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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m open to suggestions. I’ve tried weed but it doesn’t do it for me. Also alcohol lets me have fun socializing instead of just getting stressed out. I’ll take the trade off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I control my addictions by limiting supply. I buy a fifth of bourbon and a case of beer once a month and that’s what I get. If I go on a bender for a week and run out tough shit.

  I don’t have problems with overeating but if I did my strategy would be to have a limited supply of things I don’t have to cook. No chips or soda or sugary bullshit. Just full ingredients that have to be prepped and cooked. When I did cook or order food it would be in an amount that’s appropriate. Add friction between me and the things that are a problem for me so it’s easier to put off consuming them. Maybe that would work. I don’t know.

  I also have an abhorrence for delivery services so that helps too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get a fucking steak dinner for the price a some of the more expensive fast food combos around me. Shit is crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla’s haven’t existed for 20 years. How can that be the average lifespan? At best it’s theoretical. Most likely it’s some musk stooge making shit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because your congressperson is bought and paid for and there aren’t enough people assassinating health insurance CEOs in the street to inspire them to change their ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m kind of excited to explore what kind of activities outside has come up with since I was a teenager. Gonna have a lot of free time now that computing won’t be fun anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with a lot of the things you said about the problems with AI but not that this is one of them.

  If it wasn’t this it would have been something else. People with mental health issues can get fixated on things and spiral until they act out. This has been a thing for as long as there have been mental health issues. It’s not a failing of AI, it’s a failing of society for not having sufficient mental health support to catch people like this before they go off the deep end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You really think it’s at all practical to build out everywhere a network of station

  It works with propane tanks.

  one ton batteries to fit every age of every vehicle in every location no matter how rural and heavy automated equipment to maneuver them?

  That’s where standardization comes in. All vehicles would use the same cells, or maybe a couple sizes depending on use case. No reason they have to way a ton either a car could have multiple cells sized for a person to be able to handle themselves. This would also allow you to “top up” if they can get the cells to drain sequentially.

  You want to hold battery technology stagnant to support this? You want to lose the efficiency and reliability benefits of structural batteries.

  As long as new technology connects to the old connections then they can change whatever they want inside the cells. That’s how batteries have been for pretty much the entire history of batteries. And no I don’t want to lose anything. I was merely asking a question.

  The reality is current batteries already last longer than the first owner keeps a vehicle and newer ones easily exceed lifespan of ice vehicles.

  I’d very much like to know what the actual numbers are for “how long the first owner keeps a vehicle” and the “lifespan of ice vehicles”. I’ve had my car for 15 years and I’m the first owner. My dad had a truck that’s coming up on 40 and is still kicking. EVs haven’t even been around long enough to prove that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You should be fine if it’s just messing with the usual document types but my understanding is universities use a lot of proprietary bullshit for homework and stuff these days that probably doesn’t play well with Linux. I would try setting up a virtual machine or a old PC if you have one first to dip your toes in the water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nothing really matters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can cook chicken dry on high and burn the shit out of it. It’s “cooked” but not great.

  Speak for yourself. I like when it’s cooked that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if Gemini was responding to some kind of roleplay then yeah it does. Not everyone doing shit with it has mental health problems. Some people are just fucking around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I want to defend AI slop, but what prompted these responses from Gemini?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never understood why EVs aren’t made with standardized hot swappable cells. Would solve the range problem and the wear problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Laws don’t prevent anything unless they are enforced. If the bill doesn’t also include how this will all be audited and incredibly harsh penalties for violating it that part might as well be toilet paper. I don’t care how minimal the data I’m sending them is. I want that amount to be 0. It doesn’t benefit me to give them anything so I shouldn’t be forced to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It also makes it mandatory to include this feature in every OS. It means you’ll be sending telemetry about who you are to anyone that wants it and you don’t have a choice. Fuck that. I don’t have kids, there’s no reason I should have to use an OS with this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  so you can probably forget about it…

  K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just talking about this with one of my coworkers today. It’s so stupid. Wtf are doing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just gonna tell me to kill myself but this one might be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Parental controls already exist. There is no reason to force this invasive bullshit on us. If parents want to restrict/monitor their kids online all the tools they need to do so are already available. The government need not be involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not parents responsible for their own goddamn kids? Stop interfering with the rest of our privacy for this bullshit. Parental controls have existed for decades. Fucking use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just bought a Motorola because it was the best price of the 3 phones I found that had most of the features I wanted. This makes me feel better about that purchase. I’m also pretty happy with the phone so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it have a headphone jack and sd slot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know Oracle’s product but the company I work for has had a ton of people working on VDI for like 15 years now. It’s a solved problem. The only real annoying part was that it required pretty solid bandwidth and people would try using it on shitty Internet and then expect us to fix it. I’m kind of surprised it took this long for a consumer version to get off the ground. I would never use it because it sounds like a privacy nightmare but most people don’t think about that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use none of those and my lower back is fine. Lifting weights fixed all that shit almost immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sales =/= quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The world starts make a lot more sense when you realize the vast majority of people are just trying to be part of a herd and are either scared to think for themselves or completely incapable. It explains all the gargling of corporate nuts we see at every turn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The company I work for makes us. We have chrome but they’re constantly threatening to remove it and if you have a technical issue with something web based and you’re not using edge IT won’t help you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay yeah that was the impression I had too. I was excited when I first heard about it but from what I read it didn’t seem like you could do much with it. I’m still interested in playing around with it though if I find some free time. Ham didn’t really interest me as it requires a license which kind of defeats the purpose of this imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I will simply continue to maintain my old ass civic until it rusts to bits. Something will probably kill me by then anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’re the data rates like on meshtastic and ham? Wasn’t looking great when I briefly looked at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the government beats down the door of whoever’s not following their BS laws and shuts them down.