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- Comment on Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules 3 days ago:
Right. This shouldn’t be about restricting children; but rather, this should be about restricting corporation’s bad behaviors. It’s also not just children that are impacted. Mining online dopamine-junkies for data by placing money extractors right on their weak spots is unethical, like selling someone crack, or phone scamming the elderly.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 days ago:
Can we do this in the same bill as the popup spikes that take out your tires if you stop across the crosswalk? The guided RPGs replacing red light cams can wait a little longer.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog 6 days ago:
Ianaged to gent KOReader on my Grandpa’s old Kindle. One device has now entertained two people for what is likely a decade or two of combined service.
- Comment on Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit) 1 week ago:
That was my first thought. How do you keep it cold enough to run in a place like Arizona, Spain, or Mexico? It also reminded me of my Windows Mobile days before I had a smartphone when someone on a Windows Mobile forum took a Dell Axim x51v and built a dock for it that exposed all the ports so he could use it with an external display as an infotainment/nav system. He called it the Aximizer. An old android phone with a micro-hdmi port might be the modern equivilant.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 1 week ago:
I hate how everyone follows the social marketing playbook now. There’s so little community building and genuine connection with constituents. Everything is optimized by some social media marketing guru types with a masters degree in being an asshole.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 1 week ago:
One $5 donation buys you a decade of nagging donation emails and a bunch of capitulating spineless politicians.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 2 weeks ago:
I saw that one. Wasn’t it a newer Android version too instead of an ancient one like most of Boox’s stuff?
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 2 weeks ago:
I wish popular cell phones would offer an eink option. I know there are 1-2 phones out there, but they always seem to be on some ancient version of Android.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 2 weeks ago:
Went through and verified that a number of things were backing up and updating correctly. I feel a little less weight on my shoulders knowing things are working as they should.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’d like to think as a group, we are a healthier addiction than Reddit. :)
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 weeks ago:
Good for them. If it works, it works. I wouldn’t connect it to the internet though.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
After that comes the part where the AI hallucinates a world where advertising guidelines don’t exist and gets the company sued for some very illegal advertising.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Missing an important message like that is a fear of mine. I’ve also noticed a number of google products don’t function well while on VPN. I’ve decided to dump the problem, Google, rather than the scapegoat, my VPN. I’m about 70% degoogled right now, but every product counts.
I tried RCS when it was newer, but I didn’t see any benefit to me and it didn’t play well with how often I reset and redo my phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
At this point, we should all be very familiar with what it means to be a “Facebook friend”. Only someone with the emotional depth of a Lego mini figure would think this is a good idea.
Additionally, real friends don’t exploit your weak points to sell you shit, whether products or harmful ideologies.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal Huawei’s advanced chip production line in China 5 weeks ago:
“Them” in this case being the business owners, not the workers or the people their tech is used to oppress.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 5 weeks ago:
When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
No mention of safety in the article. Does a manufacturer of this size have to do crash tests?
Also, this sounds like the Spirit/Ryanair of cars. Everything costs extra.
For years, I drove ~10-20 minutes to and from work. Mostly stroads and freeway. I could never justify buying an extra nice car because I didn’t use it that much. Same for a nice car stereo. I’d just listen to NPR and talk radio for news, traffic reports, and maybe a quirky story about some cultural oddity or eclectic artist. If I spend thousands on a sound system it goes in my house, where I live and vibe. Now I work from home, ride my bike everywhere, and a tank of gas can easily last me a month. My current car was purchased for about $20k. If my car died for some reason, I don’t even know if I’d be willing to part with 20k to replace it. I appreciate that these guys are building something for ordinary people and not another faux luxury lifted minivan the size of a garbage truck.
I can see a lot of retired people buying one of these to drive to their once a week bridge tournament or bingo night.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 1 month ago:
Milk :D Build a heat pasteurization plant next to your data center and you can use the server heat for something productive.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 1 month ago:
I was wondering about this. Why wouldn’t it be closed loop? My buddies and I allegedly built a moonshine still in high school and the coiled pipe or hose coming out the top recondenses the liquid that boils off. Why not do something similar and pump the hot water under snow covered sidewalks to melt them and then send it back to the data center to get heated again once it has lost enough heat?
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 1 month ago:
I agree, it’s a bit of a weird take especially when we’re talking about robots in a marathon, not in a textile factory or flipping McBurgers.
I guess I was thinking: why give up the efficiency of wheels/tracks/propellers for walking (a less simple movement) and why only one set of arms? Why would you want a robot to look human at the cost of being as multitasking and movement challenged as it’s owner? I kept imagining Angry Bender from Futurama where he has 3 very maneuverable metal tentacle arms on each side. (Though normally he’s pretty humanoid in shape too). I still think we’re overly anthropomorphizing them and it’s a bit creepy. It seems like we’re building the tech based on Hollywood as much as anything else. I hear you when you say the shape is a good “fit” for our built environment, but I think we can do even better so it’s interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.
- Comment on Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile 1 month ago:
Do these people miss slavery so much they have to build humanoid robots so they can own them?
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 month ago:
I think a few more people “get it” every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.
- Comment on Is there a good way to import/export/migrate music playlists between platforms? 1 month ago:
Tidal recommended this one when I moved from Spotify a few years ago. It worked, but I don’t know anything else about it: tidal.com/transfer-music
- Comment on MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want 1 month ago:
Gulf of… your mom! 😎😛
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 month ago:
Also, don’t forget to donate if you can. Their liberapay says they’re getting ~120€/week in donations. I think freeing our wearable devices is worth a whole lot more than that.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 month ago:
If gadget bridge paired with a fully featured local analysis tool, I would love that and probably put them on my FOSS donation list too.
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 1 month ago:
Yeah, even if we didn’t reuse, we could at least recycle. We got so into the craze of shoving computers in everything we stopped considering if we might be better off sticking to easily fixable tech for some things. My appliances are old as dirt, but parts are very affordable, there are 100s of youtube videos on how to fix them, and there are very few things that can break to begin with. That’s a far cry from the landfill of bricked smart fridges next to a factory somewhere.
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- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 2 months ago:
Also, if you want to have more than one war at a time you’ll need to purchase add on slots for $4.99ea.
- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 2 months ago:
As someone with a lot of time spent in Europe and the US over the last 30-40 years, it seems like Europe is often happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first. I also think American music and cultural exports are spreading our cultural degeneracy around the world for a long time and Germans slurp it up. I really hope the better education system will immunize them against the worst of it, but the rise of the AfD makes me doubt.