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That's surprising. I once tried an automated car wash just to see what all the hullabaloo was about and I think the rain actually does a better job. Worst $5 I've ever spent...

Where do you live? I live in the Midwest (SE MI) and when there's rain it tends to be medium-to-heavy rain and with wind so sideways.

I personally don't get car washes. I just wait for it to rain. Then free car wash...

Damn that's a big difference!

Interesting! Thanks for explaining!

As someone who doesn't know most of the tells but genuinely wants to know, what are some of the things that tells you it's AI-generated?

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for a mod that gives mustaches to mudcrabs.

The mudcrabs are a proud and fancy race!

>LG denies TV spying claims

Yeah, they fucking *would*.

Jesus, only $500 a *year*?? May I ask where you live in? I live in MI and I pay about $990 a year for minimum liability insurance.

Canon, not cannon. Then again, since this is about war, maybe it should be cannon. Lol.

What's with all the line breaks?

Paint.NET has a *lot* of legacy code that cannot just be discarded. The dev said as much in their original post.

>You could probably just use an extension that unloads inactive tabs from RAM

Doesn't Firefox already do this? (Or at least have an option for it?)

Exactly this. I used to be a tab minimalist, but vertical tabs + tab groups made having lots of tabs open viable for me.

Genuine thought: maybe it's the separate windows?

Of course it's QT. One might even say it's adorable.

>because the technology needs to find it's way into applications and appliances.

I hear what you're saying, but speaking for myself: can we *not*? I really have absolutely zero interest in having ChatGPT on my microwave or refrigerator. In fact, I'd rather have my appliances *not* be connected to the Internet, all things being equal.

>Note also that converting jpeg to jxl is 100% reversible, you can convert it back to exactly the same image (byte for byte identical) if you need to.

Speaking as someone who loves JXL, I have a serious question: I once used ImageMagick to convert a JPG to a JXL, and then back to JPG, and the final JPG was a noticeably different file size compared to the source JPG.

What am I misunderstanding here?

That...sounds horrific. Oh my goodness.

What is "hot desking"? Is it as horrifying as it sounds?

That seems like a really niche term. Parent really should've specified what it meant instead of assuming everyone in the world would automatically know what it meant.

On that note, thanks for explaining it to me.

What does DMV stand for in this context?

>You attack me personally while adding nothing to the actual topic at hand.

My goal was never to contribute to the discussion but merely to explain that your attitude will not win any converts to your arguments.

People are having good discussions in good faith here and you're angry and contemptuous toward them.

Anyway...it seems you have no as much interest in hearing me than you have in admitting your self-sabotaging emotional state. I am done with this topic.

Good day.

>"Partially agreeing" while baselessly denying the central point is what exactly in your book?

It means partially agreeing, and quite respectfully, I might add. You, however, were only *dis*respectful, downright rude in fact.

>Treating it at the same level of effort as every other infotainment piece is a failure of judgement.

I'm not treating anything as the same as any level of effort. All I'm saying is if you act like a dick, people will be much less likely to give you any attention, even if something you say is correct.

You know, people would be more receptive to you if you wouldn't talk down on them. I mean, for gods' sakes, parent specifically partially agreed with you(!) and yet you *still* talked down to them.

It's not about the company; it's about the technology. Whether a Flock-branded camera or not, ALPRs as a technology is *dangerous*.

From deflock.org itself:

> Flock is not the only ALPR vendor, and other vendors still participate in similar practices. See this list of other common ALPR vendors.[1]

[1] https://deflock.org/identify

Exactly. I work in retail and we have ONE guaranteed day off each year: Christmas Day. (And a lot of retail employees don't have even this!) And until recently, I never got holiday pay either.

I work in the US service industry (retail), and until recently I didn't have sick time at all. The only reason I do now is because I'm a part of a union (very rare for retail workers) and they argued for sick time. And it's accrued sick time at that.

(This is all me agreeing with you, btw.)

> at least they have no screens

IIRC their dash is just a screen. No actual dials or gauges unfortunately. :(

Fun Fact: Most, if not all, YouTube channels automatically have an RSS feed. That's what I use to follow channels I like. No Google account necessary.