoms.

There’s a points based system here and you would definitely be in suspended license stage at 16 tickets in a year. It’s a crazy amount.

Yeah 100%. Also not a religion where I live thankfully.

Because I didn’t make any LLM errors. I didn’t use an LLM and every post I’ve made in this thread fits my posting style exactly.

Ah…I didn’t say that something bad happens. I said see what happens. It’s an important difference…

I wouldn’t be comfortable using PGP encrypted messages sent through WeChat if I were there and communicating with a local (and I have been, many times). I would be very, very concerned about getting them in trouble. End to end encryption is not tolerated in China and using PGP would essentially bring that so I would consider it a significant risk. It’s speculative, I’ll admit that no problem but as I say I wouldn’t do it.

That’s my threat model. The fact that end to end doesn’t exist in China should tell you everything you need to know about deep rooted state level surveillance there. It does to me but if you think that in general all messaging providers should be able to see your text messages for some reason and think that combined with that, all those blocked phrases are not because the state wants control and oversight then your threat model and view of government surveillance (not just in China) is… different.

I’m glad I live somewhere that I feel free to text my wife on signal and I’m confident it’s not being read by anyone. If the day ever comes that stops being the case I’ll fight for it because privacy is important to me. Everyone can fuck off out of private conversations between me and my loved ones. They’re boring as shite but they’re mine and mine alone.

Yeah I’m not aware of the Vance thing but I’ll have a search. If you have a link handy I’d appreciate it as it might be hard to find without more context. (Edit: yeah I’m not finding it.)

That block list makes for interesting reading. Worth a look.