All in, fam; Poison Ivy makes some good points.

Yeah. Checks out. I’d be ripping apart every piece of consumer electronics I could access now, while scrambling to replace all of my comms infrastructure.

Good luck, but I appreciate the hustle.

Yeah the “scamming elderly people out of everything the own” industry is booming.

Just scrape all of a family’s public facing data and feed it in to a soulkiller algo then turn it against meemaw to steal her retirement.

It’s super cool that harris is floating the “china did covid” thin now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/ertlyi/for_you_nerds_out_there_i_recommend_you_try/

Old stormfront post about it.

I jailbreaked an older Kindle, installed Ko Reader, put it in airplane mode, and yoho’d a lot of books on it. I think that 7th gen Kindles can still be jailbroken but you’d really have to do some research to make sure.

When i see “stem nerds subjectively think this is happening” my eyes roll in to my skull.

Meanwhile I’m thinking about getting a Pi, sticking a cellular module on it, and 3-d printing a box for it to get away from all this bs.

Don’t show this to brace he’d have an asthma attack.

The 20th century sucks how the hell are we supposed to write “don’t let them take you to a second location in the helicopter car which you also shouldn’t get in to?”

Steam decks are reliable commercial-off-the-shelf compact battery operated linux computers.

Small business tyrant mindset.

Who could have forseen this entirely unpredictable and unexpected outcome?

Admittedly, extorting the state is a new and exciting height of crypto grift, but back when Texas put this in motion pretty much everyone knew bringing massive sudoku solving operations in to the only state with it’s own grid was a bad idea.

Photmanipulation, airbrushing, retouching, goofy edits, creative double exposures, they’re all as old as photography. There are all kinds of neat in-camera tricks you can do with old timey chemical film. This bazinga ai thing is more or less fancy double exposure - exposing the same piece of film towice to, say, make your friends look like ghosts, or blend a picture of a dog with the colors of the sky.

Apparently when photography first moved out of the lab in to the hands of enthusiasts there was a great deal of debate about whether photography could be called art. The machine was doing all the work, after all, where was the artist’s hand? Apparently it went back and forth for quite a while until most people agreed that photography constitutes art in it’s own right.

Huh? How? Does it not have a usb-c port? Can pixel phones not talk to windows pcs?

Really cuts to the quick of what photography is. Is it art? Documentation? A representation of something real, or just a sketch?

1987 documentary Robot Jox? One of my favorite examples of documentary film making!

There’s some kind of tier list thing, too. Having 10k in your bank is cool. Having 100k, tho? Now dental work becomes feasible. 10m? There isn’t really a medical proceedure the cost of which would cause you any difficulty.

Same i guess with cars.

Idk, there’s like break points where disasters stop being disastrous. If you have 5k in the bank you have drastically more savings in the bank than most people but if you had a death in the family the funeral costs would still hurt. 100k in the bank, though, and suddenly the layout for a sudden funeral isn’t as onerous at all.

Like, i guess, bigger numbers mean you can take hits that are much bigger, but proportionately less common. Like degrees of security or something, idk.

And then, like, most of this gets flattened to nothing with socialization - medical, dental, funerals.

even with bad odds, sometimes you win. Wear your mask, don’t give up!