I was allergic to cow milk products as a kid and usually had goat milk products, and even that tastes nothing like cow milk. I couldn’t imagine anything made of a plant being any kind of replacement for cow milk when a different pasture raised ruminant’s milk isn’t close enough

If I correctly recall the Hoffman video on frothing fake milk you need different temperatures and techniques compared to milk, and you get an inferior result

The driver could have taken over at any point.

Leaving the highway, they could have taken over

Leaving the road? They could have hit the brakes or taken over

Following the rails? They could have turned away

I presume the car was following a lane along the railway, they could have stopped it

These people were just going along with whatever their $60k car suggested

I use keepass, it’s a little more work than many closed source ones, but it’s only as online as you want it to be, and runs on anything

My “smart” bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you

I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi

Its app hadn’t been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again

You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms

I got depressed and pretty useless, she got sick of it and left

When I see someone downvoted for no good reason, I tend to support them; upvotes don’t sway me at all. My own stuff I see votes as a guide to how well I fit a community (except in one controversial group which attracts down votes – there voters are meaningless

I don’t think you want to be named Md. in America at the moment or in the last several years

Nah, it’s enforcing law, and if needed, suppressing revolt

Because our system grew out of the past. In the past people had fewer rights, the rich could hire a professional defence.

As time passed rights for common people increased, we got the right to use a professional defence even if we couldn’t afford it. But we, like everyone else would need to choose that and organise it

I’m sure that future fairness focused governments will rule that representation is automatic, but it hasn’t happened yet

Fast boot in BIOS is about skipping tests, it’s usually safe to leave alone

I think it’s more about power. Musk wanted more, but got less.

Regarding “Elon is stupid” I don’t agree. He has shown exceptionally good technical skills, he has no people skills, he’s worse than useless at presenting himself to the public in general

I don’t think he engineered much at either Tesla or SpaceX, but he had an excellent understanding of what they were doing - he could answer all the (non-ITAR, non trade secret) questions Tim Dodd asked in his tour of Starbase. When model 3 was new Randall Monroe did and assessment of the vehicle, Musk took the criticism and the next version fixed all the identified problems.

I would say Trump is the opposite. Actually low IQ, poorly educated, but good at talking to the population at large

If you want stability sdf.org (lemmy.sdf.org is their Lemmy service) has been around for decades

This thread tells how to export and import your favourites, posts, comments

There’s only a small set of spreadsheets in my work life that need multiuser access, most of those are admin shit.

There are more in my home life, planning holidays, household tracking.

Buy most things at home and work have no need to be shared during update

Circumvention: https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s116an.html

Aussie copyright law gives us the right to circumvent protections in order to make copies to watch on a device the original can’t be played on.

Linux out of the box is remarkably incompatible with DRM protected content and so makes an excellent thing on which one might want to watch, listen to, or read a thing

I luckily live in a country where I may break copy protection if it is to move the content into a format where I can use it as I prefer

Eg I could (and did) legally break copy protection on DVDs to allow me to watch them on my Linux computer

Linux uses “magic numbers” to determine file types, extensions are just for people who like them and MS Windows

For shell scripts the magic number is ‘#!’ and is always followed by the path to the shell that interprets the script type (eg the first line might be ‘#!/bin/bash’)