Count to who? Do what makes you feel good, fuck the haters

It’s good luck for the first half of your life, then its bad luck the second half

Your terminology is all wonky here…

Downloading is copying a file from the network onto the local device. Installation extracts files to the appropriate directories, makes config changes, etc… “Installed from a local source” doesnt make sense, as any file you would install you would first need to download or pull off of some other media.

News stations will hang out in towers like that too for traffic/weather.

Seems you’re right, its a communications tower. Saucer is for the view in any case.

Pretty sure thats an air traffic control tower, i.e. a watchtower with people in it. The “saucer” shape is so they can see in every direction

Ive only ever heard this as a random anecdote with no real evidence. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I’d guess the percentage of people who do is probably miniscule.

Could pick up a secondhand Zune on eBay. I’ve still got mine and it works as well as the day I bought it nearly 20 years ago

It seems that people can get so “locked in” to the internet, that it becomes the only “real” place.

People need to be reminded the there is a physical world, and the internet isn’t the only place art is created and appreciated. Just because AI slop has invaded the internet, that doesn’t mean people aren’t going to paint or make music in the real world.

That said, I do think a boutique market will arise from hand crafted works in the wake of all this.

having free copies of the content available on the internet decreases the desire for people to obtain paid copies of the data.

According to who?

It’s good enough to give me a little buffer, fortunately

As expected, lol

Patiently waiting for a meeting in which I’m almost certainly going to be laid off.

I was 15 or so, trying to drill a hole through the bottom of a 5.56 casing to weave onto some paracord for a necklace. Using whatever I found in the shed to try and accomplish this, I held the casing in place with a pair of vice grips as used a shitty old bit in a hand drill to try and put the hole in it. Well, instead the bit snapped, and I put what remained of the bit in the drill through my finger. Being a stubborn idiot, I dumped some hydrogen peroxide on it, applied pressure with a paper towel, then covered my whole finger in duct tape. Fortunately didn’t get infected (the bit was probably screaming hot), but I’ve got a fun scar now!

Use a trusted VPN and/Tor while surfing