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Touch-screens can be updated later, meaning you can release the broken version first, then get it working after the money starts rolling in. Knobs would require they get it right the first time. The horror!

I will never buy a car that forces me to navigate a menu to turn on my windshield wipers...

Not that I know of. I had a book I was trying a buy a couple weeks ago, everywhere I found it had DRM. So I gave up. They lost a sale.

This is correct. My answer is simply to not buy any Kindle books. In the future, I may buy some again if I can strip DRM.

Absolutely. I wonder what percent of tweets or blog posts are even seen by one human?

It will probably end up being the most popular things, the most viewed or read. More copies of it, more likely to be archived.

This reminds me of books. I’m sure the majority of books from over a hundred years ago are lost because they weren’t popular. We haven’t really noticed their absence…

Agreed. It is astounding to me that a private company can accuse me of a crime with no proof that I did it, and then the government will enforce that without question. You would think they would need fingerprints or something to prove that a particular person did something.

Looks like the wireless charging assembly is serialized, not the literal glass. Very frustrating and anti-repair.

There was a similar situation when Google Fiber was rolled out in Provo Utah. Comcast essentially had a monopoly (they're the only ones allowed to put their cables on the power lines), they charge huge amounts for their internet, Google Fiber buries their fiber lines and suddenly Comcast drops prices begging people to stay.

I had to use Comcast for years, they lied to me many times and I finally escaped to a place with a different provider. Suddenly, this year Comcast comes and buries fiber lines in my area.

I will deliberately avoid Comcast, competition is absolutely required to keep prices down.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Apple's top music is always R&B, Rap, etc. I have never seen a song or radio I actually wanted to listen to. Guess its up to me to find all the new music?

That link does not work for me?

My Plex app on Apple TV keeps adding their Discover tab to my home page. Keeps recommending nsfw content to my kids. Extremely frustrating because I have unpinned the tab a dozen times.

I will move away from Plex once Jellyfin is good enough.

You are on Python 3.10, you need 3.11.

Agreed. I keep hearing about these record corporate profits, and I always ask "are they record profits after being adjusted for inflation?" I would bet that some of them are, but these companies want to claim record profits (willfully ignoring inflation), so their stocks go up.

I have a GQ 600-RPS and I love it. It detects alpha, beta and gamma. Detection range is only a few inches, so you have to know what to look for. We take it on family outings and search for uranium rocks.

I thought about creating one of these in the past, but it didn’t fit my needs. I decided to start my own project, called WROLPi. It also uses a Raspbery pi as its base, but also has a Debian installer. I have RPi images available at https://wrolpi.org as well as a link to a demo (the demo needs an update, lots of new features since it’s creation).

The basic premise of WROLPi is creating your own off grid digital library: videos, web archives, PDFs, ebooks, etc. I have full text search for all of these. Offline maps as well via Open Street Map. Wi-Fi hotspot. Automatic downloads of videos (entire channels), RSS feeds, etc.

SVB failed because they bought government bonds, typically the most secure thing. The problem is the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, which made the bonds pointless. They Fed will supposedly keep raising rates, which I expect will make more banks fail. After all, if the most-secure thing (bonds) is not secure, what is?

How can you tell when a video contains something misleading? For example, I struggle to find quality DIY videos without the dislikes warning me away. Dislikes are a great way for the community to clean house.

Thanks for the reply. Your comment about having it all behind one interface really resonates with my goals with WROLPi.

I skimmed the link you provided. My goal is to do something similar, but use the Debian Blu-ray ISOs. Debian provides ISOs that contain their entire repo. They fit nicely on a 128GB thumb drive.

https://wrolpi.org/ Been having a great time on my side-project WROLPi. Its preparedness-oriented software which allows you to create an offline library. Videos, web archives, maps, epub/pdf, etc. Really easy search, low power usage if you run on in a Raspberry Pi. Just put out the first Raspberry Pi image, which makes installation super simple. Hoping to get a Debian image soon.

Currently "videos" is pretty well flushed out. Still some work to do with web archives. Maps has been a huge headache simply because maps are so large. Got PDFs and EPUBs searchable recently.

An abbreviated list of the technologies I've used to built it: Python, ReactJS, Open Street Map, yt-dlp (videos), SingleFile (web archives).

It returns a 404 when using my VPN.

I don't think this will last. The poachers will respond by killing these elephants; better to kill any tusk-less elephant to avoid wasting time tracking it again in the future.

I don’t understand what atoms have to do with gender.

It is not inclusive to call a woman a “birthing person” it’s actually excluding the women who can’t give birth. Are women who can’t become pregnant men? Of course not.

We have let politeness run away with us. It’s time to kindly, but firmly tell people there are two genders. It’s not a kindness to lie to a person, even if they ask for the lie.

No one is denying exceptions exist. Humans have two arms. Anything else is an exception to the rule, but the rule still applies.

There is absolutely a consensus (well, there was until about 5 years ago). People point at exceptions to prove the rule is entirely false. How many arms do humans have? Two. “Well my uncle was born without arms! So clearly humans have an unknown amount of arms”. Men and women are real, there are a couple of exceptions, but not as many as people imagine.

I expect this to be promptly removed from the front page. I’m happy to see taboo subjects being spoken of again.

Many of the things done at FTX are already a crime. The laws simply aren't being enforced for the mega rich.

PDFA? I wouldn’t call it e-reader friendly exactly, but it is pretty universal.

That is a placeholder site?

Wow! Did not know this, guess I’ve got a couple fixes to make…

This may not always work, data going through HDMI is frequently encrypted. If you try to capture the data between a Blu-ray drive and a TV (for example), it will be encrypted.

I have this as well. Easy to push and pull changes. I push to a private git server.

I keep a second copy repo on a thumb drive so I can start my home directory on an offline computer.