Amputret

Thanks for the reply! It just seemed euphemistic to me as cages have a predominantly positive connotation with safety or protection. Roll cages, faraday cages, and shark cages protect those within. Most other cages are for the protection of those outside, which cars obviously aren’t.

The only negative connotation cages have is animal cruelty or false imprisonment, and even then you sympathise with those within the cage.

Now say car-nut, petrolhead, or even just driver, and I have clear enough picture painted.

Doesn’t quite fit, but I guess. Im curious why the OP chose to use a euphemism though.

I give up, what’s a cager?

Hey the third was a good enough retread of the first, all up until the part where Riddick’s hot bod can apparently cure lesbianism.

The Howie Mandel what?

What a terrible day to have mouths.

Siphoning off extra revs for powering woke.

Hmm, it has been 22.3 years though. Shouldn’t it be funny now?

Don’t get me started. Monthly scorecards that are mandated to be distributed via Teams, but you can’t embed files in that sheet, otherwise Teams shits the bed.

Also, who would ever want to adjust volume levels for individual speakers? Every huddle is fucking torture.

Obviously.

As a Wipeout fan, no it isn’t.

Surely, that’s the intention behind the Swiss cheese model?

Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.

Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).

1. My old phone had reached ‘thoroughly shagged out’ levels of wear and I needed a replacement.

2. iPhone seemed to be an easy to use and well polished interface (and it has been for the most part, despite this back button weirdness).

3. iPhones by most accounts have really good build quality now.

4. I’m absolutely done with Google and their data harvesting ways. Apple are much better, and sure they no doubt record usage habits for their own purposes, there’s little evidence I’ve seen that they sell that data on. Also, I cannot be arsed to fuck around with GrapheneOS, I like privacy, but I’m not militant about it, and still want access to apps.

5. I like the aesthetic.

6. I never had an iPhone, and if I’m ever to have a valid opinion on them, I ought to use one instead of blindly following a brand and repeating second hand opinions.

7. For similar reasons to 6, I want to try a Mac at some point soon as well, and iPhone has some neat tricks with it.

8. The camera quality is fantastic.

While I came from outside a walled garden, I used maybe two apps which had to be sideloaded. The only one I really miss is newpipe, but there’s browser based solutions for YouTube. I’ve just reached a point in my life where I want my phone to ‘just work’ and I don’t care about being a power user, least of all on my phone.

What? Where do you swipe and on which direction?

Recently switched from Android. What’s pissing me off the most is the back button on every app being on the top left. They chose the least accessible place to put the most common action.

This one actually got me to laugh out loud. Holy shit, well played.

True true, I just specifically took issue with it always having been run by bastards. (I know it’s a meme template, but I just wanted to point to evidence that there is hope that not everything we use has always been yoked with pure greed. Call it a cope, IDC.)

Which Aaron are you referring to?