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Turned this shit off as soon as I saw it. What a bunch of bullshit. So IDEs have had quote completion features for years and now you want to claim that you "co-authored" my work because you suggested an end-quote and I hit tab? Fuck off, tempted to just disable this shit for my whole org when they change the billing model anyways.

Seriously my house has 60 outlets and switches like that and they are all being replaced.

This is why I avoid Bluesky

Zelda BOTW knows when you're climbing a big cliff and it's more likely to rain.

My wife leaves lights on all the time. I gave up and just put in smart plugs and lights so I don't have to get up and turn them off.

Typically I prefer plugs, but with things like a nightstand lamp that has USB charging ports on it, I don't want to turn off the whole device, so I use smart light bulbs.

The only smart appliance that I've found useful is the oven. If my wife leaves it on I can turn it off from my phone.

The "palantiri" reference is even worse than the simplified explanation in the article. They are crystal balls that were intended to be used for good and have been corrupted by an evil tyrant. When initially well-intentioned characters like Saruman and Denethor try to use them to monitor their enemies, what they see is warped by Sauron to be what Sauron wants them to see and the user is corrupted. It results in Denethor and Saruman doing some fucked up shit that they are convinced is for the better good.

So yeah, seems a little too much "on the nose". Might as well just name your company TyrantCorp.

Just did the same thing with a 2015 Intel MacBook Pro. It runs great, had some issues with screen flickering but I think it was only happening while using Remmina for RDP and it seems to have gone away by excluding Remmina from display scaling (retina display). So far pretty good battery life too...

Is it because Netgear is a "US" company? Meaning they are on the US stock exchange, have corporate offices in the US, and manufacture everything in Asia?

Robots will fight each other over the burnt remnants of our homes.

Maybe not, I don't know how much he makes, there's a lot I'd put up with if it could mean early retirement. If he's really making 2.8m in two years then that's a mil after taxes and there's no reason he couldn't retire at 40 and live a more modest lifestyle. Could be worth it.

Yeah seems kind of whiny since he's super successful and was probably already well-off, but on the other hand...

I'm kind of tired of hearing that my nieces and nephews have no career goals other than to be a "content creator".

Maybe if more people were honest about what it takes and how the social media companies have started to squeeze creators then kids would aspire to get real jobs.

Yeah, it's not a trivial problem to solve either, especially if platforms censor mentions of decentralized alternatives.

However, it's hard for the oligarchs to censor the fact that an organization like EFF exists, and hopefully someone clicks on one of their posts and reads something on their blog about decentralized alternatives.