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For cars specifically some of the old guys from Donut media covered it in their new channel “Speeed”. I think they also touched on how the “channels” automatically adjust the content type or “theme” to try to gather more views for the same low effort dung.

I’ve also encountered a lot of this garbage for highly specific searches like “what to do in XYZ Washington” the result is like 3 videos for small cities with 1 video being the original and the other 2 clearly copying the same list with AI slop and random stock footage over a boring narration. It’s really annoying and makes researching a road trip a big chore.

Right, I looked into that website earlier in the year I think. Even for “high demand” jobs in the US like tech, it’s not easy to get into Canada.

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.