Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick

And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.

Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.

how do I know someone hasn’t placed a bomb inside

You learn enough about electronics to identify things that shouldn’t be in there, and then you open up and analyze your devices.

Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.

I was about to say something similar.

I suspect that people in their target market not being made aware of it is part of the problem that is leading them to shut down.

Don’t bring that to their attention- they’ll start banning open source too.

I’d expect Apple’s move to be followed by a lot of creators adding a “Don’t use the iOS Patreon app”

I’ve already received similar posts from a couple of patreon accounts I follow.

I think it also depends on the locale.

When I look at both Kijiji and Facebook marketplace, I see far more listings on Kijiji.

We’re Watching Facebook Die

It’s not happening fast enough.

I didn’t say it wouldn’t work for me, only that they make it hard to get here.

It would be cool if they sold the thing in (or were willing to ship to) my country…

Better late than never.

Now look at how much the executives are being paid in the US compared to the cost of the vehicles…

It ain’t the welders and wrench turners who are adding the most to the cost of vehicles.

The world doesn’t need an EV Mustang or $99K F150, it needs an EV Focus or Escort oor Fiesta level car that normal people can afford.

The last windows I had on my home machine was Win95.

Embrace the penguin.

My kids didn’t have any problem figuring out how to do what they wanted to do on a Linux machine, it’s really not that hard to move.

need to understand it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want,

That’s the crux of it.

It’s their platform and they can make the rules for what they want (and don’t want) on their platform.

If they want it to be a porn-free gaming platform, that’s their right.

If they say “you want porn, go to a porn platform”, that’s their right.

The reasons for those decisions could be many things, and probably are a combination of things. It doesn’t have to be “they’re just a bunch of nanny state prudes”…

It seems the doctor dropped the ball on this one, from the context in the article.

But the incident happened at the lounge at the hotel she was staying at, not during an activity organized by (or even at) the conference. I’m not entirely sure how it’s the fault of the conference (as the article summary seem to imply).

Getting enough snow jammed under a vehicle will high-center the vehicle. If the tires can’t touch the ground,it doesn’t matter how good they are.

Tires may be part of the equation, but ground clearance is typically more important to avoiding getting stuck in the snow.

when you’ve identified them

Yeah, that’s part of why I don’t find a lot of value in twitter-style platforms.

And here I was thinking there were no new reasons to never create a Twitter account, 'ol Elon gives me one more.

And they still are!

He buys companies and lets the actually competent people do the work while claiming credit.

Sometimes he actively interferes with those competent people too.

Both formats have their place.

In my opinion written documents should be the primary source, and can be enhanced by using video to show details that are difficult to explain succinctly on paper. A picture really can be worth a thousand words.

I wasn’t disagreeing with you.

It shouldn’t be be required to use a cloud service in order to use a piece of hardware that you bought and paid for.

I’m disturbed seeing so many of the new consumer targeted 3D printers (and so many other products) going in the “cloud required” direction.

all the shows are shit.

That was one of the main reasons I cut cable years ago.

The amount of content worth watching (let alone worth paying for) had become far too low.

Combine that with the constant price increases and worsening of the content-to-commercials ratio, and it was a easy decision to make.

Because not everything has an open source alternative.

Especially when it comes to hardware

The biggest issue for day to day use for me is how slow it is. Because your traffic is being routed through 3-5 nodes before getting to its destination overall speed and latency suffer a lot

That’s why I never continued to use it after the times I experimented with Tor.

Feel free to destroy each other.

Have thwy said if they plan to warn specific people in advance, or will they just kill it and surprise you when you decide to go to youtube one day?

Tesla still hasn’t dealt with this problem?

It’s been known for several years

A problem that every other carmaker has solved a long time ago, with a simple mechanical lock and key.