Yeah, since 2000 I’ve always had a laptop with -testing. I’m just a user, but a user who wholly enjoyed the early days of Gentoo, overnight compiles and all.

I still fly on Windows. MSFS and IL Stormvik used to be my favorites, x-plane works on Linux just fine now. For the past 5 years I’ve been all Elite: Dangerous. E:D works with some fiddling under Linux but the helper programs are probably a real PITA. No drivers for the eye tracker at all (not Linux devs fault)

Understand, I don’t edit images and if the doc doesn’t work in libre I fire up a virtual machine and do the little dance to get the form or whatever filled out and then back to the real world. VM only connects to the internet for updates, never comms.

All of my important stuff happens on Linux or now Calyx on my pixel. Fuck MS, fuck apple and fuuuuuuck Larry Ellison for what he did to Sun

I just looked, 11G on my laptop’s /

Standard productivity stuff, I think the only extra thing is a flatpack of google earth which is 1.5G

Shit, lets fucking do it. What is J.R. “Bob” Dobbs’ stance on the issue?

RC car enthusiasts use “lipo guard” bags to control any runaway fires during charging and transport, one the size of a pixel is under $15.

o shit, I was signed in.

… yet

Well that’s just great.

Here’s the website to see if your PIxel6a is an “impacted device”. Mine isn’t, not sure why… zero transparency on this.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone?p=pixel6a_battery_help

Someone has to prove it wrong before it’s actually wrong. Maybe they set out to discredit the bots

However, when the participants and LLMs were asked retroactively how well they thought they did, only the humans appeared able to adjust expectations

This is what everyone with a fucking clue has been saying for the past 5, 6? years these stupid fucking chatbots have been around.

That’s what I hear, but my experience is different

yeah? For some reason I thought it had outages here and there all the time.

Still, they were down for almost 3 hours today and that’s a lot worse than my old DSL provider.

HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.

Kirk Garrison, a forensics expert who works for the San Bernardino Sheriff’s department, told 404 Media he’s had early success matching 3D printed objects to the machines that made them.

This is “bite evidence” all over again, isn’t it? For those not familiar, cops swore in court they could match a perp’s teeth to bite marks on victim’s bodies.

They couldn’t.

There were a lot of tainted court cases because of their junk science. I’m all for murderers going to prison but lets not use bullshit to lock up perhaps the wrong people.

Ashoka Jegroo sums up my take on this. It’s just distilling the relationship of cops to capital.

Yeah, it needs a battery

Well shit. Guess I need a battery

Pixels are mid range if you buy a generation back. I have 6a and paid $250 two years ago.

No one forces you to root your Pixel, you are allowed to use it with stock android.

Basically, if you don’t have a phone the cops can easily backdoor, you must be a criminal.

“What do you have to hide?” taken to it’s logical conclusion.

'96 and '05 pickup trucks I keep flogging along for work, '05 SUV that’s owned by my wife. They aren’t going to last forever but I’m going to try.

I should try this stuff and then see which of those cars I can disable the tracking antennas