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btaf45 , 5 months ago to technology in After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

It was really just a drone.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in Proud Boys member gets six years in prison for Capitol riot after insulting judge

Joining the Prison Boys was a pretty dumb career move for this jackass.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records

Thank you for your service to the public.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in Trump Demands Total Presidential Immunity -- Even for Acts That 'Cross the Line'

Johnson did not pardon Nixon

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in Trump unleashes Truth Social attacks against E Jean Carroll while in court

Since Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump himself would never make that distinction, we do not have to make that distinction while talking about Treason Trump.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families

I like Scripps News

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in Boomers won’t part with their homes, and that’s a problem for young families

Second homes/vacation homes of wealthy individuals

The GOP’s constant gigantic tax cuts for the rich are a huge force inflating costs of houses for everyone.

btaf45 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to news in Trump Demands Total Presidential Immunity -- Even for Acts That 'Cross the Line'

I don’t understand how this is even in play.

Me neither. Even active presidents only have immunity in very limited circumstances. 30-40 years ago this claim would have been brushed off immediately as utterly ridiculous. That anybody would spend 1 second considering this as a real claim shows how our legal system has degenerated.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in Trump unleashes Truth Social attacks against E Jean Carroll while in court

They need to double the fine on Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump each time.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to technology in App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline

On Android you can have other app stores, why don’t you have?

I do I have a Samsung store. Beyond that, the ability to sideload apps is a huge reason I use Android and IOS sucks. I also have apps I’ve loaded off of web sites and my own LAN.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to technology in Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession

Here on Kbin.social it takes 712 kilobytes for me to view it.

And that is fine for a social networking app like lemmy/kbin. When I am using notepad I just want speed to view some text on a standalone machine, not a bunch of crappy bloat. Same for all of the other notepad users who outnumber people reading this by 1 million to 1.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to technology in Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession

If notepad makes a connection to the internet and waits for a connection and response then it is enshitified. If MS wants to do that they need for fork the code and offer the enshitified version under a different name “Notepad AI”

btaf45 , 5 months ago to technology in Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?

It’s on them. I don’t want “support” I wanted them to disable their DRM before they abandoned Windows 7.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to technology in Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?

I actually have an alternate boot that runs Linux. I have Windows 7 PC precisely to be able to run most amount of games, including older games.

btaf45 , 5 months ago to news in A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy

Because every boomer spent a lot of their working years in the biggest golden age of American history and had access to a ton of advantages (unions, pensions, cheap housing, the ability to get a good job without a college degree, etc.)

Was born at tail end of baby boom. Never had a single one of those things.