phughes

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I realized I'd inadvertently crossed into Switzerland due to a wrong turn when my rental car's navigation system alerted me to the fact. Whoops.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased

It makes it sound like the cops wouldn't have done anything if the guy hadn't brought the fight to them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Trump: Ok, how about Ukraine declares unconditional surrender and Zelensky is hung in Red Square.
Putin: No, not got good enough.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

That was literally part of Chris Rock's skit:

I take care of my kids.
No shit _, you're supposed to take care of your kids!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would you want to heat non-living space? That is a waste of energy. The attic is outside of the house as far as your furnace is concerned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I rode a two speed kickback bicycle similar (operationally) to this for about a decade. It was the lowest maintenance bike I've ever owned, but the gearing was inside the rear hub and it only had a single chain. I can't imagine that the mechanism being outside improves that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If my choices are a z-wave/zigbee thermostat that connects to my HomeAssistant instance and a Raspberry Pi that I have to maintain, I'll pick the z-wave one (and I did, 10 years ago. It's been rock solid.)

For my smart devices I prefer devices that can't send information over the internet no matter what. I don't want to worry about my thermostat mining bitcoin for some dude in China.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Biden left the three people Trump wanted to pardon on the list so he could be the good guy for all the Nazis out there. It’s a Christmas gift in the spirit of bipartisanship

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The ones that support HomeKit do record to the cloud, but it's at least encrypted. There's failure points, so it's not a fool-proof system, but it's considerably better system than most cloud camera systems that will joyfully hand over your videos to the police without a warrant or store it in some S3 bucket that doesn't even have user level access controls.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

How does a company thinking it has a rush of orders it can’t fulfill due to a strike affect how they view their bargaining position in that strike? I’d say it makes them more willing to settle.

It’s not like they’d be thinking “we have 20% more orders than projected. Thank god for this strike.”

Why cancel the order when they capitulate? Because. Fuck ‘em.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They are very much angled and it drives me insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I have almost no opinions on specific fonts. Except… I absolutely despise the $ and ¢ symbols in Apple's San Francisco font. Since it's the default font I have to look at it a lot.

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