That matters?

It are you saying joking about sexually assaulting an infant is okay? But as long as you didn’t rape infants, you get a pass?

Whatever the fuck your angle is - it’s dumb.

No.

Let’s not forget lobbyingbribery. And since said political influence is ostensibly being bought for the sake of charity, nobody would even blink.

Just my theory, mind you. But every one of these charitable foundations is primarily done for tax avoidance. No question. Well that is every one of these foundations except for the one set up by Mr President Tiny Dick. He just can’t resist the temptation of embezzlement. I mean seriously, he bankrupted THREE casinos, and had a judge not just dissolve his foundation, but also bar him from running one of these so-called charitable foundations ever again.

I don’t even want to know how you can fuck up that egregiously. One of those things where you have to wonder if successfully finding understanding of how it happened is going to hopelessly corrupt your own soul for all of eternity.

Well, yes, but actually no. At least in theory. Since it has a Wi-Fi antenna, a bad actor could connect wirelessly to it.

Likely to happen? I having the foggiest idea but I doubt it. Yeah, I’m paranoid. But I’m part of the generation that grew up with the invention of the internet. So can you really blame me?

Edit: I did have a neighbor once that would learn how to wirelessly hack into anything in my apartment that had a signal to do shit like stream porn to my TV or obnoxious music to my soundbar, junk like that just to piss me off. Then one day I discovered that he had managed to spoof my Spotify credentials and was accessing my account. How did I kno? he started adding his own favorites to my account! That same day I totally logged everything out of my Spotify, but I also went through and did my best to learn how to absolutely lock down everything that even had so much as a Bluetooth antenna…

Second edit: DO NOT install YouTube on a fucking Xbox. Like ever! Anybody who successfully connects to the same Wi-Fi network immediately gets access to stream whatever YouTube content they want to your Xbox and the stupid app will take over the screen so you get kicked out of your game and now whatever crap someone wanted to stream to your Xboxes playing on your TV. And worse last I checked there was no way at all to disable this.

So I know for sure is avoid Roku like the plague! You cannot use it as a TV at all without a connection and creating an account.

Well, the program is that the computer in my TV is a potential security issue. That said, there’s no way of knowing if I can trust updates to patch problems or create new ones, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eh, I’ve always been paranoid about firmware patches and the like. Also, curiosity got the better of me; I had to see what the crap smart features were like.

You do make a very good point though!

Yes. I connected mine, checked for updates, then factory reset it and did not enter any network login.

This only works on certain brands I’m afraid…

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Yeah, whatever

Wow.

I’m so sorry for doubting your infallible knowledge and wisdom!!

Well…no I’m not.

And don’t even play that “I’m sorry you didn’t react the way you were supposed to” crap.

And, no, your grandiose posturing means nothing at all to me. No one cares. You say you’re an expert? Then you already know what evidence to cite to support your argument.

Your claims of experience are not evidence of anything but your over inflated ego.

would be surprised if this was a real problem and I wasn’t aware.

Umm… that’s a terrible argument. Like, really, really terrible.

That said this does feel a bit like a red herring. I don’t think having an open bank account is gonna do shit to help anyone kidnapped by the Y’allqueda Gestapo.

But, seriously, “this can’t be true, cause if it was I’d already know about” comes across as really arrogant.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thank you for the additional clarification. And naturally, potentially mitigating solutions such as bike lanes are so often demonized in our society, not because it actually causes disruptions to traffic, though; I figure it really is all about drivers getting jealous because they see people on bicycles not getting stuck in traffic (in my not so humble opinion). Not to mention how many violations of basic road safety and laws get handwaved because “they need their car”.

But I do agree that endangering pedestrians is no solution. I guess it infuriates me that real solutions are ignored/refused for such ridiculous reasons.

Well, I can easily identify two. The standards applied to cyclists versus motorists, as well as the fact that commercial vehicles vs civilian makes no difference. At least from your description.

Separate from that is the general problem that couriers are essentially coerced into behaving so irresponsibly by corporate greed, but that’s a whole other can of worms of course.

That’s the to to lamest excuse I’ve heard for such an egregious double standard.

Exactly. There’s no license involved here. This is pants on fire levels of stupid.

Oh, god. You’re so boring!!

LIVE A LITTLE!

I’d say it won’t hurt, bit I lie. Don’t worry, though; it builds character. 😆

But seriously, go away now…

See, you can’t even get that right. They just sprayed my lawn!

Sheesh, dude. It’s like you’re not even trying! Oh, wait… ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ

Step one is to try and access the bios. If you can, you just need a USB stick with your installer for the OS of your choice (Windows? Eew!).

If not, you’ll need to search for information for your laptop model. You might be able to disassemble the case and remove the CMOS battery. Or, might be another trick?

If you can’t get into the BIOS, you might have a bit more difficult road ahead. Then again, I recall back in the day there was a Linux distro that could launch from an .exe inside of Windows; is that still possible, though? I have no idea.

Good luck! And might not hurt to chat up the next autistic nerdy type you come across. 😂

How the hell would you know? Any fool who asserts that they know what’s best for a complete strange they know nothing about is not someone I would EVER trust.

Celebrating a descent into fascism? Oh, but of course, celebrating the complete breakdown of social support structures as they’re replaced with the populace getting terrorized by our own military is OBVIOUSLY such an unparalleled cause for celebration.

Wait, no, that’s fucking asinine. When did you last touch grass, buddy???