Because I was not aware this amazingness existed? Blame the Ford marketing department. Off to Truecar with me, now.

I stopped going on Reddit in general back in July of 2023 due to all that API shit and swore not to return until and unless they reversed course on it. They didn't so now I'm waiting on the IPO.

I got a random email from Reddit about being offered some sort of preferential stock option or something because I have a huge amount of karma (241k) so I may purchase a bunch of stock just so I can raise a shareholder proposal to remove the current CEO and replace him with, I dunno... Jon Stewart?... Anyway, I'll probably end up on Reddit if I have some modicum of say in how the company runs.

As a shareholder, I'd value the Reddit community more than the Reddit organization and am willing to put my money where my mouth is (unless it's non-voting stock, which I won't buy). There's lots of ways to monetize the community in a way which is compatible enough with the community to not make them want to leave.

I like the idea of an API which a marketer can pay to access which counts brand mentions. Shit, I mentioned like three major car brands in my last comment (on a post about Rivian and people speculating about buyers not liking the selection form-factor of most EVs). Brand mentions could be a way to get the attention of brands that are hard to reach; to fix problems they didn't think to run a focus-group on.

I would love an all-electric pickup if I could get it in the 1995 For Ranger or perhaps a 1992 Toyota Pickup/Hilux form factor. Right now, I drive a 2019 Honda Insight and need to return a pre-hung door I ordered online from Home Depot that was the wrong size. (I know, measure once, cut twice.) A tiny pickup truck would be perfect for this and a lot of other stuff. They don't make those anymore though, thanks EPA.

The main consideration that I have, though, which is preventing me from going to all-electric is that once a week, I have to make a commute of about 115 miles (230 round trip). I _might_ be able to talk work into putting in a 240 volt 80 amp outlet and wire in my own charger at work (they own the building and could consider the outlet a "perk", that said, there's only 120 volt outlets in place currently).

I don't know enough about all-electric to know if a normal electric sedan (say, a Hyundai Ionic 6, definitely not a Tesla) would be a good idea for this kind of commute. Would it? I'm happy to stick to my Insight or swap to a Prius at some point.

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All stories which make up "Enshittification" can trace their origins back to an IPO.

I wasn't aware that when I go to my local sushi joint and order a Caterpillar roll, that I was contributing to the possible extinction of a species. I had always figured that eel is farm-raised and was a safe choice.

I've actively tried to get my friends to try it just because the name is ick, but eel is actually really good.

I can't wait until the lab-grown variety is widely available.

My prediction is that Apple has been planning ahead and tooling for this while Samsung et al. are sitting on their hands and paying lobbyists. Samsung et al. will get properly screwed and have to spend millions to retool or risk not selling any models in California for a while and Apple gets to play the "innovator" role once again.

>Can't nag for branded ink and toner with the OS driver.

Well sure you can. It'll just look like this:

"Your document failed to print due to a hardware error. Please consult the manufacturer's troubleshooting instructions. Device error code is: 0x000001a2 BLUE_INK_IS_LOW_OR_NOT_GENUINE_OR_PRINTER_IS_TEAPOT. Click here to look online for a solution."

Penalty should be "repay 125% of all ill-gotten earnings".

I feel like we could probably correlate this with an overall increase in BitTorrent usage.

My setup includes:

65" Rear Projection CRT with Component, Composite, and S-Video

Desktop computer with some kind of old ATI All In Wonder card with s-video hooked up to the tv.

All of the videos reside on an ubuntu smb share. Playback with vlc.

The tv and the computer are at right angles on an inside corner so watching tv from the computer chair sucks. It's set up so we can watch broadcast tv on the computer, tv or both. Video from the server can be watched on the tv, computer, or both.

Works great for everything except hd due to a) old playback computer, b) old tv, c) network lag (permanently installed cable limited to 10 mbps, permanently means in concrete)

Lack of hd notwithstanding, it's fine. I never jumped on the hd bandwagon, and besides, what is hd going to do for Family Guy, Futurama, and Southpark anyway?

Use VBS... it was designed to replace batch files and it can do all of the same stuff. Even more, I recon.

After all, 100 million script kiddies can't be wrong. Just make sure the user has the ability to tell the printer to STOP printing test pages and that the vbs doesn't automatically copy itself to all other attached computers on the network...

I'm pretty certain that it'll still have a mic port. This will double as a line-in in a pinch. Just turn down the recording source as mics produce a lot lower level than a line-in.

I helped a tech-savvy friend with this. He asked how I knew that the signaling was compatible. Lulz were had.

Been trying to get my gf, who's into s/m, more interested in computers in general. I think you helped me find my solution.