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I'm running a Venstar Colortouch thermostat. They're not cheap, but they have a local API and there's a Homeassistant integration.

When I was broke the only motor vehicle I owned was a motorcycle -- it was significantly cheaper than a car.

This is 100% speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if it checks the length of the subscription when connected to a network, then tracks that with a built in clock. There's also incentive to frequently connect it to a network since the company constantly "updates the algorithm" it uses to detect crashes and deploy.

I suspect it would stop working once you hit the end of whatever period it knows you're "paid up" for.

At least chocolate is water soluble.

Your comment made me have a flashback to my dad getting irritated at me for squeezing the middle of the toothpaste tube.

You're only supposed to squeeze the far end of a metal tube -- pushing product from the very end to the opening. Then as it gets empty you fold/roll up the flat bit at the end. You can even even buy "wringers" designed to assist with that.

We would have probably been using metric from the start, but pirates stole our kilogram.

I wouldn’t want to live close to a dispensary, there’s almost always a “stench”.

I pass by dispensarys all the time and never notice a smell. The only places that smell are those that allow smoking on premise -- which with our state's indoor smoking laws are very rare.

It's no different than tobacco, really.

I'd argue his best performance was in Vampire's Kiss, and a toss up between this scene or this one.

The real story was showing that part of American history: the culture, events, people, etc. Forrest and Jenny were just plot devices to tie it all together.

4. Forrest had a serious intellectual disability, and she almost certainly felt like she was taking advantage of him.

Yeah, they're not hard to understand.

The world got on fine before the internet too.

I've used these apps -- when I was quarantining because I had Covid, wasn't in a state to drive, and needed food.

I don't use them anymore, but these types of apps can fill a "need".

If they use nuclear weapons, it will end in one of two ways.

1. Escalation to full scale nuclear exchange. Putin dies or has to live in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.
2. The rest of the world saying "that's enough". Nobody in power wants using nukes to be normalized. It's so profoundly destabilizing to the status quo that everyone sees it as a threat given it will inevitably lead to escalation. Every intelligence agency in the world will be making phone calls, offering sweet deals, and promising support to unhappy, powerful people in Russia to deal with the "Putin" problem. Ideological enemies will work together to eliminate this threat to their stability.

I took their comment to mean "companies offering VPN services as a subscription for the purpose of privacy".

It wouldn't be hard to target those companies specifically while leaving every other "legitimate" (in their view) use cases for VPNs alone.

HIPAA has exceptions, which include orders to disclosed PHI to the court.

... What Ken Paxton is attempting isn't legal though. Texas has no jurisdiction in this sham and following the order would violate Washington state law.

The GOP and DNC didn't do shit -- they're symptoms of complacency.

The uncomfortable truth is as a species we're tribalistic, short sighted, and selfish. The worst of us eventually find positions of power, and they'll use/create "crisises" to do so. None of this shit is new.

I deleted my reddit account and joined lemmy during the subreddit blackout, but there's still a few authors I follow on reddit. Most I've followed to other sites, and just recently one was suspended for what sounds like a fuck up on reddit's end.

Reddit lost most of their quality content creators and I can't see the few remaining staying long term.

I'd point out Vietnam and Afghanistan for the USA, or Afghanistan vs the USSR. Those were tiny, poorly equipped countries fighting against the most powerful militaries in the world. Said small countries eventually started receiving materiel, training, and intelligence support from powerful allies.

They didn't have to kill all their enemies or push them off the land they held -- they weren't capable of it. They won by just dragging the conflict on and making it as expensive and difficult as possible for the other side. A common path to victory is the enemy saying "this fight is no longer politically/economically worth it" and withdrawing.