I did literally that.

The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.

You say that as if saving $10 on a bulb once every few years is worth the risk of spending $100s or apparently even $1000s if they get damaged.

There are reasons cars have been getting ever more unaffordable (above and beyond inflation), and stuff like bespoke model-specific headlights requiring complicated tooling to manufacture is one of them.

My Miata with pop-up sealed beams gets ~30 MPG. Any aerodynamic problems it has are due to being a convertible, not the headlights.

Meanwhile, only 30 years ago when we had sealed-beams in standardized shapes, you could replace a headlight for like $10. And the lens was actually glass instead of plastic prone to yellowing and abrasion.

https://www.tamriel-rebuilt.org/

Between coal and kleptocrats, only one of those things is actually possible.

Only probably a decade or so later than it would’ve happened if Jimmy Carter’s panels hadn’t been removed from the White House.

If you want to stay with the blink engine, Vivaldi or Brave. you’re part of the problem, so don’t.

FTFY.

Every Blink-based browser contributes to Google’s harmful hegemony over web standards.

I found my pair* of Brother color laser MFPs on Craigslist, being listed by a small business that was getting rid of them. I think you’ll have a lot better luck finding them via some method like that than by checking thrift shops.

That said, they are pretty giant, being designed for small/medium office use. However, I’m not sure there even is such a thing as a “small” color laser, since they inherently have to contain four sets of rollers instead of just one.

(* if you find somebody selling more than one of the same model, definitely get two so you have one for spare parts.)

the larger gauge wires were to carry more current required by the old halogen bulb and are unnecessarily large for an LED light

To be fair, just because the controlling factor is mechanical strength rather than current capacity doesn’t mean the need for heavier gauge wire isn’t legitimate.

We can (and should) just stop buying Sony items however as they are not doing so great on that front already.

Waaay ahead of ya there, buddy. I’ve been deliberately boycotting Sony since at least the rootkit in 2005, and I think the newest Sony product I actually bought was a Walkman cassette player.

Trouble is, Sony somehow still went right on existing as a huge multinational corporation for the last 20 years anyway. It’s almost as if boycotts aren’t enough and we actually need consumer protection law. 🤔

Revoke Sony’s corporate charter? Ban Sony products from being imported? Criminally charge the CEO and board?

I find it hilarious that a government is sponsoring something with “UwU” in the name.

And I berate you!

I’ve got a BIOS ROM chip sitting here on my desk waiting to be flashed with Libreboot as we speak.

How sad that you’re so desperately grasping at straws in order to simp for corporations.

Weird omission of Firefox.

It has to do with EVs in the sense that (practically speaking) every single one of them is new enough to be infested with surveillance, so (unlike with ICE) there’s no option to avoid it by going with an old vehicle.

Also, nobody gives a shit about new ICE cars, so there’s no point in mentioning them when they weren’t within the realm of consideration to begin with.

The criticism is of all new cars, not just EVs, but EVs are the only new cars that would’ve otherwise been worth considering.

Or in other words, what you wrote is a lie because old ICE cars without surveillance exist, but there is practically* no such equivalent for EVs.

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Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of ‘new text document’ and avoid watermarks:

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