Sadly I was Assigned Floridian at Birth, AFAB.

There's two too many Fs on my birth certificate, anyone know how to remove them?

They named him Owlfredo, that's just so darn cute.

I think your take is completely reasonable but I think the 'first to 100 million users' is actually noteworthy because if they can become entrenched and people become unwilling to learn anything else, they've won and can charge nearly whatever the fuck they want (at least in the medium term). See Microsoft and Adobe. They charge whatever they want for their subscription programs because what else are you going to do, use GIMP? Even in situations where the FLOSS alternative is legitimately good, a lot of people will still refuse to switch. I don't think Anthropic can survive long enough for them to become the only thing Susan from HR knows or is willing to use, but I think there's a path to profit somewhere here.

I bought a beer fridge a few years ago that was a Peltier device and it came with a wall plug and a car adaptor, they're still around. It worked but if you left it running for a week or so it would freeze the cans. It was lightweight and did the job and I knew the downsides when I bought it.

Monument mailboxes were popular for a while when I was a kid in Florida. Someone in the neighborhood had one shaped like a manatee!

Yeah, we just kinda accept that wedding cake often is aesthetics over taste. Over on the other site, r/fondanthate is a thing that exists so yeah it's bad. We still eat the shitty wedding cake out of politeness and because it's still cake.

(The twinkie profits weren't enough to save Hostess from bankruptcy so they're not that successful.)

Modern Pixels are pushing it on portability but maybe I'm just an old man yelling at clouds. My LG G8 is too big for me to fully use one handed and the Pixel 9a that should be delivered later this week is even bigger and I can't help but wonder if I just spent a lot of money on a downgrade. I don't want something bigger in my pocket but that's what I just bought. D:

Graphene on my Pixel tablet has been petty great though, I'm still a bit worried because the phone needs to be able to actually do phone things.

I got a picture of the snowplow Minnesota named in her honor in St Paul last year.

I daily drive Bazzite and I'm not fully in agreement. If you're doing non-Steam games or emulation, or desktop stuff, on AMD hardware Bazzite is the winner IMO because it 'ships' with that stuff preconfigured in a way steam os doesn't and Bazzite has something very similar to big picture mode for AMD. Hardware compatibility is probably still better out of the box with Bazzite too.

If you're only playing Steam games on the TV Steam OS is arguably better.

I think people give the Brightline too much shit, it's hard to engineer train safeties sufficient to stand up to Florida man and woman, and for the rest, well... getting hit by the train can be the fastest way out of Florida, when you really want out.

Gadgetbridge actually does some stuff for at least some of the Anker Soundcore headphones. Maybe it covers your use case?

Something I've been wondering for a while is why would someone use a BSD over a Linux distro? There's some applications that seem more obvious, like I've seen diy router builds using some flavor of BSD and there's server stuff I'm sure that some people prefer over (or are just better than) other options, but people have ported KDE Plasma and a lot of other stuff to it and... Why?

I saw the headline and wondered if this was a repost. Nope. If I had a nickel for every time this guy has been arrested for ocean hamster wheel shenanigans, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

I was kinda worried when I saw the subject line of the email.

Steam is actually pretty decent, by company standards.

There's never been a single reported case of popcorn lung caused by vaping, and the vape manufactures have basically all chosen to switch to something other than diacetyl out of an abundance of caution. It was only ever in some of the "creamy" and popcorn type flavors anyway.

That said, don't start vaping. It's great as harm reduction because it's better than cigarettes, but unless you're using it to stop smoking cigarettes, don't vape.

Google killed off their own cached pages last month and they're now using IA as a replacement. Free linking is definitely important, but this is Google we're talking about, and them using IA to save money - this feels a lot more exploitative if Google isn't funding them in some way.

Yup, I ate this onion. I hate reality.