Got some sources to share? The quick search I did doesn’t support your argument.

Also, Aardman is a rocking studio with quite a history. (Yes, I know they went digital for a bit after the fire)

After the rage… Well duh? Obviously.

Advertising is all about human psychology whether they be adults or kids. Does anyone expect an advertising agency to dismiss all research on adults and start from the ground up targeting kids? That’s not how innovation (that hurt to type in this context) works; we build on previous work.

I bet the same principals work for Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok and thousands of independent ad agencies derived the same conclusions through different means. Because it’s Philip Morris, should they be the one prohibited from marketing other brands they own?

I just had to buy a m.2 drive. It cost more than double the same item I bought in 2022. It also cost more than the entire computer it’s being installed into! FML.

Bingo. Looks like RFID based inventory tracking from a company called RADAR

We fought hard to gain control the number. Phone companies didn’t want to give that up. They used numbers to lock people into services and if you wanted to switch because a carrier was being shitty, you’d have to change numbers too.

It’s just come full circle to bite us in the ass now. Haha!

My primary thing is trying to figure out how to live without a phone number at all.

~ Pre-internet nostalgia chuckles ~

You’re going to give up convenience, but best of luck to you… I have family who still operate “in-person.” They are exhausting.

San Jose has been doing this for a decade. We have them all over. Funny this particular one is getting attention.

Oh, HW works on Plex just fine.

Both are docker containers. It can detect the card, but ffmpeg crashes with an error and that’s as far as I got.

I haven’t given up, life just got busy for a bit as often happens.

This “article” is a setup for an ad.

I have both. Plex for family and Jellyfin for me. I still don’t have hardware transcoding working (probably a permission thing. It’s always permissions) and haven’t had much time to tinker this year. Plex just… worked.

I can use Jellyfin without transcoding, but only one or two users at a time is all my CPU can handle.

One concern, yes. Others such as parking heads. Don’t want platters spinning down with drive heads hovering. Power spikes won’t do the circuit boards any good.

Doesn’t hurt to show servers some kindness even if it’s a laptop in a closet.

Cheap and dirty solution would be a battery backup for the drive, but there are some big concerns about the setup. Drives don’t like to go dark like that.

Doesn’t Elon do the same thing such as when SpaceX bought a fleet of Cybertrucks?

Just sounds like how the rich move wealth around to stay/look wealthy.

Haha YES! Darn autocorrect!

Uhhh… So I bribed a stray to bring her new litter over, trapped them all in my basement, got them familiar to humans for a few months, built a huge 6’ by 10’ kennel in our living room, and kept them locked away for a few more months. They just turned 1 in March.

Guess I’m a total monster. But they are great cats.

Edit: Don’t tell the judge I had them spayed/neutered!

That sounds like projection

Google maps has a history option. Miiight work… At least up to the closest intersections.

Any smartphone made in the past couple decades can track GPS and calculate speed. Easy enough.

E-bikes are not a substitute for cars, they are a substitute for bikes crossing further with cars on the venn diagram; some find convenience and acceptability in that overlap, while others do not. I never took my mountain car off a sweet jump on a dirt path, but I used to on my bike. (Yes, despite my stance, I do own a bike)

What you call a burden, are the rules of civilization we all (try) to adhere to. You may not like them, but the end of flagrant disregard and selfishness is, by far, not a burden.