My parents still have cable. The buttons are backlit, they turn on when you pick it up and turn off when you set it down. There’s also a mic button you can hold down and talk to input text by voice instead of typing on a virtual keyboard with a dpad. Not rechargeable but two AAs last for a year so why bother with a battery that eventually fails and renders the remote useless?

Even basic remotes are pretty clever now

I was shocked at how often you just see people laying passed out on the sidewalk or sleeping on a bench. Japan is an insanely different place after the bars start closing. Was genuinely uneasy with how many people everywhere just had zero control of themselves.

That’s not on Google Play so it doesn’t affect it. I honestly don’t know what the point of this is.

Dude it’s Lemmy I’ve seen people here miss Simpsons references

Potatoes are famously incredibly rare and only keep for a few hours after being picked so I can totally see the purpose of a product like this

She tested positive for heroin, not THC. If she was actually actually heroin, child protective services involvement would absolutely be warranted.

The issue here is the erroneous test and complete failure on the part of the hospital to confirm its results

Partial transplant from a living donor was not viable for her. It would have immediately failed, leaving her with no liver at all, and then she would have died because she wasn’t eligible for a full transplant. Doctors will not perform a procedure that guarantees death. The article explains this

I guess my plan to hold out for the Pro to see if the regular console drops in price isn’t going to work.

In the commotion nobody’s brain would parse “that guy just threw coffee on a baby” because that’s not something you immediately consider

Vegetables don’t exist as a block I can cut slices of, fry, and put in a sandwich.

Well eggplant does but if I’m buying canned spam substitute I’m not in the mood for breading something.

Spam is just pork sausage in a rectangle.

Every platform needs a terrible meme that never goes away. Reddit picked a shoebox full of semen, we picked cat starvation.

My university had student apartments, each had their own router. No weird rules since it wasn’t the university’s network at all, it belonged to whoever lived in the apartment. Full router access, connect whatever, put it in bridge mode and connect your own if you want.

Automatics start in park

It’s a wet morning and the inside of your windshield is fogged up. (Or it’s cold and there’s frost on the inside)

That’s insane. Starting in neutral is arguably safer.

To many, federation is a solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist for them. In their mind, the early model of federation is like email, a problem that was “solved” years ago by having one corporate product that was much better than others (Gmail).

To add, on top of that, the fediverse is like if gmail could just randomly decide to stop receiving emails from outlook addresses and there’s nothing any user can do about it except make another email for when they want to email outlook users.

I don’t think fediverse proponents know just how catastrophically this terminates their entire pitch in the minds of 99% of internet users

All meat is processed by definition

I’m saying that if there aren’t enough players to sustain a multiplayer game globally you’re not going to find people to play with locally.

We couldn’t go out

Why the hell not? Lots of via rail lines across the country have random little stops out in the bush so people can get on and off. There was no reason to not open the doors and let people walk around.