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All AI hallucinates. What could possibly go wrong.

I've been putting off switching to GrapheneOS but it seems like a prudent idea now.

That plane still looks bad-ass today. I heard that they just leak oil constantly on the ground before the engines warm up and the metal expands the the O rings make a seal.

If you are running this stuff on a cheap VPS with limited bandwidth, you will not want all of your traffic being routed as ingress and egress as that could easily eat your monthly …

I've been trying since yesterday to attach a new ubuntu install to Ubuntu Pro. 'sudo pro attach' runs, and gives me the key to enter on the link they provide but I just get '502 Ba…

I remember when Plex wasn't a money grab. Many moons ago.

Easy fix. Don't use Windows. It's been enshittified so many times over that I can't believe people put up with what it has become. I haven't used Windows on my desktop for well ove…

In the US, people are going to shoot at it with guns. Bullets that go straight up? Probably not lethal when it falls back to the ground, tumbling and lacking ballistic energy, but …

Willie Nelson.

When a corporation makes playing by the rules harder than pirating, especially after "selling" you a movie, then people are going to pirate. Corporations bring it on themselves by …

Car mechanics at dealerships are in shortage. You use a laptop more than a wrench these days, and they want people with tech experience now. If you are struggling to look for tech …

A poorly documented, poorly implememented, and poorly understood protocol is a worthless protocol. More than that, it's a potential attack surface, and the idea is to reduce those.…

This is a harbinger of darkness.

The term "forced consent" is an oxymoron. It shouldn't take much more critical thinking than reading that term to know it makes no sense.

If I had a nickel for every time a corporation cancels "lifetime" subscriptions I'd be rich.

As stated on the project page, by design, this is not meant to be a full-featured X11 server. As such it will have it's own use cases, so I wanted to mention that there is a projec…

This is extremely disappointing corporate behavior coming from Motorola. I've had better luck with $350 unlocked Moto something I can use anywhere and comes with no bloatware. I li…

They are impractical on the ground. Why anyone would think this is a good idea is byond me.

This is what Amazon did with Amazon Prime. I was paying for no ads, then they added ads and demanded a ransomm of $36/year to return to the no-ad experience I was already paying fo…

CEOs and the like speak Weasel and only use Weasel Words.

Channeling my inner-masteroftheworld, No.

work without the internet/power

Now they sprinkle dopamine rewards all over the place to incentivize the thirst for even more. Especially if there are ads shown every time you get that dopamine hit.

There are people with billions of dollars that want the population of the US to drop significantly. It's hard to control 300+ million people, and that many people can just remove u…