xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Really wish North America got a release of the WonderSwan.

We missed out on some classics.

@xianc78 The port of Evolution is supposed to be less bad than the 3D Dreamcast version in some ways, oddly enough, but I haven't played the Neo Geo version personally. SNK Gals is also okay for a handheld fighter.

Drew this with @algoatall for I Hope My Dog Doesn't Bark During The Panel

"Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges (wired.com)"

Talk about big brother and the nanny surveillance state.

Unfortunately there is no hope in stopping this orwellian trend pretty much anywhere. At least not without like-minds that oppose it stepping up to the plate and gathering in regions to oppose it. We need to create a bastion of freedom somewhere.

This is not a new trend and has been ongoing over the past hundred plus years. First (probably not really the "first", but before either of our lifetimes) there was the hand written identification for cars, which turned into the license plate, and then vehicle registration, drivers licenses that were a response to bigotry against motor vehicle operators (NOT safety, there was no driving test written or road in many places even as late as the late 1960s), cameras constantly monitoring everyone and everything, and now tracking via cellular devices/automatic license plate recognition systems/and even now AI.

Not to mention (mandatory) social security, government education, health care (criminalizing and increasingly costly as a consequence), and more.

Much of the "safety" these things propose to ensure are little more than an illusion and often come at greater expense than individuals voluntary participation in similar non-government run programs.

While no state or country has even toyed with the idea of eliminating these things or evaluating their cost benefit ratio people have been flocking to New Hampshire to this end- a state selected by "free staters" who have been winning elections for the past decade plus. There are around 100 reps in New Hampshire in a 400-member house. 5 of 24 in the senate. Each election cycle more people move and in another decade we win.

"As I said in the previous response, the corporate-backed distributions really have no choice in the matter."

Last time I checked Nazi's executing jews didn't get off the hook by saying they were just following orders and neither do you.

Corporations that go along with the bullshit and distributions that follow suit (and developers defending it thereof) are just as worthy of boycotts and ridicule.

"Companies are notoriously risk-adverse, but something like Artix or Devuan? Those are small and independent enough where the individual maintainers may be willing to take on more risk."

Phh give me a break.

I'm the founder and CEO of ThinkPenguin.com THE LEADING supplier of hardware to the GNU/Linux market and I'm telling you this is the biggest pile of shit ever.

I have no problem taking on the "risk". There is no genuine "risk" here. We're going to continue to ship routers with libreCMC which will also be in violation of this to customers wherever they may be.

Is exploitation of children inevitable? Of course it is!

Facebook didn't sexually exploit your kid and only a bunch of dumb fucks and those who ACTUALLY are out to harm you and your kids would think they had anything to do with sexually exploiting children.

I NEVER used facebook cause facebook is and always has been evil, but your even MORE evil than facebook pushing this bullshit.

It's not facebook exploiting anyone. It's a nanny state do gooders who are exploiting everyone through manipulation and deceit. These people don't care about your poor kid either. They're just using it to to manipulate you and everyone else into surrendering their freedom and control so the rest of us can get fucked up the ass by their whims.

There is some pretense that people are listening with their emotions, but I'm convinced the majority in society are largely just plain retarded.

Actor Rob Schneider recently made comments suggesting that the US should reinstate the draft, for men and women, as compulsory for everyone at age 18, for two years. As in, when you turn 18, you are a slave to the government for two years. Even with allowing that time to be spent in-country on civil projects, this is nonsense. "Our freedom comes at a cost". Yes, Rob, that's what taxes are for you fucking retard.

Slavery in all forms must be eradicated, and those who engage in the practice of keeping slaves should be nailed to a cross.

"Spotify and Labels Seek $322 Million Default Judgment Against Anna’s Archive"

ha, good luck with that.

"The proposed order names every registry, registrar, and host that would be bound by the judgment, including Public Interest Registry, Cloudflare, Switch ...

"All would be required to permanently disable access to the named domains ..."

"The labels argue this is justified because Anna’s Archive deliberately ignores U.S. law and bypasses the authority of the court."

The humorous part about this is they're not subject to U.S. law. It's actually the copyright cartels who are doing an end-run-around as US jurisdiction only extends to US territory. Try getting this judgement enforced somewhere that doesn't have a similar law. Ohh right, you can't. Which is why you went after them in the US in the first place.

https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-and-labels-seek-322-million-default-judgment-against-annas-archive/

Copyright cartel had this to say about IPTV users in France:

"'The LFP and LFP Media welcome this strong message to users of piracy services, who mistakenly believe they can act with impunity when in fact they are knowingly contributing to a mafia-like ecosystem that seriously harms the entire sports sector,' the organization writes."

I am not a fan of sportsball, but I want to know where I can sign up to squash that entire industry. They're an evil upon this earth that needs to be exterminated.

They should not just be deprived of revenue through users refusal to pay up for 'legal' services. Those involved should be incarcerated (sorry, against the death penalty here, but these are villains far worse than the worst serial rapist or killer in respective to the total harm caused) as they've taken violent and corrosive/threatening (violent) actions against peaceful people (via the legal system/political system).

https://torrentfreak.com/france-fines-first-batch-of-pirate-iptv-subscribers-following-reseller-bust/

With oil getting expensive, and looking to only become more and more expensive, I've been doing a little bit of research on electric cars lately. Here are some of the things I've found:

1. Gasoline engines are about 30% efficient (diesels about 40%). Gasoline has 36 kWh/gallon of chemical energy, so a gasoline engine makes about 11 kWh/gallon.

2. If you pay 20 cents per kWh then that equals $2.20/gallon-equivalent (just multiply your price per kWh by 11 to get gasoline gallon equivalent price) - if you're paying more than that for gasoline, it's cheaper to drive electric.

3. Battery capacity is indeed quite small, a 100kWh battery used in Teslas is one of the biggest, and that's ONLY equivalent to about a 10 gallon tank. And most batteries are 30-60Kwh... That's why everyone speaks in terms of miles of range.

4. From range and capacity, you can deduce equivalent MPG. One Tesla Model S declares 240 miles of range for a 70 kWh battery, that divides to 3.43 miles per kWh, or 37.7 MPG.

5. Early on, there was a lot of fear that battery degradation would bound the lifetime of EVs to about 5 years. We all have experiences with laptops and phones from the 2000s and 2010s which the batteries degraded to the point that they would not even hold 1 minute worth of charge. The good news is this fear turned out to be unfounded. Improved battery chemistries and active cooling has more or less solved this problem, and degradation in EVs is slow and well understood.

6. Not all EVs are alike. As with ICE vehicles, some are quite decent, others are best avoided. With ICE vehicles, there are well known disasters such as Wet Belts, CVT Transmissions, or the Hyundai Theta II engine. With EVs, the problem is less about catastrophic failure and more about oddball designs where replacement parts are rare and expensive, or are simply too difficult to work on. EVs are somewhat unique in that some of them were made in extremely small production runs and in that case, there are few in junk yards and repair parts are in short supply.

7. Not all EVs are alike. Every modern car is locked down to some extent in order to make it more difficult to repair. With EVs as with ICE cars, some of the more popular platforms have been reverse engineered and have a decent aftermarket. So every car platform has two variables: How anti-repair it is made from the factory, and how well has it been reverse-engineered. Tesla is very repair-hostile, but has a large community that has figured a lot of things out. The Nissan Leaf is a fair bit less hostile, and also has a large community and even has aftermarket / Frankenstein battery packs that some people build.

8. Not all EVs are alike. Big dumb touchscreens, and doors that don't open without electricity so you can't get out in a crash are not obligatory. Be smart.

9. The best EVs seem to be the ones which started being made a long time ago (plenty of time to work out the bugs), and are made in large number, by stable car companies w/o financial problems. Chevrolet Bolt and Nissan Leaf seem to be fairly good - do your own research of course.

10. Electric motors are more or less bulletproof, so in an EV, the only part that you really need to worry about is the battery pack. Most EV battery packs are removable (WARNING: NOT ALL). They are very heavy so you need jacks to get them out, but once they're out they can be repaired on a workbench.

11. You can usually buy second-hand batteries out of a junk yard (check this before buying a car!). This is the most common way batteries are swapped. You can also (depending on the car) go into the battery pack and do repairs or cell replacement. This is quite dangerous as you're dealing with a uniquely deadly combination of high voltage, and insanely high available amperage - and there's no way to "cut power" because inside of the battery IS the power. So some shops will be happy to swap batteries but unwilling to open them, even if the only thing that failed is a small relay.

10. If you're looking at used EVs, you want to know State of Health (SOH) and voltage difference between cells. Different voltage between cells is a sign of failing cells. If this isn't available in the on-board computer, take it to a shop that does EVs and have them pull the numbers before buying.

11. EV owners often do not charge to 100% because filling all the way degrades the battery faster. There is a setting in the onboard computer to make the car stop charging at 90% or 80%. There is LOTS of advice online about this, reality depends on your battery chemistry. Most EVs are NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) batteries, some newer ones are LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate).

12. Battery fires are another problem that is more-or-less solved, UNLESS, you are in a serious accident that punctures the battery. NMC batteries are known to burn, LFP are much safer in that regard, new/experimental chemistries are being developed which will not burn at all but we're not there yet.

13. EVs do not wear out the same way as ICE vehicles (!!!!) In an ICE vehicle you look at the miles on the odometer to see how worn out it is. A 50 year old car with 20,000 miles is "brand new" as long as it lived its life in a garage. Batteries wear just from sitting, so calendar years on a battery matter, even if it was rarely ever driven in those years. On top of that, EVs from the earlier years had more teething issues, so newer models are often a better choice. In the case of the Leaf, pre-2016 models had a design flaw that cause excessive battery degradation, from 2016 through 2019 quality continuously improved, then after 2020 it became more variable with some QC issues popping up. This kind of "good years and bad years" thing is typical of all models, Do Your Research.

I think that's about everything... Let me know if there's anything you're curious about that I didn't mention.

Can you imagine your car or smart refrigerator asking for your age? They have operating systems and that's exactly what new age verification laws being proposed and passed are requiring. One calculator OS has already declared it's not for use in California, Colorado, New York and Brazil. Please contact your legislators and let them know what you think of age verification laws.

The first pic is me in 1966...

#Apple50 Day 1!

Kicking things off with the much‑loved Macintosh Color Classic (1993)! It’s one of my all‑time favorites. How could you not like it! Super cool design, adorable, and the first “Compact” Mac with a color 10″ Sony Trinitron display. I’ve had mine for 10 over years. It used the slower LC 550 board, but many upgraded to the faster Performa 575 with the famous “Mystic” mod. Sold from 1993 to 1995. Later came the CCII/Performa 275. The CC is a top pick for vintage Mac collectors!