So, the way a geographical feature gets named, or renamed, is if the rest of the world recognises it as such.

Sometimes a name change of a feature, or the annexation of a region, gets internationally recognised not because everyone agrees to it, but everyone wants to stay on diplomatic good terms.

There’s a similar situation going on with the Persian Gulf/Arabic Gulf.

I don’t know, but toddlers tend to make more sense…

Is this a recent picture? Because I’m pretty sure he’s back on YouTube talking shit like an edgy 13 year old…

That’s the thing, though. It did corrupt them.

Almost everyone who touched the ring immediately got curropted by it, with the exception of Frodo, but in the end it did work on him anyway.

Bilbo tried keeping the ring a secret as soon as he found it.

Sam had difficulties giving the ring back to Frodo, and he only had it for a day or two.

And if I remember correctly, I think the situation with Sméagol was accelerated for the movie scene.

Fun useful gadgets. A gadget for the sake of a gadget is just another word for “e-waste”.

My thoughts exactly. I’ve seen several such devices already, probably the most expensive and over-designed one being the Apple VR, and it’s always the same story.

You can do all that with USB C and a touch keyboard. There is no good reason under the sun to make a device that is this dated in concept.

Whatever the market is they’re trying to fill, it’ll be so extremely niche that this product is already a failure. It’s not the first time some kind of ultra niche product from kickstarter failed before launch because except for a small handful even cared.

Yeah they did. It was a pretty major factor. The moment touchscreen phones began to exist, Blackberry became past-tense.

Tiny keyboards were a nightmare. There’s a reason why the Blackberry failed. You might like it, but then you’re part of a minority.

I wonder who this is made for?

The article calls it a “smartphone sized pocket computer”, but that describes smartphones too; they already are pocket computers. And they’ve had decades of design and development behind them.

So… This device has a tiny touchscreen, and a keyboard, rather than having the whole thing being a touchscreen. So instead it has a modular bottom half… Which… Sounds like it’s trying to solve a problem that would’ve been a problem in like… The 90s, maybe, but has been solved by using… A touchscreen that can change the type of input it is flexibly, like smartphones do.

It can’t call, like a smartphone, despite being a smartphone sized device. It has USB A 2.0 sockets and an Ethernet socket… Which makes it once again sound incredibly out-dated, like a device found in a time capsule, because USB C is smaller and faster than USB A 2.0, and can potentially be used for damn near anything. Which includes connecting to the Internet.

Its battery looks very weak. Its CPU looks very weak. It has a tiny amount of RAM, and a tiny amount of storage. It is outclassed by any affordable, midrange smartphone, at nearly the same price too (if you avoid big brand names).

I’m not. My real, full name is already on certain web accounts right next to “Tattorack”, which is the online handle I use everywhere.

Im not fucked because nobody gives a shit about me. If people actually start looking me up, it’ll probably create the most traffic to my art pages I’ve ever had.

It depends on how small you write, I suppose.

If you just want people to die, you can put down quite the massacre on both sides of an A4 page.

However, if you want people do to specific things before they die, like billionaires redisteubuting their personal wealth, or steer world leaders to reverse a lot of their bullshit, you’re going to have to get very creative with your wording to optimise as much page space as possible.

It’s Nox. That tends to happen.

He started on Newgrounds, so he brings that heavy helping of early 2000s Newgrounds edge. Certainly not for everyone. ^^;

I already posted this here yesterday.

There is nothing to understand. It’s not exactly a deep and complex series, and everything you just wrote can be understood by anyone with half a braincell and enough attention to watch one episode.

It just. Isn’t. Funny.

Not in the least bit funny at all.

Eyup. That’s a modestly sized creator exposing Adobe alternatives and Linux to a large following. Hopefully this’ll pull some people away from the corporate operating systems. Maybe even to just look out of curiosity…

Yeah, I had no trouble switching to Linux, as I already was using FOSS programs with native Linux versions (i.e. Blender, Krita, OBS…).

I know. I’m saying it’s a bad, unfunny joke.

The one that trades in the fluoride for pure edge.