It is enshittification for sure. At the core it makes sense to not have it free, since dynamic DNS is not free. However it is a very small cost

I did. Still safer to get away

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Had a situation driving behind a Tesla on a freeway in clear conditions with no other cars nearby, where they suddenly braked, strongly. I actually had to swerve to go around him. He looked over at me sheepishly. I was a skeptic about the FSD concerns before that happened. Now I try to be cautious, but there are so many Teslas on the road now, I can’t double check that all of them won’t suddenly freak out

Yes, that’s why it’s in the news. Scary sounding situation

This is the new American way. Zero-sum thinking all the way down. Anyone else’s win is our loss. Every situation must have a winner and a loser. Win-win situations are considered immoral for these people. We’ve moved past rugged individualism to a full-on Hunger Games mindset.

Yes, the specifics of why they picked the site (to avoid it being buried by snow) are interesting, but they really manifest in a kind of menacing, isolated vibe

I use an Nividia shield that I’ve had for about 5 years. Have an alternate ad free launcher enabled. Still works really well. I use it mostly with Kodi streaming from SMB, some Jellyfin though I have Jellyfin hosted on a Pi4 so video quality is somewhat lacking. The 4k upscaling still works very well and is somewhat unique among streaming boxes

Well, it is difficult to take what Trump says because no president since Nixon has acted in worse faith. Trust is important, and nothing he says can be trusted. Above you brought up the vaccine. That is a perfect example. It was great that they delivered it in record time. Thanks Trump! I got it as soon as it was available. Then he started undermining and disavowing the work and calling it Biden’s vaccine. And now we may not get new vaccines at all. They literally canceled the meeting to plan next year’s flu vaccines.

Where did I say he’s wrong about everything? I said he is deserving of extreme derision. Anyone who can’t see that is incapable or unwilling to see reality.

I think they were pricing it in comparison to paper encyclopedia sets, which were quite expensive

The point is that you can move elsewhere without losing access. There is no central control

Exactly. The right’s claim that they’re fighting DEI to restore merit is merely a smokescreen. These people believe that low melanin content is a precondition of merit

I am still on some meta services because my family is there. But I only post stuff relevant to those people. Everything else is fediverse and bluesky

I hope other things happen to them that I will leave unsaid

People should be leaving Reddit. They are poor stewards of our content for innumerable reasons. Go back to forums. Go to Lemmy. The key thing is that we should not have centralized arbiters of our discussions online.

As an American, it used to be fossil fuels. I’d go elsewhere and it’d be 3x the price. But lately we seem to be catching up. One thing where we’re still likely cheaper are high-end electronics. At least, it looks like the iPhone is still cheaper in the US than almost anywhere else. I remember living abroad a few years ago, colleagues would ask if I could buy an iPhone or Mac on Christmas break and bring it back to them lol

They put out plenty of content about the US’s flaws and failures

Journalists need to be paid. Ad revenue is in freefall, and it never really supported long form content that doesn’t endorse a product. If you want real news, it has to be paid for somehow.

Anything other than anger at this man is a sign of mental and/or moral deficiency.