Mine haven’t been connected to the internet since about a year before they pushed out that update that forced you to agree to their revised surveillance terms or you could never use it again.
My googleOS TCL never got internet access in the first place. Who needs integrated apps when you have tons of mostly old computers kicking around?
It’s still wild to me that many parts of the developed world simply don’t use screens on windows.
But from what I can tell its also mostly places where people don’t even have AC because it simply never gets that hot.
Must be nice. (I don’t have AC yet, but I’m an outlier in my area, and I hope to add it this year because a heat pump would be an absolute blessing even if I still need to use my gas furnace as backup)
I have chocolate mint and I find its not as hardy as other varieties.
It does really well with fairly wet and shady conditions (I had it under my elevated rain barrels and it did great, but didn’t spread beyond that) and poorly otherwise (since moving the rain barrels and exposing it to constant sun, it doesn’t want to grow much at all, much less spread).
Idk how much that’ll help your quest, but perhaps it will :)
Any medical stuff where it’s appropriate, as well as a lot of biology stuff for similar reasons.
Pipelines also cause a resonance hum that some people CAN hear for miles, and it drives them batshit.
If mine are any indication, they’ll go hunting for bugs before they start scratching at stuff or eating plants. Even when I give mine pulled weeds the first thing they do is look for bugs on them. Those are the real prize.
They have an amazing eye for slight movement, and are quite good little hunters (they really like catching mice as well). If you don’t give them time to destroy everything, and keep your eyes on them.
As a bonus they poop while they eradicate, and they do some mild scratching of the surface which is good for the soil.
Oooooooh let it be something class action I can get money for. I have three rokus and a TCL.
Granted, none of them are on my network; the rokus were removed from it when that update came out that would brick the tv if you don’t accept them spying (fortunately roku was blocked on my pihole except occasionally when they wanted to be updated to repair the apps that stopped working every month forcing online connection to syphon data) and the TCL was never allowed on the network in the first place because i learned my lesson…
But I still want money back from them for their anti-consumer choices, because fuck them.
This would be much cooler with random layers scattered through it that were also tipped the same way.
The single fringe edge doesn’t really provide enough…. Depth? To fulfill the illusion, and while I see it also appears to follow the front layers up, the back still needs more, imo.
I got to witness first-hand exactly how much worse it’s gotten in the last few years all at once.
See, I’m stuck on an iPhone for the moment (thankfully a 14 which isn’t compatible with the extra AI bullshit, or I’d probably have just dealt with the vulnerability…), and because of liquid glass and a bunch of other reasons, I declined to update my OS from 17.whatever. Then the critical vulnerability was found, and the only fix was to update. So I snapped forward to 26 or whatever it is up to now. Literal years of backslide in one day. It’s so fucking unusable. I can’t wait until that motorola that’s compatible with graphene is available.
I went from having a sort of OK autocorrect that was only wrong like 30% of the time, to just flat out disabling it because it was so so much worse than my own typos and fixing my own mistakes. I gave it a few days, but yeah, it would correct words that I’d typed out correctly to random bullshit, sometimes several words later so you don’t notice it. It wouldn’t fix obvious typos even when they came up in red underline. It got the wrong conjugation or contraction frequently. It was aggressive about changing stuff no matter how many times I typed it in the correct way.
It’s fucking bad, man. You are not imagining it. At all. It’s just that it crept up on you as it gradually got worse.
It also helps (when combined with a tiny amount, like 1/64 tsp, of bone meal) with chronic diarrhea. I had a cat who was sick for a long time and his food needed both in order to firm up his stools enough to express his anal glands naturally.
Sucks to be in an area that never had these to begin with, cuz I’ve never seen one. I like weird “obsolete” architecture like this, but businesses typically don’t bother adapting buildings the way they used to anymore. Only new buildings get any personalization, and it tends to be minimal these days. Like a Mexican restaurant bought a building that used to be a supper club*, and they didn’t even bother to re-paint the interior, so it just looks like a lightly mexican-themed supper club now. Just no effort at all anymore.
*For those not in areas with proper supper clubs, which is the vast majority of the world since they are almost exclusively found in the Midwest US (the UK version of them is something entirely different, and I’ve no idea how common they are), they are cozy little dinner spots where you are more or less expected to sit and have a few drinks and socialize before your meal, such that they don’t really have music, take your order at the bar, and you move to the table when your meal is ready. Typically the best food around without breaking the bank, especially in small towns, most have a salad bar, decent community environment, reasonable prices sort of thing, so very very popular. In Wisconsin at least, always fish fry on Fridays, and prime rib on Saturdays and often Sundays, but can’t get those things the rest of the week. Just how they operate. Sometimes a limited fish fry is available on Wednesdays, though.
Solar water heaters definitely have the capacity to boil water, if they are made right (use a high temp transfer fluid, vacuum-insulated tubes, proper solar condensers, etc). It’d be difficult to get them to do it on a small scale without a heat pump of some sort in the mix, but even inefficient solar water heater setups need to be installed with a regular water heater after them mostly to down-regulate the temp as they get far far far too hot for practical use directly.
The greenhouse barrels are just for passive radiant heating, but if you use enough of them in the proper places, and insulate well, you can use them to make a passively-heated greenhouse that doesn’t freeze at all, even up in the frigid northern climates (Canada, midwest US, Siberia, etc.)
Why would they want to? Our fate, the fate of the planet even, doesn’t concern them. Supporting us just means less high score for them, and they simply cant have that.
The obscenely rich are there because they give no fucks about anyone other than themselves. You need people who care to implement a UBI. Thats hard-won progress at the best of times.
I don’t have 1.6, so no.
I’m sure most of the mods I use would be either available or obsolete, but I’m not interested in doing all the work it would take to upgrade everything, and I don’t really feel like I’m missing out.
Maybe someday I’ll make a whole separate setup for 1.6 and have both, but no time soon.
I think its supposed to represent those doing resource distribution, rather than strictly guards, which red blood sort of does (oxygen at least, maybe other stuff idk)
Yeah, I want it purely for aesthetics. I like generating 100% of the planet, and sending colonies to far-flung places via dev mode instant travel to settle in isolation, so I spend a decent amount of time looking at the world map. It just bothers me when it’s mostly land. It’s ugly, imo, and you get fewer interesting land/climate combos, even with expanded biomes. Also one of my mods adds things washing up on the beach, like organs, so I’m a big fan of ocean-adjacent tiles.
Honestly I haven’t gotten the new DLC, and probably wont, so I don’t really know anything about the space stuff. I have way too much time and energy invested in my collection of mods and don’t have any interest in doing it again (I manage them manually because I don’t use steam, so updating/replacing a thousand mods is a big project)
I’ve been playing whiskerwood on and off, its in early access and runs for shit on my crap windows computer, but it’s all islands and it seems they’ll be adding more to water navigation (last patch I installed added ferries and boat docks, and that was a few months ago). I enjoy that sort of thing too, but I don’t think rimworld really needs it.
My point is that if they have less energy density, they aren’t a particularity great choice for EVs, as the increased battery size to get the same capacity makes the whole thing much heavier, requiring even more battery to move it.
I guess for like short range vehicles, it might be fine, but at least around here, thats gunna be a pretty tough sell, because everything is spread out.
It can’t really make EVs safer if its not being used for them due to the drawbacks, is all.
I thought sodium batteries had considerably less energy density than conventional? Is that not a problem anymore? If that hasn’t been solved, I don’t see how this helps make EVs safer.
You can, but I found that roku forced my apps (specifically plex, the only app I really ever used, which should have needed an update exactly never because my server doesn’t get updated either) to break in such a way that I needed to unblock everything and redownload exactly once every 3 months (I assume to collect your stored data), and that wasn’t worth it to me, so I factory reset it and left it that way, because idgaf. I have enough old computers to have one in every room, so roku gets nothing. They are just dumb tvs now.
Maybe that’s changed, but I’m not risking fucking it up to find out.