FPV antenna, and it’s not really a VR headset, just a monitor in some goggles that receives the video transmission from the drone. Hobbyists that do racing and aerobatics have setups like this. It’s big and flat because it’s designed to be highly directional to cover the most distance. The video runs over 5.8Ghz, and the control signal over 2.4Ghz.

Edit: found it on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Soaying-Triple-Antenna-5-8GHz-Pagoda/dp/B0CWG8DKJT

when they don’t have some sort of white noise in the bathrooms

Would it help if I sat next to you going “shhhhhhhhhh” as we poop together?

The engineers who work for him know engineering. Elon fancies himself an engineer, but he comes across as someone who knows about as much about aerospace as any kid after a few rounds of Kerbal Space Program. I’ve listened to his technical interviews on the Raptor engine and other stuff, he just spews pseudointellectual boilerplate you can get from any generic sci/space YouTuber.

When doing zoom calls for work I do it behind a curtain. Nobody sees my home at all. Then I cover the cam when not in use. These are just common sense privacy measures we should be teaching them anyway.

At least there’s a small chance I’ll see warp drive happen within my lifetime either way.

I mean yeah, I don’t watch porn on an office computer at work after all. They should have their own devices for all that stuff. School devices = school-related activity only, no more.

That guy Parin Dalal seems like the only one who has anything to do with tech at all. The rest, yeah all IP specialists. He probably acts as their advisor so they don’t look like complete assholes.

So, is the Internet caring about copyright now? Decades of Napster, Limewire, BitTorrent, Piratebay, bootleg ebooks, movies, music, etc, but we care now because it’s a big corporation doing it?

Just trying to get it straight.

you would have had to be on the Web very early indeed to remember when it was entirely static

Correct. My first web browser was Mosaic. I was using it on my Dad’s PC in 1994 at 12 years old.

“It was just so hot in that voting booth!”

The muscly wolf man ripping off his shirt next to me didn’t help matters much either.

I’m a single dude who sells custom electronics with open source software on them. I sell maybe two PCBs a month. It just about covers my hobby, I’m not even living off of it. I can’t afford commercial licenses. There has to be tiers.

In return, I’ve made every schematic, gerber file, and bill of material to my stuff freely available.

As someone on the spectrum, I’ve been ostracized, humiliated, and dehumanized all my life, yet I did not become a Nazi. It only made me angrier at the people who want to put their boots on your neck.

And when it’s really unusable as a desktop anymore, it can become a headless PiHole server. There’s always a use. Back in 2005 I was using an old Pentium MMX laptop with a broken screen as a Wifi access point/router. I even bought a two-way 2.4Ghz amplifier to hang off the laptop’s PCMCIA wifi card to boost it throughout the apartment.

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There’s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn’t refresh often enough

Society’s modern artificially induced ADHD on display here. Anybody remember when websites were all static and didn’t dynamically change at all?

I thought they’d be selling the oxygen before they get to the sunlight.

Say you walk up to some person giving out free samples of food. As a condition of taking this free sample, you also must take a pamphlet of advertisements from the people who are giving you the free sample. You take your free sample, and then walk away while dropping the pamphlet in the nearest trash can. That’s essentially what ad blocking is. You’re simply preventing certain parts of a web page from being downloaded to your device. That’s why people have issues with the “piracy” label, because nothing is being “stolen”. You’re just refusing to take all of it.

I’m a C/C++ dude but I heard it being called the “Karen compiler”. It doesn’t look that scary based on samples I’ve seen, but there’s way more to it I am assuming.

Generative AI is not going back into the bag. If not OpenAI, then someone else will control it. So we deal with them the next best way, force them to serve us, the people.

Did these motherfuckers never read The Lorax?