It may be possible to jailbreak an older, end-of-support Kindle and continue adding books to it. But doing so carries risks.

Yeah. The risk of being able to use your device without corporate oversight.

The only way to get to the bottom of this is by giving our personal information, buying those VR glasses, and living inthe metaverse.

Should we do it? No? Oh. I guess that’s what they mean by “ignorance is bliss”.

Netflix plan to bring even more ads to even more parts of it’s service…and I plan to continue not being a customer.

Oh man! The 2003 blackout was AWESOME!!! I’m from Cleveland, and I thought I caused it. Local time power went out at 3:45pm exactly. I know that because in those days I worked at a regional grocery store, and we used physical plastic time cards that you swipe, and then it beeps and you click the button that says “In” to clock in after it beeps.

Well, I start my shift at 4pm, and I was allowed to clock in 15 minutes early, but not 16 minutes early.

So at 3:44 I’m waiting. And waiting. And then 3:45. Swiiiipe! power dies

What’d I do? Oh fuck…what did I do? It didn’t even beep. I swiped my card, and then everything went black…

These were the days when your phone didn’t have a flashlight, but the nokia phones of those days were bright enough you could kinda use the screen itself as a source of light.

So once I made my way out of the office, I realized the whole BUILDING had no power. Now I was less sure I caused it. I thought one breaker had somehow gotten tripped, but that would just be a small portion of the building.

Then a coworker came running in, and said the whole block was out. So now I knew I had nothing to do with it. We turned on the radio, as we waited to figure out what to do. The music got interupted a half hour later saying the whole city was out. Within another hour we found out it was half the country.

So we got sent home before it turned dark. And thats when the day got fun. We sat on the sidewalk with lanterns and candles at our apartment building. We then watched in pitch black as a single headlight came flying around the corner real fast. A motorcycle that was then followed by about 3 cop cars chasing him. We’re all drunk on the sidewalk, sitting on folding chairs. We see the motorcycle go flipping and there is no way for me to describe the weird light show we saw. It lasted forever, and also onlu about 2 seconds. We had no idea what it was.

Turns out the motorcycle hit a curb at 70mph in the dark, went airborn and was flipping through the air, before crashing through the window of a house.

It took police 90 minutes to find the rider. Because they thought he ran on foot. Turns out he hit the wall above the window, died on impact, and his body fell to the ground behind a bush.

But we were all laughing not knowing he was dead. We were just imagining being inside that house, in candle light, before randomly a motorcycle crashes into your front window.

We just thought he did a magic trick, and vanished. Suddenly cops were descending on our block, with ambulances, and for some reason a fire truck. So we took that as our cue to go inside and smoke weed, and have sex all night.

Next day is when we found out what we saw. We didn’t know he had died. We eventually had figured out the light show was the motorcycle flipping end over end.

Ah, it happened in 1634. That’s why I hadn’t heard of this. I wasn’t born yet for a few more years.

Two things…

1. Is…is Cleveland known for high energy usage? I don’t get the reference.

2. Tulips had a bubble? I’m so confused.

Whaaaa??? But they have a peace prize that they only give out to war mongers!

…oh. Yeah. I see it now.

I don’t know who that is. I’m not actually from NY. I just cheer on mamdani from Ohio.

I feel like you just said the same thing I did, but with more specifics.

I mean, to be fair…

XBox shot them in the foot so many times, they’re practically an amputee brand at this point.

Playstation has become stale and boring.

And Nintendo is price gouging crazy, while not offering ANYTHING of any value to play. Just watch. At some point in Switch 2’s lifespan they’ll try to rerelease a barely remastered version of Super Metroid. They’ll charge $70. Or maybe Link to the Past remastered. $70.

Meanwhile, PC has multiple storefronts. Steam is the heavy hitter obviously. Gog has all the old releases from the 80s/90s/2000s. And Epic has…uhhhh…free games once a week? And not much else? Do you like fortnite? They have fortnite if you’re still into that for some reason.

But between Steam and GOG, you have modern and retro games covered for 40 years of gaming on an increasingly available number of devices. If Steam locked down their games to JUST steam branded devices, it’d be DOA. But because I can run a steam game on any PC that can physically handle the game, it means I can buy a handheld of any type. I might limit myself from some modern games. My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 seems to cap out around 2015. But I’m good with that. The only game I’ve been disappointed in missing out on has been satisfactory. That game seems fun. Maybe I’ll play it in 20 years.

…thats literally half of Lemmy, if not more.

I think what he’s saying is that if a community on lemmy isn’t politics, linux, or animal pictures, you can make a new community all you want. But if nobody visits/posts, is it really a community?

I’m not speaking from knowing any insider info. I’m purely speculating when I say this, yet I’m 100% certain I’m right.

I bet it was easy to do that after decades, if not centuries of corrupt officials in NYC politics hiding corrupt money EVERYWHERE!!!

He probably just came in, and said something like “Wait, why is our water plant being funded for 400k, but this random child day care is being funded for 12 million dollars???”

He probably just came in, cut the obvious corruption, and then suddenly the budget had the funds to do the things it was meant to do.

I qualify for a mortgage, but they want to capme out around 100k.

And the houses in this area were built in the 1800s-1930s. So a 100k house is going to have massive repairs needed that you’ll easily spend another 200k on.

Literally every house I’ve been shown has been “well this one needs an all new roof, and foundation” before you even see the property.

The midwest.

Ok…I get America. Why is Germany on that list?

Don’t worry. Even without the /s, I thought it was obvious. World is filled with morons though.

Strange that Belarus IS on that list, but Russia isn’t.

Surprised they didn’t throw in a soulja boy game console too!

I wonder if I could buy Nokia, and start selling the N-Gage again.

Hey, Taco-Talkin’ has a whole new relevant meaning these days! Plus it launched at $299.