If OP is using it and is happy with it, maybe one turn of wire is enough for it to still work, maybe with reduced range?

I dissolved the card in acetone to extract the NFC chip and its antenna,

Wouldn’t the acetone also dissolve the insulation around the antenna wire? So when it touches itself, it shorts itself out, and – electrically speaking – you only have one turn of thicker wire?

Hm… Makes me wonder if I could make my own by making some batter and deep-frying string cheese sticks.

Cheese sticks are way cheaper than pre-made mozzarella sticks.

Also if cat walks on the keyboard, computer is put straight out of its misery. Bang.

Why would the first and only method of asking the system to reboot be to shoot the system in the head?

Because the lazy-ass dev didn’t want to program in contingencies for using alternate methods, so he just used the one method that’s guaranteed to work.

Why not just leave your work laptop mining crypto for you while you’re away?

“Oh, you need to give a presentation in 3 minutes? Too bad. I decided it’s time to update now, and you WILL spend 45 minutes installing updates before the computer will boot.”

Set a keyboard shortcut for it. Ctrl + Alt + Esc is mine.

I just block them on sight.

Don’t forget the American bot cosplaying as all three and doing its best to make all of them look as bad as possible.

Unfortunately not, I think. At least not for us mere mortals.

I’d have to wait until it’s already being traded.

An angry mob cannot destroy it during the social revolution.

One decent hacker getting into the control and stabilization system, though…

I should really buy some puts on those IPOs… They are going to plummet so hard.

Shoveling almost a billion per month into Nazi Elon’s pockets, just to make sure they can supply you with incorrect information every single time you search for something.

This definition is very much too concise.

That’s what liberal has represented since its inception.

Definitions vary.

To me, “liberal” means someone who supports individual rights, representative democracy, and capitalism.

I might enjoy individual rights, but I’m kind of meh on representative democracy, and very much against capitalism.

Virtually all communists I know are vocal about the problems in those countries when surrounded by people that are educated about them. However, that’s rarely what you see on here, which is where critical support is important.

Hm… Critical of them in secret, eh? I’d love to see some of those secret conversations, then.

If I ever do buy one, you can bet I’ll be specifically searching for one of those Euro-spec ones with replaceable batteries.

So, a communist who values individual rights is still ‘liberal’ to you?

(Also, I should probably clarify: Not every communist/socialist is a tankie. Not even every fan of the USSR/China/etc is a tankie, as long as they can admit that those countries do have faults and flaws. I consider ‘tankie’ to be a very specific category of people.)

No refunds.

A talkie is a motion picture that has an accompanying soundtrack, allowing you to hear the actors in it talking.

lol, but I’m guessing you meant ‘tankie’? Which is odd for you to bring up, because I didn’t use that word at all. It seems like you might already know what a tankie is, if you’re able to tell I was referring to them.

But sure, I’ll take a crack at a definition for you. But only quid pro quo – after I define ‘tankie’, I want you to define ‘liberal’, okay? That’s only fair.

Tankie: A person who (at least nominally) holds leftist, communist, socialist views and thinks it’s a wonderful idea to enforce those views with (among other things) actual tanks … even against, say, unarmed protesters. While (at least nominally) economically leftist, they often hold some very right-wing conservative social views and are usually keen on enforcing those with abundant state violence as well. Always a big fan of countries like the USSR, China, and North Korea, and usually will not entertain any criticism of anything those countries have ever done. Usually considers ‘the west’ in general and the United States in particular to be the greatest evil the world has ever seen (calling them and them alone ‘imperialist’ – a term that can never apply to anyone else), and will ‘critically’ (uncritically) support absolutely any country that stands in opposition to them … even if that means supporting Islamic theocracies or kleptocratic oligarchies. Most importantly, they have very little tolerance for differing viewpoints and would eagerly silence differing viewpoints using state violence if given the opportunity.

Okay, now define ‘liberal’ in your own terms.