Pro tip - never install any browser extensions. Avoid like a plague. I had a couple installed that were “legitimate” and I have direct evidence of them leaking/selling my browsing data. Just avoid.
Readit Newscryptoegorophy commented on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-bro... · Posted by u/takira
> What people are expressing a desire for is more robust public transit and transportation facilities that protect everyone: peds, drivers, cyclists, etc.
I'm going to take a guess here that you're in a bubble. Most people don't give more than a passing thought to protecting anybody else on the road but themselves and their own loved ones. You could say enlightened self interest means this should extend to random strangers, but I bet that as a practical matter it does not. I'd even go farther and suggest that the largest plurality of people who support public transit want it so that it will take other people off the road, not them.
People that want more public transit probably never did public transit. It took me a few horrible interactions on a public transit and some disgusting experience in car share to never support anything “communist”. Specially when you get kids.
Why do people what self driving cars at all? I certainly hate the thought of having to pay for any of this. Even if the end product is subscription based, all these feature cost money up front making new cars super expensive.
Because you haven’t tried it. I want to buy Cadilac ev but the biggest downside is the lack of FSD. Once you go FSD you never go back.
Probably a lot of overlap in the venn diagram of people who would like the two
things. Mostly the "Early Adopter" circle.
Also a lot of cars have a lot of limitations with comma.ai. Yes, you can install it on all sorts but there are limitations like: above 32mph, cannot resume from stop, cannot take tight corners, cannot do stop light detection, requires additional car upgrades/features, only known to support model year 2021. Etc.
Rivian supports everything, it has a customer base who LOVE technology, are willing to try new things, and ... have disposable income for a $1k extra gadget.
I’ve seen videos of massive touch screen stuttering, is it still a thing on rivian?
Service can’t do anything about the state machine being wrong.
The Rivian app does not permit you to send a command to the car while the app thinks the car is processing a command. Trunk opening? You can’t unlock the door. On top of this, if you try to open the trunk while outside Bluetooth range and then Bluetooth connects, you are still stuck waiting for the pending command to complete.
Oh, and the ridiculous “hey let’s always remind you that you own a Rivian” Live Activity seems to synchronize on a schedule that involves being hours and hours out of date.
The Rivian app sucks.
Why can’t they just copy Tesla? Chinese manufacturers do just that and skip the hard steps
cryptoegorophy commented on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/20... · Posted by u/mikelabatt
Buying non Tesla EVs doesn’t make any practical sense.
cryptoegorophy commented on Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet updates.techforpalestine.... · Posted by u/ciconia
Even in Ukraine it's quite possible to code. I worked at Google with people who stayed in Ukraine after Russia started the war. I can't say they were unaffected - there was stuff like meetings interrupted by missile alerts - but they managed to do normal work despite the ongoing war.
I have a couple of programmers currently in ukraine. Unless you are in a war zone there is low risk and life is mostly normal. Only risk right now is no electricity or getting snatched on the street to be sent to war.
cryptoegorophy commented on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
People in the comments are defending TPLink for how 'solid' their products are. As someone who just switched to UniFi APs from a Deco Mesh (wired), I have to admit that the difference is deep dark hole and bright sunshine day. Maybe people are comparing to spectrum charter modem combos but I definitely don't see how a router that loses firmware updates in a year can be praised. And it needs reboots so frequently. The Deco has an option now to reboot 'everyday'. This sounds something maybe needed for rare cases where the ISP expects a reboot, but the fact that your routers have that as a feature to keep it stable is a big red flag.
I was so used to this that when I started looking for this setting in UniFi OS I had forgotten the part 'networks are not supposed to be rebooted frequently!'.
I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my WiFi. Turns out all I had to do is power restart it. All my problems went away after setting up weekly reboots. It is stupid that it works and it is stupid that it is the only solution for stable WiFi. Shame on tplink
i am thankfull for cellphoneless childhood. Wishing same thing upon my children. Worst thing about all of this is the peer pressure, if all your friends have a phone then you become an outcast, so it is a team effort from all parents.
cryptoegorophy commented on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams sherwood.news/tech/meta-p... · Posted by u/donohoe
Same. About half of Youtube ads that I get on my AppleTV (no adblock there sadly) are now AI generated scam products.
And sadly I have to compete with them trying to sell physical products on YouTube. Just no way