“Your mom didn’t think I was a bot last night”.

Playing the complete “Carpenters Christmas” album at least once.

People pay money to the ISP. Usually too much money. ISP should distribute monies to content providers and leave the users alone.

Wait! Did they just say “Jodie Foster Suggests Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Would Have Worked Better As An 8-Hour Streaming Series”?

Anyone who has been embarrassed by a family member knows.

I’d add that you should be able to criticize anything you want on Lemmy. Sometimes you are right and the whole world is wrong. Especially if some Chinese Linux distro messed up your laptop. /s

“I was just following orders”.

Kash Patel is gonna make a killing!

…except America where the cost would be equal to the fossil-fuel method.

I’m like De Niro’s plumber character in the movie “Brazil”. Is that anarchist? Defying government bureaucracy in order to sneakily fix a citizens toilet, even though all of the approvals and permit forms will take weeks to complete.

Partially, yes. Human nature is an interesting thing, full of contradictions and inconsistencies. I remember a quote by Mark Twain…“Some people will go way out of their way to become offended”. The reason that the word “forgiveness” is endlessly bandied about is because it’s the right thing to do, but one of the hardest things to achieve. We’d rather live in our heads and reinforce the chains that hold us there.

At least Bill Gates won’t be able to afford the third home for a distant cousin he’s never met. /s

Something equivalent to…“I just want to drive the car, not learn about the intricacies of internal combustion”.

That’s some heavy “Room 19” shit.

There are a lot of good words in the good book but if you look around at most of the Christian church-goers they are golden-calf people.

Let’s fix that exclusionary headline by removing one word…“Politicians are not your friends”.

I’m great at carburetors. Especially the Holley 4 barrel carb. Trial and error made me good at it. I had the freedom to try. We no longer have that. So, yes, all digital tech. Just electromechanical so we can save huge amounts of dollars by not getting involved in the “repair industry”. Transmissions are a different beast but if all the “Chilton’s’” auto repair manuals have not been secreted away and completely destroyed then I at least have a fighting chance to figure it out.

Stupid questions exist. Allowing them into this forum is a failure of the moderator(s). /s

Is it possible to retrofit a used “computer” vehicle and remove all digital tech to make it electromechanical again, where the owner has complete control of what they purchased?

This is just history repeating itself. A while ago it was typewriter repair persons vs. the keyboard. New tech won and time marched on. Having said that…fuck AI.