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.
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.
There were a few NiMH EVs from the late '90s through early 2000s that were produced in low numbers (a few thousand total summed across all years and models), mostly leased to fleets, and almost always destroyed once the leases expired. Good fucking luck finding one of those!
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Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of ‘new text document’ and avoid watermarks:
(Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added ‘cyber’. Also, here’s a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)
“Just as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I’d say.
Pretty sure he meant something like “not a nonprofit or government entity.”
Not if you control the updates.
But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No “smart” devices unless they’ve been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.
Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.
They’re called “Windsor chairs” (with the “hoopback” variety in OP’s picture and the “comb-back” variety in your link) and they’ve been a traditional style for hundreds of years.
Hoopback Windsor chairs are an entire style, not a specific design made by one manufacturer.
Never mind actually acting on the information, the tracking, by itself, should be an instant firing offense for every single pig involved!
What? The rats fucked the birds until the species merged?
'Cause that’s what happened between us and the Neanderthals.
Why does this need to be a hosted service/web app? Why can’t it just be a regular-ass application?
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.)