You just described Tycho/Jerry’s actual personality: “Thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is.”

I believe this is (or will soon be) a regulatory requirement in many countries, for self-driving features in modern cars.

For me I don’t do long highway trips often enough to justify having it. I would rather not have inherently invasive blackbox tech as a tradeoff for a feature I will seldom (if ever) use.

Well the murder weapon was literally a kirpan, so I guess that could be relevant.

The US supposedly has all this massive oil production and refining capacity, not to mention a huge supply of ethanol. I guess we are really testing the self-sufficiency theory.

I am personally looking at home battery storage and solar, to charge existing EV. Seems like the break even point on such a setup might be shifting closer and closer.

But if we are to uncritically believe what the AI peddlers told us, that means this mystery company should be reaping $10 billion in additional revenue or quantifiable gains in productivity!

Someone tell my Midwestern grandparents their ship has finally come in. They had a backyard the size of a postage stamp and somehow produced bushels and bushels of tomatoes each year. They could probably singlehandedly close the supply gap especially if you settle for what they canned.

I actually live near one of the sites. Even a year ago or whenever the tickets and matchups were announced, it seemed all the tickets were unobtainium. Saw insane prices for random matchups.

I would’ve liked to participate in the spectacle but I didn’t want to spend thousands for me and a friend to go see Eritrea v. New Guinea or some such other prelim matchup I had no interest in.

So then I got to thinking, how many people (genuine fans) from some of these countries are actually able to travel to North America paying peak travel and accommodation costs in addition to the match ticket cost? It must be the 1% of the 1% of many fanbases.

The jobs will just become (even more) horrible amagamations of fullstack development mixed with customer service. Meaning you’ll be forced to sit on “urgent” live support lines and incident bridge calls, management will expect you to magically be able to answer any question about all facets of every integration and table the stupid thing touches, at the drop of a hat, including the vibecode garbage some other team just deployed yesterday, and you’ll also have to do tier 1 type of tickets where you walk some illiterate fucktard through how to click the single sign-on button.

Something to be cautious of, but we need more actual evidence. Hopefully several different groups with diverse political interests and localities audit the new hardware when it launches.

I have a 2 year old cheap Motorola smartphone because I needed a Googled normie Android burner for certain apps, and I don’t like to mix work and private device functions. I will say stock Motorola devices come with an annoying customized version of Android with tons of bloatware out of the box. I was able to remove 99% of it with ADB after identifying the offending packages.

Obvs that shouldn’t be a problem with custom De-Googled OS on Motorola hardware.

Now to fuck up their plan by training their AI on House of Leaves.

“Not fair to those who buy physical software”

What was the most recent fucking calendar year when somebody walked into a CompUSA and bought physical boxed software??

I think I bought Half-Life 2 in box on launch day. So… 2004.

You can also use DDG, Startpage, spin up a SearX instance, or a number of other options.

California needs to wise up and realize that you can make functional firearms out of $20 worth of hardware store parts. They can’t stop the signal.

Shinzo Abe got his cheeks clapped with a homemade gun in a country with roughly zero legal civilian firearms, and a violent crime rate of less than 1 per 100,000.

Can’t stop the signal.

In my area last year I was legitimately looking at all options. Toyota lot was the biggest disappointment. They had 1 RAV4 that was completely stripped, cloth seats, barely any features etc. but somehow the payments were still $150 more per month than leases on better equipped EVs at that point (prior to the federal tax credit expiration). I asked the Toyota guy if he had any other competitive options and he tried to tell me I should get a massive truck (Tundra).

This continues to baffle me. Europe, the US, and likely even Japan was never going to be able to win the race to the bottom on price. China understands its supply chain and mineral strengths and has optimized its entire production towards churning out good (or good enough) EVs at scale.

Still, the US could continue to wall China out of its market with massive tariffs while also promoting alternative cheaper vehicle options, a large portion of which should and could be EVs. But the US hasn’t even done that… Domestic manufacturers have run screaming from EVs, seemingly ceding the entire field to China.

I use Audire from F-droid. It relies on the APIs of Shazam and AUDD. But it’s a FOSS app, there is no account to log into, and I’m running it on Graphene so it’s also sandboxed and permissions restricted.

Awesome, glad they’re doing it.

The problem is the price and the timeframe. The next batch is available next May?

For that price, more than a year from now, you’ll likely be able to assemble or purchase a small form factor PC and build it out with similar or better components for significantly cheaper.

I think the treasury should issue a Darrell Sheets commemorative $40 bill.

For years they ran a program to reward people for using Bing (they still technically do, but the payouts are next to nothing, maybe $5-10 worth of gift cards per year).

10 years ago you could accumulate a passive income of several thousand dollars per year by farming Bing Rewards, Perk (before that company went under) and a few other programs.

The idea being to choke off Iran’s ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.