The local community college has(d?) a good rock station with no ads but I am just out of range of their transmitter since we moved so I have not been able to listen for the last couple years.

In the US, the HD stations also don’t play as many or any ads, I don’t know how they are funded but its pretty cool. Mostly deep cuts or out of vogue genres. There are a couple of cool local jazz, blues, oldies or others.

Yeah, kidnapping a foreign president isn’t exactly legal either… I’m not a Venezuelan apologist by any means but damn… Not a good thing at all.

The big thing you and a lot of posters are missing is what happens when those parts aren’t made anymore. With a standard motor that uses a start capacitor, you can get that cap or motor as a generic part or from another manufacturer, if your modern appliance eats its vfd board now, you can replace it for $$$. If it dies in 8 years, its probably already been discontinued and you are sol even if you wanted to pay for it.

Thanks to better manufacturing techniques, engineering analysis, and the fine humans in management, we have gotten really good at barely building a machine that lasts just long enough to be out of warranty.

These are both awful things to do but I was a really shitty person in highschool.

We would stretch clear plastic wrap between two lamp posts or signposts across a road in our neighborhood at night and hide in the bushes. When a car drove up, it would vaguely look like another car was on the other side because their lights would reflect off the plastic wrap so they would stop and then get out and rip the plastic wrap down of just drive through it.

The other thing we would do was to take a strip of duct tape and string it sticky side up on the road so when a car would drive by, it would stick to their tires and make it sound like a flat tire.

Kids are dumb.

Thanks to the streamlined procurement process it will arrive on time in 2027, and then only be delayed another 10 years to allow the budget to balloon by 600% with a full 50% of the systems functioning 30% of the time. The Maintenance requirements will be 250% higher and only cost 75% more. But don’t worry, the mark II version shares 23% of the parts and performs 7% better. At which point, it will almost match the previous capabilities 80% of the time except in the weird fringe category that isn’t tactically relevant anymore.

The tires start out hard, then get soft and greasy before they get cooked. The Ferrari f1 team is drooling though.

I have a HiSense TV and use ADB AppControl to disable/remove the telemetry or forced updates, and Projectivy Launcher to get a home screen/launcher that doesn’t show ads. Both are free and work really well. I don’t see trash on my homescreen anymore.

Absolutely shameful that the US started a pointless war, without congressional approval, then burned through a known limited resource that could have been gone to protect lives as protection from unjustified aggression. Instead, some chucklefuck decided to BE the aggressor and waste these protecting bases from retaliation that wasn’t coming until he stirred up the shit.

I’m hosting a seeed solar node pro at home, and I carry either a t-echo or a t-1000-e with me daily. I also grabbed a t-deck pro to play with. It’s been a blast learning about the setups and I keep thinking about stealth deploying a couple more solar nodes to build out the network in the area around me.

The absolute betrayal there was amazing.

Its worth a listen, season 4 just started but you should start at the beginning.

They did for a while, I was going to buy one for self defence but didn’t want to have to explain it to everyone on the news.

Its the penetrator from Saints Row

Anthony (Ghandi/the brother) has a D&D podcast called Dungeons and Daddies (not a bdsm podcast) that is also excellent.

For context, there is a BUNCH of potential issues with OpenClaw. This recently happened and then ARS used fake ai quotes of the author when publishing an article about it.

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Statistically speaking, if that happened, the company’s carbon footpring would go down…

I’ll allow that with a big asterisk, if you consider Mexican Coke as coke then yes, its one of the best sodas. If not, there are way better options.

It really depends though, if you want to do analog in or out, relay control, or use existing hats, you are bought/forced into the ecosystem. If you are just using it as a small computer, yeah roll with whatever. To me, it’s always occupied the void between an arduino and a sffpc or when I wanted to do compute and analog/digital control on something.

You must not have pets, or children.