This will always be a game of cat and mouse, but I know that for example 3rd gen tacomas have a module that does all the talking (has the SIM card). You can pull a fuse and it kills it, but you lose your Bluetooth microphone also if you connect your phone and want to make calls - however it’s just a power passthrough so it’s really easy to splice a bypass cable that gives power back to the microphone in the cab.

There’s other stuff you can do, like disconnecting the antennas but supposedly if there’s a good enough cell signal the traces on the PCB will still transmit, I dunno.

Either way, there’s ways to get around a lot of the invasive stuff in modern vehicles but it gets harder every year.

It’s super easy to configure over a LAN.

You set up a folder path to sync, authorize it between two machines, and set up your configuration (mirrored sync, one way, etc).

For photos taken by my phone for example, I have two syncs set up (maybe not the best way to do it it’s just how I did it in 5 min when I started and never changed it)

Phone has a 2 way sync set up with my photo folder with my desktop. Meaning, when I delete/modify a photo either at my phone or the desktop it deletes/modifies the photo on the other device.

Additionally, I have a 1-way sync of my photo folder between my desktop and my server archive, so the server only pulls in new files and never deletes or modifies existing files in the archive. So if something happens to my sync folder or if I delete something on accident then I have an archive copy, important for precious memories. Every now and then I just delete the contents of the archive folder and it immediately re-syncs the existing folder of all the stuff I actually wanted to keep. Could set up a cron job but I’m too lazy.

For Joplin I just have a folder on each device that’s JUST my Joplin notes that syncs between my devices that use Joplin. Easy as pie - as soon as I turn on my laptop or desktop it syncs up with whatever changes have happened on the other two.

For syncthing I like to make a top level sync folder on each device and then nest many folders under that top level, each to sync distinct things depending on what device it is. You can just sync a main folder if you want but I like the granular control, and as you figure out more stuff to sync it scales much better if you start that way, and name folders consistently.

Just be careful in the beginning and always back stuff up. It’s not TOO easy to mess up but if you did it would be unforgiving. Test it with some random stuff before you start sending anything important.

I don’t have a square to spare

As someone who used NC with Joplin for a long time, I wouldn’t recommend it. I prefer syncthing now, much simpler to manage and find your files vs it being nested in a big clunky NC instance.

Joplin works really well for me. Was syncing via nextcloud for a long time but syncthing is way easier to manage and more bulletproof as long as you configure it correctly

I thought 8 was good. It came out at a time in my life when grinding for spells to boost stats wasn’t offensive to me.

Never went back and replayed it. It’s in the uncanny valley of instead of using blobby, well designed yet simple graphics it was trying to look good realistically but not quite nailing it, and the controls are clunky.

Wouldn’t say I loved it but it came after 7 and I mean, huge shoes to fill. But I did NOT like 9 at all so I still remember it as good, all things considered.

That’s because a significant amount of the regulatory agency leadership is appointed by the executive and follows their policy priorities?

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Yeah OP is the dumb one or just terrible at judging people’s level of dumb.

I totally agree with you, but that problem is way harder to solve than LLMs and music generation.

We got LLMs and music/image generators first because there’s so much written information, music recordings, and images to train models on. There’s practically zero data about how your body moves when you’re washing dishes and what it looks like in the sink, what a dirty plate looks like or a clean one, so we can’t just train robots to do it yet except in extremely specified environments with as few variables as possible.

There’s a lot of advancement in this area, trying to solve these problems. Robotics is a very exciting field of advancement these days. Automated dish cleaning machines exist that don’t use AI, but they’re industrial and expensive. If you want something that uses dawn, a sponge, elbow grease, and your particular style and height and form factor of kitchen sink, we need a lot of data about people washing dishes to train models on.

At least, at this point we do. We will probably get to a point where an AI enabled robot can learn new manual tasks, but think about how long it took YOU, a human, to develop and learn motor function and coordination. All that motor telemetry data, input sounds, sights, and tactile sensations are handled by your brain silently, and we take it all for granted. But it’s all built off a lifetime of your brain taking input data and processing it so you can run the biomechanical series of squishy meat levers and pulleys to wash the dishes.

RIP Brittany Murphy. Luanne was annoying at first but as soon as they let her spread her wings she took that character to incredible places.

Guys I know what I’m doing, I have Sec+

Stand aside, Sec+ holder coming through

Edit: why don’t you put your Sec+ badge in your lemmy comments so we can be impressed by your knowledge

I had about 150 dives under my belt before I ever did my first night dive (I was not an advanced diver by any means but definitely quite comfortable in the water).

It was a shore dive where you kicked out about 30m and then just dropped down at a buoy line, couldn’t be easier. I’d done that dive plenty of times in the day, you just follow the rope down to a concrete filled bucket, easy peasy.

Holy shit. As I started to drop and the darkness pooled around me my breathing got REAL quick. Got down to the bottom and I recognized that I was freaking out some so I just chilled for a minute looking around and getting used to my light beam being my entire vision space.

After about two minutes I got thrilled/excited/amazed instead of panicky, and after that it’s never been an issue, but it took a deliberate, conscious effort to stow away my lizard brain and force myself to realize that I was not in existential danger.

I LOVE night diving, I’m a night owl anyways so it’s all the things I love about the peace and quiet of the night, AND the peace and quiet of diving. It’s bliss.

But yeah, that first drop into the blackness… Woo. I’ll always remember it just as vividly as my first open water boat dive.

Humanoid robots are great at operating in existing environments that were built for humans. Like, your house or an office or our streets.

Purpose built robots are almost always better at specific tasks, but if you want to drop in a robot in an existing environment or have it interact with existing products and equipment, humanoid is the way to go.

Amazon for example has TONS of purpose built robots that are not humanoid, but their entire warehouse system was designed from the ground up for them.

Nope. These numbers are reported in USD after converting.

Yes, they are actually that huge.

This is a really weird one I’m sure, but Ursula from Kingdom Hearts… 1? Can’t remember which.

I built my character for magic first, then attack, defense last.

It’s not a hard boss fight but I wasn’t scaling well in the game and hadn’t gotten to where magic damage was supposedly OP so I hit a wall.

Never got past it. Can’t go back and replay because honestly there’s a lot about that game that hasn’t aged well.

I’m not normally such a noob, this boss is my forever shame.

The popcorn you’re eating has been pissed in, film at 11

you wouldn’t want to touch any random person’s clean genitals.

Depends on the person

Yeah this is the main thing for me. I wash after going pee anyways because hygiene but I randomly touch my junk through the day and don’t run to wash after (sorry world, love touching Deez Nutz what can I say) but the reality is that it’s just a great way to wash your hands every hour or two, which helps prevent the number one way I’ll transmit/receive germs.

If I never went pee I’d have to look for reasons to go to a sink, but as it is I have a convenient reason already.

That’s called insurance, and it’s law to have it