Yeah, bricking something makes it completely unusable anymore: ie. turned into nothing more than a brick. If you can access it and restore functionality then it wasn’t bricked.

I love these kinds of stories. Thanks for writing the follow up!

I just have lockdown mode enabled from the power menu so that it forces pass code login instead of allow fingerprint login.

Never been pulled over or talked to a cop (other than family members) in my life.

Even if we ignore the security issues (and we shouldn’t) why the hell would I want my computer taking screenshots, writing that to disk and running OCR on the image, writing results to a database and creating correlations EVERY FEW SECONDS! That’s a huge amount of bloat. I want my computer to be quick and responsive.

Holy shit that’s a great bot!

https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/winamp-it-really-whips/

This was loaded in the winamp queue when you installed winamp. Take a listen.

Hrm, Sundar Pichai took over as CEO 9 years ago. Weird coincidence.

Parenting tip: Teach your kids that Charisma isn’t a dump stat. Works in real life too.

I’m a bioinformatician. The problem with using bioinformatics software here is that the input or output data size is huge for most tasks, which makes submitting jobs off site much more difficult.

Bacterial genome assembly isn’t too bad though. I use Nanopore sequencing data and the input is usually on the order of a few gigabytes per task for an output file of a few megabytes. (pulling numbers outta my butt, but shouldn’t be too far off) But the multiplying this by 48 or 96 which is the number of samples out machine can run all at the same time and you’re getting into hundreds of gigabytes for input data. It’s just tough to manage this with cloud services.

But if you go simpler, you could offer a BLAST server. You just need to host your own database and accept queries. Not sure if you can split it into smaller tasks though. If you segment the main database your p-value results will change.

Haha, unexpectedly wholesome!

Do they fuck everything, or get fucked by everything? How that half orc came into existence wasn’t a good time for everyone.

I don’t really remember now, but I think it was something to do with having issues sending images.

You might want more control of how the app looks. Or maybe an app has some UI features you like.

I used Textra for years, but did eventually switch back to the default android messenger when I started encountering issues.

Oh right, sorry. I kinda forgot about that.

My most recent read through of WoT was while falling asleep. Those sections were fucking boring even then. Most of the time I would remember 10-15 minutes worth and then rewind to what I remembered the next night. During the slog I didn’t even bother sometimes.

You and me focus on different things while reading a book.

No problem. It was a random find at the library for me. I was looking for the next Wheel of Time book, but it was out and these Conan books were right there. I picked them up and loved them.

Actually, I’ll put them next on my re-read list.

Robert Jordan wrote some Conan the Barbarian books. I was caught off guard by Conan being smart. It was rather scary.

I think it is on android in the ‘phone’ app, but many other manufacturers have their own default apps, so it’s not as common for them to use it. Also, I think it was exclusive for a while since only pixels had Android 12 when the feature came out. I think now anyone can use it but I have a pixel and can’t really confirm that.

Pixel phones have built in spam blocking on phone calls and messages.

Omg, thank you so much!