Chip_Rat

joined 2 years ago
[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand. Cars have computer chips in them, they have had for awhile. But what needs to be updated? What part of a vehicle, that affects its ability to drive, needs to have an over the air update?

Update when you take it to a dealer? I mean I guess? The question is the same but at least then it's just 1-2 a year and updated while it's in there so if it goes wrong then they are holding the bag.

But why? What has changed in the world over the last 8 weeks the needed to be communicated to the car....

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

If it's like Google, they give you a seemingly generous amount of storage for free. Then they causally switch where you are saving everything to their cloud (one drive, Google drive) and then, if they have done their math right, a few years later you start getting polite prompts to upgrade your storage so you don't lose all your stuff. Usually by then you are invested enough that spending the time pulling everything back from there and storing it locally seems hardly worth the effort when it only costs $3 a month or whatever to quadruple your storage and kick the can down the road.

Rince and repeat

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Sure her early stuff could be considered basic, not that that stopped millions and millions of people connecting with it.

But some of her later albums really surprised me. If you have the time and are interested, Folklore was lyrically interesting and I quite enjoyed "The Last Great American dynasty" specifically.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

I'm very sad that story didn't have a happy ending where they were both hit by a bus or got arrested in a drug sting.

I'm glad that was your old apartment friend.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm confused... The tweet implies Elon agreed with someone else who cancelled because someone on Netflix was mean about Charlie Kirk, and blah blah Trans-agenda. Oct 1 2025

But they show they are discussing was cancelled years ago?

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Look friend, you can live your life however you want, and good for you. But if it's a dish and it's in my house, it's going in the dishwasher. Maybe only once, but that problem solved itself.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I read the article but I'm not 100% clear... Who filed the settlement and who is receiving the money?

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The headline is doing exactly that. My first reaction was "of course some asshole is, probably a conservative." And then I clued into the photo and recognized the buffoon. If I wasn't a Canadian, or didn't have the picture, or maybe wasn't good with faces, I would have scrolled by not realizing the idiot in question iis the leader of the Conservative Party.

A responsible headline would have said that. It might as well have said "A random white guy from Canada is openly spreading propaganda." I mean it's a true headline right? Not misleading at all.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks. I did that! (Just me, solely responsible)

Wayward just went up on Netflix if you are a fan of Toni Collette. It's suspensey/horror I guess? 8 episode limited series.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Canadian working in film and television here. I'm working for an American company, half the executives fly in weekly to lord over us, and I'm pretty sure the director and writer are American. And some of the cast.

Like every other threat Trump has made, it's going to hurt Americans as much if not more, but I guess if it hurts Canadians even a little than it's all worth it.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

A show my partner finished production on that apparently the producers decided was "too sad" for their brand. It's the first time either of us has been on a show that finished production (at least shooting side) and never made it. Few times we've started on a show and 3 weeks into prep it gets cancelled before the camera showed up.

It still might get shopped around or whatever, I don't know how these things happen.

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