Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social

@natecull To be fair about it, though, Atari wasn't much better at open standards. If you wanted to use a standard RS-232 modem, you had to buy a serial port adapter that would hook up to the Atari proprietary connector and give you your serial ports that way.

@sireebob Ah. I looked at the OnePlus phones a while back. Currently I'm using a BLU Grand Energy (Android 6) with eyes on a BLU Vivo 8L (or its replacement if they move on by then).

@natecull IBM loved to do that (make incompatible things on purpose). Microsoft and Apple are much worse at gratuitous incompatibility, though. Of particular note, the original pre-Lightning cable for iThings.

@sireebob What phone do you have that's Android 8?

@shel I replied before you sent the next message(s), sorry

@shel Except the new AT&T can hardly claim to have a monopoly now. Not all of the former pieces of AT&T merged back into AT&T; some merged into Verizon (I think). AT&T actually does not even make telephones now, unless I am missing something (if anything that was spun off to Lucent).

@sireebob I never noticed the power user notification controls. The main thing I was looking for was an easy way to stop apps from vibrating my phone, which I find really annoying.

@Angle I've only ever lived in or near Houston, though it has varied from within the city proper to the outskirts / unincorporated areas immediately outside city limits, with about one year in League City (suburb south of Houston). To be fair I have never had a real reason to move outside the area though I did come close to having a good reason a while back. Even if I had a reason then, though, I would not have had the resources.

Am I overfeeding my own ego if I'm adding a FAQ on my personal blog? Even if some of the questions have never actually been asked, but are questions I wish people would ask?

Einstein's Drainiacs 2018 February: Grand champion of the galaxy?
http://www.skqrecordquest.com/2018/02/12/einsteins-drainiacs-2018-february-grand-champion-of-the-galaxy/

@csaurus Or, if you really want to spice it up, switch to Vim. (ducking)

@staticsafe It's going to take a while for IPv6 to catch on. Unfortunately, I think ISPs would prefer we abuse private IPv4 space and wreck the ability for devices behind the "router" to directly talk to the rest of the internet. Me, I can't wait for those days to be over.

@kibi Tim Berners-Lee said it best himself: URLs don't change, people change them. Unfortunately most WRS (CMS) platforms don't make it easy to keep URLs the same when switching between them. I remember Drupal being particularly obnoxious in this regard for some reason.

@kara Could be a hardware issue. Have you tried adjusting all the settings that Cheese makes available?

@kara Get the software, plug your webcam in, and hope for the best. Chances are it works out of the box, I think webcams are pretty standard now as opposed to requiring screwball drivers.

@chr Because a lot of banks do a bunch of Sketchy Shit™ such as Wells Fargo employees making fake accounts to hit impossible sales goals, Bank of America almost foreclosing on a guy over less than $5, etc.

@pnathan If North Korea becomes a democracy I'm all for it.

@marlyn My issue was on a box running GNU/Linux. I don't run Windows on my own PCs anymore.