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Theres definitely a setting for turning off content recognition… but… even if I say “no”, I don’t trust my dogs not to eat food I leave within reach.

These companies want the data, they profit from the data, they probably won’t get caught if they take the data, and even if they do they won’t get punished, and even if they do it’ll still be worth it. You have to turn off the network or block the traffic to be sure.

I bought a 65" HiSense last month. I was psyched the first time I set it up, and it gave me the option to configure it as a dumb TV without the Android TV experience or a network connection.

I just want the train from Denver to Boulder that was promised back in the early 2000s. We voted for it, we funded it, and it… never happened. Now the money is gone. Nobody knows why.

So please do it. Start there. Then go up to Fort Collins so my son can get to college, then finish the southern route.

We do like trains. Everyone should like trains.

Oh yay… a low-speed rail from… Pueblo to Fort Collins.

That will literally never happen. As much as I’d love to use it the one time a year I need to make a trip like that, the ROI would be so far in the negative, even I’d vote against it… and I’m a train aficionado and a fan of government-funded rail.

My wife bought a new Pixel 8 recently from Google Fi. They sent a Pixel 6a for some reason. She attempted to work with their incompetent, powerless, disconnected and foreign support for a week to get something to happen, desperately reaching out every day for someone to just tell her what was happening. Then, she just purchased a new one because you can’t go longer than that without a phone.

Then it was 2 more weeks of them failing to issue a refund for the original wrong phone, trying to ship another phone that she no longer needed, and simultaneously trying to bill her a penalty for not yet activating the phone that was originally shipped.

All it would take is one person who had information, authority, and a modicum of understanding. Nope. That is not a thing that can be achieved through any level of escalation at Google anymore.

Nokia had the same problem recently during a recent issue. They have intentionally made it impossible to solve issues. This is what some companies want. Don’t buy from them.

"Prosecutors said Philip Sean Grillo, who is running for the seat previously held by George Santos, had videotaped himself during the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Interesting. I’m curious why he brought 20+ year old video equipment with him. It seems like the article would address that oddity. It’s getting tough to find new old stock blank video tapes.

“If they removed porn from the internet, there’d only be one site left… and it would be called ‘Bring Back the Porn!’” - Doctor Percival Cox

I can’t imagine a more unpopular idea in all of politics.

I’m not sure if lawyers think their words are magic sometimes, or if they’d just really like them to be magic.

I live in a state that prohibits most non-competes from employers, and any effort to try to get employees to sign overly restrictive agreements can actually result in a fine and penalty. My company sent me a legal agreement saying that by signing the doc and continuing to be employed, I agree to waive my state’s protections against non-competes. As if… that would hold up in any court, ever.

It’s a blatantly illegal clause and I could have fought it at the time… but in the end I knew it was totally unenforceable at worst. I’ll go after them for the penalty if they ever try to enforce it, or if I leave under bad circumstances. It was more valuable to me to have this document than it is for them to have it.

You calling me crazy? Just 'cause I got a hotel in my foot doesn’t make me a boogalymoogalymoogaly!

Google search does it too. Hangouts used to. Not sure about Messages and other Google services.

If you’re choosing to do audio production in Linux, the odds are that “easy” wasn’t your top decision criteria. lol

Personally, I recently hooked up my Berhinger USB audio interface to Mint, and Ardour and Audacity saw it immediately. I was impressed. I was ready to google around for how to use lusb and dmseg and shit because I never remember what I’m doing.

It would be best to make the switch today. That has the dual benefit of a) Showing Google that they will lose users, and maybe they will change their mind (again), and b) Show every website that they do need to put actual effort into supporting and testing against Firefox.

I mean… he’s already a rapist, found to be 100% liable for his rape by a court, just this year.

And this article is claiming that a blow to his business reputation might change his story.

Rape is bad. People should really take notice of the raping thing.

I remember purchasing Opera mobile. I can’t remember if it was for Windows Mobile 5/6 or if it was the super early Android. It was the only browser that really worked on that phone, whatever it was. Well worth the $5 or whatever.

I don’t get the outrage. I’m sure his campaign headquarters was just a little warm and he needed something to create a breeze and cool things off.

A place that only sells fans is where I’d shop as well. Nobody knows fans like a place that is for Only Fans, right?

I have been looking for high-quality video of Junkyard Wars for years. I found one torrent once of like 320x240 rips of a singe season. It’s miserable.

Don’t forget the raping, which a court found he definitely did. I don’t know why that isn’t mentioned in every article. “Proven rapist, Donald Trump…”

I used to build those Mac clones back in the mid to late 90s. We were building high-end video editing systems, and you could either get a PowerMac 9600 or one of the clones. I think we used Daystar (?) machines, and I remember they had this PCI expansion box where you could run a ribbon cable and add more PCI slots for additional cards. Wild west, crazy stuff.

There have been a few notable school districts in my state that got duped by these people over the last 10 years or so, and the pattern is pretty much the same:

• They get elected by not telling people what they actually beleive
• They immediately start doing crazy stupid shit
• They illegally shut down public meetings and comments
• They illegally hire an independent lawyer at taxpayer expense to defend themselves
• There is a recall election, and they are removed from office.

It’s a huge waste of time and money, and in the end everyone hates these fucks even more than they did to start with, and people are even more interested in voting in local elections. I’m not sure it’s a winning long-term strategy for the fascists. You could argue it works to get more progressives and moderates to the voting booth in the long run.