My shadow

I do enjoy how both Asuka and Misato are posing like they have previous experience as car show booth babes. That tracks.

This apparently changed around the same time people stopped using “Give 'em the high hard one”.

Meanwhile the poors have to settle for their 12 pack of RoseArt.

Just look at the number of normies who use Apple, Samsung, or vanilla Pixels as their daily driver. Unless you have a degoogled Android, all the major flagship devices are essentially surveillance and advertising powerhouses. People have embraced the willful ignorance part of this bargain. They think they need whatever proprietary garbage is offered by Apple, to the point that even their own privacy is too ethereal a concept to regret mortgaging it away in the tradeoff.

Even if they have to revert to paper charts for 2 months and pay outside consultants and their own IT overtime to wipe and restore every last piece of hardware they own, they should avoid paying any ransom. Paying these ransoms just incentivizes even more attacks.

Let’s just check the walk-in freezer now.

…annnd I’m in Blackreach

Does the legislation also include penalties for Samsung for preinstalling TikTok on my fucking Smart TV and making the app non-removable ?

I know Google Fiber generation 1 setups were Fiber to the home (to a “Fiber Jack”) with a provided router that had 1 gigabit Ethernet port and a coax/MoCA output. Then each TV receiver box got its connectivity via MoCA from the router (most of the customer homes were already set up for cable to any area there was a TV) and put out 100mb ethernet from each of those endpoints (these also doubled as Wifi APs).

What I’ve never heard of is an ISP offering a MoCA coax to your house and you having only a MoCA receiver. Supposedly the max distance between MoCA devices is about 300 feet.

Seems more likely the person asking the question actually just has a cable modem and could put their own router downstream of it if they wanted?

Its an average. Some days I don’t drive at all. Some days I have to bring a family member several miles to an appointment, or get something bulky from a store that I can’t feasibly move without a vehicle.

I live in suburbia in the US and I can walk to 3 different grocery stores from my house. If I go to the warehouse store, I will drive. Between telework, walking, and avoiding unnecessary trips to various places, I try to drive less than 1 mile per day.

Density kinda sucks to live in, but we can all make more effort to waste less energy.

The Mooninites were the first angels

I don’t like the concept of basic internet usage becoming a “know your customer” situation. If they advance this crap, they are just setting up future framework for a social credit score system. It should be very telling that your privacy is an expendable commodity to both major parties.

…and TikTok will still have horrible data privacy and domestic spying capabilities, it will just be owned by US Big Tech instead of Chinese Big Tech.

Its called “basement strategy”. You try your best to disappear and make it a referendum on your competitor instead.

See also, 2020 and 2024 US Presidential elections.

“O-counter”? Is that legitimately for tracking how many times you blow your load to a particular scene?

People are really into advanced metrics these days…

Depending on the country, you may be in the same legal status if you just buy a physical copy and then download a copy of the same edition. (Caveat - I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.)

Google won a case on appeal in 2015 concerning their book scanning and digitization project. The result of that case, in the US at least, is that you are protected in scanning a book you own for fair use and other legal purposes and can even give a copy to a friend (for purposes of education and other fair use) but if you mass distribute that copy then you may run afoul of copyright law.

Gotta love Apples commitment to maintaining a steady stream of e-waste.

I should have said with the exception of Lemmy. Not sure I’m getting enough value to continue using it either honestly.

I am 100% off social media now. Was never a big fan of Twitter but I’m definitely not paying for it. Zuckbook has been deleted for a decade. When Reddit disabled 3rd party apps, that was the last time I used Reddit.

I miss some of the timely news on specific topics but otherwise nothing’s lost.