180520979 comment Comment Re:wow ... (Score 3, Insightful) 87 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:10PM (#65904551) Attached to: Google To Kill Gmail's POP3 Mail Fetching Came here to say that. There will be lots of lightweight embedded apps broke when POP3 goes away.
180405785 comment Comment Re:Raccoons or beavers? Re:It's not really a surpr (Score 1) 71 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:56PM (#65863049) Attached to: Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt Ill-tempered sea bass.
180288517 comment Comment My 2025 Forester Hybrid (Score 1) 155 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Thursday December 04, 2025 @04:06PM (#65836093) Attached to: Subaru Owners Are Ticked About In-Car Pop-Up Ads For SiriusXM No ads yet.
179839132 comment Comment Shit posting at it's best... (Score 1) 97 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Monday October 20, 2025 @07:45PM (#65739628) Attached to: Kohler Unveils a Camera For Your Toilet All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't have to write the firmware and do the beta testing.
179767830 comment Comment In other news... (Score 1) 132 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Monday October 13, 2025 @01:17AM (#65720898) Attached to: California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month California electricity rates will increase from $.45/kWh to $.65/kWh.
179307684 comment Comment Wait a minute... (Score 0, Redundant) 93 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:02AM (#65664896) Attached to: A New Report Finds China's Space Program Will Soon Equal That of the US Whose flag is still on the moon?
179244360 comment Comment How do they know that they are all living? (Score 0) 67 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Sunday September 14, 2025 @06:26PM (#65659542) Attached to: Japan Sets Record: Nearly 100,000 People Aged Over 100 There's been persistent rumors that there's widespread fraud from families keeping dead elderly on the benefit rolls and collecting their benefits.
179168212 comment Comment The Enshitification of Roku begins (Score 3, Insightful) 23 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Thursday September 11, 2025 @01:54PM (#65654238) Attached to: Roku Wants You To See a Lot More AI-Generated Ads It had to happen.
179117802 comment Comment Nothing good... (Score 4, Insightful) 64 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:17PM (#65649822) Attached to: HHS Asks All Employees To Start Using ChatGPT Can come of this.
179078364 comment Comment Re:unconcerned (Score 1) 82 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Monday September 08, 2025 @12:06AM (#65645710) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Expresses Frustration With 'Garbage' Link Tags In Git Commits Fuck. Just fuck. Does anyone, anywhere these days know the pleasure of writing 10-20 lines of code, leaning back and saying to themselves, "that's beautiful".
178925072 comment Comment Re:the US problem is also technology (Score 1, Troll) 102 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:03AM (#65623530) Attached to: Amtrak's New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones It was common in the US up to the 1960's. My dad was a conductor and one of his jobs was to lock the restroom doors just before the train rolled into a station.
178813856 comment Comment I've never heard THAT before (Score 3, Insightful) 56 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Thursday August 21, 2025 @05:40PM (#65606322) Attached to: Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment "These employees said the company was more willing to protect a star executive than address the concerns of rank-and-file workers." Rolls his eyes.
178755526 comment Comment Re:Penny change level of investment (Score 2) 23 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:26PM (#65598930) Attached to: Intel is Getting a $2 Billion Investment From SoftBank "This is a press release for attention, not a significant investment for either company"f Came here to say that. Less than 1/10 of what you need to build a state-of-the-art fab.
178646348 comment Comment I'd be more impressed... (Score 2, Insightful) 130 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:21PM (#65582794) Attached to: Ford Announces Investment To Bring Affordable EVs To Market If they invested in bringing an affordable light pickup to market. There's a real need for something other than a bloated $50,000 vehicle.
178599888 comment Comment Re: "The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 2) 103 by HotNeedleOfInquiry on Thursday August 07, 2025 @12:25AM (#65571902) Attached to: Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent Well, at least he didn't say "since Reagan"