While based on Google TV, they lock down the OS, control the app store, and force their apps. You’re in their walled garden and it’s a pain to break out in any meaningful way.
While based on Google TV, they lock down the OS, control the app store, and force their apps. You’re in their walled garden and it’s a pain to break out in any meaningful way.
No thanks. It’s all about data harvesting and ads now.
There was a time it was a neat product, but Amazon tech isn’t entering our household anymore.
A % of customers won’t return an incorrect product so an accidental sale is still a sale. It sucks, but statistically benefits the company.
I get tricked now and then too by products that ended up not matching my search. So annoying.
I’d be more disappointed in the missed naming opportunity: Upperware
1 in 75? That math seems pretty off.
40,000 fatalities would be a sample size of 3 million. The USA is 335 million, 110x larger.
1 in 8,250 is more like it.
Ha, I get it. Lots of stuff here is posted super seriously. It’s easy to incite this community where it spills over into others.
I suppose the joke part of this didn’t sink in. I refer to my earlier comment about lack of coffee. :)
Name calling… Check Unsubstantiated claims… Check Fake quotes… Check Rampant escalation of violence… Check
Yup, quality post we got here guys. I haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet.
“Who am I?”
“Why am I here?”
“When I’m done rolling up this booger, should I eat it or throw it out the window?”
I sort of already do. It’s called dreaming about driving a car.
I think these folks forgot that random dreams play an important role in information processing. I’d rather not mess with that too much.
Ha! Yes! Even today USB 5 volts is pretty sweet for low power stuff. USB PD re-complicates things, but it’s not user dependent so that’s a plus.
And you need a loooot of copper to prevent voltage drop especially when a grid of 100 houses 1/2 mile long draw 20-80 amps each. The math starts adding up real quick.
I heard it said many years ago that if DC won the battle, we’d have power stations every 10 miles and power lines as thick as your wrist.
Converting local power is fairly easy, with AC inverters added for universal compatibility.
But, take note of how many DC voltages you use in your house. Devices in mine range from 3v to 25v and some weird one like 19v for a laptop. You’d still have adapters all over the place.
You have speed, cost, and safety to contend with.
Cars are faster (direct to destination), cheaper for some trips (even including maintenance), and about equal in safety; more accidents, but much fewer muggings.
So, want to boost public transit? Start beating cars in those categories.
Speed - Making roads suck in order to prioritize public transit is a low blow and not giving this cause credibility. It’s stirred up a ton of animosity. Cities have adopted a “can’t win so let’s be a dick” strategy. But where this can beat cars is high speed rail. As a car guy, I really look forward to that! Whoa, I know.
Cost - Make it all free. Seriously, it’s public infrastructure. Pay for it with taxes. Our county already spends $150+ million a year making streets suck for a miniscule minority. Dump that crap into busses and light rail and we got ourselves a functioning town. Hell, the Bay Area already earmarked $1.4 TRILLION with a T for the next 25 years.
Safety - My female friends ALL have stories about public transport. They range from forced conversations, sexual comments, and even overhearing detaills of how the two men in the seat behind will attack her. Yeah, she drives everywhere now. Point is, safety has to be enforced and it hasn’t had a good track record here. Not to mention there is a huge public service campaign right now plastering busses with banners that say “Human trafficking happens here”.
facepalm
Yeah, that’s the message you want to send…
So public transport, pick 2 of 3 categories and do better than cars and you’ll attract riders. Oh, and stop being a jerk to everyone else pretty please with a cherry on top.
Oh knock off the drama. Like I’ve never ridden or own bikes. Advocating lights and safety equipment isn’t “trying to get bicyclists killed”. What backwards bizarro logic.
News flash, cars aren’t responsible for your safety; you are. Being proactive is the best advice.
But go ahead, you do you; wear that camo vest. Lmao.
Lights and reflectors are required at night. During the day, they are optional, but highly recommended.
The second part of your statement is patently false; a visible, predictable bicyclist is safest.
So do bikes. It’s just common sense safety for all when on the roads at dusk or night.
There are several out there using yt-dlp. Tube archivist, tube sync, etc. They are fairly straightforward to set up in docker if you use that.
I’ve been downloading my subscriptions and loading them into Plex. Plenty of room for improvement in that system, but I get a nostalgic hit of YouTube long ago. Man, it’s fallen so far over the years.
Also related, I’ve hit 2.4TB of internet use for the first time last month doubling my previous record.
I was also leaning towards Garmin, but the price and style kept me with Fitbit for now. I really wanted to jump ship recently though.
As a longtime Fitbit user, the writing is on the wall. The Google buyout has been horrible, features disappearing, support sucking, no more web dashboard, payment issues, calorie goals no longer customizable, etc.
They bought the company for user data and patents. Merge what they want into their watches and discontinue the rest. Absolutely minimize maintenance costs by dropping features. They’ll keep the Fitbit name, maybe roll that into a watch sub-series, but the buyout was definitely a gut-and-dump deal.
Too bad the antitrust suit won’t save what used to be a great product and company in time.
If I recall you still can through ADB, but it’s a pain and they started locking that down too. Ad blocking VPN (at least the one I tried) didn’t work.
There was a big update about a year ago that very clearly sent the message “this device will show what we want you to see.”