And no, no one really uses this or an ICE truck in a way that would require them to have one. Even people who haul shit in the back would usually do with a more sensible roofed vehicle, but that would be less “cool”.

Wait, no one has a legitimate use case for a truck? Like transporting building materials and tools? Large furniture and appliances? People who live along an unpaved mountain road, or work somewhere similarly remote, like forestry? Towing fifth-wheel trailers? When it snows here, I’m stuck at home until someone with a truck comes by to plow… They have large dedicated snowplows for the highways and stuff, but for out-of-the-way residential streets, the city contracts private pickup truck owners with their own plows. I’m glad they’re around.

Like don’t get me wrong-- The majority of truck owners pretty much never do these things, and it’s an extremely wasteful vanity display for them. That’s bad. Most people who buy Cybertrucks will not be doing truck stuff with them. That’s bad too.

But I think some people have a good reason to own a truck.

My comment isn’t anti-corporate or anti-work though…? It just isn’t that strange that Google is more efficient at generating revenue (as dollars-per-kWh) than Finland is.

Opt-in is only meaningful if users can make an informed decision. I think explaining a system like PPA would be a difficult task. And most users complain a lot about these types of interruption.

In my opinion an easily discoverable opt-out option + blog posts and such were the right decision.

So you see, because the users can’t meaningfully give informed consent, their consent is therefore uh… [checks notes] not necessary.

Bullshit. Everyone knows that it’s because if you actually ask someone “do you want to be creepy tracked, less-creepy tracked, or not tracked?” they’ll pick “not” every time.

If your efficiency function is centered around revenue, then yeah, of course… No surprise that one of the world’s most successful for-profit companies generates more profit per watt-hour than a nation, which encompasses all sorts of non-revenue-generating activity like running hospitals and keeping street lights on.

I’m gonna rewrite this baboon in Rust.

Okay but can you please explain how it is not for sits, given that it is unequivocally made of warm?

Sounds like they’ve already got a POS, just higher up on the org chart.

I think what annoys me most about "the “sonic hedgehog” example is that it has nothing to do with sound.

There are two wolves in my heart: A meme wolf, and a pedant wolf. Today they fight, and I know not which will win.

Rockity rock and stone!

They should make the versions UUIDs instead of integers so that we don’t make assumptions about their ordinal relationships.

It talks extensively about On Bullshit, lol.

“Completely new”

Okay, then don’t train it on anything at all and let’s see how it turns out.

“Solving the crisis … requires the private and non-profit sectors to join forces with the public authorities at all levels of government.”

So as long as everybody coordinates toward the same common goal, we should be okay.

…Welp, we had a good run.

Pictured: An endangered Gary in his natural habitat.

Do you have a good “getting started” resource for self-hosting that you would point people to?

Or just plug in a regular laptop when you want to watch something. That’s my move.

On top of crap hardware, “smart” TVs are a pretty serious security vulnerability, too. Better to not have it on the same network as your primary devices.

I want to watch a documentary about what led up to this. I have so many questions.

EDIT: Oh hey just eight posts down…

“Society if Piped would actually play videos,” for me :( I’ve had some luck with Invidious, but I haven’t been able to get videos playing on Piped for some months now.

Well… That’s like alot of steps, lol. In UX design, we would call that a violation of the Three Click rule, and obfuscating the expression of user intent.

Like… Do you gain anything from these launchers? I guess Frosty you opt into because you use it to manage your mods. Maybe launching through that is how your mods get bootstrapped. Kay cool.

Epic games, you definitely need and want to use for other reasons-- Shopping for games and managing your library-- but is it really benefitting you to open that app so that you can open the app you actually want to use? Maybe you have a reason that you actually like that better, idk, but I’d rather just open the app that I want.

And then the EA app… What does it offer that makes it worth putting another step between you and your game? Login to the EA account you don’t need? DRM? Ads for other games? The premise of most launchers is that the company has some goals that you don’t share, and they’re willing to add friction to your experience to achieve those.

Some launchers aren’t so bad. I dunno what EA’s deal is. Speaking of Ubisoft Connect specifically:

• It’s an online-only service that forces you into having an account to play… It’s not just an extra launcher in front of your game
• Ubisoft Connect is part of their DRM mechanism
• It wants admin privileges on your system
• It leaves processes running in the background when you aren’t using it
• And more

Those things aren’t necessarily all bad per se, and you’d certainly tolerate them for some apps… But it’s a big imposition for the company to insist on, IMO, and part of the reason for the launcher hate.

I didn’t downvote btw, I think you’re entitled to your opinion and maybe you’re fine with the launchers you use… But personally, I just choose not to play Ubisoft games for that reason, even though there are games that I would like to have played.

Ubisoft Connect, no thanks.