He probably just fat-fingered his phone with a half-written tweet open. If he’d just followed that up with “…coverage I’m actually the awesomest president ever blah blah blah” nobody would’ve noticed.

But instead it turned into this whole thing about how the tweet was meaningful and people were just too dumb to get it. Which just made him look ridiculous as usual.

Alternatively you turn it around and play it like a buddy cop movie: The straight-laced paladin screwed up and ended up breaking the law big time. He’s given probation of he does some stuff for the city and the probation officer happens to be the loosest cannon in the entire force.

Cue the rogue constantly operating on “eh, it’s probably going to be okay” (and getting his way because he’s the actual cop) and the paladin burning half of his spell slots on curing the ulcers he’s developing.

Exalted: The darkness turns out to be a component soul of the Ebon Dragon and now it’s angry. Fetch another bucket of dice and roll to Join Battle.

Battletech: You land a through-armor crit on the darkness’s hip actuator. The darkness falls – let me check that table – on its left side and probably won’t be getting up again any time soon.

So it’s an average day for Miles.

“That way we won’t have to share the bed for sex.”

Misters Chekov Do you want the Disney-owned, AI generated force ghost of Anton Yelchin to show up?

Beverly Crusher would.

I think what really sets people off is the “finally” in the title – which comes from Engadget, of course, so OP isn’t even at fault here.

Nobody particularly cares for or about Threads but yeah, this is legitimately tech news and we shouldn’t shoot the messenger.

I mean, Samsung tablets come with handwriting detection. I immediately turned it off of on mine because it expects since kind of cursive that I don’t use but it’s there.

I consider Palm’s Graffiti input system superior – sure, you had to learn the alphabet but every palmtop came with a cheat sheet and one you had it down it was pretty damn quick to write with.

monkey’s paw curls

Okay, nicotine is now a Schedule II drug. You need a prescription to buy anything with nicotine in it.

Fair point although there is a difference between “can’t make a reasonable drawing with instruction at the level of one’s classmates” and “never progressed beyond very basic drawing skills because you never practiced”.

Luckily we have Worf, son of Moog.

DX1 runs fine with an alternative renderer (the Community Update should have everything you need to get going).

I could run Invisible War with few issues as well – but then I realized it’s Invisible War and played something else instead.

That’s Miles. His main job is to ensure that both the strongness and sweetness of correctly ordered raktajino are precisely double. In his spare time he ensures fair play at the dart board at Quark’s.

Many are, true. There’s a few other factors involved as well (I’m using the opportunity to upgrade, for instance). Most manufacturers won’t commit to selling you first-party components right from their own store, though. That still remains a bonus.

Fair enough, although I’m using the opportunity to upgrade and attempt to switch to Linux. And probably replace an older desktop computer with the old laptop (with a USB keyboard attached).

But yeah, under different circumstances it would make sense to buy a keyboard from eBay and attempt a repair.

It pretty much comes down to three things, all driven by their system’s modularity:

1. Repairability and upgradeability. You get officially supported spare parts for everything and they intend to keep selling compatible parts for the foreseeable future. Due to them internally standardizing their form factors, all parts are intended to be upgradable, even the logic board.
2. Swappable ports. Being able to reconfigure every port into whatever you need reduces the need for docks and adapters. Since the specs are open, third parties can make their own ports or offer compatible slots in their devices.
3. Reuse of components. At least some components like the logic boards are fully intended to be used outside their laptops, e.g. after an upgrade. I’m not sure if they offer detailed enough specs on stuff like the fingerprint sensor to use that for your own projects.

Whether this is worth it is up to you. Anecdotally, I have to replace my current laptop because the keyboard is dying. The rest is still fine, it’s just the keyboard. In hindsight, paying more upfront and being able to just order a new keyboard for fifty bucks would’ve saved me some money.

I love how “Everyone Calm Down” is a whole game line.

The last time Q put humanity on trial he accepted “I know Morn” as proof of culture.

Could go with multiple drives and restrict RAID to a pair of drives used specifically for recording. But that’s not exactly a cheap way to do it…

Oh no, it’s not funny to Germans either. Or rather it stopped being funny about three memes in.