There’s a solution nobody has mentioned yet, which is using an iMessage bridge application (allowing you to message iPhone users over iMessage). If you have a machine running MacOS, I just started using one called OpenBubbles that works great and, unlike other bridges (AirMessage or BlueBubbles), doesn’t require you to spin up and run a Mac as a server.

Alternatively, iOS 18 drops this month and has support for RCS, as some have mentioned. This is assuming you use Google Messages…

There’s a book called Robopocalypse where an AI gains sentience and then takes control of basically all robotics/anything connected to the internet to take over the world and I’d love to see that as a mini series.

Man that’s always so annoying.

AROOOOOO

Taco Bell’s caramel apple empanada and the double decker.

I think this sorta misses the point, at least from my perspective. Nobody cares what phone another person has until they try to send that person a picture or a video that looks like it was sent from 2004.

I know that this is only really a problem in the United States, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying for those who have to deal with it. I have no interest trying to convince my 74 year old mother and a dozen other friends/family members to install a different messaging app on their iPhone so we can send each other videos that aren’t compressed to shit.

Most people with an iPhone just want to use the default messenger cause, frankly, iMessage works and it works really well. You know when that default Messages app doesn’t work well? When you’re forced to use an antiquated technology like SMS/MMS. Apple knows this and banks on it to sell more products. It’s one of many anti-competitive practices they employ.

RCS isn’t a perfect solution, but this is a huge step forward in closing a gap that should’ve been closed a decade ago. Nobody cares what phone another person is using. They do care about having a premium experience with a device they paid $1,000+ dollars for. They’re also ignorant enough to blame a green bubble or the believed cause of that green bubble, which is any device other than an iPhone.

In my experience, that’s only temporary. The screen will always wake up again on United flights.

Oh wow, they have a version that doesn’t look like it was made for XP? Sucks that it’s buggy.

What do you mean by installation quirk? Having a GPU and needing a driver?

That seems pretty common to me. I also know people interested in PC gaming who are also low skill and I certainly wouldn’t recommend Linux to them (only exception being the Steam Deck).

I hate all acronyms that aren’t defined.

You see it constantly in gaming communities. Ah, yes, the game “AC.” You know the one.

Assassin’s Creed? Animal Crossing? Armored Core? Ace Combat?

I’m not sure why it does that. The slash was definitely in there.

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Edit: other people are apparently having this issue

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Fata Deum (not out yet) is a spiritual successor I’ve been keeping my eye on.

Actually not seeing that issue in Venmo. Are you looking in your transaction list?

I don’t get it. What’s happening here?

I know you mentioned audiobooks but what about some digital books? Personally, reading makes my eyes tired so I know that, for me, reading something would be a good way to provoke a nap.

As a response to the idea that you may get fatigued by passive media, a book may be a good balance to that. With movies, shows, and audiobooks, you’re going to be listening the whole time. It’s just constant noise. A book may be more meditative.

Which reminds me, this may be a good time to practice meditation.

Yes. Someone idly blocking a doorway isn’t aware of the space they’re occupying and how it may affect others.

Since it hasn’t been mentioned, Dudesy.

It’s Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen shittin around while an AI named Dudesy (trained by all their personal information, search histories, emails, social media accounts, etc.) produces the show.