Good luck.

Oh hell no, Netflix better not be trying to EEE Blender or be trying to buy them out.

I’m referring to last time I looked around which was a while ago, and I’m in Lawton, OK, so not really a high-income area.

ActivityPub, which Mastodon uses, is genuinely decentralized, and ActivityPub itself is ran by W3C, an international standards organization, while Mastodon is ran by a nonprofit, meanwhile both Bsky and ATproto are ran by a private corporation, ATproto is still semi-centralized, and since ATproto is ran by a private corporation, assuming the VC money runs out and Bsky corporate needs to start to profit somehow to stay afloat, there’s nothing stopping them from closed-sourcing ATproto (as rugpulling of this sort is legal in permissive licenses like what ATproto is licensed under) and starting to either push ads in it, paywall certain features of it, or both, for example.

Blacksky actually managed to completely split itself off from Bsky corporate infrastructure, but what if Bsky corporate gets hostile against that?

Or even PeerSuite for that matter, moreso if a PeerSuite session is additionally ran through an anonymous protocol like I2P, assuming that’s possible. I mean, PeerSuite doesn’t require an account, doesn’t use servers, talks through encrypted WebRTC channels, and doesn’t leave a paper trail by default, coordinating protests is a perfect use case for it because people could start up a session to plan said protest, and then close the session without a trace when they’re done.

One more reason for the rest of the Fediverse to block Threads itself then.

Can’t you just run your existing retro consoles if you still have them, through an upscaler such as an OSSC, RetroTink or derivatives, or a FrameMeister, though?

Also, the XB360 and PS3 are new enough that they can just interface through HDMI like any other modern AV component. In addition, XB360 emulation sucks right now, and PS3 emulation while better than XB360 emulation, isn’t all there either vs. running original hardware.

And Bezos even threatened to physically take your PC away from you.

Give up your PC and rent from our cloud.

Misskey seems like it might be a viable alternative if only their server list wasn’t under maintenance.

You want a scenario of ‘what if Theranos was actually successful and Elizabeth Holmes didn’t get busted?’ That’s GenAI in a nutshell.

I believe that GenAI is a scam that should’ve been treated and criminalized/prosecuted like one long before it got to the point of destructiveness that it’s currently at and I’ll die on that hill.

AC lines would get large capacitance losses being buried vs. overhead. ElectroBOOM explains why in his vid about high-voltage DC lines starting at this point in the vid.

Granted this is at high voltages in the five-digit range and beyond, and I’m not sure how much that would matter at 240V split-phase that homes typically get in North America*, but that’s a technical reason why power lines are still overhead regardless; it’s more efficient and with less capacitance losses to have overhead power lines spaced far apart than to bury them.

*Yes, really, I meant what I said, North American homes still get 240V, but it’s split down the middle; 120V circuits for things like lighting and such, and normal devices that you plug into a NEMA-5 outlet such as portable space heaters, use a single hot line and a neutral line while 240V circuits for high-powered appliances like clothes dryers, ovens, HVAC systems, and things of that nature, use both hot lines, and optionally neutral in addition for things in, say, an oven or a dryer that only need 120V such as lighting, while the heating elements need 240V in those applications.

Surely there are non-destructive ways to decorate your place though; there’s plenty of reversible ways to hang things like artwork and pictures and stuff on the walls, and also, it’s not like thumbtacks in the walls are causing great deals of damage, thumbtack holes were so small last time I thought that you could just paint over them and it’s like they were never there.

Another device of the type that Thunderf00t used to ‘bust.’

Aww.

A pretty obvious red flag would be a listing that looks well and good in the ad, but when you peel the curtain back a bit in a pre-rental inspection, major problems start showing.

Related: a place listed as having new appliances and such but the HVAC system is 20+ years old, like, and this is more unique to single-family homes than apartments, but if you go to a listing that’s advertised as having new stuff in it, but when you go around the back yard and see an A/C condenser unit from the '00s or earlier sitting there, that’s not the best of signs that everything else about it is on the up and up and in line with the ad.

Also, someone charging $700/mo+ for a beat-up flat worth, maybe, $250/mo.

Similarly, if a place uses electric baseboard heat, that’s a very good sign that it’s probably a slumlord special as electric baseboard heat is one of the simplest and cheapest, if not the simplest and cheapest types of heat to install, and the place probably uses windowshakers for cooling. Like, say someone buys up an old home that predates central HVAC, and they got by with the minimum viable to make it somewhat livable, they could just put some windowshakers and electric baseboard heaters in, and there’s your cheap and easy HVAC system, and then they could charge some stupid rent amount for it.

-sigh- No wonder landlords get a bad rap pulling scummy shit like that.

Although it’s not like one can’t just move to an alternative assuming they can take their audience with them or their audience isn’t too big to lose, before Google snuffs them out in favor of AI slop.

Next step: YT starts phasing out human creators in favor of Google’s homegrown AI slop.

A Civil War II will probably end up at best leading to a Mad Max scenario or at worst, a Fallout scenario.

Holmatro does as well, specifically with that injury being simulated using a ballistic gel arm with fake bones in it, at 750 bar/10.4k psi. The oil from that simulated 10.4k psi leak blew right through that fake hand.

I kinda don’t wanna imagine how terrible that would be to happen to someone in the real world if they touched an actual leaky hose at those pressures in the field. Also…

…you just had a bunch of hydraulic fluid shot into your bloodstream, which will create an oil embolism and kill you.

• Or, you’ll lose a limb from infection, degloving (literally losing your skin) is also a thing from stuff like this, again, due to infection, this sorta thing is horrible to happen to a person.