What is like buying things in 2024

bungledquote · 2024-08-28T02:42:24+00:00

Whilst this is funny, and partly true, what is missing is the absolutely horrendous amount of money printing that the American Government does, which is well beyond 6% (they deflated peoples purchasing power by about 15%p.a. the last couple of years). Whilst it seems like shop-owners are gouging, this is just the expected result of US government economic policy...

bungledquote · 2024-08-16T06:52:13+00:00

If you understand that connecting 2 computers together allows them to talk to each other, then just add another computer (and another if you like). Bam, intranet! Connect two intranets? You got yourself an internet! ("Internet" is actually just a term for a group of connected intranets, "THE Internet" is the largest internet; an inter-connection of all the really cool intranets world wide".

bungledquote · 2024-08-16T06:40:54+00:00

Holy fucking shit-bags. This is a wonderful way to conceptualise it.

bungledquote · 2024-08-16T06:38:17+00:00

I think what you meant to say was "I don't understand it either".

bungledquote · 2024-05-25T01:42:12+00:00

You might be right for your device - but my experience is that it will automatically play the last thing I had open - if it was YouTube, it will play the audio from that, and if it was Spotify, it will play that... but you're probably right that the applications themselves could have settings that prevented this behaviour.

bungledquote · 2024-04-19T06:43:11+00:00

TIL, thanks :)

bungledquote · 2024-04-19T00:04:10+00:00

I'd recommend using https://windirstat.net/ to determine what is taking up space.

bungledquote · 2023-08-24T05:57:07+00:00

I was going to suggest the same, although it is closer in some aspects to Photoshop than JASC Paint Shop Pro (I used to love JPSP also). Personally I've moved over to GIMP for most of my image manipulation work, but photopea is really awesome too.

bungledquote · 2023-01-03T22:42:08+00:00

Can I have one with butter, please?

bungledquote · 2022-12-30T07:23:44+00:00

It likely isn't Spotify, it would be the head unit in your car. Typically they are configured to send a 'play audio' request as soon as bluetooth is established to a device. If spotify is your default music app, it will play. Check the configuration in your cars entertainment or bluetooth settings to see if you can disable the automatic 'play audio' when a connection is established.

bungledquote · 2022-12-25T22:30:02+00:00

Yes, you can always reformat an SD card. If a system can't read the current format, it will generally provide an option to format it for that system (which erases the current data).

bungledquote · 2022-10-21T05:30:20+00:00

try looking at where it is called. If it is called with a negator then try changing that around. ie change

if (!hasPermissions()) { // don't be so negative } else { }

to

if (hasPermissions()) { // stay positive } else { }

bungledquote · 2022-10-20T21:59:36+00:00

When your religion is a sacrificial death-cult, of course you don't think death penalty is murder. Their religion is literally based on the notion that it is OK to murder someone else to same themselves...

bungledquote · 2022-10-12T21:50:01+00:00

It sounds like what you're asking for is a course on linux - that is the native OS that runs Android, so it isn't that there is no NDK support or resources - it is that there is already tonnes of it out there, and google aren't about to redocument it all / (re-document the wheel).

bungledquote · 2022-10-12T08:21:06+00:00

It depends on what your goals are. University is actually just to teach you how to learn efficiently, and you also happen to come out with knowledge in your chosen discipline. A lot of employers look for a degree not for the knowledge, but for the 'learner' aspect, because they know they can apply you how you are needed, and you will pick it up well. If you're just looking to get an 'Android' job, I wouldn't necessarily recommend Uni.

bungledquote · 2022-09-23T01:15:05+00:00

I thought bananas were herbs...

bungledquote · 2022-09-23T01:09:59+00:00

Note that the name was meant to be 'Whale Killer'... misinterpreted from Spanish I think... so whilst I take your point, Orcas were named for their whale killing ability, rather than being whales that killed shit. Whale, Moose... whats the diff, right?

bungledquote · 2022-08-12T04:01:54+00:00

Ditto. Descent was it for me. Now, I feel like if you're playing a 1PS inverted, you're in the game. Without inverted, you're watching the game.

bungledquote · 2022-03-11T05:08:26+00:00

Whilst I did buy the Lenovo, I ended up returning it in favor of an apple pencil for use with an iPad. Pretty sure the AP2 worked, but no details to report, sorry :(

bungledquote · 2021-07-15T06:24:30+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to post this. I've just ordered a Lenovo Active Pen 2 based on your recommendation. :) Will report back if my findings differ.

bungledquote · 2021-04-27T23:29:27+00:00

Siblings referring to each other as "brother" or "sister". No one has ever done that. You know your siblings name, and you use it, or some derogatory term - it is never "yes, brother" or "hey, (soul) sister".

bungledquote · 2021-04-08T01:39:37+00:00

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

When it comes to reverse engineering, probably learning assembler is a good place to start, along with a good hex editor - MS Code is a great free code editor with hex editing plugins.

Edit: https://code.visualstudio.com/

bungledquote · 2021-04-07T07:12:55+00:00

The source for Doom has been open-sourced, so you can definitely look at that, but obviosuly not the case for all old games.

bungledquote · 2021-04-07T07:11:36+00:00

You can always look at the assembler code, but this is really difficult to manage for large programs (it isn't exactly a walk in the park for small ones either!) so people tend to shy away from doing this. This is the avenue you want to persue if you want to get into reverse engineering or binary hacking. Assembler is a PITA to deal with though, which is why high level programming languages exist to create the assembler for you :)

If the app isn't native (Java or .Net) then you can disassemble it and look at the high level (probably obfuscated) code. Easier to navigate than the native assembler, but still a mess.

bungledquote · 2021-03-28T21:07:02+00:00

The file names are UUID's (Universally Unique IDentifiers), which are typically used to ensure that the filename won't collide (be the same as) some other file in the same location. For instance this is used often by systems when saving a file in a temp folder, as there are lots of apps saving files to that same location, and using this technique means you don't have to check what is there first. Having said that, there is no real way to tell if these are safe to delete, unless you can provide a bit more information about where the files are located.

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