gnuplustoejam

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by gnuplustoejam 1mo ago
The Chinese tech industry is built upon a foundation of GPL violations. There is no way to stop it beyond getting CBP to block imports, which effectively amounts to shunning.
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by gnuplustoejam 1mo ago
> but maybe that's what he wanted to do Even if he did... he was in bad shape and it must have been physically taxing. The thought of him feeling obligated to be on stage in front of a room of wide-eyed adult children is particularl
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by gnuplustoejam 1mo ago
I was horrified that after his stroke they kept rolling him out in a wheelchair to perform for fandom nerds. Guy should have been allowed to live the rest of his life in dignity quietly, tending to his garden, not tap dancing for 40+ year o
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by gnuplustoejam 1mo ago
Nice to see everyone taking a break from their day jobs at Google of continually breaking yt-dlp so it's impossible to use, to comment how this is an injustice. To the aggrieved I say: 403 Forbidden. In their defense, you're not g
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by gnuplustoejam 11mo ago
Sounds like something Nest engineers would have said. It's not "signal switching", you see. HVAC equipment is as old and varied as you can imagine, and there is higher current than you think running through those terminals, p
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by gnuplustoejam 11mo ago
Early generation Nest hardware was garbage, and was known for blowing FETs that failed closed, turning people's ACs into giant ice cubes. Putting it in the landfill would be doing yourself a favor. The ex-Apple culture in the early his
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by gnuplustoejam 11mo ago
Running open-source firmware someone's hacking on (which gets little to no testing) on a gas appliance that can burn your house down is probably not the best idea. If you are paranoid about Nest being evil maybe stick to one of those H
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by gnuplustoejam 11mo ago
Melodramatic + use of profanity generally indicates an appeal to emotion rather than a rational well-thought out statement. A rant about the CEO is not on topic.