I never said it was a joke. He fully intended to buy Twitter, then decided he doesn’t want to buy it, but was forced to do it.

You can make the argument that something was the reason he originally made the offer to buy Twitter, but that seems separate to me.

If I talk to friends about wanting to dye my hair pink as a joke, then they propose a bet making me do it if I lose, I lose and do it, then the reason my hair is pink is that I lost a bet, not whatever I originally suggested.

If I eat something I don’t like because there is nothing else in the fridge, the reason I’m eating it is that there is nothing else in the fridge, not whatever reason is there for it to be in the fridge in the first place (a visiting friend left it behind).

In all cases, the situation was created by some other event, and in Twitter’s case, there was an original reason he made the offer, but it did not end up being the reason he bought it, because he wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.

That’s how I see it.

Reminder: He was forced to buy Twitter by a judge and was doing everything he could to avoid buying Twitter.

He is using it to control the headlines, but that’s not the reason he bought it. The reason he bought it is that he was forced to. He wanted to back out of the deal.

Same deal on Android. OEM launcher apps override the app icons for the OEM’s calendar and clock apps, and there is no way for a different app to achieve the same effect.

Believe it or not, most of them don’t live in the US.

Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.

There is a difference between running in the background and being in memory.

Recent Apps may or may not be in memory, that’s why when you switch to a “recent” app not used in a while it restarts anyway instead of continuing where you left it, it’s effectively just a bookmark to a closed app. So the list being long doesn’t mean these apps are using memory.

While running in the background is unrelated, apps can run in the background regardless if they are in the Recents list or not. And it can absolutely cause issues or excessive battery usage, but clearing the Recents list is not the solution.

It can be (linen.dev is one such solution). But the server owners have to set it up obviously, and often they don’t. But it’s not an issue if they cared to.

We who take Aaron’s side

We are in the right, so we don’t have to obscure facts.

I don’t think he wasn’t believing in the force, he knew Jedi were real, he just wasn’t buying the mysticism surrounding it and didn’t think it’s such a big deal. He knew Vader is a powerful force user, but the Death Star is literally one shotting entire planets, so the force didn’t feel that significant to him in the grand scheme of things.

What makes you think it isn’t an option? Most people probably aren’t using it though, because there is no reason to predownload terabytes of world data when you aren’t going to come near 95% of it.

Have you tried that fun fact? I know there was a meme claiming it, but I have never found any evidence of it actually being true, nor did I manage to replicate it on Amazon.

Purchase a subscription to not get personalised ads? So even when you pay, you still get ads, they are just not personalised.

Since the 2014 release date.

Yep. I’d never buy it since that would support Tesla, and I would never buy because it has lots of issues. But I love how it looks. I wish some other company borrows the style and makes an actually good car with it.

I looked at the latest and most “recent” heroes games… they’re all rated/reviewed SO harshly.

Many of the negative reviews are (and rightly so) because of Ubisoft forcing you to use their crappy launcher, adding DRM, and otherwise making the customer experience horrible, and not because there is anything wrong with the genre.

Since it’s end to end encrypted, Ente just sees some raw bytes, it has no way to tell if what you uploaded is an image or not. So in practice it supports whatever the client can display, so your browser for the web version.

A teacher gave us the definition of biotechnology in primary school, something like “using living organisms to make products or services”.

I asked if ploughing a field with a horse-drawn plough is biotechnology and was told off for having a piss. It was a genuine question and I still don’t know.

Presumably because letting the cops know you are defenseless is not what they want to message.