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bobs_monkey ,

It seemed to me that Biden was just in a state of shock at how much bullshit was coming out of Trump's mouth

bobs_monkey ,

That's probably why they chose to go without a live audience. I don't wanna get conspiratorial, but all this shit seems to coincidental to not be on purpose.

bobs_monkey ,

Oh there's a reason. Hotspot bypass being a big one I'd wager, the other being making it significantly harder to avoid ads

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This was for bootloader locking, not carrier locking. But yeah, they want you to buy their bullshit hotspot plan instead of just using the data you already pay for.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

bobs_monkey ,

Must've been asleep for the recall shenanigans

bobs_monkey ,

Imo that's pretty much the only benefit these days. But I'm also waiting for those 1 year, 2 year, etc "deals" where they offer $1/mo off or something

bobs_monkey ,

I know Hulu has an annual billing option where they won't prorate your bill if you cancel mid term, but I don't know if there are any that just flat out won't let you cancel.

bobs_monkey ,

On an unrelated note, I'm usually not disappointed with Popeyes. I don't eat it enough to have a basis for comparison, and my expectations are low enough for fast food that I'm usually pleasantly surprised.

bobs_monkey ,

I definitely read that in Little Nicky's speech impediment

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Especially at the prices the bill comes out to be. I had a day years ago where my car was in the shop, so I used one of them to get lunch. A $10 sandwich ended up costing me $30, and some people do this every day. Fuck avocado toast (which is delicious), this is why people are broke.

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Or, just do both at the same time at the beginning of the adventure

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When you eventually find out how to opt out and your content is fed to AI anyway:

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bobs_monkey ,

I feel like at this point, all these lawsuits are for show.

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Musnt anger the shareholders

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Better yet, launch it in a VM with an antivirus

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As I understand, desal tech is available though it's prohibitively expensive, both in terms of acquisition and operations.

bobs_monkey ,

A wee bit of projection

bobs_monkey ,

Yup, those little inline filters. Even building the circuit for $5-10 in RadioShack parts was pretty simple.

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SHIT'S GONNA HAIL!

bobs_monkey ,

I used redact.dev to mass edit all my comments, worked pretty well. Problem is that if you mass delete, they'll restore them pretty quick, but so far they haven't reverted my edits.

bobs_monkey ,

Cause people like porn. I'll be honest, when I downloaded some music video or something that ended up being porn, I usually wasn't too disappointed, with the exception that I now had to go find what I was originally looking for again and wait for it to download. Shit used to take forever back in the day.

bobs_monkey ,

There's one down the street from me. It's a damn eyesore.

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Instructions unclear: now wearing eye patches and can't see anything, task failed successfully

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Lol we don't have an HOA around here thankfully, otherwise my 50yo camper would have to find a new home

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With just a smidge better throughout!

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I want to say that it's just virtue signaling, because I do believe far to many people out there would be all about it behind closed doors. But, there's also a very real possibility that AI generated porn will cross a line very quickly, and it'll be next to impossible to put that genie back in the bottle.

bobs_monkey ,

How do you figure?

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I still think municipalities share a significant amount of blame here. They definitely could have at least limited vacation rental saturation, and didn't do anything.

I live in a ski town, and have been to city hall meetings on this issue. The overwhelming amount of attendees at these are vacation homeowners or their representatives, and the prevailing attitude is, "fuck the locals, our profit is at stake here." A number of owners have changed their primary residence to our town just to have more say that local long term renters. These meetings are held at 2pm, when locals are working. It's about as fucked as it can get. And when we've had a sympathetic council person, they're immediately recalled or replaced the following election cycle. It's a shitshow.

During COVID, when the Airbnb boom really took off, we had a 25% resident attrition rate. That's no typo; twenty five percent of our valley's residents had to leave town because they were priced out (about 5000 in a population of 20,000) because either rents skyrocketed, or the owners of their homes sold out from beneath them. These days, much of our local labor force commutes at least an hour into town. It has gotten a little better, and some have been able to moved back, but the damage is done.

Even for prospective buyers, like my wife and I, prices are outrageous. Our current home, which is valued around $600k, would have been $200k pre COVID. And this is solely because of Airbnb assholes.

bobs_monkey ,

This is happening worldwide. It has very little to do with urban planning and more with lax homeownership restrictions that allows the wealthy and corporations to scoop up housing supply for profit.

bobs_monkey ,

I'll agree that there is indeed a housing shortage, but I don't necessarily think that is what's at play here. Capitalists will always park their money when they see an opportunity to make a return, regardless of industry. Housing has never really been an elastic commodity, it is inelastic in nature due to the time it takes to build and the fact that it is a reasonably sizable asset that doesn't change hands at the drop of a hat (granted there are market products that contradict this, but I'm going to ignore them for the sake of this conversation). Further, they have always been marketed as an investment vehicle, albeit a long term one.

And while there is plenty of land in the US to build on, housing is only as attractive as it's local market. Plenty of communities have popped up via ambitious developers, but fall on their faces when the demand is inexistent (California City being a famous example). Better transit options can alleviate this, but people are still drawn to geographic proximity to jobs, schools, entertainment, etc.

Homes in high demand areas fetch a premium because people want to live where they work and play without the commute. These areas are already well developed, and yes had their been more relaxed zoning laws, more housing stock could have been built. But, I would argue that many communities built 50+ years ago were built with the then current demand in mind, not the demand of today. Sure that could be pinned on developers and city authorities not having enough foresight, but I don't really blame them for not being able to comprehend both prospects of an exploding population and the demand these cities currently see.

Short term rentals are tricky because no one is going to vacation to a suburb 30-45 min from an urban center or destination location, they want to be in the heart of the action. These properties present an ideal investment opportunity for these operators in that a) they purchase an appreciating asset, and b) they generate a short term return. It's almost a guaranteed profit for them.

Cities saw this problem growing, and should have taken preemptive action. Yet they ignored it because they were listening to moneyed interests. Now that it's become a full epidemic, it'll be much harder to contain.

bobs_monkey ,

And for those of us that love Arch but don't have time for it, EndeavourOS.

bobs_monkey ,

Eh, I'm at the stage where I'm done with windows and have no desire for osx, but I also don't have an entire evening or weekend to be locked into my computer like I used to. At a certain point, I need my computer to just work most of the time so I can finish my actual work and then spend time with my family.

bobs_monkey ,

I wouldn't say we are completely post scarcity, but enough of the producers of goods create enough artificial scarcity in order to keep prices high and the train moving. Unfortunately, I don't see the paradigm changing until we have a major altering event in which many people perish.

bobs_monkey ,

No worries. I do think that a major tipping point towards true post scarcity will be when we can figure out and deploy nuclear fusion, though we'll still be mired by price gouging until we demand better.

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I don't think it'll solve it either, but it'll certain help. The beauty of fusion is that it can and will produce, at scale and maturity, more than we can consume, leading to an unprecedented technological revolution.

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I thought this was an onion article at first, and the it was oh, y'all are actually serious.

There should be a penalty for wasting congress's time like this.

bobs_monkey ,

because that directly gets in his way of selling more cars.

Which is stupid in itself, because the entire goal of the CA HSR project is to link long distance corridors, not putzing around town like most do with a Tesla.

bobs_monkey ,

Yeah that'll end well. They'll either have the swat team mowing people down for have the national guard do the same thing. They'll treat it like terrorism and wipe everyone out, then go on the evening news and say the protestors were firing on police first and killing puppies.

bobs_monkey ,

Ok, and when is the last time that happened here in the US in the last 40 years?

bobs_monkey ,

Magnetic tapes are still one of the best ways to store large quantities of data over a very long period of time, and they typically don't really need very fast I/O considering their use case as long term archival that the stored data may or may never be read again.

RAM and local device storage are very much different story, considering the performance implications; it's pointless to have a lightning fast processors if RAM and storage bus speeds can't keep up. That said, flash memory doesn't last forever, and there is a strong case to be made about having swappable components that don't brick the entire machine when they fail. Replaceable parts ensures a device can live longer, leading to less ewaste and less money needlessly spent.

bobs_monkey ,

The reason the "at least I still have my job" is a thing here is because the US has virtually zero social safety nets, especially healthcare. If you lose your job and your savings is not where it needs to be, you can find yourself on the streets pretty damn fast.

bobs_monkey ,

Massgrave.dev

bobs_monkey ,

I've been using it in a windows VM. Unfortunately for my work, I need the formatting of Excel and Word to be legit that I can't for the life of me seem to replicate in Only or Libre. That and PDF rendering always gets a little wonky somehow.

bobs_monkey ,

Sure but that's only a piece of the puzzle. Housing, food, and general living costs are so insane now that any decent savings would be obliterated much more quickly. UBI would be a better solution here, but that's almost a pipedream at this point.

bobs_monkey ,

Um I disagree. The biggest barrier is having the capital to do the thing. I think a number of states have a reduced/free option if your income is below the poverty line (calculated as having low or negative income in the startup phase, not necessarily based on assets), or being lucky enough to have a spouse with healthcare. That said, it's entirely doable to go without healthcare, albeit risky. I started a contracting company 3 years ago with almost no money and the tools I had from my apprentice/jman years, and still don't have health insurance, though I'm hoping to get some later this year.

bobs_monkey ,

How do you think technology matures? It took years for automobiles to become reliable like they are today. It'll take years for EVs to become mature, but the only way to do that is to work on them now and improve as we go along. The absolute wrong thing to do is throw out the entire concept because they aren't perfect now.

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Whoosh

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If hunches last longer then four hours

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