Only because they’ve let themselves be so.

The entire idea of “class” is just another way to divide the people.

As a former truck driver, I wonder if any of those who were laid off due to AI, happen to be the same tech bros who were all loudly cheering the same sort of “computers will be doing your job soon, and I can’t wait!” for the trucking industry…

Just a shower thought.

That’s the direction that many manufacturers are trying to push PCs as well.

China is just sitting back, quietly developing their own domestic ddr4 and ddr5 sources.

But don’t worry folks. The us federal government is gonna save us all like they always do…

What I find interesting is that the authoritarian right complains about the authoritarian left using “big government” to bully their favorite businesses and organizations, and loving the police, while the authoritarian left complains about the authoritarian right using the police to do the same, while loving bigger and bigger government…

It’s like neither side realize that the police are PART OF THAT GOVERNMENT!

Set up Immich and move all your photos and videos to it.

You can also run syncthing on your android phone just fine, allowing you to simply mirror everything on it to any file server of your choice.

I’ve played enough EU4 that I know exactly where it is. 🤣

I bought an 8G ECC RDIMM DDR4 the other day for 15 bucks cash.

Guy around my age who “bought the wrong kind” for his laptop, and forgot about it until it was too late to return it.

I’m gonna hold onto it a little longer, then see if I can’t make 30 or 40 bucks off it. 🤣

It’s cute that you think THIS is where “not taught bow to think” begins.

Ever since the first government run school was created, it’s been about teaching what to think, and not how to think.

When “public education” was first proposed in the USA, it was seen as a way of teaching the “poor unfortunates” just enough to be able to run the equipment in the factories. If you wanted your child to have an ACTUAL education, you hired private tutors.

But now, even that is frowned upon. “But kids need socializing!” Meanwhile their definition of that is a little different than simply teaching your kids how to behave around others…

Can’t speak to him, but I have used unix-like software since the 1990s.

The entire UNIX philosophy boils down to one simple fact. Everything is a file.

This makes maintenance a breeze as no special tools are needed.

You don’t need to install anything to read log files.

You can pull a hard drive from a dead system, and just read all the logs.

Most of systemd is just a solution in search of a problem.

In other words, city governments are mad that they can no longer hold up approvals in order to get more fees coughbribes from these companies.

If a business charges nothing for a product then it is not the product. You are.

Sometimes that’s harmless as in they’re wanting you to try their service. Your business for other projects is still the product in that transaction.

Other times it’s your personal data that is the product and they’re wanting to then turn around and monetize that data.

But in both scenarios, you, or something of yours, is the product.

There’s hydraulic devices you can attach to basically any door to make them close automatically, and a micro-radar presence-sensing light switch is maybe $100 bucks if that.

More evidence to support my distrust of governments in general.

I had a 1989 Ford Probe without a handle that stuck out like a typical car. It was recessed instead.

Better for fuel efficiency, which was also the intention of these stupid flush mount ones Tesla has been fawning over. But these were still manual door handles designed 40ish years ago…

Naive? No. What’s naive is thinking that if you give power to anyone over your own data , even your government, that it will.protect it.

You think the EU cares about your privacy? I know my own government is doing it’s level best to destroy mine, but at least I’m aware of it.

You, however, have the naivete of Pollyanna and think your vaunted EU is better.

That sounds like privacy, not evil.

Because history, as well as current events, tell us that governments will absolutely make privacy illegal, so if you can do an end run of them by not being beholden to ANY government, then that is absolutely a good thing.

Yeah. We have a smart washer. It’s out in our detached garage/shop so even if the chime were on, no one in the house would ever hear it.

The only “smart” feature we use on it at all is remote notifications.

And we don’t use the GE app for that either. I have it linked through our Home Assistant, so no one in the family needs their crap on our phones. Yes, HA must link into their servers, but the only real data GE gets is how much we use it, and the “city” where our internet connection says we’re in… which is 300 miles away from our actual home, in a completely different state.

By replacing it with something better.