To be fair, who wouldn’t?

I get your point, but I feel obligated to point out it wasn’t his lobe that was shot. The part that was shot is called the helix.

I mean, sure. He’s rich. He probably got plastic surgery or something to fix his ear.

Aren’t there typically already clauses within rental agreements about damage to the property (especially when moving out), though?

Adam Savage had the team that does CT Scans of various products

Link?

Apparently not if it’s compared to Walmart.

Basically any show on PBS Kids. I used to watch back when Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood aired regularly on it. Other shows I watched included Zoboomafoo (with the Kratt brothers!), Clifford, Arthur (was sad when I heard it’d aired its final new episode recently), Cyberchase, and Clifford’s Puppy Days. My parents didn’t have cable until I was a teenager, so I was pretty much raised on nothing but PBS Kids (as far as TV shows I could watch).

Another show I used to watch when I was really young, though, was Disney’s House of Mouse on ABC Saturday Mornings. I was devastated when they stopped airing it. We didn’t have a TV guide or anything, so, when it simply didn’t come on one morning, it caught me by complete surprise. On a less sad note, I think I actually still have Snowed In at the House of Mouse on VHS.

For me, that moment was in Kingdom Hearts 2. I hadn’t played the first game (or the second game) and didn’t really understand the concept of sequels that continued a story. My parents had gotten me the game probably because it had Disney characters in it. But this moment stuck with me nonetheless.

It was the game’s first boss fight, the Twilight Thorn. Everything leading up to it and the fight itself was just utter cinematography to my young eyes. I wasn’t even able to actually beat the fight (and I was the older brother, so I didn’t have anyone to help). But it stuck with me for years. I ended up getting a PS4, the first console I bought with my own money, for the sole reason of playing the Kingdom Hearts collections.

Boost! So glad it’s back as a Lemmy app!

76F in the summer, 72F during the day in the winter, 68F at night in the winter.

Reddit, for reasons I’m sure everybody here knows. I do make two exceptions: first, there is one single small community on Reddit that “meets” once a week. I comment on those posts. Second, I’ll allow myself to comment on posts about or related to boycotting Reddit.

Google’s Android. While I don’t currently want to completely switch to another Android OS, that doesn’t mean I won’t in the future. Currently, though, I do try to modify the OS as much as possible to protect my privacy to a reasonable extent. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone. I run an adblocker app 24/7 on my phone. And I trusted, modified versions of apps where possible, such as ReVanced. I also recently disabled the Google Play Store and started using the Aurora Store as my default.

I guess you could call these “soft” boycotts.

I would boycott Apple, but I like Android and its ability to install apps from outside their app store way more, and Windows just makes more sense to me than a Mac, so I honestly have no need for Apple.

As for modifying Windows (like I’m doing with Android) or boycotting it, I’m sure that’ll happen in time with the way things are going. I’ve only just recently started looking into stuff like ShutUp10 and other similar stuff, but I want to make sure I know what I’m doing since a Windows OS can be a bit more fragile than an Android OS.

Cars = getting a job to pay for the gas, the taxes, the repairs, the taxes, the annual state inspection, the taxes, the (usually) annual registration fees, and the taxes!

(Although, you are still able to go places further away without having to get a ride from someone else. In that sense, you are still more free.)

Headphone jacks and the ability to expand available memory using SD cards.

True. I wrote the comment in the early morning before going to bed, so I probably wasn’t thinking clearly.

ReVanced. I love my ad-free, sponsor-blocking, Shorts-removing YouTube experience.

As a bonus, I also enjoy using Mp3tag. It’s a program I can use to easily change and update the tags on all my music files, and it can even do it all in batches. It can also connect to various music services (Discogs, Musicbrainz, etc.) to get music tag info directly so you don’t have to type it all in manually.

I use it for two things: checking out protest stuff and checking the only subreddit (it’s a small one) that’s actually keeping me on Reddit.

As an example, Google’s own website domain was once bought by someone other than Google after they discovered it on a list of domains for sale. Out of curiosity, they tried to buy it and were (to their surprise) successful. The person owned it for about a minute before Google caught on and reversed the transaction. https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/29/technology/google-domain-purchase/index.html

I would make the switch on there, too, but there’s still a lot of people on Twitter that I follow that haven’t moved to other platforms yet.

Mostly.

All I’m on Reddit for now is to watch it burn and to participate in the one subreddit I truly care about on there. I’m not participating in anything else on there at all.

Yep, about the only things that don’t transfer (in my experience, anyway) are files in your phone’s memory—the transfer is usually wireless, so it’s understandable—and apps not available on the Play Store—also understandable; the apps “sync” by literally redownloading all the apps from the Play Store (which is honestly for the best; it’ll download the best optimized version of the app available for your new phone as opposed to one optimized for your old phone).