I miss my Samsung Alias and Alias 2. They were good times.
I miss my Samsung Alias and Alias 2. They were good times.
We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.
The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?
It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,
One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.
Okay that I’m aware of but I’ve never heard of it referred to as “bootstrapping”. Thanks for the explanation.
Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn’t require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don’t notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.
My internet being bootstrapped by ISP…
Seriously, what does “bootstrapped” mean in this context?
Edit: if you are going to downvote at least explain if you got a counter point, otherwise it seems y’all just butthurt haha
Okay.
How is this different from US ISP bootstrapping peasant grade internet?
So basically you are getting downvoted because your comment is irrelevant 'Murica bashing.
Now you know.
You think the people who brought us Stuxnet aren’t fucking with Russia?
100,000 rides a week. Impressive.
Nah, Starlink doesn’t reset the Wi-Fi SSID for a firmware update.
They didn’t, the commenter is making things up.
Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?
I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.
It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.
Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?
I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.
The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.
That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.
Can’t you simply not connect your display to the Internet
Probably, but maybe not. I can think of three ways a Smart TV could potentially get internet access without the owners knowledge.
So while the owner could choose not to give their Smart TV a wifi connection that doesn’t mean the TV can’t get one another way.
What does YouTube have to do with this? I’m on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I’ve yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.
WHO is the one guy who downvotes you???
That’s the bot that ChatGPT operates here on Lemmy.
It’s expensive AF to operate which is why Israel has been working hard on “Iron Beam”, which uses lasers instead of missiles, to supplement it and reduce the cost of operation. Iron Beam is supposed to become active in 2025.
Ukraine doesn’t have Iron Dome because of cost and scale. Israel is 22,145 square kilometers while Ukraine is 603,628 square kilometers. It probably cost 10 Billion to build an Israel sized Iron Dome so a Ukraine sized one would cost upwards of $300 Billion and operating the thing would like be a billion dollars a month for active combat.
As an aside the United States also has ground based directed energy weapons. There’s even a 50KW mobile version built on the Stryker platform called DE M-SHORAD. 100KW+ versions are supposed to be rolling out next year.
Sigh. I don’t know why I keep tilting at this windmill but…
A. There’s an appeals process.
The Brazilian Government has never released the details on who they asked Xitter to ban nor why they were banned. They also gagged Xitter so they couldn’t tell anyone either. So what good is an appeals process if you you can’t use it because you don’t know you’ve been banned?
Now Xitter TRIED to use it but…
Musk could have blocked those accounts from being visible in Brazil and then had his legal representative argue that’s compliance.
What you are suggesting is pretty much what Xitter did.
Notice that part about “threatened to arrest our employees”? That’s why Xitter doesn’t have the required “Legal Representative”. This Judge threatened to imprison the last one and pre-emptively froze their bank accounts. This is also why Xitter closed their office in Brazil.
There’s a LOT more going on here than “Elon Bad” but it can’t be discussed because of the volume of utter nonces who incapable of handling nuance.
Of all the “Feature Phones” I ever had, and I had a bunch, the Alias and it’s successor the Alias II were my easily my favorites.