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Cake day: September 7th, 2025

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  • That was informative. I stopped using Chrome/chromium browsers on mobile specifically because I was attempting to lighten my google-load. I’ll have to give the grouping a try sometime. FF has it on desktop, I use it a lot now that it’s on there. I think that was somewhat recent. I never even thought about it being on the mobile version, yeah, that would be handy.






  • I’m kind of surprised to hear you say that. I’ve been quite happy with Firefox mobile. I haven’t experienced any of the lag or whatever you mentioned. The ability to use extensions far outweighs any updated visuals in the UI department for me. It does everything I need a browser to do.

    What is it that you need that isn’t already there? (genuinely asking)






  • That screen looks incredible. I’d love to have something like this, I just can’t really justify it to myself. My phone already will play pretty much anything I want to emulate, the only hassle is needing to lug a controller around (one day I’ll buy one of those backbone controllers or something).

    Still, as a lover of tech and games, this kind of product speaks to me. I just WANT it. I don’t need it.



  • I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.

    Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.



  • The only problem I have with the whole “Don’t be afraid to fail” thing, is that so much rides on the grades a student receives it makes it very difficult to not treat every assignment as a highly critical task which must be as close to perfect as possible. I totally agree with this professor and I believe he did the right thing by the students. The problem is the system itself.

    Those who are going to outsource their work are likely to always outsource their work or take the path of least resistance. You can’t moral lesson or embarrass that away, usually. But the rest of the class seems to have learned a valuable lesson, or at least learned how to cheat better.

    Regardless, we need to stop having everything boil down to the grades. There’s good reasons grades are important, but there are even more that are detrimental. I don’t know the answer, I just know the system is broken. Maybe it’s just capitalism that’s broken.