“The algorithm” really doesn’t care about font changes.

People’s grasp of modern computing is insanely outdated. Nobody does simple string matching at scale like in the ye olden forums.

Any decently advanced system will “know” the words you black out or write in a weird font or with a modern expression like “unalive”

Even with the consumer accessible multi-modal language models reading AND understanding th context of text in images is fully trivial

Being the face of a (multi?)million dollar enterprise AND going live on air once a week without any delay is either really brave or really stupid 😄

Would the average user “do research” better?

Isn’t the problem with Mint that it WAS the correct suggestion - years ago

And now it’s a bit shit and there are way better options

Have you met the average user? 😀

They click on ads that look like windows dialogs.

Linus said that he’d consider it a personal failure on his part if his employees feel they need to unionise to get heard

And the Internet Hate Machine interprets this as LINUS STOMPS UNIONS AND WANTS TO FUCK THEM IN THE ASS. DRY.

I think I’m like 4-5 hours in and so far I’ve slogged through snow really slowly with some fucking assholes I just want to shove down a mountain.

When does it get good? Do I ever see the sun?

2.0 changed the game mechanics completely

Just playing through Phantom Liberty is worth it IMO, especially if you get it on sale

How? Mind you that gasoline is 2€/litre here and electricity costs next to nothing.

I pay 0€ for gas all year long, electricity is currently 0,0187€/kWh

The money I save from that equation easily pays for a rental twice a year.

I have a similar situation and I just rent a car for those twice a year trips 🤷 Still cheaper than paying for gas

Range extender hybrids are the goat

The combustion engine can always run at optimal rpm for torque and the drivetrain is 100% electric

A LOT simpler to construct too, it’s basically an EV with a built in generator

The best argument against the blackout bit: Ukraine

Every single used budget EV was bought up by Ukrainians when the war started. Nissan Leafs, older Hyundai Ioniqs, Renault Zoes

Gas stations were bombed and the whole logistic chain for delivering gasoline and diesel was disrupted or prioritised for the military

But everyone had power at least for a part of the day, so they could charge EVs.

A few diesels in theory if you drive economically

My dream car is one of those UN spec Toyota Land Cruisers that can run on any dirt water that resembles diesel and can be repaired with a roll of duct tape, a large spanner and a hammer in the middle of a jungle.

https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-the-secret-factory-that-builds-trucks-for-the-un/

They don’t meet any emissions requirements though so they’re fully illegal in any western countries 😅

They also have the worst of both worlds shoved together

Shitty CI system

It’s literally a Raspberry pi 3B+ and a USB hard drive in a plastic storage box at my parents house 😅

And every point of sale system everywhere

A second offsite NAS (my old one) with the same capacity for the larger files

Backblaze B2 and a Hezner storage box for Really Important stuff.