AllNewTypeFace

AllNewTypeFace, 4 days ago

They should at least release data sheets and any bootloader signing keys, allowing people to reuse the devices for other purposes. If you could replace the firmware, I’m sure you could use it for controlling your home automation setup or displaying the weather/news/train times/other info (or possibly other tasks depending on what’s in the SoC). Now, alas, it’s just e-waste.

AllNewTypeFace, 17 days ago

The extra space is for two Electron apps of your choice.

AllNewTypeFace, 21 days ago

Australia has a somewhat threadbare welfare state, though is more of a social democracy than the UK. And snakes and spiders are easier to avoid than Tories.

AllNewTypeFace, 21 days ago

Sounds philosophically consistent. What could be more pro-life, pro-business and pro-freedom than being in favour of endless cell growth unchecked by cell apoptosis? Come to think of it, not only does curing cancer sound like a socialist anti-prosperity regulatory agenda, killing off cells that would naturally grow is a little too close to abortion.

AllNewTypeFace, 21 days ago

Capybaras are classified as fish in Catholic canon law, on the grounds that they spend their lives in water. I’m guessing that a party of conquistadors was on the verge of starvation and got their priest to petition the Vatican to issue a retroactive ruling in their favour.

AllNewTypeFace, 22 days ago

Leave it at home and, if you need a phone, take a burner that doesn’t have your personal data and isn’t logged into any of your accounts.

AllNewTypeFace, 29 days ago

Sweden has historically been ethnically close to homogeneous (until the 20th century, life in Scandinavia was hard, and few wanted to move there) and has a relatively flat social hierarchy, meaning that redistributive taxation to fund services is popular (after all, if everyone needs a specific service, having the government provide it through taxes is an economy of scale). America, meanwhile, was founded on racial slavery, which resulted in a racial hierarchy (i.e., the definition of who counts as “white” shifting over time), and there’s a non-negligible proportion of voters who would resent being taxed extra to help lift those below them in this hierarchy closer to their level.

AllNewTypeFace, 4 months ago

Japan’s problems are compounded by its ethnocentric concept of nationhood, where it is almost impossible for people who aren’t of ethnic Japanese descent to become citizens. There are third-generation descendants of Korean immigrants in Japan who have never lived in Korea, speak only Japanese and have only ever known Japanese culture, but who can never be legally Japanese.

AllNewTypeFace, 5 months ago

Oppenheimer 2: Oppenheimer, Einstein and Turing team up for one last mission when alien invaders/evil cultists/a mad scientist’s minions seize the doomsday device and the President’s daughter.

AllNewTypeFace, 5 months ago

How will the logistics of this work? Are there fast-food restaurants that would accept a privileged Karen with anger management issues as a member of their team? After all, they have a business with tight margins to run, and this sounds like a huge liability.

AllNewTypeFace, 5 months ago

It’s somehow reassuring to see that there is occidentalism in Asia that’s every bit as absurd as orientalism in the West. Westerners get Chinese character tattoos which supposedly mean something spiritual but really are a grocery list, Asia gets T-shirts with nonsense phrases in English. The West gets tropes of the “Mystic East” which mash China, Japan, Thailand and India together into a melange of pagodas and temples, Asia gets stories set in “European” settings that combine England, Switzerland and Venice or something similarly absurd. Europe gets Fu Manchu, Asia gets Bobson Dugnutt. And now this.

AllNewTypeFace, 7 months ago

They’ve established dedicated racism zones, which are soundproof chambers where you can go and shout slurs.

AllNewTypeFace, 7 months ago

This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.

AllNewTypeFace, 7 months ago

It’s a good thing assault rifles are illegal in Britain

AllNewTypeFace, 7 months ago

The next thing after DRM will be ARM (Attention Rights Management). The camera will be used to verify that you are paying attention to the ads, otherwise no content for you.

AllNewTypeFace, 7 months ago

That must be from a Christian homeschooling textbook

AllNewTypeFace, 7 months ago

By that token, America should have bullet trains everywhere

AllNewTypeFace, 9 months ago

They succeeded in making a real life scene that looks like it was rendered by a PlayStation 1 in 1997

AllNewTypeFace, 9 months ago

“feared”