Suuuuper cool! Way to go :D

A “Hyuuuge” step back is an amazing move for the USA, given we were heading off a cliff.

IRC, IIRC lol

That’s a really good way of putting it.

What also really didn’t help was bigtech trying to ultra-simplify everything in their capitalistic favor as much as possible to capture the largest audience, so most technology just became stuff-consumption devices to sell attention, rather than sophisticated tools you could learn to wield.

Pretty sure it’s from that one…I always reference Heinlein’s quote about what humans should be capable of: It’s a really long list that ends in “…specialization is for insects.”

I always loved that, myself being an ADHD guy who knows how to do all sorts of things somewhat and still learning…

…but growing up in a world of people told to pick a single direction to almost-never stray from and avoid thinking outside of those lines.

Second Story’s recent remake was SUCH A GOOD TIME. I love that game dearly.

Now I know the symbol for Localhost! :D

Lol that’d be an awesome T-shirt.

It concluded with a pretty definitive final season! Loved that show, he was incredible. :D

Free folk, behold the humble rattle can: For her rattle sings a bell of liberty.

Tyrants, beware the humble rattle can: For her hiss lays bare the sins of thee.

Bet it’d be funny deep in the gas port lol.

First thing I noticed when I installed PiHole though was that “scribe.roku.com” and a bunch of other roku related telemetry was getting blocked like CRAZY.

…And the TV somehow got a bit faster.

I can do folders on my Jellyfin setup, seems to work. :)

I’ve heard the only way to get a modern one is to basically get one that’s meant for commercial signage. =\

That was my thinking too. “Okay it looks kinda interesting.” and then I saw it in person and it was so ridiculously HUGE. WHY?!?

And yeah Musk going mask-off was just the cherry on top of that already crap cake.

The Ford Pinto was killed for less.

…and has killed for less. 💀

I see a lot of EVs with that solid 3D-diamond-looking grille. I wonder if it has something to do with aero. It looks cool but I don’t necessarily find it “aggressive.”

But maybe my bar is high. When I think “aggressive” I think of those lug nut spikes sticking out of wheels. Those shouldn’t be legal. Lol

I LOVE this thing. They always tease that Honda is gonna bring back the Element to farm clicks and it never happens…I miss my boxy aesthetic and internal volume space. I could happily sacrifice some battery range for that versatility.

Japan’s sensibilities with these compact but roomy boxy usable cars /vans are so awesome, and they never seem to make it here! It’s so frustrating.

If you filter out pickup trucks and enormous personal-APC SUVs:

"Behold, the Nissan small Jellybean. The Toyota medium Jellybean. The Chevy range of Jellybeans. The Tesla Jellybean model J for Jellybean…

…No, no, Jellybean is the shape. For colors you can choose black, white, or silver."*

*I’m glad EVs are coming in cool colors now, and if there’s ONE thing I like about Teslas, it’s all the custom paintjobs they could come with.

Conformist monochrome auto-dystopia is so boring. They’re doing it to buildings, too.

I’m not even a Ford fan, but there was a sweet EV version of their Transit model that was a little more adventurous and seemed perfect …and it was EU only.

Ford. Locking models to the EU. WTF. Lol 😂 It was too practical and sensible for their home shores, I guess!

I always thought that was such an enormous waste of perfectly good enclosed cabin space that could have just had stowable / removable seats.

Like do you think anybody is hauling gravel in these things or what? Lol