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  • Becoming unblockable

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  • Yes humans are terible at multitasking.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • Not at all. The Volt is great. No major issues. Not sure why your loosing your shit over something you seem to know nothing about.

  • My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

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  • Over bloan. Software does not age but security does. Other things that do not age well is specialty tech hardware components. Batteries are a question too.

    I know my volt at 10 years does not have a viable oem battery replacement (back ordered and nutty price). I can get a reasonable after market battery though.

  • Why is the western left so anti-communist?

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  • I agree. The Chinese are the most interesting. Trying to integrate a more flexible market economy into their social system is a huge accomplishment and what is needed.

    The reverse is needed in the US. The other big challenge in the US is quality of leadership. Democracy requires an educated and engaged electorate, access to true information, honest fact based debate, good decision making, and a willingness to make it work. All in short supply these days.

  • Why is the western left so anti-communist?

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  • I absolutely agree. Have we ever seen that in the wild though especially at scale?

    It may be in fact mutually exclusive in that it may conflict with human nature and most cultures. US is of couse extremely individualistic for example though not uniformly so.

  • Why is the western left so anti-communist?

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  • Yes I agree that these guys are not fully socialist and what they can accomplish is limited. The more interesting point is first how the capatalists loose their shit over it on one hand and on the other I do not think socialist as an attribute is considered negative these days in general.

  • Why is the western left so anti-communist?

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  • Then you come up with better word.

    In my definition, any system where the general public cannot throw out the bums without violence is authoritarian.

    The is the fundamental reason communism is not viable. It just swaps distributed power for the even bigger problem of bigger concentrated power.

    Just look at happyness indexes. We know the solutions that tend yield best results. They tend to be democracies with a fairly homogenious population and a socialist bent. Capitalists hate this and I assume communists do too because it shows neither is the way.

  • Why is the western left so anti-communist?

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  • Actually in the US socialism is more popular then you might think. Bernie Sanders was very popular a few years ago and showed significant support in the presidential race. Mamdani just won the NY mayors race.

    What we do not care for in the US is authoritarianism which seems to be the result of any extreme either libertarianism or communism, and we are too damed independent for our own good. I makes me both laugh and cry when the current situation is not good for 80% of people but with minor exceptions they still vote for it.

  • Does it ever bother some of you that "I'm switching to Linux!" is just more of a way to appear rebellious than actually committing to the choice?

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  • No. People do what they do.

    What I find more laughable is people complaining profusely about windows but doing nothing about it.

    Using something different is hard too. Most people are somewhere between cows and idiots. I have been using Python since the late 90s even on Windows and at work too. I got some strange reactions and push back over the years. You just have to not care. We see now how that turned out. Now everyone agrees Python is useful.

  • Ukrainian victory over Russia a ‘fantasy’ – Vance

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  • Yes, I have wondered about the partial support too.

    Might be true. However never under estimate the indecisiveness and incompetence of US leadership and take it as a plan. Russian propaganda and the MAGA crowd too have had big effects also. By in large too the west wants Russia stable. Besides Ukraine is not a core issue in the US.

    Nuclear weapons are useless. No one can use them.

  • Ukrainian victory over Russia a ‘fantasy’ – Vance

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  • I have no idea how all this will end. However you might want to consider that west has put very little effort into helping Ukraine. Both Russia and the US have not lived up to their obligations. Both guaranteed the intergity of Ukraine by treaty. Russia invaded and the US and the west did not stop it though we could have at any time.

  • Ukrainian victory over Russia a ‘fantasy’ – Vance

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  • So there is no way the Taliban beat both Russia and the US in Afghanistan?

  • Linux Hardening Guide / Linux is Insecure

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  • However when many apps have a permission it becomes meaningless.

  • Linux Hardening Guide / Linux is Insecure

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  • The thing about most default configs of any OS is that user storage is largely accessable to all apps. True of Linux, Android. Windows, ...

    Graphene has options to restrict that but you have to set it up that way. Android also has App sandboxing for app data.

    Thinking through the threat model of course is always good as is hardening. All security is porous. Linux is fine generally. If one is exposing services on the public net it is not clear that any OS or software is sufficiently secure, that takes constant effort in terms of monitoring and management.

  • A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. [US data]

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  • More tornadoes too I think. More intense rain at times.

    Hail. Yes and constant stream of questionable roofers coming to your door.

  • The Facts Are In: You Shouldn't Worry About EV Battery Replacements

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  • We looked into a replacement for our 2014 Volt (maybe worth $3500). Not even possible to get and price was nuts (1 year back order and $16K). The only reasonable option was a 3rd party replacement which seem to be in the $3K-$6K range. Turned out we did not need it thankfully, it was some other problem. We expect to need a replacement at some point as we will run the car to at least 15 years.

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  • The primary reason to use Lemmey is decentralization and avoidance of Reddit enshitification. Lot of Lemmey blocks shit show lemmey nodes though I am sure they exist.

  • TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time

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  • Yes good analogy. Just my guess. Been a long time since I actually worked in the field.

  • TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time

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  • There are various designs of backlights. They typically have a stack of loose components in an assembly. By loose I mean not totally fixed but not too free. They have to free float enought that temperature changes do not cause issues. They also have to not stick, warp, or buckle over time. Harder to engineer then you might think.

    So consider what might happen if for example the top backlight film might buckle some then stick to the back of the lcd. The film might deform which would change its optical properties. Then later thermal cycling might cause release. It might do same elsewhere.

    Not saying this is mechanism, but just example.

    Edit: Keep in mind the LCD is glass, and the backlight components are plastic. Very different thermal expansion coefficients. Then add LED or CCFL lighting and you have a big changing heat source. Add on top of that humidity changes too.

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    Google Gemini deletes user's code

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