FigMcLargeHuge @ FigMcLargeHuge @sh.itjust.works

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You should. My best friend hates adding water to his keurig machine. So he designed a float and such, mailed me the tank lid and components with a diagram of how they should fit. I designed and built the rack that fits on the lid and mailed it all back to him. Works like a charm.

The problem is, sometimes while you might be open to using certain software, the people you need to work with and collaborate make that hard. For instance, Early 2000's, I was tasked with making some weekly magazines. I used Scribus. The people at the printer, of which I had no control over unless I wanted to foot the bill, made life pretty damn miserable because I wasn't using whatever adobe product they were used to. Things worked, but it was a time that I would much rather leave in the past as I can't describe the frustration caused.

Because that's a news story I have already read about. This has happened to people. No need to be so sanctimonious.

I was thinking the same thing, or if a lawmakers granddaughter is AI'ed into some porn.

They seem to be getting a pass on using copyrighted materials to feed these programs so I am doubting that we would get legislation protecting our own likenesses, or those of our loved ones. I bet you couldn't even get lawmakers to understand what they would need to write into law. They (american lawmakers) all seem to be so up to speed on technology. /s

Welcome to what we call news these days. You just described what my local teams would call "Investigative" reporting ie: "removing all context."

Bingo.

You know that shows only come on at scheduled times, and having a set of various tapes was the same as having an online subscription that's being discussed in this thread. And yes, we taped shows for the kids to watch and add to their library. There's a million things I can't explain why a couple of kids aged 3 and 6 would do. Watching Barney over and over is just one of them.

Even at a young age they have their own freewill. I forced nothing, merely provided them the tools, which was my point. You don't have to have a subscription to a streaming service to keep a child entertained.

I didn't force them to to anything. Not sure how anyone jumped to that conclusion.

They also need to be suing the companies that are hawking this bullshit and getting rich off taxpayer money. Our officials need to make better decisions when purchasing shit like this. For instance, make sure there is some kind of fund set up by the provider of this technology to cover costs and liability when mistakes like this are made. Or at least hold them accountable. This is bullshit that the taxpayers pay for this on both ends, and these companies just walk away counting our money. Modern day snake oil.
Edit: I don't want the snake oil comment to diminish the fact that this is fucking with people's lives.

Managed accounts is a huge one for me. Even with just one extra person in your household, it is a lifesaver for keeping everything separate.

It's funny how we managed to survive without streaming services. I distinctly remember teaching my kids how to rewind a vcr tape. They watched the same Barney episode about 400 times per day. Guess kids nowadays can't handle that.

Exactly. Just making larger queries or adding in more if then statements does not make anything intelligent. It's just larger.

Extra sharp bunch we have here.

You muenster!

(You should see a line output)

Just a reminder that the line you see shouldn't be the grep line. You can use 'ps aux | grep 1635 | grep -v grep'

It's pretty frustrating that the news lately just goes out of their way to make things look bleak. Like that CNN story about Saturn's rings "disappearing". They mentioned that "future astronomers might not get the chance to view Saturn's rings." and went on about how they were disappearing. At the very end of the article was the estimate of the timeline, and it was 100 million years. Give me a fucking break. These fucking news outlets with their clickbait bullshit titles just irritates me. I get you were just posting what was there. My frustration is just at the news outlets themselves.

A little disappointed in BBC with the clickbait title there... All is not lost as the headline implies, per the article:

While fuller communication is not yet established, Voyager 2 is programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth. The next reset is due on 15 October, which Nasa says "should enable communication to resume".

Frustrating that they make it sound like this is a big deal.

Now that's an interesting twist that I like. Not sure how it will go over based on the reactions I got with my suggestion. My idea was hatched when I was seeing what felt like bot farms just downvoting certain posts to oblivion. And I know this is going to sound all feel good, hokey shit, but I thought 'if people had to think twice before downvoting' maybe it would be a good thing overall. But as we can see, it's not a very popular idea. It would also be like a captcha, without having to get those stupid things involved.

I guess thinking about this, another thought is, what if we just programmed in an option so that you can just turn off the display of votes. I know for a fact that even some imaginary points can have an effect on your mental health so maybe the solution is to just give people the option to hide them. Or how about just hiding them altogether. Maybe someone with some training in psychology can give some input on a better system that this simple up/down voting that would possibly be better for the population as a whole. Regardless, I like your idea too.