He Was Seeing His Other, Secret Family

“I can control the temperature with my phone”, “Can’t you just do that on the control panel?” “Sure, but I can do it with my phone”, “OK, but why would you?”, ” “.
They have all the judgement of teen girls.

I have a sinking feeling that this fridge will last only a fraction as long as my parents’
My fridge is 23 y/o, the washer & dryer, 20.
Each have only needed minor repairs over the years that husband was able to do with a few parts and a couple of YouTube videos.
And when they finally are beyond repair, I’m loath to replace them because I do NOT want my appliances “smart”.

And when they finally are beyond repair, I’m loath to replace them because I do NOT want my appliances “smart”.
There was a dubious claim a teen tweeted from a ‘fridge.
However…

After reports emerged questioning Dorothy’s account, LG confirmed that some of its fridge models have social media capabilities, but the company could not confirm whether Dorothy’s tweet was sent from one.

Why the hell would anyone even think a ‘fridge would need “social media capabilities”?

They will take everything you own.
I have lost track of the number of liberals I’ve known who hated conservatives with a white-hot hatred, but who sympathized with communists and communist regimes.
Remember the old joke that liberals (naively) think communists are just “liberals in a hurry”? More accurate would be that liberals are “communists (and fascists) in less of a hurry”.

Finally caught up. Been away for a bit. My employer expects me to work to get paid. Down with capitalism! Anyway, does anyone know of a safe way to donate to the truckers? Oh yes, ping!
In other news, I have become a volunteer firefighter with my local department. I was in the army and have previous law enforcement experience. This is a whole new world for me. I’m enjoying the training even though it’s kicking my “29” year old butt.

I lurk frequently but try to donate regularly. I haven’t even lurked much the past few months.

Sure. It all starts with lurking. Then maybe comment once a month or so. Then you tell yourself “Only on weekends. On Friday Ephemera posts”. Then just when you get home from work. It was a tough day after all and you deserve some time to unwind. Before long you’re up to six, seven times a day. You “forget” to shower. Your loved ones clamor for your attention but you don’t notice them. You go months without trimming your toenails. Squirrels take up residence in your attic but you don’t notice or care. Then the voices start. Quietly at first so as you don’t notice. But slowly, every day, starting as just a whisper but they get louder and louder, “David. Daaavid…Daaaaaaavid…David, David, David, David”. Then the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, up to a final consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; per chance to dream…

Well doing so on Windoze it puts you into an accessibility mode
This is an excellent example, because in certain versions of windows this allows you to access a computer for which you lack the password. The source of the weakness is that accessibility mode is enabled by running an .exe file before the user has entered the password. If only you can replace the accessibility .exe file with another one, you can run whatever you want. Fortunately, this is easy to do if you can generate an error message (I’m fuzzy on the details). You view the detailed error message in notepad, where you can do ‘save as’, which opens a Save File dialog, where you can navigate to the location of the accessibility .exe file, and rename it to something else, and copy or rename a more convenient file (like cmd.exe) to the name of the accessibility .exe file. They you restart the computer, hold down shift for five seconds, and have full access. I did this once with an old family computer whose login we had forgotten. You can find instructions on youtube.
In ten years we’ll be paying McAfee yearly subscriptions of $0.50 per appliance, because otherwise some hacker will lock them up and demand a $10 ransom in bitcoin.
And you have to wonder – how many people actually use these accessibility features. I get that some people have difficulty using their hands, but I suspect the vast majority either find a solution themselves, or still can’t use a computer effectively even with the accessibility features.

God shave the Queen.
— Sean Connery
I see Biden has extended his emergency powers under COIVD. According to his letter to Congress, he did so because . . . come on, man – COVID!
I always feel comfortable when my government feels it unnecessary to produce any rationale for their decisions.

Ha! Similar to the way Sean Connery often pronounced the letter ‘s’, not how the name ‘Sean’ is pronounced.
Huh. Was he a secret Igor? (“Walk thish way” and “Yesh, marshter”.)

Mom obviously couldn’t figure out the radically new UI…
A heartbreaking illustration.
But the engineers and executives at Microsoft (and essentially every other IT company) do not care. Do not give a rat’s ass.

This is beautiful.
https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1495412605669810180
If it’s important context (it isn’t) I’ve had 3 CV19 jabs – I’m just acutely aware of the amount of bollocks being talked by various Doctors, and Public Health people (who tend to be hard-Left megalomaniacs)