Many of them show early signs of cruelty that builds on itself

• https://www.aetv.com/articles/first-they-tortured-animals-then-they-turned-to-humans

Freaking Canucks stole manufacturing for fotl, gold toe, under armour? Let’s invade ! Let’s bring home that American manufacturing to our 51 state

/s (Too soon?)

Will it? I’m skeptical of the translation since it’s obviously loose and casual, and more optimistic with the quote from Tesla saying they’re redesigning it …

• article says mechanical release handles inside and out. Tesla model y could already be here depending on the details
• articles says a hand must fit behind the handle, ruling out flush handles, but depending on the details, the model y may a Ready be there, as is the Opel Corsa in this thread
• no mention of the electronic latch. I don’t get it, wouldn’t this be the actual most dangerous part?

Still rare, only trolls. If someone is judgy or confrontational I’ll move on. It’s only if they’re trying to start a fight, trying to create an ongoing argument that I’ll block them.

At the risk of being over-pedantic, we shouldn’t be calling that theft. I’m not condoning it but we should call it what it is

What the article calls “direct theft” is clearly theft

But the article also describes market manipulation like union busting as theft. That’s clearly a problem and I don’t know what to call it but we lose impact by equating this legal exploitation with clearly illegal theft

As my teens are getting their first jobs, I’ve talked to them about “direct theft” and other abuses common to minimum wage employers. I’m proud that one stood up for himself when his manager started trying to abuse his conscientiousness

Same here but also I don’t want a truck nor something with that low range. Aside from being not what I’m interested in , the “blank slate” concept is compelling enough to be very interesting. I’m definitely going to follow this.

For everyone reflexively hating on this “Bezos Mobile”, I’m well aware of the reputation Amazon built for itself. However they are promising something people could own. For a reasonable price. And even customize. Instead of jumping right to negativity, this warrants some optimism

Keep an eye on Slate. Hope they do well

Probably

No surprise that they are going to power this beast at all costs

I mean, they could use their fascist power grab to drive through the infrastructure work to expand power transmission lines needed to support a modern economy, renewables, and yes more datacenters

Additional coal is just the easiest way since we already have century old power lines bringing that power where it’s needed

Yes, in this case, coal might be easiest, cheapest, fastest because we can continue to neglect infrastructure. It’ll fall apart on someone else’s administration

But they have gotten significantly worse over time. I did buy a Fire Stick knowing i was getting ads, but it was so much better the Apps on my smart tv and cheap that it was well worth it. Now it’s gotten bad enough that I no longer use it but suffer through the TV’s apps

I do plan on trying Apple TV in case it stays useable but at this point I’m not buying consumer tech from three years ago

Similarly with the Fire tablet. I knew I was getting ads when I bought them way back when, but tablets were expensive. Fire tablets were much cheaper and quite usable so the tradeoff was worth it. That long since stopped being true, and this experience is e partly why I don’t have an echo show.

I do want some dory of home dashboard, but echo show had never been under consideration. If the Apple rumors are real I might try that but otherwise I guess I’ll see when I have the motivation to build my own

Edit: rereading the post, this is even on devices where people paid extra to be ad free

Charron recommends starting with small steps like unplugging chargers for phones and other devices

This is completely useless advice leftover from two decades ago. All of these chargers have been active power supplies for a long time, and use almost no power when not in use

Meanwhile my coffee maker’s power button is on a touch screen? Who the eff designed that? How about yelling at corps to stop doing shit like this?

Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” forwarding email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!

It’s really not that bad a compromise, as far as bribes go. Some cheap gaudy bauble as payment for not interfering with billions of dollars in business?

It’s still a bribe and it’s still encouraging mango mussolini, but very efficient tradeoff

Dont most people know that? I thought the promise is that you could establish a hydrogen infrastructure and it would get greener over time - similar to EV’s which get greener over time as power generation includes more renewables.

Not that I’m that naive but I thought that was the claim. Realistically it looks like corporate welfare to let fossil fuel companies keep a stranglehold on energy. One of the most satisfying parts of owning an EV is thinking about all that industry that no longer needs to exist. It’s not just the drilling and refining and shipping and military support for oppressive regimes worldwide, but also huge amounts of polluting and profiteering infrastructure to store and distribute gasoline to every street corner. It can all go

I always thought this was an argument for properly racking everything. If it takes more effort, more time to remove, maybe they won’t bother.

My understanding is that for most individuals, theft is mainly

1. Targets of opportunity. Lock your door and make sure nothing expensive is visible
2. Smash and Grab. The goal is to act fast and not care about what you break, so anything harder to smash (without tools) or that causes delay is good.

I do have outside cameras but they’re not as useful as you’d think. Maybe they have some deterrent value but they’re not going to alert anyone fast enough unless they’re already in the house and you’re not going to identify anyone even if you catch a good shot of their face. If the do catch someone, perhaps the video is enough to say, yep

For my use case, I’m continually fiddling with my VM config. That’s my playground, not just the services hosted there. I want home assistant to always be available so it can’t be there.

I suppose I could have a “production “ vm server that I keep stable, separately from my “dev” vm server but that would be more effort. Maybe it’s simply that I don’t have many services I want to treat as production, so the physical hardware is the cheapest and easiest option

Same here. In particular I like small cheap hardware to act as appliances, and have several raspberry pi.

My example is home assistant. Deploying on its own hardware means an officially supported management layer, which makes my life easier. It is actually running containers but i don’t have to deal with that. It also needs to be always available so i use efficient “right sized” hardware and it works regardless whether im futzing with my “lab”