Jr Modem Engineer: Hey Steve, what should we do if their Internet is out and they want an https cert that we are unable to find?

Sr Modem Engineer: Well, Frank, glad you asked! We’ll just quietly substitute it with this random janky self-signed certificate for the modem itself instead, I’m sure that’ll solve everything!

Jr: But won’t that just obscure the real problem and overwhelm the user with a bunch of unnecessary and incorrect error messages?

Sr: Sometimes my genius is almost frightening.

I was skeptical of ligatures at first, too, it took me awhile to warm up to it. But yeah, love me some Fira Code now.

Hell, I’d permanently lose interest in working for a measly $55 billion.

Paul Blart, Mall Cop

OOBE will be a page that is very specifically crafted to make it sound as absolutely necessary, useful, and important as possible, in gushing flowery language, with a big giant Yes button and a tiny little No button in the bottom corner backed by five levels of “are you sure?” prompts.

Blizzard cinematics have always been fantastic. The fact that the stupid Warcraft movie was anything other than “let’s give the cinematics team 90 minutes to show off” is a tragedy.

The screenshots on steam jump from 2 to 4.

What happened to 3?!

It’s the same thing, but you go to the Wikipedia article for Æthelred I of Wessex and copy his Roman numeral.

I knew I’d been playing too much GTA (would have been around the VC/SA days probably) when I was out driving one day, heard sirens, and looked up in the corner of my windshield to see if I had any stars.

This is a photo from the TV show Friends, on which Ross and Phoebe were two of the six main characters.

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Highdeas.

Looks like a MegaMan boss.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of those except for just plain Slug Bug.

The other game we used to play, probably at least 20 years ago now, was if you saw an oncoming car with a headlight out, you’d yell “sex” and everyone has to touch the ceiling, and then iirc the original spotter got to punch the last person to touch the ceiling. Dunno if that’s still a thing or not.

So Donald Trump has been signing his name in Russian this whole time? It all makes sense now!

Me have lot money. Him have lot money. Me get more money if him can’t get money no more. Money.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

So what you’re saying is we should let some billionaires try it first…

I dunno. I changed nothing else at all, updated PIF, rebooted phone, opened Messages, and like, it was immediately in rcs mode. It even received a couple old messages that has apparently been waiting on it to finally connect. Certainly possible that it was something else, maybe updating PIF happened to flush a cache somewhere, I dunno. If it wasn’t PIF directly, it was either a huge coincidence or some other indirect side effect of updating, cuz that was the only thing I touched, and it magically fixed the problem for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Play Integrity Fix magisk module fixes it. For now, anyway. I had PIF 15.1 previously and my RCS stopped working a few weeks ago. I just updated to 15.9.2 and now it’s working again. I imagine it’ll be a cat and mouse game like everything else having to do with rooted phones.

I have a Zenbook 13 (model UX331F), bought new right around the start of COVID. Installed Linux Mint maybe 6 months ago, audio works just fine, and I didn’t have to do anything special, it just worked right out of the box. I had tried Pop_OS before Mint and I don’t remember any audio issues there either.