Out of curiosity as an owner of a QNAP NAS, how did it go out? Any signs it was in its last legs? Now that I’ve used one, the form factor is the only thing better than most options out there when I got it.

Nowadays all QNAP, Sinology and other NAS vendors supposedly offer a lot of extra value with their cloud options, but I find them a sure way to get hacked based on the average company’s investment in security (I work in IT, it is a sad affair sometimes) combined with all the ransomware specifically targeting them due to old packages they rely on = I’ll build my next system from the ground up, even if the initial cost is higher and the result is uglier.

Found the food pairings to be hilarious. Could have been summarized as “stones AF food”.

You’d be surprised, Google voice commands have gotten so bad it can’t toggle a light. Things as simple as “define: word” are now a 50/50 of working or spitting out some random crap unrelated to what was attempted to be looked up. I’ve stopped using the little speakers for anything other than streaming music while cooking.

They did in 2020, no Biden or Kamala cult shit compared to what we see from the other party in 2016 and 2024 (and leading up to and between really).

The left isn’t putting “I did that stickers” into all the stupid shit that’s more expensive now after a few months of a new presidency or wearing Biden/Kamala shirts as their identity.

You are missing the point, the cyber truck will kill/maim/damage pedestrians (no biggie), cyclists (no biggie) and other cars (darn, gotta deal with insurance) most of the time! It’s a feature for the kind of people that buy them.

You can throw in some this sliced red onions with the habaneros for some nice topping on a sandwich or maybe some tacos.

Personal opinion: Because some food should not be that cheap. It’s part of the reason we are so fat in the US (plus car centric cities). Subsidies keep some things like corn artificially low and they end up being hammered in into every product (biodiesel, sweeteners, animal feed, etc.)

With that setup, companies have learned to use those subsidies and other workarounds and loopholes to maximize profit at the expense of the product being output and we fall for it every time.

Edit: plus the usual smoke screen if using some events like COVID to jack prices up, increase executive pay and acquire smaller companies to artificially set the price in some instances.

For Google IoT devices specifically, I own a Google nest thermostat, doorbell camera plus some other Google products over the years. I can honestly say they might have a better chance by themselves than as part of Google. I actively avoid them now.

They’ve become very laggy, cloud dependent (I suppose that one is on me) and in some cases unsupported as they age. Seeing the direction of things with their app store being actively hostile toward individual developers solidifies that they are a declining company from the perspective of enthusiasts.

The problem is game companies don’t make games for gamers, they make games for investors. Hoarding IPs and patents is what they do.

Forgot the top 5/6/10/25 things you didn’t know about game XYZ pulled directly from some YouTube video. Also applies to Tech news websites.

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He was probably referencing the one on his tattoo on a mirror?

Watched this earlier on the week and made me realize a lot of small and medium imported home automation products we use will become similarly affected. Only the big fish will survive and we might end up with Google and Amazon cloud reliant devices that need to be replaced every few years… but we will generate profits for investors for a while I guess?

It looks a little too pedestrian friendly. It should be leveled to the ground to open it up to shit cars and bring profits to the large corporations.

• Average American probably.

Source: American from the Americas

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P.s. that looks like a beautiful area.

Reminds me of The Legend of Zelda’s Satori/Lord of the Mountain. Are they based on the same Japanese lore or reference perhaps?

There really needs to be regulation to have them disbarred if they try this shit for at least 5 years or more. In the case of California and the AI bullshit assisted test, the entire committee or whatever they call themselves approving such garbage should also face the same penalty (or harsher really, they should be held to a higher standard).

Such a stupid state of affairs even it becomes apparent the people in power of decisions are as dumb as rocks protected by family money, influence or legacy.

At first it felt like the most American car loving meme until the “Chad” perspective showed more clearly it was all an exaggerated commentary on the stupidity of it all (car vs people based infrastructure).

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End of Line (EOL) sensitive software perhaps?

We had the opposite problem, things edited in notepad would fail miserably once deployed to the target Linux servers. Nowadays git checkout settings on the build servers tend to get rid of those, but I remember it was the one thing that would occasionally explode.