On Discord, I got the captcha, but then after it redirected, I got a page saying:

    {"error":"failed to execute k-id privately action (status=404)"}

I'm very much an adult, this whole thing is ridiculous. Ban me, I don't care.

I got this, but then refreshing that page made it work for me

The text with the code shows another step.

I tried it a couple more times, and it worked on the third try and showed me the green successfully verified message.

Why bother? Just get NTP time when the power comes back. It's syncing every 15 minutes anyway.

Because you want to know what time it is when the power is out?

Agreed. What phone would you recommend?

I want a flagship phone with a headphone jack.

Looks like the only option nowadays is the Asus Rog Phones or Asus Zenfone Ultra.

Sony still uses them. Their security updates were sub par the last time I checked.

Surely if Copilot was so useful and great, it wouldn't be free and they wouldn't be trying to force it down unwilling people's throats at every opportunity.

I'm beginning to think this AI stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be...

> useful

That's not even the endgoal they are aiming at. Suppose you have a data churning loop you want to run forever. First step is to send a copy everywhere (anywhere) and in whatever shape and form to feast. Otherwise it just sits there looking at the nuclear plant next door.

I've been a heavy user of the MS Copilot chat app on my Android phone, which I've been pretty happy with as a free basic AI chat option except for some annoying GUI bugs that they will apparently never get around to fixing. But I've yet to see a good use outside of the chat interface.

Reminds me of Amazon discovering most people don't use Alexa for much beyond setting cooking timers.

And how much of your cold hard cash would you be willing to lay down for the free basic AI chat, when they decide they actually want a return from their trillion dollar data center investments?

I'm not confident they have any sensible vision beyond "meet the KPI for Copilot usage".

its so that they can tell the investors that "100 million" people use their bs

I've done that with both LG OLEDs that I've had.

I have a projector that I never use because I don't like the fan noise.

They're great for sports though. Hard to beat an entire wall of screen.

I prefer OLED for TV and movies though.

I have an LG OLED and have never seen it go blank on any scene.

It just looks great all the time. Especially on scenes like you describe with a dark scene with bright highlights. Campfire scenes look great, space scenes look great. That's what OLED is best at.

If you're talking about ABL, I've only noticed the dimming on ads or powerpoint lectures that have fully white backgrounds, and I've been thankful for it at those times because I find all-white backgrounds too bright to watch anyway.

Gmail is the only thing I wouldn't be able to replace.

I've read it's almost impossible to run your own email server without getting blocked by all recipients in 2025.

I don't self-host everything. For example, I use Fastmail with custom domains. I think this spreads the risk.

Unfortunately, Google has a policy of "greylisting" domains it had not yet seen, so this increases friction with people on Google. I'm not even running my own email server :(

I'm running my email server on some famous VPS provider, and with properly configured server (SPF, DCIM), I didn't really get any problems sending emails.

Call me a dinosaur, but I don't consider a 154Gb download before I can start playing a good first impression.

In fact, I would seriously consider even buying a game that big if I knew beforehand. When a 500Gb SSD is $120 Aussie bucks, that's $37 of storage.