[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 19 points 7 months ago

Took one for the team and tried it

Painfully sweet even for a Coca Cola product. Reminds me of Jolly Ranchers and/or Swedish Fish but not in a good way (and I love Swedish Fish)

0/10

7/10 with rice

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 20 points 8 months ago

I really hope you're a troll because if anyone genuinely thinks like this I am concerned for democracy.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 20 points 10 months ago

Note that isn't illegal, it just means the company doesn't get to get out of paying unemployment when it happens. And that's only if someone is willing to challenge them on it.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 21 points 10 months ago

Conveniently I work in this space, but note the following is primarily my own personal opinion.

Primarily there's a few reasons I prefer Android Auto over native Android on the car:

  1. Ever had a phone that's a few years old slow down in you? Now imagine you buy a car for $60k, and three years down the line the (already sluggish to begin with) Android interface is bogged down by updates and is barely usable. Imagine Spotify drops support for that version of Android Automotive. Android Auto puts all the infotainment into something the customer controls, and something external to the car so you are not dependent upon the OEM to do their own due diligence to ensure functionality and compatibility. If my phone slows down from age/wear/increased software demands, I go buy a new $400 phone. If my car's infotainment slows down I....buy a new car? (Looking at you GM)

  2. Like I said it moves the infotainment to something in the customer's (and Google/Apple's) hand. OEMs do not want this. Auto makers want you locked into their proprietary Android skins for two reasons. First, making it more difficult to leave their specific company's ecosystem. They (will) build in their own apps that you'll start putting all your settings and private info on. Things like remembering a driver's preferred seating and mirror arrangement and auto-adjusting, so when your spouse buys a car you go "Oh well if we both have brand X, it'll be easier to drive each other's cars." Etc. Second, they want all of your data. Legitimately the industry is on fire right now figuring out how much consumer data we can scrape and use/sell with these systems. The Android Automotive stack in a car is 300% sending data back to the OEM of literally anything they are legally allowed to collect. Probably more, too. Plug in Android Auto from my phone and yeah they're still spying on me, but they don't have my Spotify login info or my specific apps used, they just have what the vehicle can directly measure (still a terrifying amount).

In your specific case with a third party head unit..go ham and use the stock interface if you want. Personally I'd still use Android Auto, to top off my phone and to access my local music library (I don't stream music), but a third party has a lot less interest in spying on you or locking you in the same way an OEM does.

Also out of curiosity, what head unit did you get? I've got a 2012 Cruze I've considered installing one of those on but I can almost never find anything that seems actually trustworthy.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 22 points 11 months ago

No doubt the "next-gen update" is just an excuse to slip in paid mods like they just did with Skyrim

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 14 points 11 months ago

It's likely just you were taught a different notation. Personally I was taught (x, y) can mean both coordinates x and y or a range from x-y (non inclusive), just depends on context which it is. Brackets like [x,y] I was taught are for inclusive ranges (i.e., x and y are included in the range)

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 19 points 11 months ago

200 thousand people living in hebron and Seven Hundred of them are Jews.

But making this out to be apartheid?! Come on.

Uhhhhhhhh.... This is meant to be ironic or...? Yes, pushing members of a minority group to live in a specific city/area densely packed primarily by themselves which they do not govern... is apartheid. I could say "Look, only 100 white people lived in X neighborhood while 100,000 black people lived there in South Africa! How is that apartheid?" and it'd sound pretty ridiculous.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 19 points 1 year ago

Owning a ghost gun is a crime, right?

(Ignoring the fact that "ghost gun" is a meaningless and intentionally emotionally charged term)

In New York, yes. In the vast majority of the US, no. It's illegal to file the serial number off an existing firearm, but 100% legal in most states to manufacture your own unserialized firearms for personal use. Just cannot be sold/transferred.

I'd note the article you linked says nothing about how many of those are actually 3D printed, it is infinitely easier to deface the serial number on an existing firearm than it is to 3D print one.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, pretty much all new cars have some amount of cellular connectivity. Usually you can't actually use it without paying some subscription, but the manufacturers use it to push updates.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 18 points 1 year ago

Anyone know why they can't be charged with trespassing and removed? Article says the school and land are privately owned now, but surely unless the actual owner is physically there or has given permission it's a very clear case of trespassing? Especially when they're asking for plumbers and other tradespeople to come and trying to set something up long-term.

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 20 points 1 year ago

It was a bug in that version of the distro IIRC, trying to install Steam would instead try to install the SteamOS desktop environment (or something along those lines). It has since been fixed to actually install the Steam client.

Obviously it was a bit silly he typed "Yes, do as I say" after seeing the message, but he was also literally following exactly what all the online guides said to do (other than the "Yes do as I say" part). Luckily it's fixed now but I do think it was a really good demonstration of what the video wanted to see: "What might the average non-techie gamer face using Linux?"

[-] pokemaster787@ani.social 21 points 1 year ago

Google is not the law, and they can do whatever they want with their company.

Sure, but imagine your employer just fired you because of accusations before it ever reached trial. Illegal? No. Ruining someone's livelihood even though they're innocent legally speaking? Yes.

Not defending this person, I genuinely do not even know who they are. But "private company can do whatever they want, your rights are only something the government has to care about" is a pretty concerning position to take. Not to mention they didn't seem to take down or stop running ads on the channel, just stopped giving him the money. They're profiting off of his content without paying him and using an unverified (but very possibly accurate) accusation as an excuse. That should be illegal.

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