Midwest where? I don’t know if Michigan counts but I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it that way.

I like my Denon Heos setup: 2 TVs, home theater, receiver in my office connected to my computer and speakers in 7 other locations. Works great with Music Assistant, and doesn’t require a cloud connection. It can pull firmware updates if you want but I’ve blocked all Internet access for those devices with no loss of functionality.

The problem would be getting it back out. The post only says 1 teleport, nothing about getting home again.

Accession to NATO usually requires border disputes to be resolved. Last I knew Canada, the US and Turkey were also standing in the way.

For about a month until it’s shut down as insufficiently worshipful to our corporate overlords.

MAC is useless as a component of the security check. It’s trivial to change; either with a dongle, as you said, or in the network configuration of every major and minor OS.

Wow that headline. While it’s factually true I guess, it’s not at all representative of what’s stated in the article. They conveniently leave out that they want a separate deal with Mexico. More decoupling than excluding.

My wall button still works, plus I get door status, car occupancy, and remote door control, all with no cloud connection or subscription necessary. The app isn’t required, but it’s super useful.

Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

So like reavers, but more humane.

Another stupid looking crossover/small SUV with a horse on the grill does not equal sport sedan

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They also don’t understand the proper definition of theory, conflating it with hypothesis or conjecture.

That seems unprofitable, probably against some rule of acquisition or other.

Still way behind for KDE though. I’m running Sid on my gaming machine and hoping they update some time soon. I have KDE Neon on my laptop and it works great, but with an Ubuntu base it’s still trying to shove Snap down my throat.

You get a proxy war, and you get a proxy war…

Good enough for me. 🤷‍♂️

I feel there’s a Soviet Russia joke in there somewhere. Maybe something about illegal immigrants too. Can’t quite put a paw on it though.

Not even just a spy following you, a spy on mushrooms that lies about you based on what they think they overheard.

The US is, as a matter of fact, and never has been, a democracy. It has always been a representative republic. Direct democracy as your comment envisions it is very difficult to implement and results in mob rule. If this is something you strongly believe should be stopped, get in touch with your federal senator and congressional representative to make your views known. Call, email, write paper letters, and encourage others to do the same. Make it clear that they won’t be reelected if they allow this to continue. We don’t have lobbying money, but it’s hard to keep taking bribes if they no longer have a position with which to provide a return on that investment.