Yea, its sort of weird to me that someone hasnt built some kind of bridge to just convert the front page of a federation instance to a webpage, and even let people make accounts and post

Lol

I have an LG smart TV. It’s never been allowed to connect to my home network and is exclusively a display for a Pi 5 running Kodi.

For that use case it’s decent for the price.

I have far fewer fucks to give about the “impact” of my boycotts than I have for my integrity.

I refuse to give my money to fascists if it’s at all avoidable. I will inconvenience myself and pay more for alternatives, or forego things completely if I can’t make a compelling argument for having them.

I have yet to hear such an argument for a streaming service.

I had a math teacher in highschool that allowed us make a “cheat sheet” during tests – it had to be hand written on an index card. I discovered that if I actually made a “cheat sheet” I rarely needed to look at it. It’s the same for hand-written lists when I’m shopping.

For a lot of people there’s something about actually writing information down (by hand) the makes it “stick” better in memory.

I did something insane: I actually read the article.

The students interviewed used pen and paper because they lack the tempting distractions a laptop/tablet/phone has. One states they feel they “use their brain more” when using a pen and paper. They also mention using a computer to write the final version of an essay for submission, but do most of the work on pen and paper first for the aforementioned reasons.

• giving files to a friend and not caring if you get the drive back

I feed the bodies of dead raiders to my pigs and GITMO-ed a Space Racist into giving up his bigoted ways.

I’m not sure how I feel about calling the experience “fun”.

For what content?

Seriously though, quality 4k media is hard to find outside of … “finding it” on the internet.

It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:

“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”

It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.

My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.

My gaming computer isn’t – as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don’t want to work well in Linux.

can review it yourself.

You’re a supervisor and you have 2 employees: Bill and Jim. As a supervisor your job is to ensure the work is being done correctly.

Bill is competent and rarely makes major mistakes. Jim does a decent job most of the time … but he’s also a savant at screwing up – he regularly fucks up in ways that aren’t immediately obvious but are guaranteed to cause serious problems days to weeks from the screw up.

You can glance over Bill’s work and be fairly certain it’s fine. You need to go over every single piece Jim’s work to check for problems, and even then some are probably going to slip through.

AI is currently Jim, and Jim has no business writing code for anything privacy or security focused.

Theft, rape, and murder are “natural” too.

I had a 9" HP mini 2140– the keyboard was surprisingly good given its size.

It’s just a shame the build quality matched the price and they fell apart in short order.

They make a lot more than car navigation systems. Their recreational gear and avionics are top of the line.

You can’t get a manual gearbox here any more.

Huh, let’s see why

Another factor contributing to the discontinuation of manual transmissions is the increasing emphasis on safety features and the integration of advanced driver-assist technologies.

Ew.

Technology has never been the problem: there’s nothing wrong with genetic engineering, AI, etc. They can (and have) been used for good.

The problem has always been the “greed is good” sociopaths using it for evil.

I had zero with uBlock – do you have the plugin disabled for that site?

In places where natural gas is cheap and electricity is expensive cost is a factor

Netbooks need to come back with modern hardware.

If I need an ultra-portable computer one in a usable form factor would be amazing.

Every city in the western world already has at least one rack of servers running 24/7. The have their own domain names, they have a web presence, etc – running a mastodon instance on existing infrastructure hardly qualifies as wasteful.