Meanwhile in the the US young men openly demand that women go back to being second class citizens without stewardship over, well, anything.

And it looks like about 40% the women elected the president and the party that supports that kind of development as well.

Yeah, no idea either.

Hm. My heated floors run at about 30°C on a very cold day. Do you think this could actually happen at that temperature?

(But yes to the drying part. We had the heat pump for the floors and multiple air dryers on full blast during our first winter, concrete floors, skreet and stucco in a house contain several m³ of water and not nearly all of that gets chemically bound)

I don’t think they like to be talked to that directly.

Primary source: https://www.cinia.fi/en/news/a-fault-in-the-cinia-c-lion1-submarine-cable-between-finland-and-germany

(does anyone feel like those AI generated cover images are physically unpleasant? I’ve got a mild form of ADHS and I read texts and articles by jumping around a lot, recognizing patterns and forming an idea what the whole thing is about. These nonsencical drawings break that and it feels, well, that, unpleasant)

IT people won’t have smart homes for example.

That’s not true. I have quite a bit of smart home stuff. It’s all hosted on premise and walled off towards the internet though.

In my Audis at least, the child safety is disabled together with the locks opening within a few milliseconds of the airbag control unit sending a crash signal across the CAN. That message is sent immediately when the decision to open at least one airbag has been made and therefore will reach all components while the crash hasn’t even had time to finish, so all wires and stuff is most likely still in place

Apart from that, the doors have an emergency mechanical release that is “just pull a bit harder and further on the handle”. Which is what you’d do anyway.

Old border fence, suspiciously new post feet. Everybody’s bored on sunday morning anyway, why not?

People won’t even rise up for their own sake. gestures in every general direction

I’ve mapped a quick access button on my steering wheel to “toggle navigation mute/unmute”. Best experience so far. Thanks to the engineer that decided to put that button there instead of a blank (when ordered without heated steering wheel).

Nah, I’m living outside the US, my home is made from proper bricks and concrete. A bit slower to build but rather good when it comes to sound insulation. I could imagine with those strand board walls that might be a problem though.

Ah, the sound of turning on the SCSI storage tower.

KA-TSCHONK. WeeeeeeeeEEEEEIIIIIII… skrrrt, skrrrt, clack.

Either that or KA-TSCHONK, silence, if there were already too many boxes on that circuit at a lan party 😁

I’ve found that the only thing you can hear through a closed basement door are noisy high speed fans, e.g. from used 19" servers, disks produce much less noise.

So, wait, your only network connected computing device is a mobile phone running iOS?

THERE IS NO GODDAMN PETROL ENGINE BAN.

There is a ban on engines though that can’t run without creating additional CO2 emissions from 2035 though. Tough luck for fossil engines in their current configurations, but not unsolvable for the very special applications where they’ll still be needed.