willeypete23

Add VLC and set up a media server and it's just as convenient as streaming for at home use.

A lot of people don't know how industrial scale power contracts work.

Your pissant $150 light bill isn't worth wiping their corporate asses with. If you are without power for a week they don't care. You can't cancel your subscription, you just have to choke on it.

But factories? They buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of power. They use an order of magnitude more electricity than your house. In fact, during a rolling black out they could keep every home in the city powered by shutting off just one factory. The problem is corporations have contracts that actually charge the power company by the hour if they lose power. my company charges over a million dollars an hour.

So buying some mine out of his contract for a little while is not unheard of. Tesla is on that grid so I promise it cost less to shut the miner off than to drop Tesla for a day.

Every square inch of the earth is owned. I cannot fuck off into the woods, build a cabin, grow vegetables, hunt food, etc. I'm forced to be a part of society. Laws say I cannot provide for myself by natural means, there for society is required to provide for me within its system.

I'm a robotics and mechatronics engineer in the automotive manufacturing space.

A few things I will never bend on, no matter how good the tech gets: Mechanical braking system Mechanical link from steering wheel to tires Manual door locks and handles Mechanical trunk/fuel door releases

Things I prefer to be mechanical: Fuel pump Carburetor Timing

Personally I drive a 1970 c20. It has a carb with throttle body injection, and electric pump with mechanical back up. An HEI distributor with electronic advance that still works if the electronics fail. I love the convenience of tech but it needs a robust back up.

Why don't we just move into vacant homes? Don't pay rent or buy, just move in. There's so many in my area that if I did get caught and kicked out of one I could just go down the street to the next.

Georgia had this problem decades ago and fixed it by lowering adverse possession requirements down to 13 months of occupation. It's back to over a decade now but I liked that approach.

We should make owning residential, single family real estate for commercial purposes illegal. You own it, you live in it, don't live in it, don't own it. That would make gobbling up houses and renting them out unprofitable and force cities to open up multifamily development

I would be down for it if it was a local only connection, no internet, it would also have to be fully owned, no license. I wouldn't even want the cons protocol to resemble tcp/ip

I know keepass has an xml exploit to get it to dump passwords. Maybe butearden has a similar vulnerability?

If you like puzzle games have you played the entropy center? Its better than portal IMO

From googles perspective, you, the user cost them money. Their revenue comes from ads. The brands don't was to be associated with anything controversial so the results are tailored to be as PG and clean as possible.

Dockduckgo is just bing with diet privacy