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Thats what The Pirate Bay is for.

Linux still doesn't have much of an answer for Dolby Vision, regardless of how you acquire content.

Yep, and people get really offended when you bring it up, because so many people are addicted. I see it a lot in threads discussing auto accidents. Nobody wants to admit that a scary amount of drivers are on the roads using their phone constantly. I see it as a motorcyclist, because I can easily look down into most people's cars. My trucker friend also says that he sees a huge portion of drivers just on their phones constantly. Again, it's super easy to see into any car from a semi truck.

The addiction is real, and such a huge portion of people have it and don't want to admit it. When you have to have your phone out while you're driving, you have a real problem.


Ironically, these are still the best games for a LAN party. I set up a fleet of old cheap computers running Linux, loaded with all these offline and now open-source games. We had a blast and ended up playing mostly Quake 3 until about 4-5am.

We couldn't play any modern games, because every single person at the party would have had to have a Steam account or some license to the game, and have to log into it on my computers, then sign out when they were done... what a bunch of garbage. Nobody had their Steam passwords on hand.

With Quake3, you could sit down on any free machine and jump into a game instantly. I was also really surprised because some computers had the "official" Quake 3 purchased from Steam on Windows (friends who brought their own computers), some had the open source Quake 3 engine running on Linux, and some had official Linux clients... and they all worked together flawlessly.


There's a lot of overlap at the LAN parties that I go to lol.

My Ford from the year 2000 has a 5 digit keypad on the door. I can lock my keys in the car, leave it running, lock and unlock it without an extra key. I can grant anybody access by just giving them the code. I hated carrying the stupid bulky keyless entry fob in my pocket, and threw it in a drawer, so my keychain is very small. It still has a chipped key to turn on the ignition system and start the vehicle. It's vehicle locking perfection.

Building a couple of small boats isn't the same as mass producing weapons. I can build cars in my garage, but I'd need a machine shop full of extremely heavy equipment and tons of metal stock to build guns.

You severely underestimate the capability that they possess, both intellectually and materially. The skill(and more critically, engineering environment) that went into manufacturing the boat shows a lot

Yes, but were the vacuums actually good? He left 10 reviews for this company, which may have led other people to buy them, and made this company look better than it is... just so he could stuff his shed full of them? That's kinda fucked up. He even said he felt kinda shady about it, so my guess is that the reviews weren't honest.


What is the difference between doing this, and any product review currently available on youtube?


There isn't. Most of those shills are liars just taking sponsor money. Are you implying that two wrongs make a right?

This is the best summary.


It won't serve me videos if I'm not logged in. It tells me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot. How do these people get around this?


It does for me, in USA on AT&T Fiber using Safari in private browsing mode. Chrome in incognito as well. And phone on mobile YouTube (though I didn't test with uninstalling/reinstalling to reset IDFA and IDFV, so it's not really a valid test)


Cool anecdote.


Then you'll have to bad electric ones too. Because they are also loud as shit.


Both systems essentially rotate a fan and that noise will never go away

But if you are trying to equate the noise of a few 4-stroke gas engines with that of brushless electric motors then I don’t think you are acting in good faith


Leaf blowers are normally 2 stroke which are noisier than 4 stroke and they generate more pollution


Electric leaf blowers are still loud, but there's a 10-20 dB difference.


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