Tim Apple: “Today, we’re excited to announce ‘Kumbaya Messaging’™️ for iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and MacOS! Kumbaya Messaging™️ brings not only Apple Ecosystem™️enjoyers closer together through rich, more connected communications, but will allow all your friends and family who are still using Android to be able to be able to enjoy all of your shitposting gifs, memeojis, and Live Photo™️ snapshots of your take-out pho, including the hilariously embarrassing audio you always forget about. We at Apple want to bridge the divides in our daily lives, and with Kumbaya Messaging™️, we believe we can bring all of us that much closer together.”

Yep.

See: Regulatory Capture

*jots down ‘load kids feet first into chipper’

Wait, is Microsoft violating child labor laws, too!?

LOL

“Hey honey, look, Morgan Freeman and Reverend Al Sharpton are having a fistfight over who loves Trump more! See!? We can’t be racist!”

Well it would have said “Romani ite domum” if I didn’t typo that.

At least I didn’t write it as “Romanes eunt domus” like some weirdo.

(It’s a Monty Python reference)

Romani ite domum!

CCP supporters = wumao

Stupid Wired article was stupid.

Nice, this is one of the primary reasons I haven’t used Safari in my Apple noobness, relying on Brave and another browser for YT ad blocking. Going to give this a try too.

uBlock Origin is very much available for Firefox.

I was having issues requiring cache dump/updates daily both on a Windows 10 machine with FF/UO and on an ipad with Brave and Orion (which can use UO) including total cookie wipes. Win 11 machines never blinked.

The last couple days or so, I’ve not seen the block message anywhere. Fun stuff.

Oof, sorry to hear that. And yeah I think folks in the Leaf subreddit were calling them “crocodile” cells/packs, and I’m completely blanking on the internal name, only vaguely remembering one translation as ‘high heat’ which was incorporated into the warranty packs and the cell upgrades in 2015 for the 40kWh “HC1” version.

And yeah, originals were 24kWh and there’s no getting around that being just for short commutes. I’m assuming at this point on the newest models, that they’re beyond the 63kWh, but those did have a different pack design. The 40s would absolutely physically fit on an older leaf, but the battery controller wouldn’t be compatible with the computer without 3rd party changes, though I’m sure people have done that and probably more by now.

Yeah, they never intended the chemistry for the extreme southwestern US environment. The production design included an aging process that was supposed to minimize initial degradation but it wasn’t enough without active cooling, even in a pouch design.

Around mid 2014 a chemistry change was made that was intended to alleviate some of the issues, and a fair number of US packs were replaced under warranty.

Through design changes for the 64kWh packs for the newer models, they were insisting active cooling still wasn’t needed, so out they went, still sealed up without any cooling system, but I haven’t looked them up to see how well they’ve been faring since they dumped the production to a Chinese company.

Uh, I may or may not have been involved…

EV drivers be like

(Extra irony given Clarkson’s dislike of EVs)

Dumb story time:

Many years ago when meeting up with friends for drinks, one brought along her classmate/friend from out of town. I already thought she was cute, but then talking about work (as a jr. sysadmin at the time) she talks about her CS classes and that she was into Linux, so this was already “head over heels” territory for very early-twenties dork me.

So I decided to be saucy and asked her, “pico or vi?”

She immediately responded, “pico is for pussies.”

After I replaced my jaw, I did the only logical thing I could think of and proposed to her on the spot. I never saw her again.

Great, I’m the jerk that shows up a few years afterward, inspecting the errant arm and elephant trunk wondering what the actual F the original programmer was thinking.

Then I cut off the trunk and slap a dog nose on it because I hate VB.

WHAT HAVE I BECOME!?

Top level comment was mentioning the AI only really having 2 minute copulation.

*Rereads comment

… ah, shit.

Pfft, I don’t even last 30 seconds.