That’s no ballroom

But researching and shopping is an essential part of the dopamining

How I learned about it (am European so not part of my history) https://youtube.com/watch?v=o7jlFZhprU4

Found Lars Ulrich’s account. Dumme svin!

Don’t bother with Lenny Kravitz either. What a pretentious and whiny little bitch. Yes, we know it’s raining, but it’s also like 25°C and the rain is merely a light drizzle, so stfu about it. Besides part of the stage is dry, we paid for your name to come not your attitude, and we’ve been standing in the rain for hours, listening to far more talented musicians than you, so just play your two hits and piss off

Don’t forget to ban renting servers, vps and cloud services by individuals.

I think Microsoft and Adobe might lobby against the latter… But if they could expand the ban to AI, I’d be in favor of banning all the other stuff as well. I mean, what good is banning and blocking smut, when you can just ask an LLM to generate whatever your perverted 13yo heart desires?

That’s the reason I don’t drive a VW ID3. I wanted one, I really really wanted one. But during my test drive, I got a 10s timeout from the display, for apparently tapping too fast while trying to adjust the AC, WTF? And don’t get me started on the stupid mood lighting.

Too bad, it was in my price range, rear wheel drive, 236hp and a decent range. And there’s soo many of them on the roads in my country that spare parts wouldn’t be an issue.

Luckily it looks like some car manufactures have decided to ditch the ginormous look-at-me-I’m-just-like-a-tesla touch-screens. Kia, hyundai and VW at least according to https://www.slashgear.com/1995254/major-automakers-removing-touch-screen-dashboards/

Different appliance, same experience.

First off, the “smart” part is just another thing that can break.

Secondly, why is it cheaper than the older/dumb device? Don’t try to tell me it’s because the manufacturer had to develop new electronics, with pricier components. Isn’t it far more plausible, that it’s because my personal data is part of the price, without my knowledge?

Thirdly, what happens when the manufacturer gets liquidated? and the new owner decides that I need a subscription to use the device effectively either bricking it or raping me. Like we saw with Futurehome https://newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own-it-if-they-can-break-it/

Or what about when the manufacturer decides that they don’t like you and decides to snuff your account? Like amazon did when a driver https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/amazon-customer-claims-company-locked-him-out-smart-home-devices-over-bogus-racism-allegations sure, if you’re abusive towards staff, then by all means act on it. But lockjng people out of their smart home, without giving them a chance to respond to the accusations first?

I swear I took my ADHD meds this morning, I don’t know why I get so riled up by this. But please understand, that I have had to take a conscious decision to stop ranting on.

We’re all different, I do realize that, but I don’t do just-in-time delivery for my household products. I’ll buy a couple of bottles of rinse aid, and once the last bottle is empty I put it on the grocery list.

I don’t need to know that the dishwasher has run out, I’ll deal with it when I see it.

And do not tell me where to jump or not 😀 I’ll jump in front/on top/behind of ridiculous conclusions if I please /s

Because, and this may surprise you, some (most?) people don’t think about how their stuff works. They just see it has an app and goes “neat!”.

I don’t know why my dishwasher should be online. But I’ve been with people who’s smart watches twinkled to alert them that their dishwasher, located 30min away, was out of rinse aid. I can think of no scenario in which that is relevant. Rant warning There’s a God damn light on the front of the unit, that tells you the same damn thing, and you can’t do anything about without being at the unit. What are you going to do? Drop whatever you’re doing at work and take an hour lunch break early to drive home and deal with it? Didn’t think so.

BUT the person had seen the dishwasher and thought it was neat, modern, and needed a new dishwasher. And that’s whywe end up with a lot of “smart” devices, which are just “ordinary devices with an cloud based remote control”

Shoulda done that with Vance

The driver should be able to use the PA to announce “this is your driver, prepare for ramming speed, brace for impact”… But the trams should also be equipped with something that could key cars parked close to the tracks. That way nobody would chance it parking a little close.

I don’t mean like a machete, that would probably not go over well at the stops. Just something that would scratch any car coming with 5cm of the tram.

And even if you sampled at 10 sps, and did 50 sensors at 10b, you would still only be looking 5000bps or 5.8x10^-7 GBps, meaning that it would take roughly 26 years to fill up a 512GB SD card.

While I don’t know for how long the sub had been submerged, I doubt it was close to a quarter of a century. If that was the case, I believe that we would have been talking about that as well. Even if it was 500 sensors, at 100sps at 12b we’d be looking at 79days.

IMHO there’s only a few things a 512GB SD card would be used for. And I hope it was music, because I don’t think we should watch the final moments of these people’s lives.

Let me preface this by saying that the following are my opinions. They’re based on my experiences and prejudices. Take it with a grain of salt, and make of it what you want.

I don’t block users by instance, just posts. Posts on your instance tends to get moderated heavily one-sided. I got reprimanded (I think it was a temp ban, but I can’t remember) for being skeptical about AI. I don’t want to spend time and energy engaging in a discussion under those conditions.

But that doesn’t mean every dbzer0 user is an AIvangelist. Same goes for .ml, they’re not all tankies … although I’ve found that not engaging with .ml users tends to give me a more pleasant experience in general.

Yes, blocking posts from .ml and dbzer0 helped. Same goes for just liberally blocking anybody, who starts screaming instead of participating nicely.

I’ve been considering blocking .world, as some of the mods are behaving like power tripping reddit mods. But it’s the biggest instance and without it I wouldn’t have any content.

Is anybody fucking ok right now?

Nope

I say Lego, generally, but I think it’s silly to care that much, especially when it’s about a corporation.

I know it seems silly, I might even agree that it is. But as I mentioned, Lego is so ingrained in my identity as a Dane that I can’t not speak out. Why keep going then? The noble answer would be that people shouldn’t be able to win arguments by just turning up the aggressiveness. But in reality I’m procrastinating something else.

One of the main things shamelessly ruining our planet at the moment.

If you truly believe that every corporation is evil and is ruining the planet, then fight back. And I don’t mean by misusing a name, I mean pitchforks and guillotines. Rise up and seize the means of production… In the meantime please leave the essential part of my childhood that is Lego alone.

Nice, now do a refresh and another screenshot before editing the page

Language is evolving doesn’t absolve you from misusing someone’s name. I get that some names get a commonly used shortcut, like Robert becomes Bob, but would you keep calling Robert Bob, even if Robert had asked you not to? Would you insist on using Bob, in the name of linguistic evolution?

No, sorry, a search for Lego in the Danish business registry will show you that the ® isn’t part of the name https://datacvr.virk.dk/soegeresultater?fritekst=lego&sideIndex=0&enhedstype=virksomhed&size=10

A single entry includes ® and it’s an independent third party.

That’s because you’re not Danish. Lego may be a just another faceless corporation to you, but for us it’s part of our identity. The name was chosen by one man, for his wooden toy business, and the company is still owned by his descendant. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve visited Legoland and I’ve known people in multiple departments of the company. Same goes for a lot of Danes, if they haven’t worked there themselves.

So it’s not disrespecting some corporation, it’s disrespecting a bunch of Danes as well.

What I’m curious about is why you feel so strongly about this. I’ve tried hard to be nothing but courteous, while not backing down, and you decide that not only do you need to tell me you don’t care, you need to cuss as well. I get a sense that you do care, I mean, why else respond so forcefully? Are you OK friend?