AmbiguousProps

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

Yeah, cable news wants the war to continue because it means more viewers (money) for them. Also, many of the cable company owners are pro-Israel to begin with, and want their agenda shoved down their viewer’s throats.

Thankfully, cable is circling the drain.

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

Fuck Russia

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

If Alcohol isn’t scheduled, why is marijuana?

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

Marijuana has been used by humans for just as long, if not longer:

Cannabis was attested to around 12 000 years ago near the Altai Mountains in Central Asia, and since then, cannabis seeds have accompanied the migration of nomadic peoples. Records of the medicinal use of cannabis appear before the Common Era in China, Egypt, and Greece (Herodotus), and later in the Roman empire (Pliny the Elder, Dioscorides, Galen). In the 19th century, orientalists like Silvestre de Sacy, and Western physicians coming into contact with Muslim and Indian cultures, like O’Shaughnessy and Moreau de Tours, introduced the medicinal use of cannabis into Europe.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605027/

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

It was developed by Tesla and they lobbied the government to change the standard from CCS to NACS.

Originally, the government said they’d make CCS the standard, so many car companies made their vehicles CCS. Obviously, this would be mighty expensive for Tesla since they’d have to upgrade their infrastructure. So instead, they claimed that out of the goodness of their hearts, they’d release the NACS specification to all car manufacturers (something that they still haven’t done completely).

Once Tesla said that, the government changed their tune and made NACS the standard. While you are correct that NACS can handle more power, CCS was having a newer version developed (with the same connector) which would have likely been the standard moving forward, had Tesla not been successful in their lobbying.

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

I absolutely hate that Tesla was successful in lobbying the government to use NACS instead of CCS. You can tell that it was lobbyists because seemingly overnight, the government changed from giving grants for CCS (never owned by a single company) to only giving grants for NACS (a proprietary standard that was opened to other companies so that Tesla wouldn’t have to pay to change their chargers). When the government decided to change to NACS, NACS specifications hadn’t even been sent to other companies yet. A new, better CCS plug was even being developed, one that on paper could handle more than NACS.

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

Sure, that is a valid argument. But it doesn’t change the fact that the government was successfully lobbied into changing what their grant money could be used for, seemingly overnight. When the grants were announced, CCS was said to become the standard. Due to that, many car companies stuck with CCS, and no doubt that some consumers (myself included) bought a CCS vehicle expecting it to be further developed.

That’s all I was trying to say - I’m more miffed regarding the lobbying than the connector itself.

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

I’ve been having a great experience with Bazzite, which is a Fedora Atomic image. Super straightforward to install and use, and things like flatpak are encouraged. Best of all, it has distrobox built in, which can create docker containers of most distros. Not only does this sandbox similar to flatpak, it allows you to run most software, even if it wasn’t written for Fedora based distros.

It also allows you to pin a specific image if you find a particularly stable set of software versions (by default, updates happen once a day, not while playing games), while also having the previous 2-4 images available at boot in case something goes wrong during an update.

It might sound a bit complicated, but it really has been the most seamless and user friendly experience I’ve had on Linux so far.

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

Bazzite also has toolbox as well, fortunately. Thanks for the heads up though, didn’t realize that.

The good thing about bazzite, while it is gaming focused, you can easily change to a different Fedora Atomic image which is tailored more to what you need. I suppose I’m recommending Fedora Atomic, rather than just Bazzite alone. Bazzite is just well maintained is all.

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

Jokes on you, I’d probably be the first to die

AmbiguousProps, 26 days ago

As it turns out, one of the popular open-source tools had a default configuration to store their backups in S3. And, as a placeholder for a bucket name, they used… the same name that I used for my bucket.

AmbiguousProps, 28 days ago

Bluetooth can do it locally, but yes, for things on ZigBee or Z-Wave, it’s gotta have an antenna hub. WiFi switches and lights most likely do “phone-home” to the cloud in some way (usually for color or brightness control via app, Govee especially loves this). The down side, other than the obvious privacy implications, is that if your ISP has an outage, so do your switches.

Home Assistant attempts to mitigate both the privacy and offline issues, while putting all of the different brands and hubs into one place.

AmbiguousProps, 29 days ago

You can also get a KVM (and second machine) and keep them fully seperate that way. Some rootkits may still be able to infect both of your installs if you dual boot. Just depends on your paranoia level.

AmbiguousProps, 29 days ago

No, I doubt most people care enough to disable them.

AmbiguousProps, 1 month ago

My ball python also weirdly likes to climb!

AmbiguousProps, 1 month ago

Widescreen and Ultra-widescreen support.

This is fantastic news!

AmbiguousProps, 1 month ago

I can’t wait to vote him out of office. He has done little for the state, and clearly doesn’t give a shit.

I like how he said intimidation is the tactic they’re using (while calling them fascists) and in the same breath says the protesters should be arrested. He’s literally complaining about fascism while supporting it himself.

AmbiguousProps, 1 month ago

I’m stating than less than 2% of American TikTok users will use VPN to bypass TikTok leaving the market.

Now you can predict the future with such certain statistics? First of all, more TikTok users than that already use VPNs. So you’re already incorrect.

You’re crazy if you think VPN usage is high among the general public on a regular basis. And that number’s intersection with using a VPN to specifically work around this will be extremely low.

VPN usage wasn’t all that high, before porn bans happened. Once those started, US searches for VPNs drastically spiked. Once again, it will happen with TikTok. They’re literally already discussing this on the platform, I’m not sure how else to tell you this.

and any other company responsible.

You sure don’t seem like it. It seems like you’ve got your blinders on to exactly who those other companies are. This bill will not lead to positive domestic privacy changes, because it is focused on “foreign adversaries”. It won’t open the door, because the whole reason this was able to pass in the first place is because the republicans have a huge hate boner for TikTok exclusively. Kind of like yourself.

This, coupled with the FTC poised to bring back Net Nuetrality, is a great step in the right direction.

While I was happy to hear about that earlier, this doesn’t really apply to this conversation.

I look forward to this energy setting up more data protection, foreign and domestic.

Congress doesn’t care about protecting our data domestically. You’ll turn to dust by the time they actually give a shit about that.

AmbiguousProps, 1 month ago

I didn’t say the bill did.

Either way, TikTok is not the only avenue for the Chinese government to use to fuck us. They’ll just find another way, one that isn’t so visible and easily regulated. This doesn’t really solve much; it’s just going to piss people off by taking away their choice and push breaches of personal privacy into the shadows where the US has no jurisdiction.