It is the point, this is exactly what Broadcom does.

“Please insert your webcam.”

Reminds me of Al Quadea Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

Concentric Circles Emanating from Glowing Red Dot

Or worse, Excel, which translates the function names but doesn’t do it automatically, so you can only open a spreadsheet if your Excel is configured to the same language as the spreadsheet was created in.

I don’t recall the name, but I saw something some time ago which got infinite google drive storage by creating a bunch of empty folders and packing the data into the folder names. The storage limit is the sum of the size of all your files, so if there are no files then you don’t have any storage used, even if you have 100Gb of folder names.

/dev/sda1

Depending on your ISP and network setup, you could very well have both v4 and v6 addresses.

Wasn’t Safari available for Windows at some point? I swear I remember it being installed on my school laptop like 10 years ago.

Rohloff sounds like “roll off”, as in “roll off the side of the mountain”

The writeup is here, for anyone interested. I wholeheartedly recommend it, it’s a fascinating story.

Those people could just as easily buy slip-ons, which serve the same purpose while not requiring an app (or any other form of electronics, for that matter).

I’ve always wanted to have to clean hardened calc/lime out of my CPU cooler!

Sea water caused the batteries to short out, causing the cars to catch fire.

Based on anecdotal evidence, “I refuse” may be more common than you think. I live in Switzerland, and out of all the expats I know who have been here a long time (20+ years), a large percentage (over half) of them still can’t speak German. At all. Like, they can maybe say “thank you” but that’s about the extent of their vocabulary, and many of them actually seem to be quite proud of the fact that they’ve made absolutely zero attempt to integrate into the local community or culture.

Now, although I’m fully aware that there are a hell of a lot of differences between Switzerland and the US, it still wouldn’t be at all surprising to me if there were large groups of immigrants in the US who similarly resist learning English.

I can assure you that before I set up Cloudflare, I was getting hit by SYN floods filling up the entire bandwidth of my home DSL2 connection multiple times a week.

I find it hard to believe that the environmental impact of having a paper tag per shelf which gets replaced maybe once a week is worse than the impact of manufacturing, installing and powering one digital screen per shelf.

As long as it continues being one of the top games on steam by online player count, and/or it continues to make them boatloads of cash?

Are you suggesting that OP should burn their ex’s house down? With the lemons? That OP should have their engineers invent a combustible lemon that burns their ex’s house down?