At one point you could book early and get the emergency exits, which was a relief for me. Now you have to pay.

It’s closed loop.

Smart TV companies hate this one simple trick!

Pack the TV up in the original box and take it back for a full refund. And tell them why.

This is the Way.

Jesus fuck, this is the shit I heard back around 2006 wrt Facebook.

Damn right. And the solution isn’t to substitute another unreliable trading partner like China. By all means, make deals that make sense, and I think for the most part China will keep them, until they don’t. They will always look to gain an advantage and wield the hammer when it suits them, including hostage diplomacy. I have more confidence in Europe, Indo-Pacific, and expanding new markets in Africa and South America.

But strengthening self-reliance and removing internal barriers can only pay dividends. And working with reliable partners that keep their agreements is the only way forward. The only thing that has long term value in trade is trust.

If that makes my thunderbird respect the startup position, I’ll be so happy…

“Does he think China’s… going to buy his stuff? China is an entirely export-driven economy. So what did he do? He came back and said, ‘Oh, we’ll take their electric cars.’ I mean, is this nuts?”

The blithering idiot didn’t know that the agreement removed canola and canola meal tariffs, which vastly outweighed the minimal sales China is going to see from their EVs? I mean, the difference in the benefits is orders of magnitude in terms of dollars.

This guy shouldn’t be in charge of a lemonade stand.

If somebody with too much money pays more for a speeding ticket in Sweden, everyone here would be getting justice boners.

Maybe one person paying more means another person gets to afford it because the average price is the same or higher for the company to be happy with increased profits overall. Yah, yah, companies are never happy… but overall, if line goes up, there might be something to be said for those that can pay bearing the brunt of the profit motive.

48V is low voltage in every jurisdiction, isn’t high enough for dry skin conduction, and 99% of these installations will run on that. The need to run every inch in conduit is goofy. This is less about safety and more about code that exists to increase costs.

I can see running the solar input in conduit, perhaps, but then we might be talking 500V in order to use smaller gauge wire.

Because that’s the only way that information gets accessed, right? Jesus, Flock has sales reps and the BD vice president accessing school gymnasium cameras in some US town.

Not to mention companies the size of Equifax get popped constantly, and with LLMs like gpt5.4 building zero days like it’s a todo app, I don’t think it’s hard to find reasons to just not have something we don’t need anyway.

I always think about the cartoon where they’re about to wrap some shitty legislation at the store for a gift, and the two wrapping papers are “Think of the children” and “law and order”.

That’s pure crazy talk. They’ll do you for that.

I think we can figure this out well enough that we don’t need to sacrifice everyone’s privacy to accomplish it in a way that’s uncertain at best.

For the record, I’m concerned about how all auto manufacturers surveil current vehicles. This needs to addressed with every vehicle, period.

While I’m less than happy about the CCP having access to that data, there’s more to be worried about domestically with companies willing to sell every brake pedal application, gps waypoint and interior camera view to companies that will use it against us here.

I did the Greener Homes grant thing, I was being quoted $25000 for a heat pump installation where I pulled a permit, bought the pump for 4500 and installed it myself in a weekend. Bought about $1000 worth of tools just to do the job, and couldn’t submit it for the grant because it wasn’t done by a company.

Fuck that bullshit, it was corporate welfare, not an actual attempt to reduce energy costs. Typical fucking Liberal smoke and mirrors bullshit that gives tax dollars to private industry.

Alta 3.9

My parents would drink that shit.

Because every time there’s an incident, it’s never the thousands of illegal guns pouring over the border that gets the blame, it’s somehow legal gun owners that need to pay a new price.

It’s like giving more money to cops instead of addressing mental health issues to stop crime. Dog and pony show.

A: It’s not my blog

B: The author’s point was that Flatpak solves a lot of pain points for developers on Linux with distribution that Appimage doesn’t, and package managers certainly don’t, and that if there’s going to be companies like Valve and Redhat that are going all-in on that method, it would benefit the Linux ecosystem that’s currently driving away developers in droves with fragmentation to consider that.

Personally I like Appimage for just being able to grab a file and run it, and I integrate Gear Lever updates by building my own repackaging infra to keep projects that use it updating via Gear Lever’s Update All button. But I can completely commiserate with the idea that it isn’t very useful for most users to have to come up with things like that themselves when Flatpak is easily integrated with Discover and other packagekit software updaters.