I’m somewhat interested in what’s coming up from Kärcher. Being a company based in Germany, EU, I’m stupidly hoping that EU data protection laws prevent them from doing the shittiest things.

https://www.kaercher.com/int/inside-kaercher/company/media-information/media-information/3690-fully-autonomous-robot-vacuum-and-mop-rvf-7-from-kaercher.html

If I have something serious, I will set up automatic upgrades. If short downtimes are ok, also with automatic reboots when the kernel updates.

If it’s not anything serious, whenever I remember to.

The rockets were a distraction. They killed 12 people, most of them Bedouins.

The real attacks (including the rave massacre) were done by operatives, boots on the ground, using small arms fire.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but a year ago I thought that I’d never buy a chinese laptop due to political reasons and here we are one year later and I have a Lenovo. I think most people will eventually make their decisions based on something else than politics, or that politics are in issue only when choosing between things that are identical enough in every other way.

Given the amount of publicity they’ve received from all this, I’m inclined to be a bit conspiracy theoretic about this… Did they plan it to unfold exactly like it did? Are you all helping them?

Controversy and infamy lasts for a few months, but after that’s over, the name Framework is still etched into everyone’s minds even though they don’t anymore exactly remember why.

Upselling

Trump seems chaotic and libertarian enough to me that he might actually stop the Israel military aid if he is snubbed.

For their sake, I hope the palestinians are able to think more clearly than that.

It’s not bad if you don’t need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust

Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you’re not a rust-freak like me.

Ad money.

You know what I meant, don’t deliberately misunderstand.

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That pays exactly $0 per stream to the artists.

Daniel Ek is investing in European defense companies. This is not unethical.

Spotify paying like shit to their artists and platforming Joe Rogan are totally valid reasons to move away though. But the thing is that Spotify is sort of like radio. How much did radio pay for artists for each time the song was played? Genuinely asking.

What I do is I do 90% of my listening on Spotify. Then when I hear something really good, I buy and download their album, usually on Bandcamp and mostly keep listening them on Spotify because it’s just so much lesser hassle. Seems like the best of both worlds. Thought about going to vinyls but I’m not hipster enough.

Matrix seems to work well. I’m on a smallish non-profit server. I regard it as the premium open-source step forward from IRC.

The worst problem is that there are really no channels that I care to follow.

Ah ok. Well, the decent alternative to all that is Tesla.

So does GrapheneOS apparently, as long as we’re talking about Androids.

What does Android Auto do?

Good reviews. Unfortunately the device is 18x10x4mm larger than my already gigantic Pixel 9

1 - tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.

Yeah, better go back to carrying pieces of plastic with you at all times. Bonus: you can leave your phone home and still pay for things.