Americans tend to buy the most car they think they can afford.

Hell, Americans buy the most car they can finagle a loan for, independent of if they can or can’t actually afford it.

It wouldn’t be surprising to find that a good portion of Tesla buyers are stuck in the trap where they owe so much on it that there’s no way they could afford the hit to replace it, because they can barely make their payments now.

For real: I’m using a 38" ultra wide, and if you had told child me that a 38" monitor would be the smallest display in the house I’d have told you that you’re full of shit.

She works at Google, not Yandex.

Though I’m sure Google could manage something equally mysterious.

Not that I disagree, but putting it in the hands of a foundation that’s beholden to corporate money isn’t exactly going to be the solution to “eventually messing up stuff”.

Even if he did, how could you tell the difference between the holes dementia has made and the holes a worm would make?

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Don’t let it connect to the wifi/internet?

I mean, sure, you have to do the SD card shuffle, but it’ll guarantee you don’t end up having to deal with this.

If you have a more advanced set of network hardware (which it doesn’t sound like you do) you could add a firewall rule to block traffic from the LAN IP of the printer, or for something like Unifi, simply block internet access entirely. But, even then, if you screw it up now or in the future, surprise software updates will happen.

Well, “maintainer” is usually a single person job. They didn’t write all the code or whatever, just were the gatekeeper to what got added and making sure shit works.

So I mean, it’s not great nobody is stepping up, but it’s also not like they magiced up the entirety of linux’s wifi support single handed, either.

If only there were some way to get books to read in a format where a billionaire’s trillion dollar company can’t gatekeep them.

Some sort of physical product, perhaps one made out of trees?

I’m a fan of the Bambu printers because they just simply work.

You want to print something, they print something, done.

If you want to fiddle, then they’re the wrong printers, but if you want to model shit and make things then they’re really hard to beat right now.

And, yes, I have reservations about the closed sourced nature, but honestly ask yourself: are you going to contribute to the code? Are you going to build your own firmware to run on your printer? If the answer is no, then that’s probably not really a concern that should be driving your decisions.

I’m sure an AI babysitter won’t be immediately and utterly broken and bypassed by every single kid in these “classes”.

(Seriously: we’re talking about 8-12 year olds here and the absolutely are smart enough and incentivized to break the ever-loving crap out of this stupid idea.)

AI generated video ideas, AI generated thumbnails, AI generated comments from the viewers, AI generated comments from the creators…

I mean, AI already gave me the ick but this is super extra ick.

Youtube is going to be 100% over-run with absolute garbage, and there’s going to be zero way to determine which content is human and not and it’s going to completely make the platform utterly worthless.

It feels like the most urgent things to figure out how to make viable are things like Loops and Peertube, even over 160-character hot-take platforms or link aggregation or whatever, since the audience is SO much larger, and SO much more susceptible to garbage.

Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

Or, and hear me out here, we can view this with a little sympathy: there’s $60k in rewards for anyone who turned this guy in, and the person who did it makes peanuts at McDonalds.

Now, I don’t know if I would do it, but I can completely and utterly sympathize why someone who makes poverty wages would turn class traitor for what almost certainly life-changing money.

I totally don’t need this, and I guess my big, loud, hot, noisy, annoying desktop is finally stable so I don’t reeeeallllly have any justification there but somehow I still preordered.

…and got the trackpad.

Be nice to be free of both Windows and Linux on the desktop - sorry guys: <3 Linux-the-Server but not Linux-the-Desktop, even after 25 years of trying to.

Hey, they’re fixing that. Soon. Really. Any day now. For reals!

(That’s the #1 thing that makes Matrix utterly unusable for me: if there’s more than like, 10 messages, it’s a game of is-it-broken-or-is-it-just-crap.)

Typically not by injecting toxic carcinogens into the ground to do so, like we do with fracking.

Also I’ve not heard of any strip mining activities that turn a town’s only water supply into something that’s flammable, but I perhaps missed that?

Or the ongoing incidents of child and adult cancer caused by this itty bitty little toxic waste issue.

In the US, the major source of natgas is now fracking.

And uh, fracking is about the most gross extraction method for anything you can dig out of the ground.