This is a beautiful picture, but is this really a house? I don’t see plumbing, a kitchen, or anything that you typically need to live in. Also, the large body of water on one side and the city-looking side on the right would make me think it’s noisy there. But, if this is just part of the house, or is a day or resting room, it looks amazing. It’s also possible that if you’re a fan of “urban life” that the noise could be something peaceful for you.

I swear I’m about done with YT. The ads are long, overabundant, irrelevant, and timed specifically to fuck with people in the middle of specific segments of content. I mean, I keep getting ads for Oppenheimer for the past four days. I already own Oppenheimer - and Google knows this. My Google account is linked to my MoviesAnywhere account, they have this information. What is the point of “targeted” advertisements if they net the advertiser zero value? Is Google just messing with users trying to block their ads at this point?

“Off”

US will always support Israel’s actions, regardless of what it appears to say or do in public.

The kernel mailing list is relatively private

I thought it was public, just relatively unknown. It’s been a long time since I’ve looked it up

The way I see it, Musk is only going to provide the investment if it fits into his investment portfolio strategy. With $2 billion, I would give $1 billion to charities, and the other $1 billion I would use to purchase as many American Southeastern coast beach houses as possible. I would sell the beach houses to climate denialists at half-off, instantly losing $500 million in the process. I’d keep the $500 million from the house sales to myself, because Musk knows that some money has to be kept to keep the lights on. The purchasers of the houses would slowly watch as their new investments into their houses literally goes into the ground (er, or oceans, as it is in this case).

I figure Musk can’t resist an offer this good. My genius then continues to go unchallenged, except for Musk, who can somehow tank investments faster than this.

I can only do $2B, sorry.

It seems he is trying to get rid of his money as fast as possible. I suggest he send me $2 billion to start so I can offload it asap. I would be his most valuable liability.

Yep. In-person employees are not necessarily working just because they are in-person. Also, I call the instances where people would stop by and interrupt me “drive-bys”.

I have never heard of it, and didn’t know where this picture was from.

So they are going to put ads and in-app purchases inside of a paid streaming app that also has ads? Games as part of Netflix only made sense if they were part of a value-add. Having the games individually having monetization completely invalidates paying for Netflix (aside from video).

This is a dumb idea, and Netflix knows it. Sounds like an intentional plan to kill off their game segment.

I still have an Apple 5s (I think) around the house that still “works”, but I wouldn’t call it supported. It does still receive security patches though, so that’s something I guess.

OnHub was the predecessor to Google WiFi. Google touted the OnHub as a “future-proof” router, with 802.15 Zigbee and bluetooth onboard. They indicated that they would enable these features at some point in the products life. Google WiFi came out around 12 months after OnHub, and OnHub suddenly stopped receiving feature updates after that. Google continued with security patches, but that was about all I could recall getting. I’d be curious what other OnHub owners think about their purchase long-term. It certainly didn’t feel supported after WiFi was released. I guess that goes back to my quality vs. quantity of support. It’s great that they continued to push security updates for years later. It’s the least they could to after they shafted everyone that purchased one of these.

Long-term history matters when it comes to establishing a trend in a company’s behavior.

I don’t know that I would qualify “more” updates as better supported. Length and quality of support is a better indicator of overall support IMHO.

Google hardware - I have purchased two Google Home Maxes (both EOL’d), a Google OnHub (updates stopped after ~18 months), HTC M7(8?) Google Play Edition, Nexus…I had bad luck, but I’m not trusting another piece of Google hardware for my life.

Seriously, Google cannot support products beyond ads, search, YT, and gmail. I feel like I have been beating this horse to death for years now. Don’t buy Google products and services. They will end support for them.