dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️

For a web store you probably only need Javascript for payment processing. Insofar as I’ve seen pretty much all of the widgets provided by the card processors outright require Javascript (and most of them are also exceedingly janky, regardless of what they look like on the outside to the user).

You definitely don’t need Javascript just for a shopping cart, though. That can all be done server side.

But it’s still fun to shake the jar and watch 'em fight!

I don’t know about lifted pickups in general, but the NHTSA recorded that there were 39,345 traffic fatalities in the US in 2024. So OP’s chart is missing a few lines.

• Traffic Deaths: 39,345 (in 2024)
• Killed By Police: 1,365 (recorded in 2024)
• Medical Malpractice Deaths: 250,000 (estimated annual)
• Preventable Deaths due to Illness: 44,000 (lowerbound annual estimate)
• Malnutrition Deaths: 6,762 (in 2022)

So, yeah. Our politicians, capitalist overlords, and a fucked up for-profit medical system are killing us all either by inches or just outright, at the rate of a combined hundreds of thousands per year. But ermahgerd, gunz!!!

If 14 years is old enough to consent, how come you don’t let them buy guns, huh?

I did alright with mine. I figure a modern one would have modern hardware in it. People forget how dire the performance on the first couple of iPhone generations was, too. The N900’s contemporary was the iPhone 3GS, I think, which was an objectively terrible device in every metric except sales.

Oh, and the N900’s inbuilt phone dialer was also kind of ass. But I found its performance more than acceptable, and it could run full fat Firefox including the Flash plugin, which was still a big deal at the time, whereas its competitors could barely render a web page.

Bring back the Nokia N900!

It was redundant anyway, since it was just bookmarks with extra steps. But you can sync bookmarks between devices with Firefox anyway and you’ve been able to for years, so I have no idea why they kept it around other than to use it as a vehicle to push ads (because it seemed like roughly 25% of the “articles” it suggested to you were actually ads). I can’t say as I’m too sad to see it go.

Fakespot could arguably have been useful on paper, but I have to admit I never used it because I treat most online reviews as if they’re bullshit anyway.

I can:

• Accomplish damn near anything from a command line
• Write machine code
• Remember a fairly broad swath of special character altcodes without looking them up
• Disassemble damn near any computer or other machine, and stand a good chance of putting it back together

But also:

• Use modern programming languages, including object oriented paradigms
• Actually read what is on my screen and comprehend it, including error messages
• Understand and operate any arbitrary interface without having to have it explained to me by rote

Behold my mixture of skills, and tremble.