Morning!

Beat Tink to it this time

Morning

@AJ Morning!

@M.A.R. Well done, by almost an hour and a half! Morning :D

Isn't MAR like 3 hours ahead of us? o_o

@avazula Jealous?

heck yeah I am, you live in the future

Just remember that when you're banging your head against the wall in an afternoon because of some code that isn't working, the Iranian workday is over and people are heading home to watch nonsense on TV.

and meanwhile, Americans are just waking up from a good night of sleep

How cheerful

Well, the whole workday TV thing applies to you vs. Americans too, but you can't say the same for us

TV? What's that?

@Tinkeringbell Man-made blackhole used mainly to coax you into buying stuff

@M.A.R. :D Ah, I'm immune to that :)

Morning!

Morning :)

the issue is gone to people from IBM in India to O365 administrators, etc and no one does anything XD

@Tinkeringbell heya ;)

how are a?

Okay, and you?

good i guess XD

we'll see if something comes on to piss me off XD

XD That's just life ;)

@Tinkeringbell me too... and I'm glad

I have a TV but just because my mom won it and didn't know what to do with it

So the only thing it's used for is Netflix and Switch x)

Hahaha :) I'm not that vulnerable to TV ads, but I must admit if I enter a supermarket and can get a free bowl with 2 bags of M&Ms, I'm sold :P

speaking of which, I hadn't played ACNH in a while so I was super happy to discover all the June fishes yesterday :D

made 100k bells in an hour of playing x)

Nice!

I still need 2 more for the museum. I don't fish that much, I like catching bugs better :)

@avazula ACNH? A Canary Nary Harry?

@Tinkeringbell wow wait what? You're close to having caught all the fishes for the whole year? :o

@M.A.R. Animal Crossing New Horizons ;) but yours sounds funnier

@avazula Oh, no... just need the last 2 new June fishes XD

I usually don't time travel, but then I have everything from april to june :)

@Tinkeringbell Well then let's see how well you resist people throwing M&M's in the air, catching them midair and chewing them with this crunching sound and simultaneously smiling at the camera

@M.A.R. Yeah... nah.

Especially if it's . . . Hmm, some celebrity you adore

ooooh yeah that makes more sense

I'll stick with free bowls or drinking glasses XD

A fishing game with time travel?

Yep!

Someone was bored

lol

I must admit I've slacked on playing lately. Yesterday all I did was dig up fossils and sell them :/

Today Flip is leaving though, so I can go find another resident :)

That sounds like profitable business

9k fake game points :P

I don't play much anymore. But then again I'm back in the office and therefore have less time and energy

@Tinkeringbell Is that a lot or a little of nothing?

@Tinkeringbell can't remember their face but even their name sounds annoying :p

> The name Flip means Lover Of Horses and is of Dutch origin. Flip is a name that's been used by parents who are considering baby names for boys.

@avazula It's actually a quite okay villager, a little jock monkey, not weirdly colored or anything... but their house was one of the initial 3 (so no personality at all), and I made the mistake of catching some bugs/fish for them that ruined it further.... I want a new jock villager now :P

No mighty meaning? Like "ruinous thunder" or "the devil killer badass assassin 9000" or "bitcoin exchanger"?

So you catch fish and bribe people to inhabit your area so government regulations for fishing endangered species don't apply?

I'm getting more and more interested in this game

lol we're gonna convince MAR to play the game

XD

yuzu-emu.org/game/animal-crossing-new-horizons

:P

I need to try this later

@CaldeiraG oh

use your own email ;)

@ankii we were testing it with my email yea

gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_y_s5360-4117.php

you're just almost 10 years behind x)

I read somewhere that to coax people into buying new products, several modified-android sellers stop updating the OS in 2-3 years

that happens today :P

with most brands

yes, a recent thing

except apple i guess, they like to brag their support

every macbook gets at least 6-7 years of OS support

aka throttling phones to get people to buy new models

I can see why it looks like that, but to avoid crashes, that was the best solution.

@ankii i mean, it's great and all but if you upgrade to a new windows in the future it will always have OS support

now that they have a choice, users are intentionally slowing their phones down themselves.

it's an illusion of choice

@ankii i don't blame them

i just like custom ROM's :P

nobody wants a crashing phone every time they open a heavy app

certainly not

@CaldeiraG I meant os upgrades. Sure you can stick with an outdated os on an outdated hardware.. watch movies, store songs, surf web on it. Not to expect that latest software will run on it.. or websites that moved on with new tech will run smoothly

yeah windows is so tolerant and flexible

so much so that they're a bit late to the party in some cases

@ankii sure, windows has its flexibility to work with most hardware

10-year old machines can run w10 fine

in past month, in the a-holedesign subreddit, there's posts about Samsung smart tv putting thumbnail sized ads in a corner.

that's not the smartness we needed!

Samsung has said publicly they'll start rolling out ads on their phones

no surprise their tv's are going the same direction

guess I'd move to a dumb-phone and a smart laptop with adblock then

androidauthority.com/one-ui-ads-1127002

scrape that

I never liked samsung anyway :P

I did have a samsung TV for almost 10 years, it lost all of its smart tv features

Bought a LG one 2 or 3 months ago

hmm this website's side panel flickers when I scroll

guess I'd block the whole sidebar

@ankii weird, it's a sticky sidebar for me

now it's gone. _evil smile _

hmm it seems reasonable to put ads when you cut costs

@ankii Xiaomi does this, their hardware is very cheap compared to big brands

You can disable these though

but if you're selling a thousand dollar TV, where's the need for more money ?

@CaldeiraG three of my friends had it.. didn't last more than two years

they were the mid-range I guess.. not too basic, not high end

@ankii uh, all my family has one XD mine has 2years and 3 months and it's smooth as butter :P

midrange also

redmi 5 plus if you wanna check

sounds like people who take care not to drop their phones :)

:D

i use tempered glass with a case on mine

it worked

have a few cracks on it now but i still got a spare one

so when i'm not lazy i will switch it XD

my phone's case is just a thin black rubber sheet. Dunno if it even works

but keep the dust out so I'm good

nice

When my phone dies Imma either get a Blackview or a Fairphone

I need sth that either doesn't break or is easily fixable xD

searches the two words

is that a country brand ?

or that they haven't reached India yet ;)

@avazula they look heavy!

@avazula I'll do that with my keyboard & buy a mechanical one

@ankii they aren't that much ;) just big

ergodox-ez.com .. ultimatehackingkeyboard.com

I was so surprised when I saw that a keyboard can be broken into two halves!

TV is terrible. So much negativity in news channels

@Sid our tv was scaring us about how going out or eating during solar eclipse can harm you so bad..

as if the life without solar eclipse was heavenly.

@Sid you mean clickbaity or in live TV something to get the viewer attention

@Sid I dunno, I expect it to be of slightly higher quality in other countries where it's not obligated to provide political propaganda

It's really difficult for the news not to be bitterly negative in 2020, in all fairness

@M.A.R. You got that wrong... where the propaganda is obligated, the news is more cheerful to keep up morale!

Hello people!

So, I just had a phone call, in English (according to the phone number it was someone from California) and dear, phone calls in french are hard but English is so much harder! I wish they would have email instead. It's so hard to talk in "real-time". I don't know how the other person managed to understand me because I really wasn't making much sense.

@Ael You get used to some of it, especially if it's your day job. (according to my brother, who handled German tourists trying to speak broken English or even Dutch at the zoo for 2 years).

I can confirm that's the case with a coworker, at times I suspect it's not so much their grasp on the Dutch language improving but just us getting used to his way of speaking Dutch

If that's the case, I'm grateful I wasn't the first French this person interacted with. They clearly knew how to deal with me (and they stayed very professional even though I was very bad with all the pleasantry stuff)

@Tinkeringbell totally agree

So i just got invited to this webinar about covid-19 by the company but i'm not sure how could any of us watch since it's on work hours XD

and takes 2 hours XD

theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299556/…

@CaldeiraG Do you have flexible work hours? Or maybe they are expecting you to watch it as part of your work?

@Ael nope and the 2nd question i'm not sure

totally

True.

@Tinkeringbell Yeah well, mine is more like "Oh look America is on fire!" :/

It's very disheartening and pathetic that their way to counter the popular bias towards US is "America sucks, see? Here's some news, and here's some other news, it's definitely not utopian there, so us sucking at economy and everything else is OK"

You should the zeal in the anchorman's voice when he's announcing the surge in COVID cases or the next stupid thing Trump did.

The rampant utopian view of the US is actually petty and silly and more like a child's dreams, of course, but they're venturing into the lands of inhumane.

I can write all this but I can't get myself to compose a poem for Mith's stupid contest, ugh

@M.A.R. no bounties for you

@M.A.R. Heh. There isn't much of an utopian view around the US here, though more and more people seem quite attracted to the more extreme levels of political correctness and victimhood culture there...

I guess that makes it easier to see the US as the dystopia it is though :P

@Tinkeringbell That's easy to say for you, Europe

@M.A.R. Heh, I guess even Europe is struggling a bit with the victimhood culture thing... but it's still doable.

This rampant feeling of despair and hatred towards what you own has been battling with patriotic motivations for a few centuries now here. A distant land with more "freedom" would of course feel appealing, and the current regime inadvertently strengthens it with polarizing the feelings even further

They won't admit it, but the Utopia they're looking for is one where you do everything you want without any consequences. It simply doesn't exist on Earth.

I'm of the opinion that no utopia's exist on earth ;)

For the westerner, this would probably be in the escapist environment of an erotica or a cheap story about successful people. For an Iranian, it would be somewhere these whispers of animalistic yearnings are not veiled behind religious dogma not many people believe in anymore

We're in that stage of society

@Tinkeringbell Of course, this is what everyone would say. How many really believe in it though . . .

Too few :)

twitter.com/AndroidAuth/status/1275181930020044807?s=19

Wait, seriously

This is madness lol

Was wondering why a thanks button was on SO the other day

this is why

what a crap waste of time

@ExtrovertedMainMan Off-topic