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Honestly I would be somewhat surprised if a good chunk of Congressional Republicans weren't high on their own supply at this point

> Just feels like corruption, tbh.

If a democrat did this, it would (rightly!) be seen as a front-page scandal on the scale of Teapot Dome if not worse.

I was a little shocked to learn he associates himself with Miasma theory of all things over germ theory

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr

Signal is the gold standard. Eschew the desktop app if you're particularly security-sensitive

Unfun pet rat fact: if their teeth start growing at weird angles for whatever reason, this mechanism stops working and you have to get the teeth trimmed every couple weeks.

It's actually a little shocking to be confronted this directly with how much the constitution really only holds together assuming good faith behavior from the POTUS.

"A republic, if you can keep it" indeed

Things can be illegal even if there's no enforcement mechanism, and while it's a really frustrating situation, people are right to be vocal and proactive about saying it.

There's a fun thing Windows has started doing where if you sign in with your Microsoft account (instead of an increasingly hard to create local account), Bitlocker is silently set up on your behalf and you don't know until something changes with your system configuration

Ubuntu includes LibreOffice, not OpenOffice.

This is the key point of confusion! LibreOffice is great, and is the actively developed piece of software for decades now. OpenOffice is just an old zombie propped up by Apache with no actual work beyond the most trivial maintenance and no purpose beyond confusing people. No Linux distro includes it.

> This CNN Travel series is, or was, sponsored by the country it highlights.

VW ID.4! Definitely not the best car in the segment, but the best car at the time for the price. It's really been a dream of a vehicle!

I am incredibly relieved to hear that the Leaf is finally getting a redesign.

I chatted with a poor fellow in a Leaf trying and failing to charge on the single sad broken CHAdeMO plug at a station, and was just thinking... yeah, Nissan sold you a bad car, I'm really really sorry.

VW ID.4, road tripping around the northeast (NJ/NY) and midwest (to/fro Michigan).

In your case, the Leaf is the single EV that should never be or have been sold or rented out since around 2020. It's ancient and is the last EV lacking support for the major fast charging plugs in north America, so I'm not surprised you had charging issues! I'm really sorry they gave you that car!

For a while, if you wanted a long range EV you could actually cross the country with, Tesla was it.

That's just not true anymore -- I'm coming up on year three with my non-Tesla, and it's been perfect, road trips and all.

Tesla still has its brand recognition and inertia in its favor, but it's tougher for them when you can get equally good if not better cars elsewhere.

According to the article, Cariad

See, that's what I'm avoiding with IPP Everywhere[1]: no configuration required.

It just magically shows up instantly as a printer on Linux. It's the best printing experience I've ever had.

[1]: https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html

I got a Lexmark for their driverless IPP Everywhere support and it's the best zero-fuss printer I've ever owned.

Xerox doesn't have any IPP Everywhere devices, so I hope this isn't Lexmark's death knell.

For better or for worse, the charging networks have generally agreed that the aging Leaf population isn't worth supporting.

(Which makes it absolute lunacy that Nissan is still selling the Leaf)

Around here EA's upgrading to CCS-only stations. The older non-upgraded stations only have a single CHAdeMO plug that is usually out of order because it's on very old hardware.

In practice there are only three: NACS (currently only at Tesla stations); CCS (everywhere that isn't Tesla), and J1772 (destination charging).

NACS is the industry consensus on the one true North American plug to rule them all going forward.

CHAdeMO is completely dead -- you'll sometimes see them, but they're being kept on life support if not outright decommissioned.

1.7% is terrifying police state territory. I don't see El Salvadore coming back from this without a complete governmental overhaul.

I can vouch for this being not uncommon -- it's happened to me too

Whether it's healthy or not, programmers tend to love snark, and that snark has kept this list circulating and hopefully educating for a long time to this very day

I don't think you're making a case for it being clickbait; it sounds more like you're affirming the factuality of the headline?

I remember Steve Yeggie selling me on it as a better Unix than Unix, then getting bogged down in cryptic inexplicable failure modes

Really cool technology really early, but I can't say I'm nostalgic!

There are economic environments where this is true, but I think they tend to be the exception, not the rule. Car loan rates right now are quite steep.

Makes for an excellent easy-to-sell bogeyman, though.

"Free speech" is kind of a weird thing to ascribe to Musk, given that it's a perfect almost archetypical example of where he says one thing and actually does the exact opposite.

Unfortunately, as much as I do like Kagi overall, it goes out of its way to inject AI slop into the results with its sketchy summarization feature

I know a surgeon who had their employer bought up by private equity. It's a disaster; the paperclipification of care