TrumpetX

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I moved over to TabloTV about 8 or 9 years ago. I got tied of fixing stuff when I would update something and Tablo just worked on the Roku without much fuss.

I'm still happy with and love the Tablo, but it's no better than MythTV was, just easier to maintain.

I think the "everyone anyone your pronouns" thing in email, slack, whatever is dumb. But if I lived in SD, I'd start doing it right about now.

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States rights!!

(Republicans: not like that!)

Sure, I'll just travel to places to verify the source every time when I consume news. That's reasonable!

Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. I'm not suggesting we're don't have a really high bar, but 100% is just unreasonable.

Have you found any good private server sublemmies? Whatever we're calling them?

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I drove a leaf for 3 years and it had 80 to start with and ended around 67. At the end, it was a pain, but didn't notice until around 70mi range. Somehow, 75 would get me from home, to the airport, to work, and back home again with room to breathe. At 67, it was nail biting.

To the point, 150 is probably good for quite a lot of people.

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I've owned an electric since 2013, never run into a down charging station. Early on, I'd run into single chargers that were occupied, but that's it.

Not saying it's not possible to have a broken station, just never hit it. But I, like most people, charge at home, 95% of the time.

You can only threaten to cancel if there's an alternative. I tried this and they were like: okay man, just be forewarned that there's a connection fee when you come back.

They were right, it was more $ to follow through with my threat and they knew it.

It's a common thing to say in context. As a headline though, it's absolutely click bait. "The Supreme Court is on the ballot" was heard over and over in 2016 which turned out to be 100% true.

If I teach a class that needs a vm, I'm making damned sure everyone uses the same type.

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2278311 🫡

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Read this for an idea as to why people are against letting Meta federate: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

It's not a cut and dry yes or no for me.

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I have to look it up every time, but this is always worth reading once a year to remind yourself:

https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375

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Why wouldn't they?

I just had my screen replaced because the L in LCD started oozing all over. It was $2200 which didn't include the radio that cost an extra $500. So, not 10k, but not cheap either. On the plus side, outside of New tires, that's the only thing I've done to the car in 8 years.

Check out Onlyoffice. Just the client (not the server part)

WAY better

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It takes a vigilante to raze a village? That other way?

I used it before and still use it. No issues with my $5 linode.

Pay to play was the problem there. I had the highest ranking joke page on webcrawler for a stint, but Yahoo wanted $500 to put me on top. My 15 year old self was not interested.

It depends on the state I've recently learned. Some states allow inheriting debt, others don't. Even some are in between allowing it for spouses only.

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I think you meant YAGNI, but I dunno, YOLO might be a legit strategy for you too ;)

I wanted to downvote, but then I read it. While I don't accept the premise entirely, I think the points are very well made and thought out well (even if taken to the extreme).

10k every 10 years vs ? a new car every 10 years?

Counter point, the other company pays better because they save on training costs.

3000 isn't much when it comes to onboarding costs, so I don't think that's why, but imagine if it cost 10k,20k, etc.

For clarity, I'm very much in favor of this ruling. But I also sympathize with the above reply.

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Ohh, that news story in "For All Mankind" makes a lot more sense. Alternate timeline, we didn't give it back.

No idea why you're down voted for math :/

I don't think so in this context. This is probably more like SSL cert trusting or some private/public key pair.

There are many ways around this, like using intermediary services like PayPal or a privacy.com credit card with ephemeral numbers.

Crypto, while one way, is not the only way.

I started cooking, period. My wife used to cook, now I do. It's weird, but the pandemic totally flipped our roles.

XMPP was very popular. Google joined it, and with it, the power to give it's users on Gmail access to all the other chat products that all had more chat users by sharing the same XMPP space. Users were very happy to use the superior Gmail product and also let go of their old chat tools because they could still talk to everyone just fine!

Google waited until they had most of the users and simply started making non compatible changes to their chat until they finally defederated themselves and suddenly their users could no longer chat with anyone who wasn't also on Google.

People noticed, but most of the users were no longer willing to drop their now-familiar gchat client because they were now used to it. Users like me who wanted to use Pidgin still were suddenly unable to chat with 80% of their friends unless they gave in and opened up gchat too.

If Google never federated with the system, we might still likely have aim, msn, etc still around focusing on their chat users. But Google did their thing, stole the market and we're where we're at now. Ironically, most people I know now disable Google chat because Google has tried really hard to ruin something that was just fine. But no one is installing Pidgin again and have mostly moved to Discord and Slack (at least in my circles).

Check out WeBoost brand repeaters. I live in what used to be a rural area and when we moved in the cell signal was trash inside the house but fine outside. Put an antenna outside on the roof, ran some coax cable to the kitchen and mounted a repeater there. No issues. Works for all major cell bands.

Using your link and a quick search about filial laws: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/sponsored/2022/08/28/the-parent-trap-filial-responsibility-laws-cause-financial-havoc-for-children/%3foutputType=amp

"Most of the 30 states that have filial laws do not enforce them"

I guess I was lucky that my father and I did not live in one of those states. But, 100% agreed that it's beyond up that it CAN be a thing in some states. Seriously, wtf.

2 years is too long IMHO. 1 year, forgiven in a prorated fashion seems far more palatable.

Macroeconomically, it's not wasteful because cars find new life in resale. It's definitely wasteful to your pocketbook to get a new car every 5 years.

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I'm saying that the writers comparing what they deserve to a whole company's revenue isn't applicable. Comparing Disney plus revenue is applicable, but they didn't do that. Likewise with others like Apple, Amazon (seriously???), Sony , etc (minus pure streaming companies like Netflix)

Neither, just passing on my experience. I didn't have any lawyers involved and it was pretty much telling them to fuck off and not paying the bills that came in his name.

So true. That leaf was a nice car, but that degradation was terrible.

I couldn't get it set up to allow each of my family members to have their own email address on the domain. It was basically the opposite of the "no catch all" feature other hosts seem to have - Outlook custom domain was 100% catch all to 1 account. I very quickly undid my partial setup and am back in Google for now.

This wouldn't work for a few reasons, but the most glaring is that it would incentive re inventing the wheel.

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