tjhart85

tjhart85, 3 months ago

TFA has an example of a fake warrant being used and the fake being clearly fake but accepted anyways.

I know a few people who happily have ring doorbells in their house as cheap cameras and don't seem to care at all that all an officer has to do to get INTERIOR footage of their house is to ask for it and they get it no questions asked.
I hadn't even thought of how easy that makes it for non officers to just do the same thing.

tjhart85, 3 months ago

Very true!

At least non-cops can only scope out your place for a future robbing, be a perv or plan to blackmail you.

An officer can do all that and also kill you with an almost 0% chance of facing any consequences!

tjhart85, 3 months ago

I've got a Qidi Smart3 and it's made me enjoy 3D printing again!

I've got 3 other printers and they're such a chore, but the Qidi is just a little powerhouse that works fantastically. Qidi needs to come out with competition for the Bambu AMS and they'd have more of my money in a heartbeat.

tjhart85, 3 months ago

Uncle Jay Explains Congressional Recess!

With a schedule like that, no wonder they can't get anything done! But yeah, when 1/2 the govt literally wants to point and say "See! Government doesn't work!" I don't know how we can function without getting them out.

tjhart85, 3 months ago

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

Quite a few organizations and lots of individuals are now starting to migratev away from it and if any of the money made by visiting goes to Nazis, many of us would prefer to avoid the place when possible.

tjhart85, 3 months ago

For me, it's the refusal to demontize them that's particularly bad. I can understand free speech absolutists (in theory anyways, in practice you'll find that they VERY rarely actually are and will happily censor people they disagree with like LGBTQIA+ or sex work content), but that doesn't mean you need to actively be funding them!

tjhart85, 3 months ago

The article, while interesting feels like 3-4 articles copy/pasted together haphazardly

tjhart85, 4 months ago

For the people that don't want to read the article, this seems especially relevant:
But much has changed since 2022: Embracer, which owns Gearbox, bet the house on a $2 billion deal with a Saudi investment group that fell through in 2023. Ever since, its many, many properties have been hit by layoffs on a near-monthly basis.

tjhart85, 3 months ago

Firing the people that do the work to make the company money is just good business! They're a dime a dozen, just hire another 2 managers and a couple marketing execs and soon you'll be printing money! /s [these companies are freaking dumb]

It's crazy what you can get away with when you have some money and no sense!

tjhart85, 4 months ago

When I was a cashier, I'd tell people that and they'd respond that it wouldn't fill out the carbon copy, so they'd just manually continuing to fill out the check anyways and hold up the line :-\

With the machine filling out the checks, it's no slower than running a credit/debit card.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Thanks for the reminder, I threw in a dozen coffees.

Thank you for all that you're doing, @Ernest ! This platform is fantastic and I really hope that you're able to get enough support to keep it alive long term without it needing to turn to outside funds to stay alive!

ETA: Get well soon! Don't overwork yourself, you've got us stable at the moment, please, don't cause yourself so much stress you delay your recovery (as they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!)

tjhart85, 4 months ago

To add to your addition, Chris's Fix on Youtube has videos for a lot of the common things you'll need to do on a car & he also mainly only uses hand tools to try and keep his content approachable for the average person.

YouTube in general is a fantastic resource for stuff like this.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Agreed completely. With those tools it looks super easy and then you go to do it, it takes all day!

A few of ChrisFix videos he's said something like "if your car is as rusted as this one is, you're going to need to spray it with whatever a few hours in advance to help unseize the bolt, I've already done that, so ...." And you just don't get tips like that from someone that's going to just air hammer away the problem ... Best case if they even show the problem at all, their initial go to is to hit it with the torch, which is never my initial go-to! Start easy and escalate up!

I do have a battery impact wrench, so that helps some, but, seeing it done completely by hand definitely helps give the actual scope of the project and mine doesn't fit everywhere and hand tools are usually needed anyways.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I mean, kind of ... I have file servers, download servers, documentation servers, syncthing servers, backup servers, vaultwarden servers, etc... that are all linux VMs/containers and my main machine is a Macbook, but I do still have a Windows machine in the living room for gaming (yeah, Steam has pushed us far in this regard, but, when I get time to play a game, I just want to play it, I want the best chance it's going to work the first time and that's still, sadly, Windows). I have another windows machine running Blue Iris as my NVR because I didn't have a good experience with Frigate, Shinobi or a few others. I've got a few other systems floating around that do various things and some of them are linux based and some are windows based depending on what's easier/possible.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I love when that happens though!

It's similar to Cara Gee being so awesome to work with that she wound up taking the place of like 5 book characters. Ty and Wes both rave about her every chance they get in the podcast. IIRC they've talked about Ashfords actor being fantastic to work with too.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Same, it's kind of a symbolic gesture since I apparently haven't used DB since 2018, but still, I cited them sharing files with AI companies as the reason.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I mean, they also think that the text needs to be verbatim in order to qualify as infringement (although, it does make it significantly easier to prove!), so, they're operating from an absurd level of naivete on the subject.

Like, if I CTRL+H'd a book and changed ' and ' to ' & ' do they think I can all of a sudden (commercially, no less!) re-distribute a book all I want? Just to be on the safe side, maybe I should remove every 'e' since that's bound to change almost every sentence in most books but won't make it all that much harder to read!

More importantly though ... plenty of people purchased material that they then put on Napster back in the day and they weren't magically granted immunity because they legally acquired the material that they then distributed illegally and that wasn't even for commercial gain! Once you add people making money into the equation, it becomes even worse.

tjhart85, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Definitely enjoyed it!

The song was a bit shocking, but fun. The Doctor singing wasn't all that crazy, but Ruby doing it was. Hopefully they continue to show her being that quick witted in the future.

I'm not sure on the new sonic though. When I initially saw pics of it, I thought it'd be a bracelet type situation and that's cool, but that doesn't seem like it's the case and it just seems big and bulky. Time will tell.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Same, mines like a $40 one from a few years back on black friday. Does it do a great job? No, each individual run is objectively not good and it misses some stuff, but over the course of a week it averages out to pretty freaking great and all I've gotta do is empty its bin when I get home from work at least once or twice. 10/10, would recommend and seeing the amount of cat hair its picked up is pretty disgusting.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

It doesn't map, just makes a bunch of straight lines throughout the room and goes around things it bumps into.

tjhart85, 4 months ago

RIght, exactly. Mine is basically 'worst case scenario' for these things and I'm still very happy with it. In aggregate, it does a fantastic job even though objectively, it's about as bad a unit as you can buy (I mean, it sucks well enough ... I'm sure there are ones that are functionally worse, I just mean feature wise, it's very minimalistic)

The only real improvement I'd actually want it to have one of the ones with the tanks on the base so I would be able to leave it and not have to empty it as often ... other than that, it successfully picks up pet hair and anything else that it needs to, as long as it's not something that is in the way (in which case, from a practical perspective, no matter what robot vacuum we had, the best solution would have been to pick it up ourselves).

tjhart85, 4 months ago

Yeah, it's a nice little QOL improvement. Nothing game changing at first glance, but it makesa hell of a difference in day to day usage!

tjhart85, 4 months ago

I believe they're saying that Chipotle is helping OP by making it so OP doesn't eat there.

tjhart85, 5 months ago

On Android you can install unapproved apps and even entire app stores. The barrier to having people install your app is a couple of taps (approximately as difficult as it'd be on Windows when you've got to approve UAC a time or two).

So, it is kind of ridiculous in comparison that they lost but Apple with an entire walled of ecosystem that you can't bypass without finding a zero day exploit won their case.

With that said, I know a lot of people who only buy Apple BECAUSE of that walled off ecosystem and conversely I know people that primarily buy Android for their relatively open system, so I'm in the minority where I think neither Google nor Apple should have to change in this particular regard. Both companies suck, but charging the same price they always have for their app store isn't the issue I'd fight them over.