Read this and immediately ran over to kiss my boifriend. Nice to have some good news for once.

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Okay, maybe not that specifically, but more generally, to move the car when it cannot, for whatever reason, move itself.

Even if that reason is alchohilism.

Don’t most cars also have the little hidden keyhole next to the shifter, specifically for this purpose?

Every major tech company has a stake in chromium. Google could die tomorrow, and someone would bankroll it for their own selfish use.

You thing Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon wouldn’t jump at basically owning the development of the worlds most popular web browser?

The interesting thing about simplex is that (IIRC) the chat protocol is unencrypted and sits atop an encrypted transport protocol call SMP.

That is to say the encryption is divorced from the rest of the stack, and a lot of the hardwork of making it is done.

Of course its going to need lots of maintenance, but the open source community has proven itself capable of maintaining secure implementations of encryption alogrythms.

This is especially true if we continue to take upstream upgrades from SimpleX and strip the crypto VC bullshit out of the codebase.

Its a great way to buy vpns/seedboxes/burner VoIP lines/SMS author servcies/hosting/hrt/drugs and take anon donations.

Its not how I’m going to pay my roommate to get her back for a bill or something. Especially when its already attached to another transaction that’s related to me or my close friends by whatever card they used to pay the bill.

Even if I did, I could send them a qr or text of a wallet RX address. Copy/Paste already exists. You don’t need to integrate crypto into it.

now is the time to add monero

No, fuck that, no crypto integration. I want a basic simple fucking messenger that’s open source, let’s you own your own data without owning the server, allows for new easy anonymous identities, and can be handed to your grandma.

SimpleX was the only thing that fulfilled this. This aggression will not stand, man. Like that was the one thing that ticked the boxes.

There was some comment I read a month or two ago about not trusting it because it was VC funded. I knew they where right, but it was nice while it lasted…

Get a CRT, or buy a new TV and just don’t connect it to the internet.

The difference between a disconnected smart TV and a dumb one is basically zilch.

If you’re getting anything which has a native res higher than 480p, I’d recommend looking into up-scalers like the ossc or some of the offerings from Retrotink. Even modern TV’s have shit up-scalers.

Also make sure you’re using Scart/RGB or Component where possible. Composite, or even worse RF, looks like cookie in most places.

Even if you have to settle for S-Video through a koryuu, it will look better than composite for something like the N64 where RGB or component are unavailable for un-modded consoles.

Mission failed successfully: I’m bringing my enby instead and you can’t stop me.

I do as little as possible while taking as much resource up as I can.

Also I spend a very sizable fraction of my time hitting my weed pen in the parking lot instead of actually working.

Just do the minimum to not get fired and rack up the companies expenses as much as possible. They’d just replace you with a cheaper, and more efficient replacement any who.

Yes bet so are console platforms.

Jokes on her, I’ve transitioned since last Christmas.

corporate technology

My air-gapped Taiwanese IP camera, and the zoneminder Debian VM on my proxmox machine its connected to aren’t snitches. (Except to me XP)

Man what better symbolism for his presidency than that image right there. Wow.

I rip through an ounce of dabs a month and can run a homelab and write software that way, I have no problem holding a 9-5. Your friends are just irresponsible, or more likely, just don’t give a fuck like 99% of people.

Me and my friends are all stoners, we use simplex fine. Not sure what your deal is.

Either way why do they need to do something at a certain time?

YOU CAN MESSAGE OFFLINE USERS ON SIMPLEX THEY WILL GET THE MESSAGE LATER, IF THEYRE ONLINE NOW THEY WILL GET A NOTIFICATION. IF THIS ISNT WORKING YOUR NOTIFICATION SETTINGS ARE FUCKED.

I’m sorry you and your friends can’t figure out how to use literally the first open source privacy a respecting messenger that I actually think I could hand to my grandmother…

Lot of people mentioning SimpleX but I can’t imagine trying to make someone go online at the same time as me to start sending each other messages without being annoyed.

Do you just keep your phone off or do you not use your IM clients there? Literally never had this issue with simplex, it deliveres notifications just fine to my phone.

Though I did manually have to give it notification perms on android. Annoying but very easy fix.

The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily.

Yeah that’s the design flaw. Thats literally what im saying they shouldn’t do. You can make a mechanical-first door with an internal solenoid thats capable of popping the door.

The main and only handles on all the doors should be mechanical only, with door popper buttons for all four doors on the driver-side arm rest (where window controls go)

What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?

Electric door poppers ARE NOT the same thing as electric door handles, pick a thing to complain about.

POPPERS (IE:solenoids) allow the driver to open doors for passengers, while also ensuring the main way in and out is NOT dependent on electronics (when properly implemented).

Unnecessary luxury? Sure, but so are cars in a lot of the world. Solenoids are cheap, and the idea is not inherently a danger when done right.

Your issue isn’t electronically controlled door poppers. Its cars being made by silicon valley, y-combinator sucking, tech-bro douchebags who thought replacing the mechanical handle with a button was a good idea.

I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there’s solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.

I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn’t dangerous.

Same way electric locks have worked for the past 30 years on cars.

An old civic might be able to unlock from a key fob, but that’s only an electronically controlled solenoid controlling a lock which is mechanical in nature, and who’s main user-accessible interaction point is mechanically linked to the lock.

There where just as many cheesy UI’s done without flash back in the day. Its because web development became more of a commodity as more people got into it. Everything’s been done and the cheapest thing to do is to slap together something using the framework of the month.

These days, with the help of some LLM generating substandard, unchecked code.