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Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


I assume eventually we will have those Boston dynamics robot dogs armed with 50 caliber machine guns at every exit so they can execute anyone who doesn’t have a scannable receipt.

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Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


engaging with people is supposed to help stop shoplifting too, like they get too nervous to steal if an employee shows they're paying attention

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


It costs money to use AI and that feature doesn’t generate any revenue so I wouldn’t be surprised if it stopped working within 12 months

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Fallom posted:

I would love some kind of universal "don't loving talk to me" feature like Uber offers

Wearing headphones/ear buds unlocks this ability, you don’t even need to really be playing anything.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Oracle posted:

So you don’t remove people from your will who the law would expect to be in it; otherwise they can get lawyers to argue their not being in it was an oversight due senility or something similar.

What you do is add a codicil to your will stipulating that since said beneficiary is a piece of poo poo in however way they’ve managed to offend you their share is x (usually two cents, as in ‘just my two cents but you’re a piece of poo poo thats only worth a few pennies’ get it?)

That way they also show up to the reading expecting something along with everyone else only for you to deliver one last stinging rebuke from beyond the grave and add insult to injury in front of your nearest and dearest (and you also don’t get charged for removing them).
Note than I am not a lawyer just done a lot of genealogy research and seen a lot of petty rear end codicils (usually because the son or daughter was a spendthrift or married a Catholic or was a party animal or what have you, though the best ones are the ‘for reasons already known to them’ which makes you go ‘girl spill that tea!’ and your imagination run wild).

You can just put “so-and-so has been deliberately excluded and receives nothing.” You don’t have to do this song and dance. Also they don’t do a dramatic reading like on TV, they just mail out a notice to the people mentioned. Source is I’m going through probate for my father’s will right now as the executor.

Wii Spawn Camper fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Nov 13, 2025

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


edit: actually nevermind I hate talking about this tbh

Wii Spawn Camper fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Nov 13, 2025

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Croccers posted:

I'll explain the Aunt's one since that one was actioned.

edit: oops. I was sitting on that post for a bit before sending it D:

Thanks for the longpost explaining. Definitely get a lawyer if there’s a house involved and multiple heirs and definitely don’t expect a handwritten will to stand up in court, yikes.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Beastie posted:

I feel like ever since Mozilla got bought, every single Firefox update has a pop up about logging in, pop ups about new features, pop up about personalization.

I did a quick search and didn't see anything, who bought Mozilla?

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


webmeister posted:

In my office, lights in all the meeting rooms are motion-activated, which is cool. Saves power.

Until you’re in a meeting where everyone is having a discussion while sitting fairly still, the motion sensors don’t get activated, so the lights fade out every 10 minutes and you have to get up and wave at the sensor for the lights to turn back on.

Especially funny when it’s an important client meeting

one of my old jobs had this in the bathroom

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Unperson_47 posted:

this must be entirely to keep people from pretend making GBS threads. joke's on you boss, every phone is a flashlight now

it was a seldom-used restroom and it was just to save power, the reason i used it is because it was seldom used

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


StrangersInTheNight posted:

I'm a nerd so I got excited about the Retrocrush app bc it has a lot of old anime, until I realized the 'live tv' channel has a picture-in-picture advertisement constantly running in the lower left, and you can't even disable it by paying for a membership. Fuuuuuck that.

this is the worst version of ads that i've heard so far

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Boarding first sucks, why would I want to be in the misery tube for even longer? Let me board right before takeoff so I can spend more time at the bar

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


oh I didn’t realize you were talking about flying commercial

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


turning off automatic OS updates on my phone was a good decision

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Good thing Google can’t lie!

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


I bought some festival tickets once upon a time and they came with a pair of things like Loops, I can't remember if that was the brand but they did the same thing, and I took them to every concert thereafter and even bought new ones when I lost them. They're amazing, especially when you get old.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


my computer has a special button just for turning it off :smug:

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I bet you press it with your toe, you dirtbag.

Guess again :maga:

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


It’s wild because it worked really well in windows 7 and that’s how I gained the habit of just typing stuff into the start menu, then windows 10 broke it so it was unusable and they just never fixed it.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


All the guys who knew how it worked retired and now it’s lost knowledge since no one can search for it

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Phy posted:

Isthereashampoopumpintheshower.com

I don’t trust those things, the previous occupant probably jizzed into them

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:

Man, Target's holiday department was like day-after-Christmas barren and who the hell is going in and buying up most of the lights before December 1st?

people put up lights right after thanksgiving around here, they dont wait until the first of december

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Stranger Things was never really great and has only gotten worse, season 4 had a lot of dumb poo poo, it’s like it’s designed to be a second screen show

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


just give them the $2

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


i have roku tvs connected to the internet but i only use them for jellyfin, it shows me an ad on the home screen before i go into the jellyfin app and it doesn't let you set it to load the app immediately so it can always display at least that one ad. but they were like 80 bucks so i deal with it but someday it won't work anymore. I'm wondering if i should set up a second wifi router with no internet access and just connect my jellyfin server and the tvs to that.

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


every time i see a targeted ad i immediately change ISPs, really throws them off

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


name the museum

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


guess i'm a belieber now

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


zigbeez nuts

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


time to invent discord relay chat

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Discord is a corporation and therefore inferior in principle even if the functionality is better but I’ll still use that garbage

Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


teen witch posted:

No Google don’t suggest Gemini write a reply to an email I bcc’d myself into. How about you just don’t suggest poo poo at all. Let me write a goddamn email.

I’m starting to get a kneejerk nausea response to seeing that AI sparkle symbol everywhere. Before it meant cute design motif, now it’s akin to a skull and crossbones for productivity.

The sparkle symbol itself is everywhere now and it used to be cute and now ✨it’s not✨

Wii Spawn Camper fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Dec 12, 2025

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Wii Spawn Camper
Nov 25, 2005


Discord is the Excel of the internet

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