advertising AND entertainment, which now, sadly, includes 'news'.
we no longer have news. we have bullshit that is paraded in front of us as 'news'.
I have zero problems taking what I want from the bay. we all have been raped many times over by the so-called entertainment industry. I am done paying for content. like the 1-percenters that have all decided 'rules don't apply to them'; I figure if its good enough for them, its good enough for me. rules about paying for content don't apply to me anymore. yeah, fuck them - I just don't care anymore. I paid enough full-price for that crap over my lifetime. no more.
if they ever start to become ethical again, I'll reconsider, but not in the current state of the industry.
it really does seem to be true: the only way to win is to play dirty. the big guys all do it. we should, too.
so, when one cap blows inside (mostly it IS caps, from china, the fake ones that have electrolyte that lasts one year+one week) you want to throw the whole thing away because 'big chips' scare you?
get out of the way, adults are here and we want to do real work. you should go to your room and let the adults talk.
not even sure why we reply to AC's. and not sure why his was voted up. it was as content-free as it gets.
I live here in cali and while its not perfect, its heaven for hardware types like myself, who also do software for their day-jobs. just come visit HALTED electronics (well known in the bay area) and go show me other places that have this kind of surplus gear for sale. there are places in the US who have stores like this, but this is just one of many in the bay area (the first one that comes to mind).
the traffic is worse in the north east (where I spent a lot of my youth) and the brutal weather back east is nothing I want to see, ever again.
food is great out here, we're not all one culture, the only down-side other than house prices is the ageism in hiring. once over 40, its hard to find and keep tech jobs.
but that's the only real down-side.
AC's can shitpost all they want, but they are just showing how jealous they are, really.
the ghouls are running things, they are happy as pigs in shit and they have ZERO idea that they are living in an opposite-world of reality.
this proves - more than anything - that we have 2 (or even more) countries in the US. we'll NEVER meet in the middle. it has not happened and we are drawing even farther apart as each day passes.
(no, both sides are NOT identically bad; and in this situation and mahy others where its business vs people, the R's clearly favor the rich business and care NOTHING for the common man. NOTHING. and their base of poor flyover states eat it up, in some kind of absurd opposite-think; afterall, anyone poor in a flyover is just 'temporarily poor' and they fully think they have every chance to be rich like their idols, though it will never happen)
yes, oled burns in. can't be reversed and once its burned, its burned.
I build little arduino thingies that use the common 128x64 mono oled displays. I've had a clock/calendar on one of them for about 2 years now and while its contantly on (cycles from clock to 'cal' calendar) I can see areas that are burned from the 2 yrs use.
I can't see paying a lot for oled. $1k for a phone? NEVER in my life will I pay that, with my own money. even half of that is absurd for a phone, imo. even worse when you realize that the screen burns in and apple makes life as hard as possible to fix things yourself.
everything I hear about apple convinces me to stay away. I'm clearly not their target 'rich' audience and I insist that I be able to open and fix things.
the little $7 oled displays are socketed and even if I solder to the 4 wires (i2c and power), its only 4 wires and anyone can fix the things I build. no quite the case with apple.
voters are idiots and the framers of the const. knew that.
problem is, they also trusted the electoral college and that proved to be fatal, in this case. they were the last check/balance and they 100% failed us. we should get rid of it since it failed and will fail again. (do we really think this was a one-time event?)
we really need revolution 2.0. we don't want it, but we need it.
so much is broken and needs to be scrapped and re-done.
I actually applied to the test group for the home pod.
I left comments a while back - people here took my comments out of context and blamed ME for them.
so, I won't repeat what I said before, but suffice to say, I was not convinced they knew what they were doing, during test. and I guess the product now shows that, sigh.
think about it this way: the ultra rich want us (the regular folks) to live in constant fear. that distracts us and keeps us in-fighting (ie, not fighting THEM or coming after them with pitchforks and fires).
they keep wages down, they hire outside the country as much as they can and they actively seek to lower the standard of living for all but their friends. reasoning is the same as above, keeps us fighting between ourselves over stupid shit. and if we're all just 1 paycheck away from being homeless, we are properly kept 'in line' and in fear.
this is all by plan. entirely. not coordinated, mind you, but its in the back of the minds of EVERY rich motherfucker out there.
zero doubt about it. they are all sociopaths. the ultra rich are not nice people.
That's pretty much exactly what it is. Erdogan was elected with a very very slim margin and he knows the country is split in the middle. The cities are highly educated and well off and in favour of a secular state and against totalitarianism. The countryside, Erdogan's base, is less educated, more conservative and more religious, and this is the group he's been pandering to the whole time.
sed 's/Erdogan/Trump/g'
works.
damn, I hate that this actually 'works' when you replace one evil person with the current POTUS.
the world over, people are mostly the same. the powerful manipulate the 'conservatives' (who are generally religion, less educated and more guided by 'feel' than fact) and this causes progress to halt or even retrograde.
mouth breathers are the doom of us all. no matter what country.
the utter gall and arrogance of google and those devs to decide that their app is 'special' and does not need a window manager interface.
I use fvwm1 (old twm style clone) and while I can use keyboard accels to move and resize, its stupid as can be, that they removed the window manager stuff; actively wrote code to remove it rather than just let the window manger BE in control over such things.
every time I see a google product, it makes me cringe. I have no idea why people think google is such a smart group of people. their thought processes show otherwise, to those of us who have been around long enough to know the diff.
what does 'evading arrest' really mean? in this context?
in this context it means that some rogue set of governments was out to silence a vocal critic. I don't consider the governments to be in the right and so I dont' consider that a lawful order that *needs* to be followed.
suppose a cop, on his own, commands you to do something that you don't believe is lawful? are you compelled to just follow orders? of course not. only a fool would think you have no power to judge those who are coming after you. not everyone that comes after you under 'color of law' is really under actual color of law. lots of things are very unclear and this was one of them.
even besides technical interp of laws; there is the concept of judging BAD laws. classic example is southern civil war era and escaped slaves. it was 'illegal' to help escaped slaves and yet it was the correct and moral thing to do. but you would be breaking the law if you helped a slave seek freedom.
laws are not absolute and we are men and women, not machines. we reserve the right to judge EVERY SINGLE SITUATION and act as we see fit. most of the time, the laws are aligned with how we see the world around us, but in some cases, they diverge and then we have to follow our own best reasoning.
assange did not feel that the law was correct and I agree that he was being targeted unfairly. to escape a mob from killing you, that's not something I would criticize a person for! and that's exactly the case here; a mob of governments was out to get him and he did the only thing a sane person could do; seek asylum.
so, yes, I think he was setup and he did what he had to do. surrendering to false charges from colluding semi-evil governments is not something I endorse. in the end, you have only yourself to take care of yourself and he did what he had to. I give no blame to him on this. as for the actual charges, too much doubt for me to judge him on that, but the sources all dropped the case, so that tells me most of what I wanted to know.
leave the guy alone. just admit that the evil governments' clock ran out and they should stop throwing good money at bad, so to speak.
conservatives love authority. conservatives will keep voting these assholes in because they are 'tough on crime' and that rings with the church goers who simply do what they are told (they are not very smart, generally, and are easily manipulated if done by the right people).
we will never break free of this. the ruling parties know this trick and use it against us *constantly*.
good luck having a representative goverment when the morons will never be able to think for themselves and always vote against their own best interests. EVERY FUCKING TIME.
those in power WANT and COUNT on us bickering between this football team and that one.
yeah, that's a good way to think of it. petty differences at a certain level, but as long as you can keep the middle and lower classes 'amused' by hating each other, they've spent their hate toward someone OTHER than the ruling class.
the sooner we all realize this and stop being played as fools, the sooner we can fix america. and not in a MAGA way, either.
but it won't happen. religion is too deeply embedded in most americans and that's the actual cause of the R vs D fight (when saint reagan took over (...) he really aligned the R's with religion and once that happened, we pretty much gave full control over to the ruling elites. wish people would just SEE this, but they just won't. never will and I don't expect to see it in my lifetime)
no, the unions are dying because the powerful hate competition and want us to return to the turn of the century (100+ yrs ago) where we were LITERALLY wage *slaves*.
unbalanced power is what they crave and enjoy. unions help balance that power. normies like you and I don't 'deserve' to be able to bargain equally. cops, sure, they're allowed to have unions (why?? why do they deserve them but normies don't? that right there shows you its not ALL bad, with unions; but that they don't want US to have equal bargain power).
its just that simple.
corruption is EQUAL at corp and union, but that's the point! I'd rather have 2 gorillas fight than one of them fighting ME.
my GUESS (total non-informational guess) is that there already is an exploit (or, even apple GIVING the leos what they want) and this is all a smokescreen to keep up appearances.
I believe (again, no actual info) that the nsa has all it needs, it has enough might and power and influence to get what it wants.
I believe all encryption has been broken by the three letter agencies and we are all being led astray by false info. the narrative, if you will.
why do I believe this? just being alive for over 50 years and seeing what we have evolved into, what amazing amount of power the TLAs have and how much hunger they have to spy on everyone.
also the fact that I know, for a fact, that the government has had the ability to 'make life difficult' for any company not wanting to play ball (think CALEA) with the feds. you cannot be a business that does data comm in the US and not play ball with those bad guys (yes, I believe they are now the bad guys).
so, I will never trust a phone, ever again, no matter who makes it. I know that there are levels in silicon and firmware that even google does not get to see. carriers get some view, others get other views, but there are layers and layers. because of this, its not something I am interested in (to develop on) since its never going to be OUR devices (it never was).
from now on, pocket computers are spy devices that also offer us some services.
we need to start thinking like that, and stop believing companies who say things to further their agenda.
each month is a new cry about their lack of ability to STROLL THRU OUR LIVES and even plant shit on our computers.
we will not give in. but I suspect we'll lose anyway, because they have infinite money, power, almost people, who want to invade our privacy for lulz (mostly).
its sad that we are now in a perpetual state of WAR with our own governments on this very issue. and they show no signs of giving in.
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advertising AND entertainment, which now, sadly, includes 'news'.
we no longer have news. we have bullshit that is paraded in front of us as 'news'.
I have zero problems taking what I want from the bay. we all have been raped many times over by the so-called entertainment industry. I am done paying for content. like the 1-percenters that have all decided 'rules don't apply to them'; I figure if its good enough for them, its good enough for me. rules about paying for content don't apply to me anymore. yeah, fuck them - I just don't care anymore. I paid enough full-price for that crap over my lifetime. no more.
if they ever start to become ethical again, I'll reconsider, but not in the current state of the industry.
it really does seem to be true: the only way to win is to play dirty. the big guys all do it. we should, too.
how about buy vpn service and go to the bay for movies/etc?
apartment complex guy here: no antennas and OTA content mostly sucks anyway. TV content sucks badly, overall.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's and thought commercials were bad (quantity) back then. its unwatchable now. 100% unwatchable.
they'll never get me back, even if it was truly free. horse has left the barn and ain't coming back.
what a stupid and partial argument.
so, when one cap blows inside (mostly it IS caps, from china, the fake ones that have electrolyte that lasts one year+one week) you want to throw the whole thing away because 'big chips' scare you?
get out of the way, adults are here and we want to do real work. you should go to your room and let the adults talk.
says the AC too ashamed to use a real account?
no details, either? just a shitpost and an exit.
not even sure why we reply to AC's. and not sure why his was voted up. it was as content-free as it gets.
I live here in cali and while its not perfect, its heaven for hardware types like myself, who also do software for their day-jobs. just come visit HALTED electronics (well known in the bay area) and go show me other places that have this kind of surplus gear for sale. there are places in the US who have stores like this, but this is just one of many in the bay area (the first one that comes to mind).
the traffic is worse in the north east (where I spent a lot of my youth) and the brutal weather back east is nothing I want to see, ever again.
food is great out here, we're not all one culture, the only down-side other than house prices is the ageism in hiring. once over 40, its hard to find and keep tech jobs.
but that's the only real down-side.
AC's can shitpost all they want, but they are just showing how jealous they are, really.
I feel sick. sick to my stomach.
the ghouls are running things, they are happy as pigs in shit and they have ZERO idea that they are living in an opposite-world of reality.
this proves - more than anything - that we have 2 (or even more) countries in the US. we'll NEVER meet in the middle. it has not happened and we are drawing even farther apart as each day passes.
I see a civil war happening.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
so, BSAB argument?
maybe you'd like to engage in some whataboutism?
(no, both sides are NOT identically bad; and in this situation and mahy others where its business vs people, the R's clearly favor the rich business and care NOTHING for the common man. NOTHING. and their base of poor flyover states eat it up, in some kind of absurd opposite-think; afterall, anyone poor in a flyover is just 'temporarily poor' and they fully think they have every chance to be rich like their idols, though it will never happen)
yes, oled burns in. can't be reversed and once its burned, its burned.
I build little arduino thingies that use the common 128x64 mono oled displays. I've had a clock/calendar on one of them for about 2 years now and while its contantly on (cycles from clock to 'cal' calendar) I can see areas that are burned from the 2 yrs use.
I can't see paying a lot for oled. $1k for a phone? NEVER in my life will I pay that, with my own money. even half of that is absurd for a phone, imo. even worse when you realize that the screen burns in and apple makes life as hard as possible to fix things yourself.
everything I hear about apple convinces me to stay away. I'm clearly not their target 'rich' audience and I insist that I be able to open and fix things.
the little $7 oled displays are socketed and even if I solder to the 4 wires (i2c and power), its only 4 wires and anyone can fix the things I build. no quite the case with apple.
voters are idiots and the framers of the const. knew that.
problem is, they also trusted the electoral college and that proved to be fatal, in this case. they were the last check/balance and they 100% failed us. we should get rid of it since it failed and will fail again. (do we really think this was a one-time event?)
we really need revolution 2.0. we don't want it, but we need it.
so much is broken and needs to be scrapped and re-done.
...nuthin' left to do but smile, smile, smile.
yes, well aware of JPB and the gdead connection.
I actually applied to the test group for the home pod.
I left comments a while back - people here took my comments out of context and blamed ME for them.
so, I won't repeat what I said before, but suffice to say, I was not convinced they knew what they were doing, during test. and I guess the product now shows that, sigh.
beamforming tweeters and autocalibration?
that's dsp magic.
nothing 50's or 60's based. nothing at all.
think about it this way: the ultra rich want us (the regular folks) to live in constant fear. that distracts us and keeps us in-fighting (ie, not fighting THEM or coming after them with pitchforks and fires).
they keep wages down, they hire outside the country as much as they can and they actively seek to lower the standard of living for all but their friends. reasoning is the same as above, keeps us fighting between ourselves over stupid shit. and if we're all just 1 paycheck away from being homeless, we are properly kept 'in line' and in fear.
this is all by plan. entirely. not coordinated, mind you, but its in the back of the minds of EVERY rich motherfucker out there.
zero doubt about it. they are all sociopaths. the ultra rich are not nice people.
"The men dont know,
but the little-hands
understands"
--mr. mojo risin
That's pretty much exactly what it is. Erdogan was elected with a very very slim margin and he knows the country is split in the middle. The cities are highly educated and well off and in favour of a secular state and against totalitarianism. The countryside, Erdogan's base, is less educated, more conservative and more religious, and this is the group he's been pandering to the whole time.
sed 's/Erdogan/Trump/g'
works.
damn, I hate that this actually 'works' when you replace one evil person with the current POTUS.
the world over, people are mostly the same. the powerful manipulate the 'conservatives' (who are generally religion, less educated and more guided by 'feel' than fact) and this causes progress to halt or even retrograde.
mouth breathers are the doom of us all. no matter what country.
chromium, I'm looking at YOU!
the utter gall and arrogance of google and those devs to decide that their app is 'special' and does not need a window manager interface.
I use fvwm1 (old twm style clone) and while I can use keyboard accels to move and resize, its stupid as can be, that they removed the window manager stuff; actively wrote code to remove it rather than just let the window manger BE in control over such things.
every time I see a google product, it makes me cringe. I have no idea why people think google is such a smart group of people. their thought processes show otherwise, to those of us who have been around long enough to know the diff.
what does 'evading arrest' really mean? in this context?
in this context it means that some rogue set of governments was out to silence a vocal critic. I don't consider the governments to be in the right and so I dont' consider that a lawful order that *needs* to be followed.
suppose a cop, on his own, commands you to do something that you don't believe is lawful? are you compelled to just follow orders? of course not. only a fool would think you have no power to judge those who are coming after you. not everyone that comes after you under 'color of law' is really under actual color of law. lots of things are very unclear and this was one of them.
even besides technical interp of laws; there is the concept of judging BAD laws. classic example is southern civil war era and escaped slaves. it was 'illegal' to help escaped slaves and yet it was the correct and moral thing to do. but you would be breaking the law if you helped a slave seek freedom.
laws are not absolute and we are men and women, not machines. we reserve the right to judge EVERY SINGLE SITUATION and act as we see fit. most of the time, the laws are aligned with how we see the world around us, but in some cases, they diverge and then we have to follow our own best reasoning.
assange did not feel that the law was correct and I agree that he was being targeted unfairly. to escape a mob from killing you, that's not something I would criticize a person for! and that's exactly the case here; a mob of governments was out to get him and he did the only thing a sane person could do; seek asylum.
so, yes, I think he was setup and he did what he had to do. surrendering to false charges from colluding semi-evil governments is not something I endorse. in the end, you have only yourself to take care of yourself and he did what he had to. I give no blame to him on this. as for the actual charges, too much doubt for me to judge him on that, but the sources all dropped the case, so that tells me most of what I wanted to know.
leave the guy alone. just admit that the evil governments' clock ran out and they should stop throwing good money at bad, so to speak.
we never forgave them for causing all that trouble with moose and squirrel.
conservatives love authority. conservatives will keep voting these assholes in because they are 'tough on crime' and that rings with the church goers who simply do what they are told (they are not very smart, generally, and are easily manipulated if done by the right people).
we will never break free of this. the ruling parties know this trick and use it against us *constantly*.
good luck having a representative goverment when the morons will never be able to think for themselves and always vote against their own best interests. EVERY FUCKING TIME.
those in power WANT and COUNT on us bickering between this football team and that one.
yeah, that's a good way to think of it. petty differences at a certain level, but as long as you can keep the middle and lower classes 'amused' by hating each other, they've spent their hate toward someone OTHER than the ruling class.
the sooner we all realize this and stop being played as fools, the sooner we can fix america. and not in a MAGA way, either.
but it won't happen. religion is too deeply embedded in most americans and that's the actual cause of the R vs D fight (when saint reagan took over (...) he really aligned the R's with religion and once that happened, we pretty much gave full control over to the ruling elites. wish people would just SEE this, but they just won't. never will and I don't expect to see it in my lifetime)
no, the unions are dying because the powerful hate competition and want us to return to the turn of the century (100+ yrs ago) where we were LITERALLY wage *slaves*.
unbalanced power is what they crave and enjoy. unions help balance that power. normies like you and I don't 'deserve' to be able to bargain equally. cops, sure, they're allowed to have unions (why?? why do they deserve them but normies don't? that right there shows you its not ALL bad, with unions; but that they don't want US to have equal bargain power).
its just that simple.
corruption is EQUAL at corp and union, but that's the point! I'd rather have 2 gorillas fight than one of them fighting ME.
super 'successful' (ha!) business man who can't run shit.
as if we didn't see THAT coming.
trumpers, I hope you are happy. you did your SIGGINIT but you are fucking everyone over by your petty revenge tactics.
pathetic.
but not unexpected. most of us saw this coming.
tl;dr: the republicans are NOT the 'adults' and never have been.
the kids have a phrase that describes the republican view:
"I got mine, fark you"
it really is true, too. divide the classes even more. sure. what could happen? what are they gonna do?
(...)
my GUESS (total non-informational guess) is that there already is an exploit (or, even apple GIVING the leos what they want) and this is all a smokescreen to keep up appearances.
I believe (again, no actual info) that the nsa has all it needs, it has enough might and power and influence to get what it wants.
I believe all encryption has been broken by the three letter agencies and we are all being led astray by false info. the narrative, if you will.
why do I believe this? just being alive for over 50 years and seeing what we have evolved into, what amazing amount of power the TLAs have and how much hunger they have to spy on everyone.
also the fact that I know, for a fact, that the government has had the ability to 'make life difficult' for any company not wanting to play ball (think CALEA) with the feds. you cannot be a business that does data comm in the US and not play ball with those bad guys (yes, I believe they are now the bad guys).
so, I will never trust a phone, ever again, no matter who makes it. I know that there are levels in silicon and firmware that even google does not get to see. carriers get some view, others get other views, but there are layers and layers. because of this, its not something I am interested in (to develop on) since its never going to be OUR devices (it never was).
from now on, pocket computers are spy devices that also offer us some services.
we need to start thinking like that, and stop believing companies who say things to further their agenda.
some bama guy lost an election because he was thinking TOO MUCH about the children....
pigs just keep on piggin'.
each month is a new cry about their lack of ability to STROLL THRU OUR LIVES and even plant shit on our computers.
we will not give in. but I suspect we'll lose anyway, because they have infinite money, power, almost people, who want to invade our privacy for lulz (mostly).
its sad that we are now in a perpetual state of WAR with our own governments on this very issue. and they show no signs of giving in.