except for the two times it got stuck in a boot loop until the battery died.

Did the emergency shut-off (holding down the volume down and power buttons at the same time) not work?

I admittedly only knew it wasn’t self-snitching because I read another comment from someone that had actually read the article.

I did check to confirm before I actually commented myself, though.

This was several years ago, so the law in my state may have changed, but I do remember reading that dashcam footage submitted by a civilian can’t be used by police to issue a ticket after the fact. It can be used as evidence for or against someone if the police do get involved, though.

To put it another way, the officer has to witness the traffic offense themselves in order to issue a ticket. But dashcam footage could be used as evidence to prove someone either was or was not speeding after the ticket was already issued.

The vehicle doesn’t self-snitch. It snitches on other vehicles around it. It apparently uses cameras to do it. It’d only be able to tell cops where the vehicle was when the picture was taken, not where it is.

This is like asking a website to respect robots.txt.

I’m curious if this would actually hold up in court as evidence that a person was speeding.

For that to happen, the app needs to actually work. Otherwise, it’s not staying on my phone.

For better or worse, I have a school account linked to my OneDrive (makes it easy to hop on a school computer to work on stuff), so at least I probably won’t see this.

You: “Have you tried restarting it?”

Them: “No way, that’d never work!”

You: “Humor me.”

Them: “…”

You: “Well…?”

The other person hangs up.

Eh, I’m okay with an app as long as it’s good.

The McDonald’s app is not good. At all. In the slightest. It won’t even let me login 99% of the time.

Even if it is listening, based on the article, it seems the current CEO wants Alexa itself to be profitable. He doesn’t want another division of Amazon to be profitable because of Alexa.

Because, out of all the platforms available (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.), Twitter is the place where the news will spread the fastest.

This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.

I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.

*Taxes with fewer steps.

No need for all that pesky tax paperwork, save for end-of-year tax filings.

There was a time when I… well, I didn’t really follow him all that much, but I didn’t have any reason to dislike him. That changed when he tried to back out of buying Twitter.

At the time I was unhappy with how Twitter was handling its problems. I was hoping things would improve with new ownership. When he backed out, I started to see what kind of person he really was: someone who thought he could do basically whatever he wanted.

By the time he actually did but Twitter, I was glad the government actually stuck it to him and made him go through with the purchase. And I’m glad Twitter is failing because of his own blunders. I’m hoping it eventually dies (I’m already trying to move on to other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon. Just waiting for people I follow to move to them.) and that he’s still left with money he hasn’t made back after that purchase.

Others replying to the comment included Blu-ray, so I did, too. I assumed it was a given to include that since others had already brought it up.

At the very least, it’s still (generally speaking) higher quality video than streaming. It’s not uncompressed, though.

Every now and then, I’m reminded that Skype is somehow still alive.

At that point, I would’ve just googled the phone number.

I thought extensions don’t run in incognito mode?

They don’t. Unless you check the box that allows them to. And I’m sure Google has already checked that box by default.