Smartphones don't necessarily come with data plans. I have a smartphone but no data plan, there are about 3 or 4 places where I go often and they all happen to be places where I have wifi. I find that the portability of the smartphone still heavily benefits me. And sometimes I just use it without internet as a regular…

I think I actually have more direct human interaction thanks to the internet. In real life I used to be insanely shy, but on the internet I could comfortably interact with people (mostly strangers like here on Kinja). It has been an experimenting ground that may have heavily reduced my IRL shyness as well. Now I have…

I've had one track stuck in my head for almost a week now and I gotta say it's not all bad. Is that kinda the same thing?

The problem is that it's easy to underestimate someone's poverty if they have something nice. I also once found myself guilty of thinking "Wow, a majority of Africans has a phone? Guess it's not that bad there after all." Thank you for this excellent piece on how wrong that is.

"Enjoy living in your little cardboard fantasy of niceness and goodness while the bodies pile up around you"

Holy crap, when I read "maximum hydration protocol" I expected something with a watergun, but this? Though it does make for an excellent story. Was it worth it?

To me, cooked sorta appears to imply boiled, or at least I often confuse the two. So then there appear to be two options: hardboiled and softboiled. Baked, scrambled etc. eggs seem like a different category. It's probably because the words for cook and boil are identical in my native language.

He's a Gizmodo writer, mostly into photography I believe. According to gizmodo.com/how-to-stalk-the-gizmodo-staff-on-twitter-1636892747 :

Is the Gizmodo staff mostly located at the fourth floor? Or do you really have such a big share of slow walkers?

Actually it still serves a purpose as a pretentious status symbol. But no, it no longer serves its original purpose of telling time.

I'm always disappointed when these deals are only on American Amazon and not on the European ones. Why don't they have the same deals worldwide?

I'm always disappointed when these deals are only on American Amazon and not on the European ones. Why don't they…

Actually it's a Celeron, not Atom.

Actually it's a Celeron, not Atom.

That kind of office would be my ideal, though it might be troublesome if you have stuff tied to a particular desk. But if you have everything on your laptop or in the cloud then it's perfect.

That kind of office would be my ideal, though it might be troublesome if you have stuff tied to a particular desk.…

I once heard that many standing desks are actually convertible. I'd personally alternate between standing and sitting every one or two hours if I had one. And I think that's what the human body was actually made for and what's best for me.

I once heard that many standing desks are actually convertible. I'd personally alternate between standing and…

"The mouth-breathing asshole or assholes behind this deserve a reluctant congrats: A+ trolling job"

Maybe go back to the approved commenter times. Or at least for burner accounts. Non-burner accounts and accounts with a big enough commenting history should be approved by default. New burner accounts should get the choice: either let Kinja register your IP (and risk an IP ban if you misbehave), or not get any of your…

If you can find it, that is. I googled to see if there would be enough on it that I don't already know by heart, but couldn't find a readable image or text representation. Hope you have more luck.

Sounds like the backup copy of the previous version of the file that some text editors automatically make (if you leave them with their default configuration). Some people may not even be aware that their text editor does this. But yeah, when this happens to a PHP file on a server containing sensitive code -…

"In conclusion: Show us your legs."

"lack of pirates doesn't cause global warming"