Buelldozer

He just wrote what we were all thinking.

Without being a dick I’d like to submit that if you’re thinking about politics in relation to the FDA banning a food substance then it may be time to back off just a bit.

Gallows humour is…

It’s not “Gallows humour”, its just posting more American Political hypeshit where it doesn’t need to be.

Wait until you learn about “libraries.”

I still remember the smell of Card Catalogs; a nice mix of old paper and even older wood. Video instructions are often faster and easier to understand. They’re also more accessible.

Everyone can live their lives without TikTok, YouTube…

I was an adult before YT and I don’t want to go back to a time before it existed. It’s just too damn useful as a self education tool. Need to learn how to DIY a plumbing problem? Youtube. Need to learn how to subnet a network? Youtube. Interested in the History of Moldova? Youtube.

I finished my basement by watching youtube videos and learning how to do everything from framing to electrical to drywall to finishing work. There isn’t anywhere else you can freely get the same breadth of knowledge on-demand.

If the ban was effective immediately a bunch of things would have to be pulled from shelves and that would impact everything from Acetaminophen to Maraschino cherries to some vegetarian faux-meats. There’s over 9,000 (lol) products across a wide number of industries that use Red 3.

Anyone want to take bets on how long…

Longer than it took for someone to jump in here and make an off topic politically based comment.

Could be that they are taking a loss on the initial units in order to get going. Once the campaign backers are taken care the product is commercialized and then the price goes up. I’ve seen more than one Kickstart campaign used to launch a company in just this way. (Tempest PWS is another example).

Anyway they aren’t vaporware. I backed the campaign and received my units today.

I’m popping by to let you know that I received mine today. I won’t have time to play with them until tonight but I did unbox one and they look just as advertised.

I received mine today. I won’t have time to play with them until tonight but I did unbox one and they look just as advertised.

Maybe, maybe, maybe we’ll finally see another OS take a big bite out of the OS market.

Which OS Market? The are several and the only one that Microsoft dominates is General Purpose PCs (Desktops & Laptops). Every other OS Market has a different major player. Nintendo owns handhelds with Valve as the secondary. Sony is on top in consoles with Microsoft as the secondary. Tablets are owned by Apple with Android as a strong secondary. Smartphones are the same as tablets.

I could type several paragraphs about why MS is still relevant, although less so as time goes on, for GP Computer OS but instead I’ll point out that the reason so many games target Windows OS is simply because it gives access to the largest number of buyers.

IMO opinion the decades of continually increasing DOS & Windows PC based ownership that got the gaming industry to this point is quickly running out. Personal computer ownership has been steadily declining for years as people increasingly use mobile platforms like Smartphones and Tablets. Assuming that trend continue then it won’t be long at all, maybe five years, before gaming companies find that Windows OS compatibility no longer provides a large enough target audience.

When, if, that happens there will be a rapid sea change in the gaming industry. I strongly suspect that this is why MS have invested so much money into creating platforms for game streaming. It’s the only way they can stay in the game, lol, as personal computer ownership declines.

It’s going to be a flagship game that releases with a newer engine.

I’m pretty sure they already said that its going to run the same engine as Starfield.

A less hopeful take is that the success of ESO is going to prevent them releasing anything else in the universe until it dies.

This is what I’m worried about but I’m somewhat encouraged though because Rockstar is finally going to release GTA:6; perhaps the era of local games isn’t dead quite yet.

Ahhh yes, good ol’ GRU Unit 29155. They’re still active and causing problems all over the place.

All models except the Roku Ultra will likely need to be replaced every 12-18 months. After that they start getting incredibly slow. The Ultra’s seem to hang in there for at least 36 months, sometimes longer.

Good luck to convince the U.S. government to do that about anything.

The Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund program went live almost two years ago and will provide solar panels and battery storage systems to low-income households in Puerto Rico with zero upfront costs.

The citizens of PR seemingly have better access to Solar and Battery subsidies than most people living in an actual State.

Just subsidize…

Federal subsidies are already there.

There’s also Investment Tax Credits, Property Tax Credits, and Net Metering.

Why? At worst I’m out a few bucks but I really do expect them to show up. Jeff Gerling has already been playing with them.

3532. I happened to be in my email when the survey link came through so I had it filled out within 2-3 minutes. BTW I goofed, I got the “reward shipped” email two days ago and not last week. So it’s with China shipping but hasn’t hit a domestic carrier yet.

I backed it as well. Got my shipping notice a week ago and am looking forward to playing with it.

We should make it easy to be documented and provide benefits for being documented.

The 2nd half of that is already true as there are definitely benefits for being documented, one which is protection from being deported.

The first part is trickier since there seems to be some confusion on what “undocumented” means. For instance if you’re already working with ICE then you are documented until the Immigration System makes its decision about you.

“Undocumented” really means that someone is here without the knowledge of the authorities at all. Ideally the US Government would simply put a stake in the ground and grant amnesty for anyone already here and then tighten things up in the future. Unfortunately we already did that back in 1986 and while the “Amnesty” part got done the other part didn’t.

Our immigration system is a dumpster fire of hodge-podged laws, executive actions, court decisions, and federal agency policies. Frankly we should scrap the whole thing and return to 'Ellis Island Style" until we can re-work it from the ground up to make it function correctly.

Ellis is how my Grandparents got here and as a system it mostly worked.

Which specific routers that TP-Link makes are the issue?

They are presumably talking about CovertNetwork-1658 and the reason there’s no list of routers is because no one has publicly described the vulnerability that is being leveraged.

My guess is that the vulnerability is present on most of their routers. I’m basing that opinion on the fact that previous CVEs issues against TP-LINK have impacted their most popular product lines like Archer and Deco.

It’s possible that this is related to CVE-2024-21833 which was open in January of 2024, update in July of 2024, then updated again in late November of 2024.