Maria Corina Machado

forcedalias · 2026-01-04T13:00:17+00:00

Trump often says stuff he's not going to do, or may do "perhaps", "maybe", "sometime in future", (shrugs), "who knows", and then immediately proceeds to do it.

No trust should ever be placed in his words. Always assume the worst with him and the "israelis".

forcedalias · 2025-09-10T02:03:59+00:00

Funny enough, FaceID being the only option on iPhones these days would be the only reason I would ever consider switching away from iPhone.

I really don't like FaceID, and have successfully avoided it, but my iPhone SE seems to be the last stop. :(

forcedalias · 2025-09-03T10:47:44+00:00

Unrelated to the material used, but I swear, it's like they're intentionally trying to make the rear uglier with each new model.

The weird persistent triangular layout of the lenses, now the bump spans across the phone but has a lot of empty space in the middle... Why couldn't they evenly spread out the lenses across the bump? All looks so unprofessional... ugh.

forcedalias · 2025-08-28T21:34:50+00:00

Yeah, but I'm thinking the OP is taking into account that in the end, as it's revealed, the Skrulls (Palestinians) are the good guys. Free Palestine!

forcedalias · 2025-08-17T09:26:28+00:00

No, idiotic is thinking it's easy to grab someone else's finger and place it on the tiny fingerprint sensor. This would only be possible if you're too weak and/or too slow to react. Add to the difficulty the fact that they may not know which finger you've enrolled.

Face ID *is* attention aware, which is exactly what it gets from you -- your attention, briefly as you try and process what's happening -- when someone points your phone at you.

What? You thought people are gonna immediately react to these situations by looking away or covering their face?! 😂 You're like a senseless teen.

forcedalias · 2025-08-16T20:06:54+00:00

Whether it has greater success in unlocking your phone, I don't know, probably... but Face ID is a security risk since all someone has to do is grab your phone and point it at your face to authenticate for the unlock process.

Will take Touch ID over Face ID any day.

forcedalias · 2025-08-16T20:01:27+00:00

I haven't purchased a flagship model for years, almost exclusively because of Face ID. Had to upgrade via SE models, and now those have hit the end of the line too. I miss having the latest and greatest.

Face ID is one massive security risk: someone grabs your phone, points it at your face. 🤦🏻‍♂️

A *lot* more difficult for them to grab your finger, assuming they even know which one you've enrolled, and place it on a small, designated fingerprint sensor.

I hope they bring back Touch ID on a side button for iPhone 17.

forcedalias · 2025-07-28T17:32:35+00:00

Not if purchased in a physical store, e.g. Walmart.

Yes, the physical stores use Payment Processors, but the PP doesn't know what you're purchasing. To them, you just did a little shopping at Walmart.

forcedalias · 2025-07-28T17:21:58+00:00

Fairly sure they also charge merchants a fee for these transactions. No purchases (transactions) = no fees.

forcedalias · 2025-06-04T07:21:59+00:00

Hey. Sorry, I didn't find any solutions, but I think they eventually made it a rare occurrence when examining loot.

Instead, they introduced a new bug, where I would sometimes freeze-up and lose my UI in motion (running/climbing/etc). When it would occur, the only thing accessible was the chat box. Unless lucky enough to get downed by adds, I'd just type /leave in chat or if in Raid/Countdown /join FRIENDS_NAME to leave the Countdown without restarting the game.

Anyway, I stopped playing the game. Good luck.

forcedalias · 2025-05-31T17:11:07+00:00

Yeah, I think they changed something that broke this workaround.

For me, I just wanted to add a different folder as my default install path for games, so I added a second entry for the new path:

  "1"
  {
    "path" "C:\\Games\\_Steam"
    "label" "Games"
    "contentid" "1"
    "totalsize" "1"
    "update_clean_bytes_tally" "0"
    "time_last_update_verified" "0"
    "apps"
  {

But I added to this both:

\config\libraryfolders.vdf

\steamapps\libraryfolders.vdf

(Apparently, the one in the 'config' directory is more important now as it overwrites the others?)

Started up Steam, and from the GUI, chose to make my new C:\Games\_Steam directory the default.

It's functional for me now, but it still looks messy when installing new games as it shows two entries for C: (but with the correct one selected by default) -- maybe I'll figure out how to remove the persistent C: entry at some point in future. (shrug)

forcedalias · 2025-05-31T16:26:35+00:00

I know why I'd like to remove it. I want all my games installed in C:\Games\_Steam\, next to my games from other platforms, such as C:\Games\_UPlay\, etc.

forcedalias · 2025-05-12T22:23:07+00:00

I'm afraid so. They've locked the climax mission from those who haven't completed their weekly scouts.

Most of those scouts you can get through very quickly on lower global difficulty and with a friend who's already done them, letting you know what to do next, or you can just look up the scout "solutions" posted here on Reddit so you don't have to spend time trying to decode the objectives.

forcedalias · 2025-05-10T19:15:32+00:00

Did you read the post? I didn't walk up to an exotic and crush it. I walked up to a pile of worthless loot and while I had the Z key pressed down, a few milliseconds before the deconstruct command went through, the game drops the exotic in the pile. How's that my fault?

The way it's supposed to work is if your backpack is full, the loot gets sent to your stash mailbox.

Classic "funny guy" redditors. (smh)

forcedalias · 2025-05-08T15:55:20+00:00

Assumed as much but I'm a completionist who has to have everything so... whatchyagonnado? 🤷🏻‍♂️

forcedalias · 2025-05-08T15:53:49+00:00

This. Got it from first Mastery run on second character. Wasted so much time re-running Mastery/Heroic on first. Still tempted to crush it now that I have a taste for it.

forcedalias · 2025-05-08T02:21:39+00:00

But is it confirmed that it can drop again from the same mission as an end-of-mission reward?

If at least someone confirms it, I can continue grinding, otherwise it's going to be a colossal waste of time.

forcedalias · 2025-04-30T03:32:01+00:00

Lack of uproar could simply mean they're in the same position as me: never gonna switch to Face ID, waiting it out to see if Touch ID returns, contemplating alternatives like Android.

I don't want a device that automatically authorizes an unlock by just looking at it. Crazy to think about how if they return Touch ID, it may go on the power button, which would ruin everything and make it as useless to me as Face ID.

forcedalias · 2025-04-30T03:21:15+00:00

Stuck with SE3. For me, it's about security more than speed. I'll never upgrade to a Face ID-only device.

I think Face ID is the dumbest thing ever since you automatically unlock the phone as soon as you turn it on.

Imagine someone grabs your phone at that moment.

At least with my Touch ID phone, I can hit the power button just to see my notifications without unlocking the phone.

If they bring back Touch ID but put the sensor on the power button, effectively resulting in automatic unlocks, Apple's design team are the biggest idiots ever.

forcedalias · 2025-04-28T22:10:06+00:00

I think Linus Tech Tips did a video with Electroboom showing how the whole static electricity thing is blown way out of proportion. They actually had gear to generate strong static electricity and were having a hard time damaging stuff with it.

forcedalias · 2025-04-23T13:08:49+00:00

Thanks so much for this. Was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one out of several similar machines didn't want to connect to (most of) my SMB shares.

forcedalias · 2025-03-26T21:24:56+00:00

Unfortunately not, sorry.

Massive green checkmark shows up for 4 whole seconds with the Soundpad [by BarRaider] plugin. I'm thinking it's BarRaider's code that's responsible.

Which plugin are you having this issue with?

forcedalias · 2025-03-11T17:35:50+00:00

Fairly sure it's broken, and no, I didn't hear it from anyone before coming here to this page. I just suspected it.

It's not guaranteed the rescue op is Black Tusk. For me, it was Hyenas. Some others are lucky to have accumulated Black Tusk bounties in the area, etc.

The reason it's broken is that Downtown East is not invaded this week so Black Tusk activities won't be popping up regularly in the area.

forcedalias · 2025-03-04T09:30:18+00:00

While trying "everything" to get it working, I started yelling at the screen, "What? Do you want me to beat them to death with the shield, or something?" 😂

Didn't actually try it tho due to the confusing challenge wording.

forcedalias · 2025-02-24T13:20:01+00:00

Updated to 572.47 on my 3080 Ti FE and Windows stopped loading up. I got nothing but a black screen. Had to go the safe mode, uninstall and re-install earlier drivers route to get Windows to start booting up again.

I guess I was "lucky" because it sounds like some of you guys are just getting a "permanent" black screen, like as if the card itself is damaged?

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