On the one hand, yes, fully enforcing these things would be gross overpolicing.

On the other hand, the selective enforcement is, by design, a way to manufacture an excuse to harass and persecute minorities/undesirables.

The correct solution is to relax or abolish the laws themselves until they diminish to the point that fully enforcing them is reasonable.

Ah, I only skimmed their bullshit popup warning, saw a bunch of mentions of “processing,” and assumed they wanted to mine crypto or something.

Why the Hell does a solar inverter have a wireless data connection at all to begin with? Insanity.

If you’re installing solar anyway, you’re definitely running wires. So if equipment is “smart,” at least fucking hardwire the networking, damn it!

Also what the fuck was that spammy website? It wanted to run shit on my computer to let me read the article. I thought Europe was supposed to prohibit that abuse!

Because I have self-respect.

Speaking of the antipode of Chicxulub, the Deccan Traps formed at about the same time.

On one hand, this, on the other hand, y’all are trying to destroy the entire concept of property rights by putting government-snitch DRM in 3D printers. You’ve got some work to do to crawl out of that net negative.

I also have one like that somewhere.

the larger gauge wires were to carry more current required by the old halogen bulb and are unnecessarily large for an LED light

To be fair, just because the controlling factor is mechanical strength rather than current capacity doesn’t mean the need for heavier gauge wire isn’t legitimate.

We can (and should) just stop buying Sony items however as they are not doing so great on that front already.

Waaay ahead of ya there, buddy. I’ve been deliberately boycotting Sony since at least the rootkit in 2005, and I think the newest Sony product I actually bought was a Walkman cassette player.

Trouble is, Sony somehow still went right on existing as a huge multinational corporation for the last 20 years anyway. It’s almost as if boycotts aren’t enough and we actually need consumer protection law. 🤔

Revoke Sony’s corporate charter? Ban Sony products from being imported? Criminally charge the CEO and board?

Not if you control the updates.

But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No “smart” devices unless they’ve been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.

Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.

That’s the second-best approach. The best approach is for it to be copyleft instead of permissively-licensed to begin with.

so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.

You gotta have some mechanism to let low performers go.

That’s called “firing for cause.”

Of course, that actually has accountability attached to it. Misusing layoffs for that purpose is an end-run around that accountability, which is why sociopathic corporations prefer it.

Implementing additional forms of wankery in the “Metaverse”.

I don’t mind it being a rule, but I do mind it being a secret. It needs to be mentioned in the sidebar (probably as an addendum to rule #2).

Does this community not allow videos? I tried posting a link to it directly yesterday, but Automod removed it instantly.

I would argue that even on-hover popups are insufficient, because they normally don’t make it into screenshots and that’s the use-case where you’re most likely to really want to know the absolute timestamp.

Propaganda works, and the tech oligarchs have their entire massive weight on the scales there just like they do everywhere else.

It’s only used for law enforcement purposes.

As if even that is in any way okay, especially considering how fascist the government is becoming!

Even if this was working 100% as the public intended, it would still be evil.