The Los Angeles Public Library offers:

• Free Museums tickets
• Free Zoo tickets (LA city residence only)
• Free state park passes
• You can borrow laptop, tablet, or even portable a Wi-Fi hotspot
• Free education software (Mango and Linkedin Learning)
• Free Comics, Music, Magazines, and Movies
• Free and cheap 3D printing

Obviously not every library offers all this, but check in with your local branch, and you might be pleasantly surprised.

Not compatible with Firefox is the fastest way to know they don’t follow web standards. On brand.

Security theater: All you stuff is encrypted but they have the decryption keys

Proprietary App Store: The apps and the store itself are proprietary and I don’t trust Apple.

Gaslighting their customers: Images shared with Android users from iPhone are purposely crushed to a unreviewable quality. The idea is to convince people that Android takes terrible photographs.

Admittedly, I bought an Nvidia card for AI. I am part of the problem.

It never went away.

There will be some growing pains, but the x86 compatibility layers are getting surprisingly good. Personally, other than Steam, I don’t have any software this is incompatible with ARM.

After enjoying the very local power of Ollama it seems weird to give OpenAI any money.

All I need is Marp.

I’m sure this is the last time. 😉

We’re also using machine learning for the local site translation. The AI buzzword is doing more damage than good PR.

10 years ago when I worked at a movie theater the paper cups ran us about 30¢ each. The soda was about 5¢.

I recommend the flatpak version. It’s still a little buggy as an app, and it’s missing a few features, but it’ll be rad when it’s done.

future firmware updates are expected to include encryption features

Just use GnuPG. SMH

This is bullshit.

Until I see an OSI approved license, it’s not open source.

I don’t need a mythical book to tell me that stabbing someone in the neck 12 times might be considered a dick-move.

I never understood the while God = Good thing. In fact it usually goes the other way.

IDK is the average TikTok user really installing VPN software on it’s phone?

Yes. From the article a, 2500% spike in VPN usage.

TikTok is not a platform for political discussion

Yet, despite that, it’s working as one. Effectively.

Banning websites in the year 2024 is never going to work. The average user is more savvy than the average lawmaker.

No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?

Just want to remind people that BYD has been in the American market since 2011. They’ve been involved with building industrial vehicles like trucks and buses.

BYD has been making buses and work trucks for the US market for years. I’ve only had a ride on a few BYD buses, but they seem to be quality.