Oh wow, dial-up in Germany died 20+ years ago. I’m surprised that’s still a thing. Well, was. But until now is really staggering. I wonder what you could even still do over such a connection, considering that even messenger services and email now use 3-5MB just completing the server handshake.

I call bullshit on this one. Their only “source” is an alleged video on Twitter, with a link that doesn’t resolve (anymore?).

Really good so far, else I’d never made it to book 3. I tend to drop books nowadays if I don’t really get into them right away.

Well the left one has a very visible pattern, hence I picked it.

Left one, I didn’t even see the etching. Might as well not be there.

Back to the stone age it is!

It’s still active as in, they maintain the hotspots. But I just had a look at the map, and it looks like there’s spotty service mostly clustered around tiny villages, rather than providing coverage to areas that actual get significant tourism or other visitors.

And isn’t Stetson a fucking hat?

I read those news in a way that she’s now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every ‘suicide’ would be met with public outrage.

Currently on book 3 of the Abhorsen saga (which actually goes by the name ‘Abhorsen’ after Sabriel (book 1) and Lirael (book 2).

People actually use RCS and Google messages?

I’d rather eat a spoonful of dry instant coffee than set foot into this establishment.

In China it’s 汽油 which basically means “gas oil”. It’s a verbatim translation of gasoline.

You’d have to prove that the salesman said exactly that, and without a record it’s at best a he said / she said situation.

I’d be happy to see Musk jailed though, he’s definitely taunted self driving as fully functional.

Xubuntu is very user friendly, low on resources, and overall great to use.

So VPN on the router permanently set to Singapore it is.

Yeah right, rather than stand your ground, lie in your partners face.

Hell yeah, good times!

It’s a UK law, you either comply or get banned. Obviously everybody now has a VPN subscription.

Just view the source code and search for “.mp3”, the file is linked directly.