I like this and similar gifs.

“Americans think 100 years is old. Europeans think 100 miles is far.”

I saw the comment I believe you’re referencing.

I repeated it to everyone in my life who would be even remotely receptive and they all loved it.

Hopefully the original commenter is proud.

The teacher’s argument was that if you took seven pencils away from five pencils, you’d have negative two pencils, but negative pencils aren’t a thing.

You could try making the same argument to your bank, replacing “pencils” with your local currency.

Let me know how it goes!

If this were the entire question, I’d be confused. Another comment suggested starting from 0 and going into negatives, but my initial response would be “starting from what?” expecting to start at 100 or 77 or something.

However, an elementary school teacher told me that negative numbers don’t exist, so that might be related …

I believe it’s only required during the pairing process, but as the other observer pointed out, I don’t know much about it. If you’re able to circumvent the process, more power to you!

Sure, removing your network from the equation is definitely a more secure option; just make sure the app isn’t using those granted permissions in the background when you’re done using it and log back into your network.

I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.

I knew that someone would try to convince me. You won’t convince me.

… Though your argument is pretty compelling.

I remember when Bluetooth started demanding location permissions. You’ll never convince me that it’s functionally required or provides any benefit other than furthering efforts to spy on the user.

When it started being rolled out, I avoided any app or hardware that made that demand. Sadly, that’s no longer an option if I want any Bluetooth at all.

I haven’t done an extensive survey or anything, but every modern router I’ve interacted with supports setting up a secondary WiFi network with guest isolation (so anything on that SSID can’t see any network device besides the router and itself). This is useful for apps or hardware that is untrusted and/or demands unjustified permissions.

I used it all the way up until Google broke compatibility with it, then continued using it with a third party plug-in until that stopped being maintained.

Now I prefer Signal over Chat.

I was wondering this, as well. Apparently Kamala says she worked at McDonald’s previously and Trump claims that she’s lying. Since that matters for some reason, he’s working at McDonald’s to draw attention to the alleged lie.

I think that’s what’s happening, but don’t take the above as gospel.

If they’re a pain in the ass I think you might be wearing them wrong.

I’m familiar with it from the aforementioned class, but thank you. I’ve just never seen it used.

I haven’t seen EBCDIC used anywhere other than the curriculum of my “Fundamentals of Programming” class 25 years ago.

That’s depressing.

I wish I could just “set aside” a billion dollars.

For anyone who is not familiar, your day would surely be improved by watching the Map Men video on this topic.

He draws similar conclusions in his video.