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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s better than dealing with whatever terrible nonsense they put on LGs and Samsungs. I was really close to getting an LG because everyone says it’s the best looking but I just couldn’t imagine going back to completely unmodifiable TV OS, so I got the Sony instead which still looks absolutely fantastic and I have my custom launcher on it set exactly how I want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More like a steam turbine (which is way cooler cause it’s like a jet engine). Steam engine makes me think of a piston engine like on a train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  God dammit Mazda, you were supposed to be one of the good ones!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bandcamp seems decent but it’s got a small and niche catalog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need it, soz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That part of Chile is almost 100 miles of desert. Croatia is only like 10-20 miles wide in that area!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone needs to train an LLM AI on Trump's speeches. I bet the random gibberish output would be hilarious.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trump AI was way to succinct and didn’t get distracted constantly cutting himself off every 10 words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no need to make these things Big Tech, so if that’s why you are opposed to it, reconsider what you are actually opposed to. This could be implemented in a FOSS way or an open standard.

  So you not trust HTTPS because you’d have to trust big tech? Microsoft and Google and others sign the certificates you use to trust that your are sending your password to your bank and not a phisher. Like how any browser can see and validate certificates, any camera could have a validation or certificate system in place to prove that the data is straight from an unmodified validated camera sensor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s already owned it for nearly two years. I’d definitely take the over on that bet. I just don’t see what Twitter could possibly do that they haven’t done already to kill it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why ISP provided routers and some brands of mesh router would collect and sell data but what is it about “mesh” that is particularly bad here? I have a cheap TP Link router that is apparently mesh compatible but it seems like a traditional router in all the other way. Should I be concerned?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bryony Page⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [insert article about how onlympic athletes are tragically underpaid and most struggle]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gas being a better energy source than batteries in every way except for the health and environmental issues is a real bitch and why this is such a problem. Cords are a hassle and you will need a lot recharging batteries all the time, so you notice the downsides immediately and acutely. These are solvable problems though. Even running an efficient gas generator would be better for the health of landscaping contractors than being around 2 strokes all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MAKE GAS LANDSCAPING TOOLS ILLEGAL

  Give away free electric tools if they trade in their gas ones. It’s so bad for health to be huffing 2 stroke fumes all day every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t tell who is doing them in the walk in, is it really a problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that’s been the case with these sequels to games I really loved. Happened to Cities Skylines as well, and at first it seemed like that’s happened with Helldivers but it turns out it was so good it just ruined the servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SwiftKey will let you say fuck cunt shit all day. I’m sure other keyboards will too but I haven’t researched for a better one in a while since this one is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm I wonder if we just have different settings for it or use it differently. I mostly use SwiftKey these days as a fix for my terrible typing, rather than as predictive text. The predictive text is pretty bad in my opinion, but I’ll tell you what SwiftKey thinks about itself below.

  (prompt in bold) SwiftKey predictive text is not associated to my records and the other two phases are slack and the other two phases are slack and the other two phases are slack (end of predictions)

  It seems Microsoft hasn’t added GPT to it yet… Can’t even remember the last time I talked about slack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck out there⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit man I wish this had been posted this morning. I left to go for a ride about an hour away and traffic got so bad it was gonna take 2+ hours so I turned back and didn’t get to ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compact Rivian R3 EV Makes Surprise Debut With Awesome Hot Hatch Styling And Opening Rear Glass⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought R2 is pretty much the size of a Honda CRV, much bigger than a Fit. The Fit has very little 2nd row room and a pathetic amount of space behind the seats, about as wide as a single carryon suitcase.

  The R3 looked like the size of a Civic (but taller) and I do hope that one can get down into the 20k range, but I’ll be surprised. Model 3 is still nearly 40k at minimum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is investigating if Boeing ensured a part that blew off a jet was made to design standards⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with the recent 737 max issues, it still remains safer to fly a Boeing than to drive wherever it is you’re going. Unless you live in Japan, China, or certain parts of Europe and Asia with safe high speed rail, you’re better off going with Boeing than almost anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock a bye baby on top of the tree, When the wind blows the cradle will YEET ♪⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The meme is fucking wrong.

  Catapults and ballistas are different, not because of how they store the energy, but how the throw the projectile. A catapult throws it off a holder and a ballista shoots in down a track.

  It’s a goddamn catapult. I will not tolerate factual inaccuracy for the sake of a funny meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking isn't as important for restaurants as the owners think it is⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The owners also think that people who drive spend more per person than those who walk or take public transit, but the reality is reversed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROCKSMITH 2014 LEAVING STORES - Ubisoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is the record companies refused to renew the perpetual license for a cost that Ubi could justify in order to keep the one time purchase model. Everyone wants subscription model from the top to the bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Survey] Can you tell which images are AI generated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple were surprising but others seemed obvious in hindsight. Some of these AI models have a really specific vibe that is easy to spot. It can be removed sometimes but if the prompts don’t prevent it, the images tend to have this glow and pop that many real images don’t have. They’re perfectly detailed if that makes sense.

  Got 14/20, which I feel pretty good about, but you do this survey every year and it’s gonna keep going lower. I bet even a year ago, most people would be above 75% accuracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sources?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s redundant because there’s basically a circular argument that G and C are using to not respond to the workers. Workers want to C negotiate with G on the terms of their work with G but C says they can’t because they’re just contracting with G. Then G says the workers can’t negotiate with G because they work for C. Both companies point the finger at the other as to why they can’t help and just give nothing back to the workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it could, but it won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, Brightline Florida isn’t quite considered high speed by most metrics. It will have a short 125 mph section, which is kinda the minimum design speed to be considered high speed. The state of rail in the US is so bad though that Brightline Florida might actually have a higher average speed than the Acela…

  Brightline West between southern CA and Las Vegas will be designed as a deticated high speed line though.