What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?

I was a Freshman in High School when I found my parents sex library and I read every damn one of those things, including “The Joy of Sex”, at least twice. While others were still fumbling around trying to figure out basic mechanics I was busy getting busy…very busy.

Edit: I tracked down the “Joy of Lesbian Sex” early in my Junior year of High School. That knowledge was amazingly useful until I graduated College and got married.

Parents who don’t educate their kids on Sex, and adults who never bother educating themselves about Sex are making a huge mistake.

I’ve already read several comments just like that over on .ml.

HANG ON BEFORE YOU HIT THE DOWNVOTE BUTTON!

They don’t need a recall. If your processor ain’t broke yet then the patch will (supposedly) prevent it from breaking and if it’s ALREADY broke then Intel will (supposedly) replace it via RMA.

So what’s the big fuggin’ problem here? That Intel won’t use the term “recall”?

Head to Vegas and bet all 100 Million that the Earth will be destroyed by an Asteroid in the next 25 days.

Earth not destroyed? 100 Million is gone and the Billion is yours. Earth IS destroyed? You aren’t alive to know that you won the bet but lost the Billion.

You literally cannot lose.

For so many of my use cases the Echo and Echo Show products by Amazon are exactly what is needed. For instance in the living my full sized echo is ideal for voice commands and playing music but in my bedroom a Show 5 / 8 is what you want in order to see the time, play music, and have wakeup alarms. I wish I could either find a company building a generic version of them or find a way to reload them to work with HA instead of Amazon. :/

I’d buy Android tablets and run the HA Companion App on them but it still doesn’t have wakeword support.

I could build a small fleet of rPIs in touch screen cases but even then you have to bolt on a microphone and speakers so they still wouldn’t have a finished / polished look.

I have no problem spending a reasonable, or even maybe unreasonable, amount of money to get a nice looking Wyoming Satellite but I’ll be darned if I can figure out HOW. I’m actually kind of astonished that no over-seas manufacturer has started making something like a gutted Echo / Echo Show that you can slide a raspberry pi board into.

What are you referring to when you say "when can we use the weather forecast on our dashboards? "

I’ve probably got the simplest and most “Out of the Box” dashboard stuff going on you can imagine and I’ve got forecast data showing with automations that run against it. What am I missing?

On Windows, it “just works”. I don’t have to do anything.

It only “just works” if you are using the correct dock and the correct cables. My Surface Pro with Windows 11 refuses to do dual monitors at 4K unless I use the actual Microsoft Adapter cables (USB-C to HDMI) along with the actual Microsoft Dock.

Your problem isn’t that Linux can’t do what you want, it’s that you have to have the correct hardware setup…and so does Windows.

It’s all good, I just “outdoor” in a place with a large and growing number of Brown Bears so sometimes I can’t help evangelizing a bit about how dangerous they can be, particularly in the spring and fall. Aside from that I have nothing further to say. 🙂

My apologies and I really have nothing further to say. 🙂

Like, bruh, I’m a dude, but I’d rather see a bear than another man if I was on a solo backpacking trip.

I think you may have a skewed perception of the risks, at least where I live. As someone who is out in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains on a frequent basis I’d much rather wander into another man than a bear. Here in Wyoming Brown Bears, aka Grizzlies, are now mauling or killing multiple people per year during wilderness encounters however I haven’t heard of a single random wilderness encounter where a man attacked or killed someone in at least a decade.

If you are hiking somewhere that only has Black Bears than yeah you are statistically safer with the Bear. If you hike here though you are statistically safer with the man.

It was when it started but that hasn’t been accurate for the past two releases.

Frankly, I never understood why businesses were invested in the office suite anyway.

When MS Office really took off back in the Office 97 days there weren’t any good alternatives and now MS Office is so embedded that it’s almost impossible to dislodge.

You’d need more than 9,000 of the largest hard drives made (32TB) to store the nearly 300 Petabytes of data they have. Still within the reach of an obscenely rich tech bro but not exactly cheap.

145+ Petabytes for a single copy of the archive and they currently have two copies of everything for a total of around 290 Petaybtes.

The largest hard drive I’m aware of is 32TB so you’d “only” need over 9,000 (lol) of the largest drives ever made. I can’t even tell you what that would cost since Seagate doesn’t have a publicly available price for the damn things!

It was 30 Petabytes back in 2016.

Today a single copy of the Internet Archive is over 145 Petabytes!

Nobody has any legitimate reason to ever pull all the way onto someone else’s driveway

C’mon now…

Ah yes an entire country of 340,000,000 people is definitely defined by the actions of a couple of homicidal morons.

This is why I stay out of Britain, it’s pretty obvious that they are all maniacs just waiting to kill you with a sword.

Gotta avoid France too, those baguette munching asshats are just waiting to kill anyone who enters a park.

Gotta stay out of Germany too, they’ll shank ya’ for riding the train.

I stay out of Spain as well 'cuz they’ll just gun you down in the street.

In fact its probably best just to stay home if possible, there’s entire continents full people out there just waiting to murder you!

If you don’t start off poor then you start by being too cheap to trust someone else to do it correctly. When you get older you graduate to not TRUSTING someone else to do it correctly. That leads to you being poor because you start spending a zillion dollars on tools.

That right there was A+ Rant material! Absolutely excellent!