Made a joke when 6x CD-ROM drives came out that 6 in German is sechs. Sechs drive, sex drive, hurr-durr.

I was in middle school.

Cheaper to own one car than two.

they actively advertise migrants are welcome.

They actually don’t. Denver tells them they don’t have the resources to help them and pays to have them bussed elsewhere (of their choice, instead of tricking them and lying to them like Texass does.)

Tom Wheeler really was surprising because he was a huge industry shill before being appointed FCC chair, and then turned around and stopped being shitty.

Or just tell investors to find other KPMs outside of something as easy to fake as active user count and the problem sorts itself out. But also, I agree.

These sites likely prefer fake active users for multiple reasons outside of investor manipulation, including that in normal operation, bot users not running via API will scroll past ads and get a bunch of fake ad viewership they can cash in on.

This is a reflection of how absolutely uneducated those holding the keys to the operation of governance across the nation often are. It is frankly, disturbing.

How about using the thermal mass for both heating and cooling? Too bad EVs don’t have throwaway power like hybrids, could use the excess to heat/cool the mass as necessary. Probably still not as efficient as raw power storage.

Armchair judgement of children being children up in here.

Scrolling their Insta rather than parenting.

Nope, that’s not how physics works. SUVs are insanely inefficient. A box on wheels. 11MPG vs 50. Likewise, all electric vehicles have more mass than their engine equivalents. And that mass is constant. Aerodynamic shit cars are simple piles of metal that ingest a chemical and produce range. Not even getting into the human and environmental cost of battery production.

Gas propulsion cars need to die, no question. Only because their fuel is finite and there are much better options now. However, there is no easy Apple keynote solution. It is complex and sometimes doesn’t make sense.

It’s so annoying really, DirecTV has honestly done a good job to try and keep all these conflicts away from their customers. Linear is dying, they are trying to keep it functional while they can.

All these channels (broadcast especially) try to ask for a bigger cut, which leads to customer bill increases. Broadcast shouldn’t even be allowed to, because they get access to public-owned radio spectrum to provide a public service and make some money when that public service isn’t needed.

DirecTV retransmitting those channels specifically does nothing but help the broadcast station reach an audience that otherwise wouldn’t. (Especially in locations like the Intermountain West.) They should be thankful for it, not charge for it, nor be allowed to. The retransmit literally costs them nothing and reaps them free ad dollars.

Linear will likely be replaced with the clusterfuck that streaming TV now is, DirecTV will eventually have to pivot or die.

Not trying to sound like an apologist nor a fanboi, but as far as companies go, DTV has been more flexible than most streamers (their stream arm anyway.) However, they’re just going to continue to have these battles until companies like Disney can pull their channels and get people to pay for all their silly apps directly.

It is a bummer on some level, the end of Linear is kinda nice. Unlimited cloud DVR, fast forward through commercials, all your content in one place.

Can’t wait to see the “underground” Android VM with all the TV apps baked in to present a unified UI like Linear, hah. Like Pidgin for TV.

Technically at&t doesn’t own DirecTV anymore but they do have a big share, and DirecTV still uses a lot of their back-end tools. Probably support infra too?

I call the Colbert treadmill.

Aurora police are a scourge on our state. Worst of the worst.

Confusing unnecessary signaling that others could misinterpret when you don’t intend on turning.

It’s this weird game of cat and also cat right now, I think. The media uses Xitter because people read their twats. People use Xitter because there’s media to deliver twats. Until some other short-social platform hits a critical mass of popularity to replace it, that probably won’t change much.

Ref: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOeY07qKU9c

Using so-called “red flag” laws, local police could have potentially prevented DeLucia from obtaining a firearm if they were made aware he was dealing with mental health issues, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Monday.

And if we had a PreCrime unit like in Minority Report, crime would never happen. What a pointless addition to the article and pointless statement by useles police. These kinds of mental issue are rarely caught in time as the person “seems normal” until they don’t. While long guns are insanely accessible and cheap in most states.

With the frequency that crazy errant behavior seems to occur with boomer-age people, I truly do wonder if there is a common thread. Leaded gas? Covid causing long-term brain damage from plugged blood vessels? Micro-plastics? Having to face the reality that their retirement is going to erode away because of the climate change they naively accelerated with their spoiled ass lives?

Like how an 18-21 year old woman that murders gets called a woman/adult in the headline, but if she’s the victim, she’s called a girl/young adult. (Similar with guys too.) News author or editor injecting bias (intentional or otherwise) into the article. That’s always annoyed me.

My phone already has data, my car doesn’t need LTE.

Actually that’s one arena of technology that should have taken a different course. Auto manufacturers should have an upgradable modem module that you can swap out with the latest “G” (as the modules are already self-contained) and the car should have antennae that cover as wide swath of the RF spectrum as possible. Cars are Faraday Cages. Cellular reception on a tiny little rectangle phone in your center console won’t ever be as good as a dedicated modem and antenna. Also, the car’s dedicated modem can transmit at higher power levels (up to 3 watts, vs a couple hundred milliwatts) so you’ll get cellular reception in places your phone will just say no service. It also moves the higher-powered RF outside the car with the Faraday Cage shielding the human, for those that are concerned about such things. (Also, also, phones have to limit their total RF output to the sum of the current transmission rate of the radios, so when you’re doing Bluetooth + cellular, the cellular modem won’t be allowed to transmit at its maximum power level, further reducing range.)

Bonus points, there has literally been a Bluetooth SIM profile in existence for decades, although very few car modem have ever been designed to support it. This means, if this was implemented as standard, when the phone pairs with the car, the car inherits the cellular account of the phone while the car is turned on. So you’re not paying for two cell bills, you get better reception, same phone number, better data speeds, better voice calling, etc. The phone also has supremely better battery life because it doesn’t have to be constantly screaming at cell towers.

Of course, automakers and cell carriers would never implement these things that already exist because they’d eat into their precious profit margins.