Yellow Mountain Imports is great.

And Lina Khan will be right there!

I take it that “Pivot to AI” is the spiritual sibling of “Web 3 is Going Just Great”? I dig it.

Humanity is so fickle, it’s impossible to tell.

In the US, we went from overwhelming opposition to gay marriage to overwhelming support in less than a decade.

On the other hand, we went from aggressively eradicating CFCs and fixing the ozone hole to dragging our feet on renewable energy for several decades.

Even further back, we went from back-to-back world wars and economic collapse to a tentative global peace and prosperity.

Monarchy seemed inevitable for ages, and then multiple democratic revolutions all sprang up in quick succession.

Equality was fundamental to the Constitution, but we still haven’t healed the wounds of slavery.

There seems to be no telling. Some problems languish for a long time, but then see massive improvements in the blink of an eye. Some obvious fixes lay dormant for an offensively long time.

When I think about this stuff, I get a weird mix of hope and despair and guilt and frustration and impatience.

It seems unfair that we got stuck with these particular crises, with no guarantee that we’re actually prepared to handle them. (Maybe that’s the entire story of humanity.)

And then I remember what Tolkien had to say about such things:

My big thing is a new TV. We have a 46” LCD from 2009 that often refuses to fully power on. I’ve been dragging my feet on replacing it, just cuz I know the research is gonna be demoralizing, with how dystopian a lot of the “smart TVs” are. But now there’s some real time pressure, so I guess I have to.

Coincidentally, I was already planning on upgrading my personal dev machine (to an M4 Mac Mini) and my retro handheld (to a Retroid Pocket 5), as well as my first dip into XR glasses with the Viture Pro. So I’m kinda ahead of the game there.

I’ve been (im)patiently waiting for the next version of the Orange Pi 800, but if tariffs hit before then I’ll probably just skip it. Analogue 3D is also likely to exit my wish list.

I’ll probably move up the timeline on adding storage to my home server if I can afford to. And some microSD cards, since I seem to always need yet another one.

I’ve got a few friends who were looking at upgrading their PCs this year, so I’ll probably be helping them shop and seal the deal before things get weird.

I wouldn’t expect many outrageous Cyber Monday deals this year. Most mfgs probably wanna stretch their inventory so they can delay price increases and stay competitive. That said, there’s also bound to be companies that are poised to strike early because they have already de-China-fied their supply chains. But even they are bound to be cautious.

I thought that was the free space.

And those configs are clearly the result of someone else stitching together three different examples from different versions, with some settings that are silently ignored in the latest version or only exist when compiled with special flags.

Here is a basic way to configure the service:

…

But this method has significant drawbacks and probably won’t work for most use cases, so do what works for you.

Tech companies are committed to turning satire into reality.

Jesse Ventura

Neutral mob with low HP. Won’t attack unless provoked. Not a threat except in large numbers.

Well, I gotta ask then… How do you feel about HP’s printer business model? The fact that you can only use it with HP-approved ink, in HP-approved ways. Do you think that’s a fair business model which will stand or fall on its own merits, or an abusive one that prevents consumers from using their own stuff the way they want to? Should it be legal?

By the way, not calling you out specifically. Just seems to be a common theme in the comments, and a regularly-occurring sentiment.

Oh hey, a 1-day-old account posting 6 vegan posts in 1 hour to unrelated communities. I’ve seen this one before.

I’m not down with the perpetual victim-blaming against X/Twitter users here on Lemmy.

Sources like campaigns, news outlets, authors, studios, engineers, actors, comedians, etc. post on there because they basically have to – if they want to get the word out, that is.

Consumers go there to read from the sources because they basically have to. While each source may have their own separate blog or whatever, X/Twitter is pretty much the only place that unifies those feeds. (I know, I miss the heyday of RSS too.)

Expecting people to just “take the hit” and go dark on their communications so we can build up alternatives to X/Twitter is not an acceptable recommendation.

What we need to do is:

• Make it illegal to block third-party clients from interoperating with services
• Compel providers of a certain size to expose a first-party API
• Make it legal to reverse-engineer APIs so they can’t just make the first-party API suck and call it a day
• Then we integrate X/Twitter into the fediverse, so you can start using something else and still keep your X/Twitter stuff

And the EFF has a primer on Section 230, and several opinion pieces about why nerfing 230 would be a terrible idea:

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/wanna-make-big-tech-monopolies-even-worse-kill-section-230
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/sunsetting-section-230-will-hurt-internet-users-not-big-tech
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/section-230-trial-heres-what-you-need-know

Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230 by Cory Doctorow

Generative AI is good at low-stakes, fault-tolerant use cases. Unfortunately, those don’t pay very well. So the companies have to pretend it does well at everything else, too, and that any “mistakes” will be quickly cleaned up and will become a thing of the past very very soon.

That’s fine for him, but let’s not take this as a guideline for the entire industry.

There are plenty of talented, creative, and committed developers who are trying to turn their dream game into their life’s work.

For most of them, the only way they can survive spending another 5 years working on the same title post-launch is by charging for the new stuff they make.

Right on, friend. Take care. And I’m sorry you’re getting kind of a rough response to being so vulnerable here.