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4chan will never "get better" because if that happens it'll cease to be 4chan as we know it. /b/ has always been an open pit sewer that the occasional nugget of gold flows through. /trv/ is where I like to hang out, but /pol/ can't help itself and likes to crap-post in there on the regular. /gif/ and it's blue board, "safe for work," version /wsg/ are fun to browse, but the 4chanX extension and some filters are needed to hide a lot of the trolling and truly awful stuff while browsing.

Happy to be proven wrong and thanks for the link :)

Unless I'm mistaken, there are no binary releases so you have to build it to use it.

I mostly wrote up that response because you took the time to post the link three different times in this thread, but there wasn't much elaboration about what was involved or why GooglePlay should be considered an alternative to Aurora Store.

You're not wrong, but that method is way more involved in every way.

- You need a PC to run GooglePlay - You need to install Golang on that PC - You need a Google Account - You need to sign into the actual Google Play Store from a real or virtual device using that account - You need to know the Google Play Store package name (com.google.android.youtube) instead of just YouTube - You then have to transfer the APK to your Android device and install it. - You have to manually monitor your collection of apps on your device to see if there are updates and then go through the same process again to get the updated version.

With Aurora Store I had to

- Install F-Droid from https://f-droid.org/ - Install Aurora Store from within F-Droid - Open Aurora Store where it logs me in with a random Google Account from their pool of accounts. - Search for whatever app I want to install. - Tap Install. - For updates I tap on the Updates button and then tap Install All.

answers.microsoft.com is an insufferable hive of scum and villainy where everyone cares about replying to your question but no one cares about answering your question. 10 times out of 10 you're better off walking outside and screaming your issue into the void then you are posting about it.

Also, microsoft.com's general propensity to hijack the back button with their login.microsoftonline.com redirects is just that annoying little cherry on top.

I'm not from Seattle, but it sounds like you're talking about the 3 Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Line_(Sound_Transit) which will join the current 1 Line and head north up to Everett, WA. Estimated completion date of either 2037 or 2041 based on funding.

When I visit Seattle I only use public transit or walk to get around. I use the light rail as much as possible, but it only gets you kind of the way to anywhere. Plan on an up to quarter mile walk to a bus stop and then probably an additional bus to actual get to where you want to go. The previous poster is right in that you need to add at least an hour to your transit time to account for waiting for connections.

Also, a large portion of 1 Line's southern section is at-grade with auto traffic.

I ordered mine back in August of 2019, and just received it a couple of weeks ago. I ordered it back when it was $699 and when I had regular cellphone service. Now instead of cellphone service I use jmp.chat (voice and SMS over XMPP). I never expect there to be an XMPP client that supports all the extensions needed for me to have phone service and to also not murder the battery life. So it'll sit around and be a curiosity like my PinePhone. The usability gap between my GrapheneOS Pixel 6 and either of those phones is just too wide to bridge right now and for the foreseeable future.

This is what has been holding me back from trying out Kagi. I will probably jump over to Kagi at some point because I've noticed the quality of DDG searches going downhill as well. However, I'm firmly in Kagi's idea of 1% of Internet users. I search for anything at the drop of a hat. I just checked my history in Firefox for duckduckgo.com for "This Month" and it came back with 704 individual searches (DDG likes to add on a =web and generate a new request so I filtered for just those). My phone is an island all on its own, and I probably have another 100-150 searches on there. March and February are right around the same numbers. For fun'sies lets just say 1000 searches per month. $10/month for the 700 searches plan + 300 * 0.015 for the overages = $14.50/month.

Unlike the other comments down-thread, this number feels right. I don't like it, and my gut doesn't want to accept this. If you're not harvesting user data and/or selling ads, and the monthly subscriptions are the only source of revenue then $14.50/month sounds right.

I'm still riding this fun'sies train so lets just kick some numbers around. I suspect their FAQ might be a little out of date, but lets go with it. https://kagi.com/faq says that, "it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches". 1000 searches / 80 = $12.50, so they make $2 per month from me. I hope that 80 searches for $1 covers all of their OpEx. If it doesn't, then that $2 per month gets a bit more sad. https://blog.kagi.com/status-update-first-three-months states that, "Kagi search is currently serving ~2,600 paid customers." from September 1st last year. Let's say they've grown 10x since then and we're at 26,000 paying customers and they're all me. $52,000 in profit on $377,000 per month in revenue. So they're clearing $624,000 a year on this totally hypothetical scenario.

Is https://moneyconnexion.com/per-second-earnings-of-top-compan... accurate? Who knows. If it is accurate, it takes Google just shy of 15 minutes to make that same $624,000.

Mostly this is just me thinking out loud. Like I said, I'm trying to wrap my head around this pricing.

It would be a problem for my 2012 Honda Civic with 5.5" of ground clearance.

Well, today I get to be the person who gets to express surprise that their small hometown gets posted on Hacker News.

This "Mega Site" has been on the table now for almost 15 years.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-alabama-idUSL0...

If I remember correctly, the Alabama site had utilities on site ready to go and our site was three contiguous farms.

Fifteen years later that's still mostly the case but there are fewer houses among the farms and various levels of government have been making actual property purchases to increase their commitment to the idea of an industrial site.

It wasn't until they started clear cutting all the trees along C Drive North that local opposition assembled around a "save historic Marshall" message. Even though there's been a decade and a half to derail this project.

Also, we're not just on the I-94 corridor, but we're also on the I-69 corridor. The site is also within spitting distance of a rail line (I don't remember if its the CN Grand Trunk line or BNSF).

My view from the ground as a client support monkey is that people who ply on tech spend their days having arguments with inanimate or intangible objects, and/or mediating other peoples' irrational arguments with inanimate or intangible objects.

Management's job is to ply on people. Rational arguments with rational actors...most of the time.

The UK isn't part of the Euro Zone anymore. That's the simplest reason. The fallout from that decision will continue to drag the UK down as they continue the process of not being a Euro Zone economy. At some point things will steady, but they're not there yet.

Ahhh, Planet Computers. I really want to like their devices. They’re all Android devices that technically run Linux (and SailfishOS). The issue is all their devices use MediaTek SoC’s. So Linux comes in the form of a barely supported Debian + libhybris Frankenstein’s monster. You can run Linux on them, but you’ll be hard-pressed to do anything useful in Linux.

>There are entirely different microbiomes within short driving distances of any city in the Bay.

That's not really "weather" though in this context. Here in Southern Michigan, I don't have to plan for, or travel to, changes in the weather. Same thing with seasons in general. As I go about my daily life, the weather around me is constantly changing from day to day. More broadly, the changing of the seasons punctuates the passing of time, and is the scaffolding upon which most of us hang our social lives on. It does all this because weather and the seasons just happen to us, we don't have to go find it.

As an example to go along with the article's point. I visited SoCal to see a friend of mine who moved out there a few years prior. It was my first visit to SoCal, and it took place during a September. For the week I was out there the temperature was the same every day and every night. What caused me the most discomfort though was during that whole week I didn't see a single cloud in the sky.

The Christian Science Monitor also ran a similar article last month that I feel is worth a read.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/0512/Is-politics...

Rather than try to drive any particular point this is more of a discussion piece about this moment in time.

As someone who preordered a Librem 5 a year and a half ago, I’ll be surprised if this becomes a viable option any time soon (or ever). It still hasn’t received FCC certification https://fccid.io/2AT9R and the few that have been released out in the wild to some of the people who ordered in 2017 show a phone that still needs significant software work done and require multiple batteries or constant charging to last a whole day.

I just ordered a PinePhone in the latest batch. From what I’ve been able to find is the software support is a little better for the PinePhone, but the hardware is slower than the already slow Librem 5. It’s closer to being a daily driver, but not by much.

Neither of these phones are a replacement for what most people consider smartphones. Maybe through Android emulation they could be, but if it’s not available as a Linux application or a website then it’s not available for these phones.

As someone who has lived an hour away from Ann Arbor for his entire life, I find myself wandering over that way on a regular basis. As a teenager in the late 90’s and early 00’s the siren song of Pinball Pete’s, Middle Earth, Michigan/State Theaters, and Wizzywig (ESPECIALLY Wizzywig) were irresistible. I don’t remember how I came across monkey.org but I do remember there was a kind monkey who had scanned a great many of the menus from restaurants around town in a time when restaurants didn’t “Internet”. Ever since then I’d poke at monkey.org if I was really bored, and it’s been my go to test website.

So, thanks monkey.org :)

As a senior tech, I make it a point to tell any new techs that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. If ever there was an enemy in life its ignorance. Everyone's situation in life is different, but in the small sphere of influence I have sway over I do my best to make sure no one is made to feel small for asking questions.

I'm surprised by the number that are around here. The town of 7,000 people I live in (Marshall, MI) doesn't have a lot in the way of delivery app participation. However, 15 minutes away is a town of 52,000 people (Battle Creek, MI), and I would say at least half of the local mom and pop places there are in bed with at least one delivery app.

Nothing at all wrong with Facebook or Yelp. The issue is a lot of them are auto-generated pages by those websites. So they're usually nothing more than placeholders created with the hope that the restaurant will claim them, and then populate them with info.

The science fiction is bit_logic's requests from up at the top of the thread:

* A way to order and pay online.

* Details on their contactless pickup procedure if I drive there. I want them to bring it to my car, then I can unlock my trunk, and they can place it inside and close it.

True, but dark kitchens/ghost restaurants aren't really a thing around here.

Out here in the hinterlands of "fly-over country", I just want a phone number, address, menu, and hours of operation. I don't care what form they take be it website, Facebook, a Yelp page, whatever. Something that a search engine can index. Just those 4 things can be something of a large ask from the mom and pop places around here.

What you're asking for sounds like science fiction.

I want to second this. Baseball is best watched with friends or family as whatever you consider a step above "background noise." It can fill in lulls in the gathering, and when something exciting does happen it's easy to direct everyone's attention back to the game.

Growing up with baseball also plays a large part in deciding if you'll have any interest in it as an adult.

+1 In fact, I did this just last week. They both hang out after their shows until everyone that wants to meet them is able to. They also engaged in my attempts at conversation with far more grace than the attempts deserved. I look forward to the next opportunity I have to see their Vegas show again.

Those of us in the Midwest tend to laugh every time a variation of this story pops up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video https://www.familyvideo.com/storelocator/

The relevant bit from Wikipedia, "Unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, which includes Hollywood Video. And rather than depending on the revenue-sharing model used by others in the business, the chain buys and owns their movies, allowing them to keep all the rental profit"

So come on over to Fly-Over Country™ where video rental stores never went out of fashion :)

There was a documentary about him released this year I highly recommend called Won't You Be My Neighbor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won%27t_You_Be_My_Neighbor%3...

As far as examples, here's an episode about divorce that I remember helping me deal with my parents' divorce when I was little.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xxbsV1XTFcA

Or here's his speech to Congress fighting for funding for public television (it's more complicated than just funding for public television, but that's the basic idea).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA

Or one of my favorites, his acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement Emmy Award.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM

My Lumia 950 XL just pulled down a security update about 5 hours ago.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459082/september11...

The GP's comment still stands though, it's a dead platform. Mainstream support ends on December 10, 2019, but lots of little things will die as we get closer to that date. Recently the Podcast app stopped letting me add new podcasts with some vague error about being unable to contact Bing. When Microsoft shut down their music service they killed Cortana's ability to identify music playing in the background. Notifications can be hit or miss depending on the app in question.

I went through the same cycle with webOS. What finally did it in the end for me was the browser crashing on about every 6th website I would visit.

We're in the process of doing that where I live.

https://marshallfibernet.com/

The reasons this is getting off the ground at all is because our city government spent the past 5 years dotting every i and crossing every t to be able to drop the hammer on AT&T and WOW! without retaliation. Also, we own our own electric utility, and on top of their ROW they're also bankrolling most of this operation with a sweetheart loan deal (overpaying for electricity worked out in the end, who knew).

Maybe it's because I'm a rural Michigander, or maybe it's because I'm 35. Whatever the case may be, whenever I read a line such as, "It goes by many names: boot-strapped, solo-founded, self-funded, indie-hackers...etc... and it's pretty hot right now!" I have a visceral reaction. Around here that's just owning a business. No one cares about how it's structured or how it's funded. Trying to quantify your business to others in such ways is so much window dressing.

That being said, the rest of the article was a nice read.

Kronos Workforce Central still requires Flash. Crunchyroll still uses Flash, and the Flash player for video.pbs.org is still superior to their HTML5 player.