Good to know. Will have to read up, though from the little I’ve read, it sounds like this is just a concept for now.

That’s what I thought (re: backup cameras), and someone else mentioned the gauge cluster is a digital screen which switches to the backup camera view). In my case, 150 miles (round trip ) would be just around the upper edge of my use cases, though 15-20 would be more average.

which these days are basically a full size truck of yester-yore

Makes me miss my old 2003 Ranger. It was right where I needed a truck to be, size-wise.

Would definitely buy one of these. I miss having a truck, but I only need one occasionally for the occasional need to haul something that won’t fit in my car (e.g. Lowe’s trips). I also really dislike the “smartphone on wheels” aspect of pretty much all current EVs.

Plus, I hate the infotainment systems so I would be happy to roll my own.

Though I do wonder if it has a backup camera/screen. Aren’t those required nowadays?

I don’t see what people’s problem with this is. It’s not like it’s anyone can just buy a blue check (unlike X). It’s just confirming that the account belongs to who it claims to be (like old Twitter verified users). I don’t know if that requires any payment, but it’s definitely not “Here’s $5 – okay, here’s your blue check”.

• During this initial phase, Bluesky is not accepting direct applications for verification," the company said.
• “As this feature stabilizes, we’ll launch a request form for notable and authentic accounts interested in becoming verified or becoming trusted verifiers.”

If I remember correctly, that’s pretty much exactly how old Twitter rolled out its original user verification.

From a de-centralized perspective, I’m not sure how that would work. I guess each instance would be in charge of verification and setting the “verified” flag for the account? The alternative would be some kind of central authority. Granted, I know little of Bluesky (microblogging is not my cup of tea), so I may be way off on my guesses there.

Even before I saw another user pull out some hilarious excerpts, I was gonna read it later Now I’m definitely going to.

This is one of the rare cases where reading the article would probably ruin a perfectly good headline. lol

Yeah, A/C is a power sink; I’m not arguing that. But people are increasingly in need of it for survival. No one needs AI (the biggest datacenter power suck to date).

It sounds like you’re describing the Paradox of Tolerance.

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

I don’t really have a good answer other than follow your heart, I guess.

WFH. Unless I also get paid for commute time. Then, still WFH. Fuck traffic. This way, I’m neither dealing with it nor contributing to it.

Not sure if it’s a trope, per se, but I love finding good covers of my favorite songs in other languages.

Edit: When the lyrics switch into a different language on a breakdown. That’s a trope, right?

Self-hosting apps / homelab

Getting used enterprise gear is not prohibitively expensive, but the electric bills balloon very quickly.

Both, yeah. Shortcut icon based on the favicon (or whatever the dev configures in the manifest) and a dedicated window without the URL, tab, and status bars.

Yeah, true. Forgot about that one. Also, they knew about climate change for over 40 years and still spent millions of dollars promoting denialism and misinformation in the name of profits.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

Good to know about Home Depot. I shall strike it from my own no-go list.

At this point, what am I not boycotting? lol

I guess this is the abridged no-go list:

• Nestle (duh)
• BP (still haven’t forgiven them for lubricating the Gulf of Mexico and being like “oops, sorry”)
• Verizon (injecting tracking IDs into customer web traffic to sell to advertisers while also charging me $60/mo for 2 GB of data – I’m a product or a customer. I will not be both.)
• RWNJ-owned businesses (Chick-fil-A, In-n-Out, Hobby Lobby, Applebees, etc)
• AT&T (After so many years, I forget exactly why, but they’re just evil)
• The entire states of Florida and Texas
• The lottery (I’d have the same payout and more fun just setting the money on fire)
• Microsoft (It’s MY computer, not yours)
• Apple (Overpriced hardware, control-freak walled garden, everything needs a damn $29 dongle, etc)
• Reddit, Facebook, Twitter (also blocked in firewall)
• Amazon (except the 2-3 times a year they give me a free month of Prime and I buy all my stuff, take the free 1-2 day shipping and cancel before they bill me)

Late additions:

• Exxon (knew about climate change for over 40 years; spent millions promoting misinformation/denialism)
• Bank of America (used to work there - will never bank there. Oh, you’re poor? There’s a fee for that - several, actually)

The public domain my friend. The public domain

Buddy, I’d open source it all and give it away for free.

Meta, Twitter, and Microsoft

I’d Eddie Lampert all 3, donate the money to charity, and go back to my regularly scheduled day job.

I don’t even really need it to be fully compliant, really. Just let me launch it in a standalone window without the URL, tab, and status bars. :shrug:

That’s extremely unfortunate. I can’t see how it would be all that difficult to implement (says someone who absolutely would be lost looking at Firefox’s source code lol)