Yeah there really are such people.

The whole mass of humanity is mostly doing whatever feels kind of normal most of the time and not thinking about it.

Countering the momentum of “holy shit I really want to be fucking right now I am so hot for this” takes a LOT of work.

If you can make “I changed my mind and I don’t want to get fucked after all” a thing then you need to seed that idea (stop fucking) as a normal thing that people just do when it feels right, in advance, firmly in the mind of insecure young people who never had any deep thought about sex at all before.

Do I get to bring my marlinspike?

If you’re not taxing them anyway, why should you care (fiscally) about some of them moving away?

(he’s now CEO of Hertz, and Hertz has stopped arresting customers!)

What?? Has anybody got more detail about this little throwaway line?

No it’s not, at least not according to Wikipedia.

Epstein-Barr virus is a different herpes virus that causes mono, which is not the same as HSV1 with its cold sores

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein–Barr_virus

Is Ubuntu Touch usable now?

I just spent the weekend trying to get my non-techie anti-Google relative’s Pine Phone working. Ended up on Mobian with broken camera app due to (old) reports of Ubuntu touch crashing frequently.

Is there a better way?

He’s Russian. Everything Russian is sarcasm. They need an opposite non-sarcastic /s tag except if anybody used it people would assume they were using it sarcastically.

FSK “Hobo Zwiefacher” from their album “The Sound of Music”

Song is in German. On the CD (unfortunately missing on YouTube) there’s a little intro in English describing that a Zwiefacher is a Bavarian song style featuring two different topics mixed together, then says, “This is our Zwiefacher, about incest and trains.”

Edit: also the opening scene from The Music Man is about trains in a very unusual way

Are the extended warranties offered by the dealership worth it?

Not in my opinion but it depends how you’ll be using the trailer. The thing people don’t expect is that warranty work gets last priority. When you bring in the trailer for warranty work, there is no new revenue for the dealership. So the trailer will just sit there on the lot, possibly for months, waiting until the repair guys have literally nothing else to do, before they will actually start work on it.

This is super unprofessional but seems to be the industry norm.

If you’re only going to use the trailer a couple times a year maybe this is fine, but if you use it a lot and you need to be back on the road fast then it makes the warranty basically unusable.

Plus also what you said, unless you bought from a national dealer the warranty will not help you with emergency roadside stuff. But mostly when things break it won’t stop you from towing the trailer — you would just finish your vacation with no refrigerator or whatever which is annoying but not fatal.

I live in mine full-time. When things break that I can’t fix myself my first choice is a mobile tech so I don’t have to get a hotel while they fix it.

Do you have any experience with harvest hosts?

No, I haven’t tried it. Some people seem to like it a lot, other people complain. 🤷

I got a 21ft geo pro. Probably too big for a lot of boondocking, but i still plan to boondock it as much as possible. I dont love the idea of always being at KOAs and such.

21’ is not too big for boondocking. The thing about boondocking is you have to somehow know where to find a good spot. iOverlander website is good for that. Out west, especially in the desert, there are lots of places on public land where there is a usable gravel road with big cleared sites that anyone can get to in any size RV. Other places where it rains more, not so much — tight twisty potholed dirt roads through the forest with little carve-out spots between trees are not good for big setups. Regional parks, state parks, natural forest parks, and national parks are often pretty awesome. There’s also a lot of RV parks out in the middle of nowhere that can be super nice and park-y — shout out to La Conner thousand trails in WA, Pacific City thousand trails in OR, “The Narrows” in Maine — but very hit or miss; some are just a parking lot, too. KOA is convenient and consistent but expensive. We use them when they’re the closest campground to someplace we want to be visiting (just got out of three days at KOA near my sister in law) but yeah if you like boondocking then KOA will not be a fun destination for you.

Good luck, have fun, don’t cheap out on the hose you use for dumping your black tank.

“Sink it for Reddit” (iOS app) does some formatting improvements for Safari on iPhone

https://old.reddit.com/ is still working fine for me.

If Lemmy would pick up some more content about RVs and sailing I would leave there but meanwhile the old way still works.

It might be, yeah.

Your employer is doing something shitty and your choices are to point out that your employer is doing something shitty, which may have consequences, or to not point out that your employer is doing something shitty.

I think teachers are not like cops in that regard. I have a friend who got accused of hitting a young student (immediate suspension with “investigation” pending for months and not going anywhere over whether the event actually happened or not) and they are not succeeding at finding any new job.

Canva surely would become assholes if they had a monopoly, but it’s a loooooong way from “gaining some market traction” to “Adobe is defeated and powerless to compete”

Updated Dec. 11, 2025

not sure why this is at the top of my feed right now but if any other time travelers are reading this….

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All my serial devices need careful handling and will happily destroy themselves or start a fire if given the wrong instructions — my 3D printer, my laser engraver, my inverter/solar/battery monitor-programmer.

None of them are remotely prepared or hardened in any way to protect from malicious or careless commands.

I don’t generally trust websites and I do not want any website to discover those devices and interact with them.

I do not want this.

I really enjoy her comic so there

How well does clipping the antenna actually work?

If my FM radio antenna rusts and falls off, my FM radio still works. Reception will be shitty but it’s absolutely still usable for nearby or powerful stations.

When the GPS antenna inside my much-abused phone came loose, GPS got very unreliable but still often worked in a glitchy way.

If I clipped the external antenna on a car’s cell modem, would it not be the same way? Based on my experience with those other kinds of antennas I’d expect maybe the manufacturer would lose the ability to track me while driving in remote or mountainous areas, but generally in cities or highways it would still connect. Is it not so?