good point, except aiming for a low price point.

i wonder what price point you could hit with 1950’s technology, but without the thick steel… then i wonder about loss of efficiency and safety. im sure someone know of a brand threading this needle in like brazil or somewhere already.

note that the car chase scenes in the French Connection weren’t on closed sets. they were filmed in public traffic. real accidents with real civilians are in the movie. that could never be done today for liability.

i have, was so fun! way better than a desk job, just doesnt pay.

yep thats when they should announce that it shipped. not when the order was entered. and it shouldnt take a $177Billion dollar consumer company 3 days to get a box out the door.

i got an email from Verizon, confirming my order shipped. If i want to track the order i had to create an account. then i create the account and click to track it and theres no tracking info, just trying to upsell me warranty and accessories. i go to chatbot support and it tells me to go to the same link without tracking. so i call verizon and fight through the terrible voicebots to get a person who gives me the tracking number… which actually doesnt exist for 3 more days, since it hasnt actually shipped yet. when it actually ships via UPS the website offers to hold my package for pick up if i click a link… but then i need to create a ups account first. then i do that and it says oh we cant hold this package because of the senders rules.

‘We’re going to be OK’ is copium for ‘we’re not ok now.’

homebridge.io might be the answer for you. or pony up the cash and splurge $11 for lifx.com and value your time.

yea and glad to see it.

when i was in amsterdam the cab driver told me that the russian mob runs all the prostitution and gambling and much of the drugs and they wouldn’t tolerate anyone messing with their cash machine. he also said that the red light district is mostly all staffed by russian ladies and if you want a real dutch girl you have to go to a private club in a residential area, for 4x the price.

this makes me wonder: what are you all using for alarm clocks? i use my phone, set to vibrate, plugged into a charger, playing ocean sounds all night.

it was basically the only kind of investment allowed in china.

theres apps to stream your desktop as a webcam video source, like sparkocam by sparkosoft.com

this is what Elon is doing to himself with X, by the signal to noise ratio.

or MrBeast

force = mass x acceleration.

giant vehicles have more mass.

hope its not farming karma or bitcoin.

does an emulator count? like MAME or NES etc?

i’ve seen mention of it around but the reality is that there’s no big changes expected simply because there’s no alternative currency that multinationals accept on this scale that is anywhere stable enough to use. if some trillion dollar stablecoin was hackproof eventually it could happen. but saudi isn’t hungry for chinese or russian or eu etc currency at all.

Ukraine on its own, you could argue this. Ukraine with its alliances? No way.