I wish it gave me hope. I guess the only bright side is “we’re trying, maybe, a little”.

In another post a while back, someone (may have even been OP), said something to the effect of ‘carbon capture is just social permission to keep using fossil fuels’. I think about that a lot, and definitely agree.

if it helps him regain the White House, but that would be shortsighted.

Yeah, when I think of Republicans, sustainable, long-term thinking is what comes to mind /s

If you already look like a Bond villain, maybe don’t tent your fingers in your photo-op.

I don’t know much about Moondrop’s line of phones, but I do love that Apple removed the headphone jack, Samsung naturally copied them, and Moondrop comes along and says “you know what? We’ll add two headphone jacks”.

Respect.

(I absolutely still use the 3.5mm jack)

I’ve got two: One Keurig which was a gift and an off-brand single-cup coffee maker that uses pods. I’m the only coffee drinker in the house, so one cup at a time is about right (and uses less energy than keeping a carafe warm all morning).

I just use the resuable pods. Can throw any coffee grounds in them, dump them in the compost when done, rinse, and use again. Have used these for at least 5 years.

I’ve followed that for a while :) Saw it on Hack a Day early in its development and thought it was one of the coolest ports I’ve ever seen. Sadly, I think he got D&D’d. Best I recall, I think it was unlicensed use of the N64 SDK or something like that.

I knew that link was going to be something related to Oracle, and I was not wrong. xD

Interesting. I’ve never played TF but Portal is one of my all-time favorites (I’m not much of a gamer lol). Will try to look into that when I have time because it’s definitely interesting if true (and can be my token good example lol).

That’s true, and also why I added that last part about it being confirmation bias on my part. Definitely not saying there aren’t good examples, but like you said, I’m also having a hard time coming up with any.

Has Valve ever bought any other company? lol They’re one of the few I could see actually making the child company better xD

I don’t think that it’s a prerequisite but it’s definitely a catalyst.

Another catalyst is one company buying another. I cannot think of one example where the acquired company’s product/services got better after a M and A. OTOH, I can think of many examples of it getting worse. Confirmation bias? Absolutely. But still makes you go “hmm…”

From one Admiral to another: well said.

That’s true.

I think my biggest gripe with it is that it looks like when I abruptly change my smart bulbs from warm white to cold white. lol. It’s jarring and unpleasant at first and definitely takes a minute or five to adjust to it.

Came here to say exactly that. Tom Arnold also just looks plastic in the “enhanced” one.

For now, assuming it pans out.

Remember that ~60 years ago, computers less powerful than the microcontrollers in your “dumb” appliances filled entire rooms.

Are the pipes all lead and leaching into the drinking water? That would explain a lot.

That’s not OP’s problem.

If you haven’t seen walls of pill spam from, typically, Kbin, then thank your instance admins. Picking those out in email is not quite a solved problem, but is routine and accurate enough that I only see that kind of spam once or twice a year. That’s the content I’m targeting.

Plus, I estimate about 10-15% of the people I work with (and/or interact with professionally) are non-native English speakers. I never have to dig their emails out of spam.

(Just thinking out loud here) I wonder if it’s possible to pull posts via the API, format them into a text file in email format, run them through SpamAssassin, and then use the results to trigger an automod action?

You’d need to curate a good list of ham/spam posts to train it on, but the built-in heuristics may catch some low-hanging fruit out of the box.

If anyone has any thoughts or has tried this, lemme know. I’ve been kicking around the idea for a few months but haven’t gone any further than that.

Gotcha. Thanks.

I’m not 100% sold on running my media server on the NAS. It’s currently a separate box, and I’m still mostly leaning toward keeping it that way and letting the NAS just be a NAS.