mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Never a better time to drive an EV requiring zero oil changes and minimal other maintenance (just tires and other normal wear items).

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Fuck the Broncos!

Chiefs looked good. Made some mistakes but Mahomes is back, Walker was a beast.

On the defensive side the secondary was OK despite being almost all young new guys, and we got tons of pass rush pressure against a supposedly top tier Denver O line.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

"We own your TV screen, and the contents of your TV screen."

By their license agreement, whether you watch normie content, use the screen to display proprietary business presentations, use it to show family photos from a USB stick, or screen that private adult video you made with your wife, LG can technically analyze all that stuff, serve you ads based off it, or sell it (or provide it) to third parties including the authorities.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Literally don't care what they are. Not relevant to their FOSS or general technology content.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 26 points 3 days ago (16 children)

I am all on board with letting people know when open source is a bit too aligned with major companies or is somehow compromised.

I have no intent or need to use Omarchy.

This sites list of YouTubers to shun however is a bit too "purity test" for me. The reasons listed are, let's say extremely tepid in many cases.

I've never heard Jeff Geerling talk about any issue other than homelab stuff like hardware pricing and availability. His religious and personal views were not apparent to me at all.

I watched the Louis Rossmann video mentioned with the CO State Rep, and Louis was respectful and platformed this individuals commentary on the subject of privacy issues for a long time in the video. Generally Rossmann seems to criticize the living hell out of politicians left, right, and center.

I guess all I am saying is... Use whatever products you do or don't want to for your own reasons but, I disagree with the concept that I should brigade specific creators because they support Open Source but not 100% of my particular basket of other issues. We need Open Source to grow and need to reach out to diverse groups who can find value in it.

I will continue to listen to both Craft Computing Jeff (as far left as it is possible to be on social and gender issues) and Jeff Geerling (who is apparently conservative on these same issues) because I'm listening to them talk about homelab stuff, not telling me who to vote for etc.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 46 points 6 days ago

Avoiding all meta apps is a good decision.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You would have to pay the 100% tarriff on a Chinese EV because you'd be "importing" it. You likely wouldn't be able to register it in any state without proving the import duty had been paid.

And assuming you flew under the radar and somehow registered it without paying, the Feds would get access to the registration records and the CBP would eventually come after you.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My understanding is the performers and cast members are paid like garbage which is wild considering how much it costs to go to Disney.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Imagine encountering Mickey in the Backrooms

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 22 points 2 weeks ago (25 children)

Batteries are a problem but it doesn't take much napkin math to see that, on an individual level, homecharging an EV for 30-50 years is better than distributing and burning the energy-equivalent gasoline over the same period. It's better if off-peak grid energy is used. Even more efficient if the grid power is generated partially with renewables. Or best of all, homecharge from a home battery system that recharges exclusively from home solar. It is the highest initial cost outlay and highest initial inputs of polluting materials, but then the resulting power approaches being "free" for the life of the system, and creates no further emissions in its generation process.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The other big thing for me is carrier unlocked and also still supporting physical SIM.

Hoping the Motorola flagship meets those criteria.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yes, another soulless cash grab by Disney.

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