I agree with you but trouble is of course that without good policy, the cost of infrastructure will just get dumped on the bottom 99% while the benefit will be corrupted and skewed to unfairly benefit the 1%.
That’s obviously already true of a lot of other infrastructure. People can barely afford basic fucking maintenance as is. Without undoing the dynamic already in place it’ll just keep happening with new disaster infrastructure.
(As you may already know) The problem with “forests need to burn” is, while it is technically part of natural forest cycles in some areas of the world, it is also true that natural cycles were relatively stable and worked before human-caused climate change. Now that climates are unstable and shifting we are getting crazy amounts of wind, heat, and drought that are accelerating fires in unpredictable ways, including in areas where forest fire was not the primary mechanism for recycling and regrowth.
Fun times 😂 especially when there are still people out there refusing any degree of responsibility who just want to be mad and hurt people for fun. Ugh.
Same thing with profiteering, entrepreneurism, “the need for growth” etc, basically all the bullshit our education system forced on us to justify capitalism and making the rich richer.
Like, no, definitely when I grew up I would somehow understand that its OK to screw people over and hoard resources for one stinky asshole while millions of people starve and die of curable diseases? Loooool nope obvious lie is obvious. I’m here now and I feel old and tired, choosing to fuck people over is still wrong and trashy.
I’d be less bitter about it if so many other people hadn’t bought into it…
Not that this graph needs to be taken that seriously, but it should really cite the source for those hourly wage averages. For the US at least that looks too optimistic, guessing its true for other nations as well. Assuming the top 1% are eliminated to avoid deeply poisoning the data, I’d guess that the average hourly would be under 20usd/hr and the hours-to-80-USD number will wind up well over 4.
Look at all that wasted material. That could’ve been so many more useful and beneficial things for the 99%
And I suppose being flooded makes it slightly worse now too…
“Don’t get my hopes up!”
Look I’m super disappointed and all that there’s not a safe way to alter my body to the degree that I want, whenever I want. Setting aside my ideal world though, in terms of options currently on the table, yeah it may not be as powerful or complete as I yearn for but good is not the the enemy of great. Other things are preventing us from improving, but our current HRT and gender affirming options are saving people’s lives - like mine.
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Request denied: hardware incompatiblity issue.
(Also happy fediverse cakeday!)
I got into it last year. It’s been less intuitive to configure - especially the dashboard section -without getting into manual configuration. It desperately needs some improvement to make it so that a “lightweight” tech person like me can configure it as much as I want without learning the gritty shit under the hood. That said, I’m happy with it overall and am slowly learning more in spite of that complaint.
Google home, apple home, etc are pretty sad once you want to do anything more than very basic automation or very basic controls. Considering that you are giving them complete access to your home and devices that’s a nonstarter for me. I’d go back to having all “dumb” stuff without something like HA. Plus there are things those corpo tools won’t let you do. I couldn’t control the fan on my oven hood manually with google home, but in HA I have total control right out of the box.
While Linux does have something called Secure Boot, that’s not what game devs are tapping into. They want Windows. There are ways to get around it with virtual machines or streaming, but essentially, there’s no casual route to playing these games without Windows.
Throwing in on winslop right now is an absolutely bonkers decision. About as stupid as laying people off thinking that AI will “make up the difference.”
It’s not exactly like I’m going to play this anyway. But I wouldn’t switch back to windows even for a game I liked, if they did scumbag shit like this.
All points I agree with. But at this point using winslop is signing up for a sevice. And it’s full of bullshit.
Yep, it’s still FOSS. It genuinely has better markup abilities than the windows tool too, we use it at work.
Its embarrassing that windows can’t be at least this good without account related bullshit
Mint’s mouse acceleration was what killed it for me. Setting acceleration to “constant” still felt rubber-bandy and fucked up, and there’s no obvious “Off” option. That was a hard stop. It never felt like I was using my PC but instead a rubber-bandy immitation. I immediately switched. It’s frustrating considering that the rest of the OS seemed OK, I could have seen myself using it if not for that.
Bazzite immediately felt “good” to use right out of the box. No baked in acceleration weirdness. Kudos to the team for really putting in the effort to make this old gamer feel right at home in it. Now going on over a year of it and still loving it.
Great, yet another case of: we want to build cars but “nobody” (a.k.a. everybody except piece of shit investors) wants reliable and inexpensive cars that aren’t spying on you.
So we need to unlock money from venture capital / rabid ai hype / insert sketchy bubble here, to build expensive luxury cars with fake self driving while selling all your data completely outside of your control.
Sokka being done dirty 😆 where that Dynamics textbook at
In my experience people are much more attached to a good manager tham a job. But, good managers are sadly endangered here in the USA where I live. I see things gradually shifting toward job-hopping, because any big company here is cancerous enought to only benefit willing pawns over real people who are willing to tell the truth.
Fuck’s sake. The 2-hit combo that is this fucking mess:
And are you married?
I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.
In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?
Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I’m driving, I’ll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.
Yes, the sycophantic totally-not-a-nazi bot is going to work wonders pretending to be a therapist for this fucking guy while he’s driving. Absolutely fucked.
Your assumption about how datalogging works is incorrect.
In short, sensors almost never store local data which doesn’t even matter if those sensors are depowered. There is absolutely nothing to be afraid of here.
So yeah, sensors do not locally store data except in very rare and high-cost cases not found in basically any consumer electronics. There needs to be a datalogger or handoff to a datalogger of some variety. While the ECU or MCU of a vehicle logs data, there’s not a permanent memory of every action you’ve done with the car because it literally doesn’t have enough memory. Doubly so if some of the sensors such as GPS are physically unplugged or depowered as in my case.
So, no amount of malicious action from a dealer would extract location or even more basic data from a car. The only thing they’d see are the basics of the ECU or MCU which has been common for every car produced since OBD2 became… a thing.
I’ll also add that an easy solution to this is not to go to a corporate dealer (all Chevy dealers are shit anyway to be fair). While the independent mechanic might have to buy proprietary diagnostics from the manufacturer, they aren’t going to re-enable systems like GPS or telemetry if you tell them not to because they care about you coming back and thus have an incentive not to fuck you over.
I bought a used Chevy bolt EV, for now I’ve pulled the onstar system fuse which kills the telemetry and GPS+cell antenna. No tracking with no power, it’s my car and my battery so I decide what gets my power.
I’m not interested in letting any of these companies screw me over behind my back regardless of who is “less evil,” but I’ve gotten so used to the convenience of EVs that I won’t do without one.
I use my phone for navigation and music/podcasts and that still works just fine.
Might at some point look at a more sophisticated way of doing this like removing just the onstar module or terminating its antenna, but for now it’s fine.
Folds into a (light) suitcase is WILDLY OP in the grand scheme of things. Granted most of these are OP. So is Bag of Holding in Trunk, that has insane use-cases too (how much can it hold?!).
But imagine THE WHOLE CAR is compressible. Too bad you only have 5k magic-bucks, otherwise you’d have a compressible infinity machine with the trunk-bag-of-holding.
Whatever, compressible car is nuts. Pick your other less-important upgrades (weather forcefield for me but only if it protects from humidity and hot weather, otherwise 2x bread loaf and then I can basically coast forever on free food and making people happy with bread)
Now then. Imagine taking the HST or flying, but OH SHNAP, I have my car-sized suitcase in my lap or as a carryon the whole ride. When I get there I can decompress it and take stuff out / put stuff in / zoop around to wherever I want (assuming it’s legal) and then compress it again because fuck driving, I want to take public transit unless it’s not available.
And wait, what defines a “car?” Here’s where admittedly shit could go off the rails.
Can an e-bike be my “car” under this rule because if so this is GOATed. What about a transit van? A box van? A tractor-trailer combo? Could I carry a tanker truck load of water with me as a suitcase? Does that count as my “car?” Can I dump water in places it legit needs to be with my compressible suitcase tanker truck? What about a container trailer worth of food/material/??? as a suitcase? Could I help deal with world hunger / drought / forest fires / other??? Yeah, this is pretty broken.