ThePowerOfGeek @ ThePowerOfGeek @lemmy.world

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Video cut out before he no doubt retorted with some facile, bullshit strawman argument. But you just know that happened.

Tuesday's release represents a small, outstanding tranche of the more than six million pages of records collected by the National Archives -- the majority of which have already been declassified and are available online or in person for review, according to the agency.

So not quite as spectacular as will probably be heralded by Trump's followers. But maybe there's some new information in the minority of new pages/documents that could be off interest to JFK conspiracy theorists.

Imagine how galling this must be for Jeff Bezos. He's put so much effort into his Bond villain persona. The guy even now looks like Dr Evil. But he's being out eviled by a pudgy, dorky-looking South African nepo-baby.

See, the mistake these German visitors are making is that they aren't Nazi-era rocket engineers. If they just fit into that category they'd be welcomed with open arms.

Sure. The device I use is an Onn streaming a Android TV box. I think I got the 2023 4k streaming version and it was about $20, from Walmart. You can probably get cheaper models, but I wanted one with an Ethernet port.

Then I installed a couple of alternative launchers from the Play store on device. I also loaded F-Droid as well (though I had to do that directly through an apk). I can't remember which launcher I went with in the end, but it was either FLauncher or Projectivity. They were both good.

The wrinkle here is that the OS defaults back to the default launcher (which has ads and a lot of clutter on it). But I used a free command line tool called adb to switch the default launcher off.

I've been very happy with the new setup. My kids (who use it all the time) occasionally complain that an app will crash while they are watching something, and take them back to the home screen/launcher. But I haven't run into that, and it's probably just them accidentally hitting a remote (which I know they accidentally do a lot).

I documented the process and posted them here, in another thread a few months ago.

Additional note: The default YouTube app isn't very conducive to quick profile switching, which can be annoying. To switch profiles you basically have to go back to the OS level and do it there, then go back into the YouTube app. It's an Android TV quirk. But I discovered that if you side-load the Amazon Fire version of the YouTube app onto the device, you can switch profiles within that version of the app, and it works just fine.

Some good options already listed. But here's another.

Hey an Android TV box (Onn brand or similar) and install an open source launcher on it, like Projectivity. You have to use adb to disable the default launcher after the new launcher is installed, otherwise it keeps defaulting back to the default one. But once don't it's smooth sailing. You have a dedicated streaming device with a remote control and a nice UI with zero ads on the home screen.

So glad I ditched Roku. My modified Onn box (with an open source, ad-free launcher) is so much better.

"We've done nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

I can believe this. She seemed frustrated when she spoke about the Palestine situation, and I picked up a strong subject that she wanted to say more about her objections over Israel's actions than she did.

Interesting article. It fits beyond the recent trend of AI and into slightly more traditional automation. It also covers some good concepts on job categorizations in general.

The ultimate point seems to be that AI-driven job automation is just a subtle evolution on general white-collar job automation that has been happening for 30+ years. And that makes a lot of sense. Although generative AI is expanding that automation into other areas beyond office and some manufacturing job roles.

Friendly reminder that Trump described military personnel who got captured or killed in action as "suckers" and "losers". He and his lackeys have zero respect for military honor, bravery, and sacrifice.

But they're not racist! No no no! /s

Great point. But I think it's even more than that. Not only do they want kids uneducated, they don't want them to be happy or well-adjusted. They want an legion of angry, resentful, miserable, malleable subordinates.

A teacher who is passionate about her job and wants all her students to feel welcome? Can't have that! /s

In a time when teachers are overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated, what a stupid decision to try to drive them away and crush their morale. I feel bad for the kids stuck in such backward districts. But this teacher (and others like her) deserves better than all this Idaho bullshit.

The secret sauce is that most of them always were bigoted assholes. They just pretended not to be because that wasn't socially acceptable. But showing their wretched true selves is cool under the new administration, so they are.

Musk is already calling for the judge to be impeached.

I guess such assertions are easy to make for him because he wasn't fucking elected. Narcissistic drug-fueled nepo-babies can rip the federal government apart with no negative consequences or accountability.

It's time for new parties to rise from the festering corpses of both the Democrat and the Republican parties. A new Democrat party that isn't filled with fucking cowards. And a new Republican party that isn't filled with psychopathic sycophants.

It's like when you hear some hardcore Christians (and probably other hardcore religious people) say that without the threat of eternal damnation they would be going around raping and murdering other people all over the place. And to them that's the main justification for the need for religion.

To me that's just a massive red flag that they are psychopaths and completely horrible people. If the only thing keeping you in check is angry sky daddy then you have something profoundly wrong with you.

Well, given the subpart quality of most complex AI-generated code right now, it could easily mean that too. You just have an AI system generate some spaghetti code and then just vibe with it and ignore the cavalcade of errors and issues that code causes.

Even better, have it quote RATM: "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!"