Apple products are great. The Apple ecosystem, not so much. If you’re into FOSS computing and FOSS media formats, you’re not going to have a good time.

IDK why you feel that way. But I don’t know you inside and out, like Google or Apple does.

Fun Fact: Thích Quảng Đức, the monk in the picture was not protesting the Vietnam War, but rather the Catholic oppression of the Buddhist majority by the American puppet government.

I’ve been told that Kaczynski’s manifesto is compelling and some of his ideas about the danger in technology makes more sense now than when he was captured. I’m kinda scared to read it.

Somebody got me RBG by Dead Prez for Christmas, and it’s still in heavy rotation.

I grew up in a county powered by Nuclear. The weird thing is that the plant was in basically the most beautiful part of the area. Their are hiking trails and parks nearby. And the artificial lakes are a huge tourist draw. Some of the most expensive real estate is practically in the shadow of the cooling towers.

The power generation that suffers from bad publicity is not coal.

Heat Pump guy get’s “mad as Hell”. I love it.

It makes strategic sense to decouple from American tech now that they know we’ere an unreliable ally. Microslop won’t guarantee your data won’t go through American servers and jurisdictions. It’s also resistance to Tariff wars and Greenland bullshit that pokes the US in it’s conspirator industry, Big Tech.

Better than Watch MoJo.

I don’t think the proliferation of bad press is anything other than a chronicle of the decline of Firefox.

I’ve been ride or die with Firefox since early, and I’ve never daily driven Chrome. But I’ve had to keep Chrome installed to look at the sites that don’t play with FF. Little by little, FF get’s worse, and most of the “worst” these days are features, not bugs. Though their are plenty of bugs. They certainly deserve praise for keeping faith with ublock. And I appreciate that they respect privacy more than Alphabet.

I want Mozilla to succeed. I just remember when Mozilla made the case with the quality of their software, rather than the quality of their ethics.

To be honest: Windows has been free (for home users) for a while now. To be brutally honest: Most of the users who’ve abandoned Microslop did so with free plugged into the value proposition.

Normal people cry at the end of Schindler’s list because of all the Jews who got away. Stephen Miller cries at the end of Schindler’s List because of all the Jews who got away.

Gnome get’s up and out of my way. 9/10.

This is a weird way to say that PC tech is stagnated and improvements between “generations” is incremental.

The only thing holding back a renewable revolution is politics.

Solar cells are cheap, and once installed, harvest free energy for decades with little maintenance. Battery technology is ready for solar on the grid too. Batteries based on sodium are available now. But even the lithium batteries are fantastic. Sure, batteries mean resource extraction and everything that comes with that, but what we extract is being made into durable goods that can be used over and over for decades, then recycled. Fossil fuels are perpetual resource extraction because the product is burned and destroyed.

One day, the number one source of lithium batteries will be old lithium batteries. This is already true with lead-acid car batteries.

Technology Connections Youtube channel just released a video that is the source for my comments. Bonus, the heat-pump guy get’s ‘mad as hell’ toward the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

As someone who grew up rural, it’s amazing how many people don’t recognize danger in animals. Worse still, they often think in mystical terms like “it can sense I’m a good person”, or the animal’s acceptance of you is some kind of approval. This is a trope in all kinds of media.

I once saw a tourist approach a small herd of buffalo to get a picture. Anyone who’s spent time on the same side of the fence as a bull knows this is insanity. (he was OK, but Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon buffalo will subtract a few from the census every year)

Some of the most terrifying animals aren’t even big. I knew a banty rooster known to have killed two venomous snakes and and a hawk. I’ve also seen him in hot pursuit of a grown men running for their lives. A house-cat in a panic can send you to the hospital.

I don’t understand what you mean. How is one “memory holed”? Presumably this means to encourage people to forget, which is why Sandy Hook is a weird example. Not only was that one of the biggest stories of that year, it echoed through the news cycle for years through lawsuits, the Alex Jones thing being the most famous.

It’s ironic to use anything as an example of something people forgot.

No. the 28M was for her per reporting. They still had to make the movie and advertise it.

It’s not a reverse solar panel. It’s not a solar anything. It requires a difference in heat…

The solar part is because the Sun is responsible for the heat differential.