Even if there are not hits, there WILL be counter ordinance fire which uses up interceptors that we have a deindling and finite supply of… This whole thing was idiotic straight from the start. You don’t start an optional war with limited resources when a potential future conflict will require those resources. The rumors of China moving on Taiwan in 2027/2028 have been a thing for a while. Instead of having the reserve capacity for a peer or neer peer conflict, the US spooged them all out and gained nothing.

The Cheeto’s voters don’t care. Brooks also called that.

Edit: whoops, that was NOT the right gif… My bad y’all. Fixed

Mmmm refreshing h2s.

Ford in the 00s used 7mm head bolts on their coil packs iirc, right next to sae fasteners… I will never understand that.

I bought one of these from Flirc but never used it.

A totally valid option I had not considered. Imo, the solution needs to be controlled by a standard remote. I tried for a couple years to get my family to use a media pc that used a media keyboard and no one would touch it. I turned it into a server and streamed to emby and now they will use it but only after I showed them it works even when the internet is down.

No doubt. The market is shriveling up for people who want a new tv that isn’t garbo. Outside of commercial displays which are like 3-4x as expensive and have lower image quality, I don’t know of anyone making dumb tvs in a 55" plus size. Yes, you can opt not to hook them up to the internet but in a house with non-tech people, its a huge hassle to get them to want to use anything other than the built in apps. Even diy set top boxes running on a pi or shield are not as user friendly for kids or grandparents.

I basically left it vanilla after switching the launcher and borking the updates. We use emby for our home streaming but I am always looking for extra functionality

I will 100% jump over to it if that does turn into a thing

Oh cool, I’ll have to checkout those other tools!

When I lived at my old house, the interstate (a mile away or so) switched from sodium lights to LEDs and the light bleed was bad enough that I could have done precision yardwork at night. Even with blackout curtains, I could see the outline of my door at night. It was miserable.

I have a HiSense TV and use ADB AppControl to disable/remove the telemetry or forced updates, and Projectivy Launcher to get a home screen/launcher that doesn’t show ads. Both are free and work really well. I don’t see trash on my homescreen anymore.

Counterpoint: I bought one and its very nice hardware, its new so (hopefully) it will last a while, supports native hdmi, and supports wireless controllers out of the box. I paired it with an everdrive x7 and the 8bitdo controllers so the entire package is new and works like a modern console.

I sold my og n64 in like 2000 so re-aquiring that setup would have cost me nearly as much and would have been time consuming to modify to what I wanted.

Yes, it isn’t original hardware so if you care about the experience of the power switch clicking on or some other tactile quality of the original, it isn’t that. For me, the games are the memories I wanted and this was simpler and works better than an emulator (I tried a bunch of them and never got them where I could tell my kid to just go play and have him be successful at finding the emu, picking a game, using the controller on his own).

I have 1, 10 ounce cup of black coffee around 7:30am every day. More than that I get jittery and have trouble sleeping. The last time I had an energy drink was probably 2019 and I could only have a couple sips of it before I felt like I was going to take off into the air.

Yeah pubg doesn’t even work on steamdeck/bazzite.

I’m sure Congress will get right on blocking that war just like they did in the last two times. They really put him in his place and I am sure he learned his place after that roasting.

Lovely… I got invited to attend a show he was at not knowing anything about who he was or what it was about and within about 3 minutes learned that he’s a bigol’e piece of shit and everyone in that crowd would probably have beat my ass if that had known my real views. I made a hasty exit and had to take a shower. Real gross.

I won’t say you are wrong but I can still be pissed about this and expect/demand better while recognizing that there is a longstanding historic pattern of shitty and shortsighted behavior directed by incompetent and morally deficient corporate stooges against the better interests of the people they are supposedly representing.

If it helps, they were never meant to protect the US homeland. Logistically there is too much coastline and not enough batteries. You have the same amount of protection as you did before.

Absolutely shameful that the US started a pointless war, without congressional approval, then burned through a known limited resource that could have been gone to protect lives as protection from unjustified aggression. Instead, some chucklefuck decided to BE the aggressor and waste these protecting bases from retaliation that wasn’t coming until he stirred up the shit.