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by qwerpy 10mo ago
I picture some evangelical church where people get together every week to amp each other up and randomly yell out some angry sound bites while looking around eagerly for approval.
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
I do the same thing. My PC is hooked up via HDMI to a receiver which goes to the TV via HDMI. I use VNC on my phone to remote control it. It works well. The phone’s touch screen functions as a mouse and you can pull up the phone’s on screen
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
As an American with a strong personal interest (kids) in keeping the country strong and competitive in the future, it seems bizarre to cheer for our largest adversary to gain advantages over us.
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
Damn. I bought brother just so I wouldn't be locked into overpriced cartridges. Although what I've been doing now is to reuse the starter cartridge, add some very inexpensive third-party toner to it, and reset the pages counter. I
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
Sony TVs are not much better, I had to do quite a bit of work to de-Google mine. This was years ago, I'm sure it's even worse now.
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
Years ago my Sony TV came with Google Assistant enabled, and when I disabled it, it nagged me for a long time to turn it back on until I installed some launcher that finally shut off all the nags and full screen ads. The biggest button on t
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
Torrent is what I meant by public/private website, I didn’t want to spell it out in case someone got offended. I rarely use direct file download but for the odd mp3, console firmware/keys, etc it can be easier to grab exactly what
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
That was a stretch, really had to jam that little dig in there, huh? Although if they did somehow deploy their constellation as a legible ad, I wouldn't even complain. "Drink Coke" spelled out with a hundred satellites would
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
I've seen ads of several varieties: - Public websites are chock full of ads - Downloading a file often means hopping through several redirects (each of which is an ad) and sometimes even having to "complete an offer" to get t
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
My wife also likes ads. It drives me crazy. Half of the time she’s on instagram, she’s paging through ads. At least we have agreed to minimize our children’s exposure to ads. For example if there’s an educational show only on YouTube I will
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
I had a tree root growing through the driveway asphalt. My handyman told me to get Roundup Pro because it will actually kill the root, unlike the other herbicides. So I got a gigantic gallon tub of it. It was effective. Good to know that &q
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by qwerpy 10mo ago
We had a 5 day power outage (Bellevue WA, not exactly in the middle of nowhere) and after 2 days both the cable internet and cell towers went down, so even 5G would not have helped. I had backup power but no internet. On the way back from B
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
Back when iOS and iPad were eating Microsoft's lunch in mobile, Microsoft freaked out and released Windows 8 with that new tiles UI framework ("desktop and tablet are going to converge so we need to dumb down the interface")
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
When one side of crazies goes after a different side of crazies, “both sides are crazy” is an appropriate way to look at it.
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
I have a server that runs a bunch of containers (bittorrent client on a VPN, Home Assistant, etc.) and hosts SMB shares. I acquire content that goes on the shares which then get consumed by various devices. - Kodi on a TV that has been stri
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
The more effective way to do this that is popping up everywhere is a loyalty program that uses your phone number as the identifier. Buy 10 coffees, get one free, but the purchases are only tracked if you input your phone number.
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
My iPhone running Safari and uBlock Origin lite is able to do this. I don't have the youtube app installed. I don't even think the ad blocker is necessary for background audio, but I don't want to see ads. 1. Go to youtube.co
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
The recent version of FSD in my Tesla is pretty amazing. Press "Start FSD" when in my driveway, and 20 minutes later it arrives at my destination and parks, without any input from me the entire time. I was skeptical too about FSD
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
I never enabled that and I verified it's not enabled. However I still have the "Happening Soon" section in my inbox that has status of some packages. My guess is that Smart Features will (along with everything else it does) s
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
Yep I went through this sad journey with my gmail this week. Got tired of seeing "coming soon" packages cluttering up my inbox, so I looked into how to turn them off. It turned off the categories. Reminds me of the dark pattern us
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
In my social circle (mostly Asian tech employees in the PNW) there were many first-time gun purchases immediately after the social unrest in 2020. Hysterical social media posts about "the riots are going to come to the suburbs" fa
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
I agree, what I said should not have conflated "rendering engine" with "ability to install fully powered ad blockers". What I meant by that was that Safari's renderer on iOS doesn't allow the full uBlock Origin
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
Let's just say it's the N64 version where there were some polygons: https://mario64hacks.fandom.com/wiki/Chain_Chomp Here's what another cybertruck did: https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com&#x
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
The frunk area where kids reached into to grab candy has no sharp edges. There are sharper obtuse angled corners at the front corners of the truck that are exposed when the frunk is open. If a kid were to run into it at speed, it would caus
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
That's a lot of your own judgment you've layered on top of it. For a more joyful interpretation of cybertruck aesthetics, do a image search for "cybertruck trick or treat". I volunteered to provide my truck for my kid&#x
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
One man’s abomination is another man’s ideal family car :) There is no other consumer car that can self-drive from start to finish for an entire trip. That alone will keep me on Tesla until the others catch up. Crash tests have shown that i
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
Not sure if it’s more dystopian to not be able to have nice things (easy EV charging) or to prohibit the homeless from destructively misusing the EV chargers.
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
Also on Brave and uBlock Origin. Mostly works great but every video now has a 3-4 second pause before starting. Pretty sure it's an anti-ad-blocker measure. Because I'm not watching their ads, I have no room to complain, just thro
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
I’m happy with mine after a year and a half. Haven’t had issues with the wiper and I live somewhere that rains a lot. Do you have complaints from real world experience or is it just the cosmetics you’re unhappy about? The only real downside
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by qwerpy 11mo ago
I had a coworker who lost a lot of weight and showed up at work one day wearing new clothes and looking sharp. The pants were from Costco. I have since gone and bought a few pairs of pants from them. They feel fairly high quality, made of s

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