And since then, people have created even darker black pigments. So the man is left holding someone people will never want.

It was a horror show a decade or two back when I first tried Linux. I feel like this meme is just too late or just old.

The terrible thing is that this group doesn't just want their kid to not participate. This group wants to stop your family from sharing books.

People can go further than that and install a ROM for their phone that doesn't have any Google apps on it. People can even use applications that normally require Google Play Services by using microG, which spoofs things. You can also root your phone with Magisk and use apps to block anything leaking anything else.

When I installed Ubuntu on an HP laptop recently, I got a message that I didn't have the drivers for my internal Intel wireless chip. It was at this point that I realized the laptop also didn't have an Ethernet port. The installer told me to put the drivers on a flashdrive. Thankfully the error spelled out enough for me to find the drivers online. There were a few different versions and I put them all on the stick.

Bluetooth didn't work, but I realized that was fixed by just enabling the service with systemctl.

I agree. "Starving artist" should not be a common phrase.

Because of this, some people have termed our current era as the digital dark ages. All of our digitally stored information has an extremely short lifespan and it will be hard for future generations to recover anything from media written today. Right now, the only way to ensure that data continues into the future is to make frequent backups on new media.

And don't forget Herbie, the love bug.

I agree with everything you said. If someone is new and wants to have a rock solid experience, then it might make sense to get a long term support version of the distribution that's chosen. It's a trade-off of shiny new upgrades for almost guaranteed stability.

I just read that this camera is used to animate avatars. I'm sure they won't be using tons of processing power to read facial expressions.

Are there going to be any games that actually make use of the camera as a camera?

If so, I just imagine people sending their dicks or memes over the camera.

I completely agree. I'm an American and I'm afraid for our future.

It is just such a natural feature to have when you can be dealing with blending layers that take up the entire canvas.

That aligns with some things I've heard about flowers. For instance, a flower might contain skatole in its aroma. In very small amounts, it's pleasant. In large amounts, it smells like what it's named for, scat. At a low level, it makes jasmine and orange blossoms better. At a high level, you have a shit smelling stink bomb.