This is what I’m saying. Don’t prohibit the use. Tax them out the ass. Set requirements on electric and water usage, and noise generated. You wanna build a data center? It may only make sense to build it entirely underground, with parks on top of it.

Is the shark like Superman for fish?

What the hell is a jiggawatt?!

Yeah, I switched my launcher to Lawnchair because they put the AI button right where my right thumb would touch the search bar. It seemed like it was also by design. My launcher now looks identical to the stock launcher on the Pixel, except without an AI button.

I’m on the home screen for one second. The remote, in fact, has buttons on it, I don’t even need to look at the home screen.

You can add or remove tiles as you see fit (although they definitely like to add some for you from time to time), but like I said, I barely use the tiles.

I love people on here who don’t and have never used it expressing any feelings on it at all. Like, why do you care, other than were all here (on the internet) just to get mad about shit?

The Prius actually looks better, these headlights are awful, holy shit. I love Ferrari, every model for the last 40 years, but my goodness.

Yeah, I don’t even know what you’re talking about, and that makes me extra certain that politicians definitely don’t know what you’re talking about. It is nice to see them perhaps taking into account expert opinions on this subject, but 1 for 100 doesn’t make for a good average.

It’s just strange to me that communication is breaking down so much that I need to basically explain the joke. Soon I’ll be saying “please clap.”

I apologize, I didn’t understand that to be the meaning, maybe I gotta read better. I don’t have an answer. I can’t remember what prompted me to grab a lifetime pass. I have to assume there’s some benefit, and that it was obvious to me at the time.

What are we doing here?

Explain. How is it crap? Excluding the price, from the perspective of those of us who got Plex pass many years ago, what’s crap? I see too many people saying this and it’s just disingenuous. If your gripe is the price, say that, and that’s totally fair.

That’s called biting off your nose to spite your face.

Being upset with Plex because of what they’re doing with their prices is totally a legit gripe. Suggesting Plex is shitty is silly. It works great, it’s simple for boneheads like me, and if you paid $70 or whatever a decade or so ago, it’s been a phenomenal deal. I’m using it right now, I use it on a weekly basis at the very least, and it’s super art it and forget. I have a media library on my PC, when I add to it I just right click the taskbar icon and “update libraries,” and that’s it. It requires next to no fiddling, it runs perfectly, it finds subtitles automatically, it does the whole metadata thing automatically. It’s great, I have zero complaints.

But yeah, $700 or whatever is crazy talk. But $70 was awesome.

My software for work operates this way. You buy a license, it just works. They add new features, and you pay to upgrade. They never add features that break it. It seems like a reasonable model.

Sorry, best they can do is lobby for year-long contracts only.

To me the rule of thumb is if you can see it, Sharkbite is fine. Sharkbite is probably better than any weld I do, because I can’t sweat pipe.

Facades.

I always talk about how life and trends are just a pendulum, And how it swings, and that I have this hope for the generation(s) after me swinging the pendulum in the other direction. I’m born in '87. We embraced technology to the fullest. And now, unfortunately, technology has been ruined, in the fashion of things gaining popularity going to shit. Way she goes.

I have this idea that the pendulum will come back to a point where kids want to separate themselves from the lens of the internet, where you’ll be chastised for using your phone. And perhaps this is just some strange (anti?)dystopian story in the making, but a tale as old as time is kids being like “That’s not cool, fuck that shit.” I’m just hopeful that “that shit” is tiktok and its ilk.

I think the size thing is the answer to the question. I’m from Jersey so I googled and yeah, two NJ is one Switzerland, so perhaps that’s why America does not have ubiquitous 25Gbit internet, because it is 237 times larger.

And piggybacking of precious comments, completely unnecessary amount of bandwidth. I am fortune, being from Jersey, that as my needs have grown, the service I get has seemingly grown to accommodate my use. I remember using cable back when it came out, and it would bog down hard between 5-7pm, when people got home and used surfed the information highway. Now, I have 300/300 I think, I pay $24.99 a month, I do stuff that utilizes bandwidth, and I never, ever have any issues. I know this isn’t everyone’s experience, but it certainly exists for plenty of folks. Ubiquitous distribution is probably unlikely, especially considering how much of middle America lives (and I mean rural, not like animals).

I haven’t used an LLM, but it’s probably similar to how people could not Google for shit. I always considered myself something of an expert at using search engines, although they’ve gone to shit obviously, and with the advent of AI it seems like they will fade out.