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I don't really follow X, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • This may sound dumb, but I honestly don't know how to answer that, lol. The first answer that comes to mind is "for passengers to sit in," but that just seems too obvious. Is there more to the question?

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  • Ahh I think I get it now. That might be feasible in a densely populated city. Most of the truck guys I've known live in suburban or rural areas. The few who lived in the city center drove much smaller pickup trucks like Toyota Tacomas, Ford Rangers, etc.

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  • I'm very confident that they wouldn't. However, I suppose it's possible that I've never seen transit that could be so good that people would choose it over their own vehicles. What would that look like?

    I suppose a few of them might do it if there's free coffee on board (or beer, but that would be chaos lol) and it ran on VERY convenient schedules.

    People in the US place a LOT of value in convenience, so the public transit system would have to offer something that outweighs that. Do you know of any examples?

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • Yeah, good point. Owners of Samsung "smart" refrigerators started seeing ads on them recently.

    I'm sure there was some sort of legal terms that users had to agree to to enable that, but it still feels like a scam. Some amount of those fridge owners would not have bought the fridge if they knew there would be ads on it at any point in time.

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  • If nobody buys them, then they'll exit the market. American companies value profit.

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  • Not the same seating capacity though. Also, it's hard to tell, but it seems like there's a difference in bed widths?

    Edit: Could someone help me understand the downvotes? The seating capacity is just an objective fact, so was it the speculative difference in bed width? Or something else? (Sometimes I have difficulty understanding people)

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  • I've known plenty of people in southern US states who drive trucks for purposes that don't require trucks. They'll never choose public transit over their trucks, no matter how good it is.

    ...Though, realistically, that's not exclusively a truck issue. If one can just step outside and get into their own car and be immediately en route to their destination, on their own schedule/convenience, it'll be hard to convince them to choose a less convenient mode of transportation.

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • I wish companies would at least offer a "no data collecting/selling" price option. Like, how much would they make from selling my data? Just give me the option to pay that extra amount so I can buy a vacuum without thinking about how it's spying on me.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • Well yeah, it's a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they'd capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they'd wait until after people have had them for a while. They're unsurprisingly shameless.

    I'd be curious to know what kind of data it's collecting to optimize those ads.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I'm talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit.

    Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature.

    I'm looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • I mean places that don't care about any laws at all. Places that might only be accessible on the dark web, etc. There's terrible stuff out there

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • 🤔 I'm not sure that lawmakers really understand what they're up against. If most VPN locations all eventually require government ID for porn, then some people will likely seek porn from places/networks that are... Less legitimate.

  • The President of the United States of America 🫡

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  • Maybe we'll consider electing someone who isn't a senior citizen, next time. Three terms of the two oldest presidents in US history seems like enough.

  • TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • Why would it be implemented for those places, but not implemented in any of the other conflicts in the last 50 years?

  • Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

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  • That raises more questions than it answers 😅 I appreciate the effort though.

    I run NixOS on a few servers. I remember there being some controversy around them accepting contributions (either money or code — my memory of it is a little fuzzy) from some company that's part of the military industrial complex. Is Framework worse than that?

  • Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

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  • What difference would that make? (I'm not familiar with the precedent, so probably missing some context)

    Edit: Downvotes? Was my question (or my ignorance) somehow offensive?

  • Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?

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  • American tech companies created algorithms that happen to boost videos and news articles of fringe/extreme occurrences that take place here. The mainstream news networks also prioritize content like that, for the same reason: It's very profitable. Boring news/content just doesn't make much money.

    People who have never visited the US seem to have a very distorted understanding of what everyday life is like here. We display a pretty embarrassing caricature of our country for the world to see.

    And to make things even more embarrassing, we made our government ridiculous, and made our politics become pop culture (yet also very tribal) over the last ~15 years.

  • TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • 🤔 I'm not sure that answers the question. So... You don't know of any imminent plans to use the Selective Service to force people to invade those countries, correct?

  • TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • Are there plans to force people to join the military and participate in those invasions? AFAIK, the US hasn't drafted people since the Vietnam war (>50 years ago), so that seems like a pretty extreme move