a loan for a used car sounds wild to me.

Predatory car loans has entered the chat.

I don’t know about Carvana, but plenty of scummy dealers will give insane rates to people with no credit check, repo the car while they’re still underwater on the loan, and sell it to someone else. You can have two or three people paying off the same car.

Oh, also, they somehow encourage the most gullible people who can’t afford their loans to just let the car get reposessed instead of attempting to sell it back to the dealer.

A believed a guy who said he just got out of jail and needed $10 for a bus ride home. I was 17. Found an ATM, gave him the cash, saw him walking around the mall with his girlfriend 20 minutes later.

We bought a shower mat that reeked of plastic offgassing, so we left it outside to air out for a month, and it still smelled like shit, so we threw it away.

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

Took me 5 minutes to learn spoiler tags, hope I didn’t ruin it for anybody.

We can’t keep sucking Chell back into the lab. Let her be.

In other words, someone may be willing to pay you for parts,

Except for the parts that Windows obsoleted. Not saying that they’re valueless, but they certainly tanked the value of otherwise useful parts.

My thoughts exactly. Didn’t think anybody would get the reference.

“Trade it”

TO FUCKING WHOM? The whole point is that you made it useless.

(Unless this is Microsoft providing some free advertising for Linux)

I thought only LLMs were supposed to hallucinate

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

Many QR codes today are designed to be scanned in a general QR app and then launch their specific app. Not sure how the markup works exactly, but I’ve seen it work like that.

If I recall, the next post down was them realizing their mistake and asking how to delete things from Facebook, so it would have to be a humiliation kink.

There’s a sub on Reddit called “mirrorsforsale” that’s all pictures like this.

My favorite was someone who posted a picture of their bathroom scale to show off how much weight they lost,but they didn’t realize the scale was so reflective and they were hanging dong.

All of them? Is there even a theoretical pipeline for how they’re meant to be disposed of?

Who shreds/smashes them? Is there a service for that?

Right, but then what? Like cars do the same thing, but they end up in scrapyards. What’s the gun equivalent?

I’ve heard Rocket League can be pretty bad, but I’ve never played myself.

You have to lick it all sexy-like to get the wine to come out.