Oh it’s worse than that. The rainy season just ended and for a long while I could hear water sloshing around in the undercarriage by braking too hard. It’s not something than can be easily fixed with some dessicant at this point. I sprayed the shit out of the cabin with room deodorant and left the windows open for a while. It helps a little but it’s like coating shit with sugar.

My '10 Versa’s having the same humidity problems from so many rear end collisions. The cabin smells so moldy and nothing seems to work. It’s a shame really because that thing can drive for another 100k miles easily.

Strong disagree. I tried so hard to make Fedora and Mint work but it just wouldn’t play nice with my RTX 3080. Could it have worked with enough tinkering? Probably, but it took even less time to simply get CachyOS to work for most things out of the box.

I’m partial to CachyOS due to its mutable nature. Sure it gives you more tools to hang yourself with but it also means the most freedom for what you want out of your OS experience.

Well you can’t crave what you’ve never had.

Thank you. It’s nice to browse search results with one less annoyance again.

Is there a way to get Firefox/Librewolf to have noai.duckduckgo.com set as the default search engine in settings? I can’t find a way to set a custom link for something like that.

Bullshit on my end. Just checked another person’s ability to search and see Epstein videos on TikTok. Didn’t see any censorship there.

Ahh denkushi (伝串) was one of the foulest surprises I had when out drinking around Shinjuku one fine evening. I thought they were little deep fried pieces of chicken but ended up biting into a semi chewy grease sponge of chicken skin. I bought three skewers of the stuff and had to gag them down with a pitcher of Sapporo. At least they were cheap like 50 yen each.

Any computer science courses? I’d love to take an intro to Linux or intro to network hacking class.

Ended up chipping my tooth on a tiny seed in my curry.

Ear infections hurt though.

They’ve been conditioned to not care or even desire it. Smartphones had Siri and Google Assistant as a selling point, which led to ever more intrusive tech that was marketed as a convenience. Facebook took it a step further and had you label people in pictures uploaded to them and you sign away your privacy in their terms and conditions. Advanced marketing techniques were irresistible to social media companies and so consumer profiles of everyone they could get became a thing.

Jokes about seeing ads that smartphones can overhear made the intrusive spying all the more accepted as just a part of life. Android marks your calendar and reminds you of appointments made using your Gmail account when you never asked it to. Ring doorbell cameras quietly sell their video feeds to the highest bidder, often to law enforcement as a convenient means to circumvent the 4th amendment. And now the latest trend is to have your car do everything your phone already does but take it a step further by monitoring your driving habits so insurance companies can justify raising your premiums.

The average person isn’t tech savvy enough to understand they’re being sold as a product even after paying for their own surveillance gear. They just want modern conveniences without thinking the price they pay beyond the original sale.

The only way to truly avoid that outcome is with enforceable rules around consent, transparency, and control, letting drivers see exactly what’s being collected, who it’s going to, and giving them a real way to say no. That, or skip the connected car entirely and drive something that isn’t quietly reporting back every time you hit the brakes.

Yeah none of that’s gonna happen anytime soon. When my 16 year old car bites the dust my next car will be another one from that same era. I’m not letting big brother know everything about me and jack up my insurance rates for the privilege of being spied on.

A lot of places around here aren’t observing this holiday. It’s kinda sad.

The rest of NATO needs to step up and make a military exercise off the coast of Canada as a show of force that it shouldn’t be messed around with even among allies.

The injuries will be spectacular.

California’s already suffered plenty under the dipshit’s leadership of ICE. I got to see the aftermath of an ICE raid in a busy commercial Latino street. The place was dead when it should’ve been bustling with delivery vans, people, and opened businesses. It was devastating.

Curious. The N91790 tail designation on that sculpture doesn’t quite match up with the Cessna that’s still in use in Florida. I wonder if the FAA recycles their numbers.

It’s for ritualistic burnt offerings of course.