tabular

joined 2 years ago
[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe you've missed the real dumb shit getting out from various tech manufacturers. I'm not a car guy but I know enough about software and manufacturers screwing people to see that criminals and amaturers are not the real issue in regards to saftey or repair.

A Suburu car has a text pop up advert from the manufacturer on display screen, which can't be used for normal functionallity until you click off it. Is that distracting to you? Want to bet it doesn't ever get worse than that when the incentive is there and they're in control? Source: 5m video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3KRfy9vQY

When I have time I'll try to recall car specific repair issues that lead to injury. All that comes to mind is OneWheel, and the medical industry screeming death by cost.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If saftey is your concern I hope you do not blindly trust manufacturers given their history of "safety and security". My concern is software freedom: being in control of your own computing (instead of the creator being in control). All software has bugs, but at least 3rd party software isn't intentionally adding anti-features and spyware.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (11 children)

People have been able to change their own brake pads for as long as cars existed.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If someone claims feeling in a mere concept (without a body in a location).. I would find it very difficult to take seriously. But I must admit that's just my intuition.

I see nothing special in human meat that couldn't be be significantly replicated by electronics, software, gears, etc. Consciousness is an imergent property.

I fear that non-human, conscious creatures must fight us for those rights.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The important part is that it feels like something subjectively to be a living human. It's easy to presume animals close to humans are like us to a degree, but all we know is what it's like to be ourselves moment to moment. There's no reason to deny an unalive system cannot also feel - we cannot test anything.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Welp, sucks to be a motherboard manufacturer. Always getting dragged along by other component manufacturers.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

DDR6 will be about to release by the time RAM prices return to normal..

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(Apple) will permit developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its own in-app purchase system {in Japan}.

permit

The benevolence!

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If Deputy Attorney General John Fowler said that tgen he is an asshole. I don't accept the premiss of assholes.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish I could buy hardware without HMDI at all so they got no money from me.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ya'll have phones?

Maybe I should not, if it can be taken with no articulable reason given.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tabular@lemmy.world to c/dwarffortress@lemmy.ml
 

I lose interest in DF when, after some lucky military dwarfs die in glorious combat, I have to micro manage re-adding dwarfs to squads. Is there a mod to automate adding dwarfs to squads?

I'd love it if the commander/captains would have meetings to choose a new member out of some pool of dwarfs that want to join. And also kick out unhappy, trouble-makers from the military.

+Wood mug+ engraving unrelated.

 

They told me who you are.

 

I had not heard of a weighted blanket until I saw that image and searched for what it might refer to. Are they useful for adults too? Will ask my ADHD friend if they ever had one, might make a good gift.

The image looks like it could be used as a real emoji (expressing comfort). Who made it? I would like to use the image if permission has been given (e.g. Creative Commons licence).

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