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Wait, Teslas now come with FrameShift Drives?

You can store insulin but not in large quantitites and it is a hugely delicate process to synthethise it in the first place. You can "biohack" it to a certain degree (it is how it was first discovered and manufactured after all), but getting a good purity end product that aligns to nowadays' standards is quite difficult and you can't do it in a shed. And with insulin purity and consistency in the product are paramount seeing how small the necessary doses are.

I understand the issues that come with dependence on pharmaceutical companies, but this is what they do. In today's world we are highly dependent on supply chains and that includes both toilet paper and insulin.

I agree to the above in a painful way. I don't think of myself as a power user but I have at times to clean up the registry for stuff that uninstallers missed because the updated application does not want to install. It's a complete mess of having to dig through a tip to find a broken match box so you can destroy it without setting on fire the whole thing.

Meanwhile OS X or Linux don't suffer from this and working with applications is a lot more "streamlined". As I said, this is just a slightly above average skilled end-user perspective.

This is worrying. I always thought about this since I have long-standing user experience with privacy-related stuffs and the more you block, the less you can use. But being unable to access financial services or city infrastructure provided by your city makes me think that either these services are terrible or the privacy phones are breaking something. Case in which I am most curious to find out what exactly are they breaking and how are those things both essential and privacy related? - I'm unsure if my sentence makes sense, English is not my first language.

It has been known for a while that there is a link between leadership and severe mental health issues [1]. Unfortunately this is how a lot of organisations are being built and how they are fluorishing.

And the higher the position, the worse it is [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-dis... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/seni...

The thing is I fear if they'll try to push AZERTY as EU's "working keyboard layout".

Will be the time I'll look into moving to Antarctica.

At first I read it like the crows in your area are harassing Harrier jump jets.

Been squeezing my brain to understand the same thing hence my previous post, I would assume the mobile versions may infringe on privacy (or Creative Cloud if you actually use it - I personally don't).

Unfortunately since it's so high up the list of don't this whole list reads more like "use these FOSS thingies instead of xyz corporate things", disregarding the Adobe Suite is so good when concerning workflow and it shouldn't really infringe on your privacy since it's not really doing a lot of talking (unless you use their cloud storage thingie which I can't fathom a reason for).

I am just curious because I do photography as a hobby/semi-pro and I don't understand where using Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Lightroom is infringing on your privacy (PC/Mac). I also use VSCO plugins for Lightroom at times (I mainly switched to Capture 1 Pro though) and I'm unsure why I should avoid them.

I am unsure where in my initial or follow up comment did I exhibit my desire to discuss this with anybody. I just wished to contribute to the discussion, but I am not keen on a back and forth on something that is still highly debatable.

If you truly believe that EVs are the right way to go towards unfucking our planet then allow me to be of the contrary opinion (i.e. it's simply a publicity stunt and a way to make people part with their money in chasing the next best thing that isn't actually the next best thing whilst fucking up our planet even further).

Peace and love >:D<

No, it hasn't occured to me. As I said, it was napkin math. At the same time the dude I had coffee with is an engineer at a rather respectable motor vehicle company so I assumed he has enough insider knowledge beyond what is generally available. Perhaps my mistake.

I am sure it's all fun and games and saving the planet until shit really hits the fan regarding what happens with batteries after they're disposed of but I suppose we're at least 20 years away from that and the comment I replied to will have a completely different meaning for people who don't gobble up the general sentiment that EV cars are the next best thing since sliced bread.

Edit: please understand we used numbers from the manufacturer, not made-up stuff. I understand and respect people with PhDs who look into this, but I have zero respect for car companies in general (random e.g. the VW scandal exposing most manufacturers do the same thing).

Unfortunately, not a lot of people know about the fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms. And even fewer people will know about batteries.

I did some napkin math with a friend of mine over coffee and we concluded that just by being brough into existence and to the showroom floor a BMW i3 is equivalent from a pollution point of view to my diesel Ford having done 200.000 miles (I'm nowhere near that).

But people buy electric vehicles in droves since they're government subsidized and what not - albeit this is another bait and switch, it's not forever and charging isn't free either, plus quality overall is quite lacking, not to mention the OTA updates and potential data mining coming from these cars being oversized smartphones with wheels.

I dread the moment governments will up and force everybody to give up their old but reliable and not really hardcore polluting cars - a petrol/diesel vehicle doesn't do anything when it's off even if it's been like that for 20-30 years, an electric car may require to be always plugged in, trickle charging to keep the battery fed so in the winter you don't go to your garage and find out your range is actually 1/2 of what was expected. Not to mention nobody actually knows how long electric vehicles really last, whilst it's not uncommon for people having had the same ICE car for 30+ years.

I may be living in my own small little bubble but I don't know anybody shopping for anything because their smart TV showed an ad. Everything ads seem to do is just piss some people off.

Then again I remember that if commercials weren't successful, TV as we know it would not exist. People gobbling up ads and buying stuff because of that is why ads are still being used after all.

After all... https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...

And somebody may answer "The X-Files, probably".

This is an obligatory watch with this thread - https://youtu.be/WDiB4rtp1qw

You are right up until you end the sentence with the wrong cranberry. A vast majority of content on Reddit is shockingly real (going by Occam's razor), it is one of the reasons why in light of this whole debacle I'm considering never setting foot on that platform ever again.

And this is why computer literacy is important. I can't fathom not knowing where the stuff I put tens and hundreds of hours into is saved. And this is despite the fact I never really lost any critical data in my life - backups offline and offline, on site and off site.

Recently I've been given incredible abuse by my ex who accused me I took her external HDD when I moved out. I actually considered I did and scoured all my boxes and belongings and even invited her over to search herself. Meanwhile, I asked her if she had any backups.

Needless to say the abuse tripled. I never found the drive.

Not necessarily cheaper but much easier. Plus, it was convenient as new appliances were quite a lot more expensive (and may I add much more durable).

Nowadays trying to repair an appliance you run into all sorts of issues like missing schematics (and it's much harder to make out what does what on a logic board of a washing machine for example), low parts availability + serialized parts + firmware locks (this is mostly Apple though).

My issue is that new stuff doesn't really seem to be made to last. My last washing machine lasted exactly warranty + 7 days. Meanwhile, mum still has a washing machine close to 30 years old which still works great (with some repairs every few years with super cheap parts). And nowadays it's mostly plastic with a dash of metal instead of the other way around (unless you like moving the washing machine every week the "but it's lighter" argument is moot)

This is infuriating. Then you need to go through a password reset to be able to recover the account and some websites don't even bother to tell you how many characters you're allowed to enter in the password field, leading to a whack-a-mole type of situation where you reset password -> check with a lower number of characters -> issues -> reset again and rinse and repeat.