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Comment Re:Good news bad news time (Score 1) 61

In other words, the proper response is to do nothing different.

Correct.

Having hissy fits about Kennedy and Noem is also counter-indicated.

Kennedy and Noem are disruptive. You say you want nothing different. Your description of a response to this disruption as a "hissy fit" runs counter to your narrative. Pick one or the other going forwards if you want to be taken seriously, thanks.

Comment Re:I use Brave (Score 1) 79

That does a lot, and you should do it. But it doesn't do it all.

You can do an ad filtering web proxy with SQUID that can do the rest of it. In the past when I had a separate Linux-based firewall/server running nonstop, I set up such a proxy and used packet mangling to send the connections to the proxy without proxy configuration. If you wanted unfiltered internet, you connected to a proxy on another port. That way it got all the devices.

AFAIK to do this today meaningfully, since everything is encrypted, you have to install a certificate for the proxy on the browser? Haven't looked into it since I don't care any more, I use noscript and ublock origin together on Firefox, and the only "server" I have running nonstop is just an AP with the transmission daemon and a 512GB SATA SSD in a USB3 adapter I got for about tree-fiddy on aliexpress.

Comment Re: Don't be overconfidence battery tech progressi (Score 1) 83

are you messing around with your car when you should be focusing on your son?

I shudder to think of what happens when you need to charge your phone from a power bank. Do you drop everything you're holding and shudder uncontrollably at the agonizing effort of installing a plug into a receptacle?

Comment Re:getting back? (Score 1) 83

Wasn't there a big electric mining dump truck that never needed to plug in for a charge because it could use the weight of the ore it hauled down a mountain to have enough charge to get back to the top?

A 2.5 ton couple-gear truck from the 1930s slightly famously did that. Not sure if it was ore or not. They also used hub motors and large models like a 2.5 ton had four wheel steering, and they offered optional onboard range extender generators.

Comment Re:Healthcare (Score 1) 272

On one hand what you say is true, but it misses some potential nuance which I would like to believe the OP intended, not that I have any faith.

Appearance is a proxy for hormones. This should not be surprising since hormones' effect is to alter the function of cells. The Russian fox breeding experiments tell us that as you breed animals to be tractable you are actually changing their hormonal balance, and they also change in appearance at the same time.

It's well known that e.g. hair growth in humans is governed in large part by hormones, so this speaks directly to what's being discussed.

What you say may actually even be playing a part here; it's possible that there is some sort of cultural shift that is causing men who have a hormonal advantage in the breeding department to be less favored as partners, perhaps perceiving them (rightly or wrongly) as more likely to be abusive at a time when that is increasingly seen as unacceptable. (And if so, yes, good! But it's not the morality or even the reality that causes the shift, but the perception, hence the sentence.)

Comment Re:Houses (Score 1) 272

more kids = bigger GA

Oh good, a bigger debt.

and SNAP payments

That part's true. 1 out of 3 is OK in baseball:

= less need to work

They have to house all of those kids. They have to clothe them. They have to take them to things. GA and SNAP don't pay for those things. Welfare does, but since Clinton's welfare reform act of 1996, that only lasts for five years.

= more kids running the streets causing trouble.

Thanks to shutting down all the programs that used to keep them busy.

If you want this fixed, then you educate people and make birth control available. But Republicans are opposed to both public education and birth control. They therefore clearly want there to be more kids running the streets causing trouble. Why would you vote for that?

Comment Re:Why doesn't this exist? (Score 1) 51

You seem not to understand that current LLMs suffer greatly from inaccuracy.

I'm not continuing this conversation with you until you acknowledge your failure to read what I actually wrote, because I won't have any belief that anything I say might change your mind about anything no matter how wrong I've proven you to be. Thanks.

Comment Re:Sold in 2023 with a 3 year warrantry (Score 1) 60

They shut down the "Wemo Mini Smart Plug" which was still sold in November 2023. It came with a 3 year warranty.

That's good news for people in California, who therefore have a right to a refund under our state warranty laws. Other Americans are fucked because they don't have a right to a refund, only replacement. In California we even have the right to choose.

By my understanding this is also grounds for at least a partial refund in the EU, as the goods are not in conformity with the consumer sales contract if they do not comply with the description given by the seller, which in this case includes remote functionality. But they're not entitled to a full refund like we are. We Californians further have the right to a refund from the seller during the warranty period, we never have to go to the manufacturer.

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