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1. OP mentioned this also happened outside in the parking lot and was implying active blocking.

2. There's ways for stores to work with telecoms to get service broadcast inside the warehouse/building as well to get around the natural passive blocking from the building materials.

I was well aware of the difference between active and passive blocking.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement#:~:text=Jamming Prohibited&text=The use of a phone,classroom%2C residence%2C or vehicle

This is more likely a coverage issue than Walmart illegally blocking wireless signals (per to FCC regulations).

Report the coverage issue to Verizon and your local Walmart. Both of which will want to increase coverage of where people are gathering. This is because if bad coverage areas are in places where people gather this will cause affected people to switch services or stop going to those gathering areas if there's alternatives.

You're right. Had to dig into my memory for this one and fact check myself.

IRC, BBS, and most forums (of the era) used PM or SP. MUCKs and a few other tools used Whisper. ICQ introduced "IM me". Part of me remebers using the term "DM" for IRC messages, but I used IRC fairly regularly well into the 2010s.

However, the forum I spent a ton of my younger years on used "Direct Messages" which has likely polluted my memory. Since it was a technology related forum, that was probabaly a customization from the operator to distance everyone from the idea of "private" since everything was clear-text and unencrypted back then. That or I'm confusing "IM me" from the ICQ/AIM/MSN days.

Point being, nobody thought "PM" meant secure and not visible to the server operators back then. It just meant that only you, the recipient, server operators, and 1337 h4xx0rz could see your messages.

What a trip down edited memory lane that was. Thanks for fact checking me.

Umm.. People have been using the phrase "Direct message (DM) me" since forever in the game and online comms world. Private message wasn't a concept until after DMs were later encrypted. And we always knew, that if we didn't control the servers, even encrypted, those messages were subject the server operators.

Your logic is giving me the impression that you're younger and didn't go through these experiences.

Firefox + "I Still Don't Care About Cookies" extension makes post GDPR UX shenanigans so much better.

Steps for using a bidet:

1. After pooping, remain seated on toilet seat with bidet
2. Turn on bidet to desired pressure.
3. Wiggle your butt around letting the water jet spray you down.
4. Turn off bidet.
5. Grab a few squares of TP and fold them over.
6. Wipe water off and inspect for cleanliness.
7. Repeat steps above if TP wasn't clean.

Congrats, you're now a pro, an clean, pooper.

I've seen tip jars in botique clothing and other non-food related shops for some time now in the US.

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I just wish it was an either/or situation.

I don't always need my lawn mower/blower/weed trimmer on batteries. I wish I could easily plug them in when doing light dut work close to the house. But then they couldn't tie me into their battery ecosystem as easily.

But they're a news junkie!

So do you like Biden for this, since you've been blindly critical of Biden for "supporting genocide"? Since this is Biden escalating repercussions to Israel, this is a good thing in your eyes, right?

Or are you posting this because Israel is now being crticial of Biden and any critical message about Biden is OK with you?

I guess you haven't groked it.

Do one of the following:

1. Tell your mother you're not comfortable hosting that type of content as a non-believer.
2. Lie and hand back the propaganda movies and say you couldn't rip them to some unknown rip protecting they use and there's not enough resources online to figure it out.
3. Host the content and let your mother liver her life and don't say anything.

I'd personally use option 1, but you do you.

This is where all of you are mistaken.

These are public service positions, not professions. Thinking of these as professions only encourages entitlement, power, and greed.

There's one feature that win11 has over win10 that I wish was there, and that's the default layout manager is superior to windows 10's, and less fidgety and better hotkeys than what's offered with Power Toys. Especially vertical monitor support, which win10s layout manager never got an update for. And as a Tie-Fighter monitor setup user (4k portrait, WQHD landscape, 4k portrait) having an effective layout manager is crucial.

However, there's 3rdParty layout managers that are even better than the win11 implementation. Butt to be able to get the default support of an effective layout manager is quite nice.

That said, that's the only feature I really like aside from some nominal improvements/optimizations to background systems (network stack, Bluetooth management, "game mode") and services. That's not enough for me to transition when there's so many other things that were done to make it a worse experince.

I'm excited to transition my personal desktop to PopOS once win10 reaches EoL. Maybe Valve will drop their latest SteamOS in time for the Win10 EoL hoping to attract all those gamers on non-TPM 2.0 supported systems that are still great gaming rigs. I know I'd at least give it a go.

"The show was great, hilarious even, until Jerry opened his mouth and said something." - Me imitating Seinfeld

But seriously. I loved a few of the kooky characters, and would always stop channel surfing on a Kramer scene. But Jerry would always say something dumb and I'd move on.

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Gotta sell what you've got and sexualize it to high hell.