Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don’t want another 2016 situation. We don’t have good options, only least bad ones.

Keyword: “satire”. I assume that was pen name for comedic value.

I don’t think this is what you’re experiencing, but I had an alarm go off randomly for one beep once. Went and looked at it, and a few seconds later a spider crawled out and away from it.

If it’s photoelectric, anything that could scatter light could cause it to go off. Is your house dusty?

Ahh, that might be it. I run TrueNAS too. IMO that should be the default behavior, and you should have to explicitly pass a flag if you want mount to silently mask off part of your filesystem. That seems like almost entirely a tool to shoot yourself in the foot.

I think I would have expected/preferred mount to complain that you’re trying to mount to a directory that’s not empty. I feel like I’ve run into that error before, is that not a thing?

If your claim is that randos on the internet don’t send death threats at the drop of a hat, you must be new here. We all know gd well everyone involved recieved death threats.

There’s gotta be a solution that leverages their unwavering support for the 4th amendment here. I mean a penis is basically a naturally occurring gun, already. You could almost certainly get a congressman to endorse porn in schools this way.

When I was in highschool, it was normal for everyone in my mostly male friend group to greet each other with hugs. I remember my dad saying he found it weird. Didn’t change anything.

It has a File Browser tab on the left that lets you view thumbnails of all the images in a folder. From there you can select multiple images to do batch operations on, or pick a single image to open in the editor. Not sure if that’s what you mean.

Yeah, I think this “cartooning of evil” is at the core of American patriotism and entitlement. There are a lot of Americans who legitimately believe that we’re immune to certain phenomena “because we’re American”. It’s the same as when people say they’re not racist “because they’re not trying to be”. Or the rich man bankrolling the presidency isn’t evil because he doesn’t twirl a mustache.

In the same way, this can’t be genocide, because we would never do a genocide! We’re just doing what we believe needs to be done to maintain our standard of living…

Simplex is the first platform I’ve heard of that doesn’t use IDs (which doesn’t make much sense to me, practically, but sure). So would you say everything is less secure than simplex?

What makes session less secure? This is the first I’ve heard of it.

Far more success than I’d care to see, imo

4. Linux phone. Only a goof option for a tinkering device right now imo.

Honestly not sure if you mean “good” or actually meant “goof” there lol

On the contrary, Apple’s track record for collecting data is deliberately obtuse and utilizes dark patterns to make it as difficult as possible to not upload your info to them.

From the article,

the user is given the option to enable Siri, but “enabling” only refers to whether you use Siri’s voice control. “Siri collects data in the background from other apps you use, regardless of your choice, unless you understand how to go into the settings and specifically change that,”…“In practice, protecting privacy on an Apple device requires persistent and expert clicking on each app individually"…the steps required are “scattered in different places.”

Apple devices might be arguably more secure than other vendors, but security and privacy are not the same thing.

I think the first half of yours is the same as my first, and I think a lot of artists aren’t against AI that produces worse art than them, they’re againt AI art that was generated using stolen art. They wouldn’t be part of the problem if they could honestly say they trained using only ethically licensed/their own content.

So this could go one of two ways, I think:

1. the “no AI” seal is self-ascribed using the honor system and over time enough studios just lie about it or walk the line closely enough that it loses all meaning and people disregard it entirely. Or,
2. getting such a seal requires 3rd party auditing, further increasing the cost to run a studio relative to their competition, on top of not leveraging AI, resulting in those studios going out of business.

I wonder if someone has already patented tailpipe whistles in general, or if designing for specific sounds would be a sufficient “improvement” to the concept. We could be rich!

I mean I don’t, that’s why I was suggesting one of those YouTubers should make one for the content. iirc StuffMadeHere has used metal deposition for some of his parts.

I think it would be an interesting fluid dynamics challenge to construct a whistle that creates the specific air pressure pattern to match the tie fighter sound.

Another relevant whistle is the Aztec death whistle. This YouTuber 3d prints plastic reproductions of it.

Can’t 3d print exhaust components

Oh? Why not? Is there a structural or chemical reason metal deposition wouldn’t hold up?

According to this article

…recalling the inspiration behind the TIE Fighters. “In World War II the super dive-bombers had an artificially created siren wail created by air ducts…They didn’t serve any purpose except to create this noise, which would terrify people.”

He turned to The Roots of Heaven, a 1958 adventure film…Burtt sampled the movie’s elephant noises and slowed them down, but then he hit upon the idea of mixing them with the sound of cars on wet pavement.

So by making a car sound like a tie fighter which sounds like a car+elephant, we’ve gone full circle.