I’m disappointed they found so much in his search history. Do these people not have phones? In this day and age with everyone carrying a smartphone, there’s no excuse for using work computers for personal activities

Iceland. My kid took a geology class and was excited about Iceland. This is actually college: he never got his passport so I said, “sure I’ll take you if you apply for your passport”

There was huge demand - if they had released what was promised for the promised price in the promised year it would have been the only EV truck, have capabilities beyond any EV car, while also being among the lowest price EVs.

I’m generally not interested in a truck but was tempted by the original announcement. However what we finally got was an easy “no”

wtf would you put that on apple pie? Pie deserves a nice sharp white cheddar

Dude, what did the Prius do to you?

I rarely use a printer now that my kids are in college. When it dies, I had a choice between laser printer, Brother inkjet, or none. “None” is now my first choice

We have great examples of things sold as parts or kits to be assembled

Take handguns as an example. If a murder weapon can be assembled from parts with only the frame 3d printed, and avoid similar laws for traceability, surely a printer is an easier task

What happens if sms 2fa is phased out, and more sites require either an Authenticator app or passkey?

My workplace requires an Authenticator app, actually multiple, and help with my phone bill in return for doing that in my personal device. I don’t know what they do if someone had a feature phone

I went here as well, but managed to turn it around. I now have more belief in America being a great country, but as an ideal, as something we need to work hard toward. I’ve become a lot more progressive as I see what it would take to live up to this myth about ourselves. Let’s do it. Let’s do it for our children, for the next generation, for a better world tomorrow! Lets start small and local, be the neighbor you thought you had, show the empathy we all deserve, make America a Community again

If you’ve seen anything about Matter, it most likely talks about Thread as well. They usually go together

Hidden scroll bar. We don’t need that extra half centimeter of content, we need a visible scroll bar I can conveniently grab. Why do I have to try to maneuver the cursor to the right spot to make the scroll bar appear, then find the current position, move the mouse to it hoping the scroll bar doesn’t disappear again, and finally get to scroll.

Both infinite scrolling and excessive paging interfere with me being able to navigate to a spot.

• If you need to do infinite scrolling do it the right way and just display it all on one page. It’s not like the content is ever a significant part of the bandwidth needed. Now you can simplify your buggy JavaScript monstrosity by not implementing paging and I can use <CTRL-F> to more easily find what I need
• and seriously stop with the excessive paging - we all have computers that can manage more than 12 lines of stuff. I’m not even talking about the slideshow websites, at least they have the logical motivation of maximizing ads. For example if I’m reading some dreck ranking the us state on some metric, it’s ok to display all fifty on one page. If I’m reading something with a list of thousands why am I paging through 10-20 at a time with no way to jump to what I’m looking for?

I don’t even think it’s the people who ruin social media that’s the problem- the fascists and racists and haters were always there. And not even so much that they now have a stage and algorithms

The whole problem is there is no longer anything people agree as worthwhile news. No fairness, no trustworthy. The few remaining objective news outlets are pigeonholed into one partisan side or another, regardless whether they deserve it.

To the common person, there is no news. That social media is it. And every if there were, how could you tell the difference?

I blame Fox News more than streamers because they did at least as much as anyone to destroy News, with clear bias and outrage, and misleading its viewers to blur the distinction between news and news entertainment

My state is winning. So far the new federal administration hasn’t disrupted us much: we look so much better as the other side of the comparison worsens. We’re a big part of the fight for humanity, and new regional transit based zoning is already showing increased housing starts

Vague memories of many articles over much of my adult life decrying the costs of whatever the current trend with computers is being higher than the benefits.

And I believe it, it’s technically true. There seems to be a pattern of bubbles where everyone jumps on the new hot thing, spend way too much money on it. It’s counterproductive, right up until the bubble pops, leaving the transformative successes.

Or I believe it was a long term thing with electronic forms and printers. As long as you were just adding steps to existing business processes, you don’t see productivity gains. It took many years for businesses to reinvent the way they worked to really see the productivity gains

For a lot of years, computers added no measurable productivity improvements. They sure revolutionized the way things work in all segments of society for something that doesn’t increase productivity.

AI is an inflating bubble: excessive spending, unclear use case. But it won’t take long for the pop, clearing out the failures and making successful use cases clearer, the winning approaches to emerge. This is basically the definition of capitalism

Yeah, my doom and gloom tends to sneak out as sarcasm, and other people may not be as amused. Negathread is a good idea

Think of the profit that would steal from the big corps!

Money market or high yield savings. They may not return much but will keep you at or above inflation. 3 years is too short for stock. Maybe it would work, but maybe it won’t and you can’t recover that quickly.

In general I think ten years where stock is an unbeatable investment where you’ll almost always come out ahead.

Are they, especially your mom, different in person?

I have this one aunt who will hold forth in any crowd, insisting on whatever conspiracy theory she read on Facebook most recently. It’s tiring to the point that most of my adult life I’ve avoided her at family get togethers. But last time I saw her, just before pandemic, we happened into conversation away from everyone else. She came across lucid, intelligent, and we had a good conversation. wtf? Where has all that been?

If they survive and don’t infect others.

That’s back to the problem where we essentially eradicated diseases like measles. Most people have no first or even second hand experience with the suffering, they have never heard of anyone dying. Some of us can look at statistics and case studies to get a better understanding of the consequences, but it’s too abstract for all too many. How can we make the suffering real, concrete, enough for those people without actually causing harm?

It’s also the problem where too many people can only think of themselves. With an infectious disease, what about all the other people you come into contact with? Especially those who are more vulnerable? My immune system fought off covid so I’m not too worried about myself next time but what about my parents? What about a stranger with a compromised immune system? What if I spread it to someone but they have parents or grandparents or a loved one with compromised immune system?

This was especially a problem with chicken pox, and I certainly fell prey to it as well. I grew up where chicken pox just ran through your family and then you were immune. Importantly I never heard of any lasting consequences nor the connection to Shingles. Why would you vaccinate? Just let your immune system handle it.

It was much later that I saw there is permanent harm and even death from chicken pox. Most importantly I learned about Shingles and how prevalent it is among the elderly.

• As a child I saw the consequences of chicken pox is a week out of school so why vaccinate
• As a parent with the resources of the internet I can find out the consequences can be much worse and better understand the importance of vaccinating even for something that had seemed minor