Dan sold out.
That project is now commercial, but it still shows flights and aircraft that many of the other commercial ones do not. I agree though, supporting the non-commercial ones is important too. I should update my own feeder to do more.
Readit Newstlavoie commented on Help flight radar with a RasPi and SDR flightradar24.com/build-y... · Posted by u/sebzuddas
I think the problem with this argument is that this is rarely the case.
99% of the time (including incident) they are not requiring an account for your toaster, or lightbulbs or your washing machine ceasing to function when your wifi goes off.
The issue is that you have a washing machine that you bought with a feature that you can watch the inside of the machine while it's running over wifi from anywhere in the world. Then the company "kills" their cloud features (like Belkin is doing wiht Wemo cloud features) and you no longer can watch your 4k stream of the washer working. Not even locally, not remotely, nothing. It's a feature you paid for, and 2 or 3 years down the line it's gone.
Some times the whole functionality of a device is a cloud connectivity, like a bridge or something, or a device that has 0 physical controls (for some design or ascetic reason) then yeah. Those devices would "cease to function"
Aside from really really maliciously designed products, most "smart" products I know of function perfectly fine as their dumb counter parts. The vast shocking majority of smart lights, smart switches, smart outlets, smart locks, and smart toasters I have seen all work as regular "dumb" version. But that's not why you paid the extra $40-$200 on it. Like a regular LED lightbulb is $4 and a Lifx wifi one is $30. It works fine as a regular lightbulb, you never need to do anything to it and you'd never know it has wifi in it.
One word: Juicero
tlavoie commented on Iocaine: The deadliest poison known to AI git.madhouse-project.org/... · Posted by u/tomsonj
Has anyone made the switch to firefox? I’d be sad to lose my nice google profile integration to chrome and the password manager. And whenever I try Firefox it feels a little bit jankier and slower, but that might just be in my head
Sure, years ago, and it's been great. I do keep Vivaldi around as a Chrome-variant for those sites that need it, and appreciate their general approach. However, Firefox has the things I need, e.g.:
- Various integrations, such as password managers. - uBlock Origin - Temporary containers - so even those sites that save cookies, are really saving them ephemerally until that container closes.
A disk broke in my thinkpad under warranty. I told them I preferred to change it myself because I needed the computer. They just sent the new disk and I did it by myself.
Right? That’s awesome. With a spare bay, I got an adapter for my Mac-specific SSD, so still have that working in a not-dead, fixable device.
I changed/replaced a bunch of things in my ThinkPad T14 without any issues, it's very easy, it is clearly made to open up and update. I wouldn't dare to do that with my MacBook Pro.
That "made to open up and update" aspect is exactly why I switched when my 2013 (Retina) MBP crapped out. I had just spent $300 CAD to replace the battery, which involved the glued-together mess of battery, top case, keyboard and trackpad. So when the charging circuit died on motherboard right after, I was not keen to spend much more to just get back to baseline. They wouldn't even countenance the idea of my giving them more money, so that I could get a board with more soldered-on RAM.
Switched to a P50 with twice as much RAM, and that's just one socket of four. Since upgraded to the max, with bigger SSD, it's still a beast.
Compare with Apple's use of glue and special screws, when Lenovo provides detailed service manuals on its web site.
tlavoie commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I know people personally that psilocybin, LSD, and other substances do nothing for. All of them also have existing mental health disorders (extreme generalized anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc.).
That could be an interaction with the meds they take for those conditions, couldn't it? I seem to recall that SSRIs in particular could mitigate the effects of the hallucinogen.
tlavoie commented on Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
It is labeled in the Kroger one, but it obviously doesn't belong in there.
It sucks, too, because the Kroger one's texture is really good and is great in salad.
Interesting, thanks. This would have been a number of years ago that we noticed this rejection by our dogs, and also in Canada if that makes any difference. I'll certainly be looking at ingredients going forward.
tlavoie commented on Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
tlavoie commented on Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
These sugar alcohols are a scourge. I quit buying my favorite fake crab (Kroger) because it's full of this garbage.
We stopped buying fake crab (made from pollock), after we noticed that the dogs wouldn't eat it. Don't know what was there to cause that, but since there isn't much they won't eat, we wouldn't either. That bar is very, very low.