locking lug nuts prevent theft

Yeah, I addressed that, can you not read? There's a whole paragraph there. I think you might be a bit slow buddy. In fact, your only quote about security was mocking it. But now your pro security? Really I think you're just a jackass 🤷‍♂️

So the fault of the tire you bought

You mean apples proprietary bit that comes with any cheap as fuck set of security bits? I have an electronics screwdriver set that cost me $10 and does ALL THE BITS, including Apples.

Locking lug nuts: you mean the thing most people with nice rims use? People who own things like a BMW? So instead of the one specific locking bit they now have this specific locking bit? So a 1:1 swap for one custom bit to another? Except locking lug nuts are individualized and need the very specific adapter for each one, where this one is generic and would work on ALL BMW locking bolts.

Also, you realize this is a standard bolt, right? As in, you can take it out and put a standard one in if it bothers you.

This is nothing but morons being outraged. It's like people complaining about tax cuts for the rich as if you're gonna be a billionaire someday. Your civic is gonna be just fine and for the people actually in this situation who already pay things like $300 for a replacement window switch, this $5 tool is meaningless.

It's a special bit, that's it. Do you have any idea how many bits/sockets/adapters I already own that only fit one vehicle? TONS. That's just the nature of vehicles and maintenance. And I'm pretty sure if you own a BMW, you can afford a $5 bit. This is a nothing burger. It's just people jumping on the BMW hate, which if you were smart, there's plenty of actual things they overcharge up the ass for. This isn't one of them. You might as well complain about locking lug nuts as a whole because that's really all this is.

That's good to hear. I'll have to give it a look as I sort through alternatives. In fairness, I am in favor of a nitro style subscription for HD voice and video and larger attachment file sizes when you're not self hosting and relying on their servers. But all the paid profile customization and emoji use stuff needs to go. We need to no longer accept that anywhere.

I think a lot of digital things, including video games, became much worse with the loss of dedicated servers. It used to be expected that you would rent a server to host your ventrillo/teamspeak server. It used to be much more common to rent a server for your Counter Strike games, or play on someone else's who did. You'd rent some server space and host your vBulletin forum or hang out on someone elses. We used to be much more self reliant on hosting our communities and now we outsource it to a company that offers it for free and turns us into the product.

You want to not be the product? Self host your services or pay for a server hosting service, one that treats you as a customer and not as some free resource to exploit.

And honestly.... For fucks sake how did we get to this point where we expect everything online to be free because it's "just digital". No. Fuck no. Bandwith and server space and server time costs money. It cost electricity. It costs actual tangible resources that people love to bring up when you're talking about how evil AI data centers are, but that's the whole fucking internet! Data centers and cables and all that shit that makes it work. And so many of y'all sit here and act like it should all be free. It's "free as in speech, not free as in beer". That's what we meant. And it got twisted into this abomination we have now......

Yeah I went off on a rant there. Nothing personal to you, person who responded to me. Just went off on a tangent lol. I appreciated you telling me it can be self hosted. That's awesome 👍

Well lots of ways but immediately adding a paid subscription should be a HUGE RED FLAG. Donations, one time payments, etc are fine. Paywalling features from the get go is bullshit tho. And the fact that discord got away with turning normal features into paid ones for years is insulting and laughable. Using custom emojis being locked behind nitro when fucking MSN messenger from 1999 had that is a sad example of how far we've fallen.

Any replacement candidate that's just "discord from a few versions ago" can go fuck itself. Discord was a blight upon the Internet and it's downfall should be celebrated, not "hey anyone have a clone of this piece of shit? I want something still shitty, just not this shitty".

But even better? You can use TWO N64 controllers at the same time, one in each hand, for dual joystick controls. I didn't even realize that was an option until I saw it in the Switch Online Emulator

People hate it when you say this. But it's legit. If people actually were genuinely good and wanted to be good, then would we really have all the problems we do? If one person(sleezy billionaire) can completely wreck society, then was society that strong to begin with? People point out that there are more of us than them, yet the minority them manages to keep the rest of us in line pretty well.... Yet we have the power? Well what are we doing with it then?

The biggest flaw of humanity is we think we are way better than we actually are. But the sad truth is we all are affected by biases, unconscious beliefs, flaws in our reasoning, flaws in our character, flaws in our perception, flaws in our memory, etc. This, in itself, is not a bad thing. It's pretending like we're above all of that and that it doesn't affect us that leads to our downfall and is a bad thing.

Hubris, made popular in every societies storytelling going back millenia, is our greatest flaw. We think ourselves way better than we truly are.