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Comment Camel. Camel? Camel! (Score 4, Informative) 44

Price tracker CamelCamelCamel offers browser extensions which allow you to get charts showing price history. Go to an Amazon page and the icon appears in the address bar, click it and the chart pops up. (This is how the Firefox extension works, anyway.) We ordered one of those Solar "Generator" units (I hate it when people or companies call them that, they are not that, but anyway) from Amazon during their sale because it actually was cheaper.

Comment Re:Correlation does not equal Causation (Score 1) 34

A stay-at-home parent is indeed the best way to raise children where possible. We've seen that throughout history, and it's been proven over and over again. Where it's not possible, I am in favor of governments and societies providing assistance to parents in many different forms to ensure they can parent to the best of their ability. A village certainly helps raise a child.

A village is the best way to raise a child. People should learn that they are part of interconnected communities as they grow up. Ideally people would be directly involved instead of their needing to be some kind of government assistance stepping in, but we've become increasingly disconnected from our neighbors and that allows echo chambers to form and fester.

Comment Re:Great job guys! (Score 1) 42

That was a link to a Yahoo News (hack, spit) article. I'll quote it for you, since you apparently never clicked the link:

What causes you to imagine I never clicked the link? My response was about the quick google search snark. I also did a google search, that's how I found the links I posted, but it sure didn't show that one in my results - and I looked at the top 30 or so.

Anyway, bummer. What kind of fucking wingnut believes in AGW and then lights a forest fire?

Comment Re:Great job guys! (Score 2) 42

I don't see "plenty of details" about his political affiliation, only some evidence that he was anti-religious. But I've known some conservatives who were that, so it proves nothing.

https://www.latimes.com/califo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1...

Got anything to support your claims?

Comment Re:GCR (Score 2) 51

it's likely the best way to do this is with a vintage Mac itself. Which then implies hooking up a mass storage device of some kind to that Mac

Nah, there are ethernet cards for vintage macs, and you can use netatalk to provide them with file services. This makes a lot more sense today than messing with antique SCSI drives. You also don't have to get very vintage to read those floppies, there are lots of machines out there which will do it.

Comment wow (Score 2) 30

Compared to current liquid-based batteries, which use electrolyte solutions, Toyota's all-solid-state batteries utilize a cathode, an anode, and a solid electrolyte.

Wow, they use a cathode and an anode? HIGH TECH SHIT.

Seriously though, I am hoping they are successful. I want batteries to continue falling rapidly in price so I root for any improvements anywhere. Competition is good. I also still want to see NCM banned for multiple reasons, and having more alternate and safer options makes that more likely.

Comment Re:LLMs are not ready for production use (Score 1) 101

It must've required magic to load those games

It would require magic for you to say something intelligent.

if you didn't also have tape or disk drive to plug into it.

Only in early days of the C64 were cartridges or even cassettes the dominant storage media. The disk drive got cheaper over time, and they brought out a second and cheaper model of it as well which was less shit. In fact, people who weren't poor (which doesn't describe me, mind) commonly had two 1541s, because you could program them to do sector copies, and copy basically anything.

I forget what the software was because I didn't have a C64 or floppy drives, but I knew plenty of people who had both. (I had an Apple ][+, then a used IBM PC 5150, and then I got an Amiga 500 which was succeeded by several other Amigas up to a 3000, and then I got a 386 and ran Linux and now here we are with me still running Linux.)

Comment Re: Merely delayed (Score 1) 99

The people running things aren't the people who adopted Communist and or socialist ideals, so it's hard to figure out what you think you're getting at there.

You lying asshole. The activist wing of the Democrat party is riddled with these people

You're a stupid fucking clown. There's maybe a double handful of Democrats who believe in those things. Look at the way the rest of them vote, they are sellouts every day and twice on Fridays. Also, maybe you didn't notice because you have your head so far up your own asshole you're a human klein bottle, but the Democrats are currently leading Jack and Shit.

Comment Re: LLMs are not ready for production use (Score 1) 101

Moving the goalposts.

You claimed that most software was distributed on cartridge.

Defend that claim or retract it, don't shift the discussion to some alternate irrelevant shit.

I knew lots of people with C64s, and all of them had floppy drives. I was the only one with a C= without one (my father got me a C= 16 from somewhere, who fucking knows, but no floppy or in fact any software or a tape interface or anything... thanks dad) and then I got an Amiga.

Comment Re: What am I missing? (Score 1) 99

Under this administration, depicting the Confederate flag as negative is problematic. Not because of Cheeto Benito himself, he no doubt thinks most of them are gap toothed losers. Even though his grandfather and probably his father were in the KKK he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would spend his time burning crosses, he'd rather fuck over all black people than terrorize or murder just a few.

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