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Sounds like you can spend at least 12 hours saran wrapping the car shut before he notices. After that the battery can only hold out for so long.
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It should be punishable under the law to own something that regularly creates unnecessary, preventable noise pollution in a residential area
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EoinCannon posted:It should be punishable under the law to own something that regularly creates unnecessary, preventable noise pollution in a residential area Leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and garbage trucks.
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Apr 5, 2024 07:34
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EoinCannon posted:It should be punishable under the law to own something that regularly creates unnecessary, preventable noise pollution in a residential area Welcome to Germany, where mowing your lawn on a sunday is at least strongly frowned upon, at worst a reason to call the cops on you.
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Good, good. Get a robot mower, they're quiet. The 24/7 society that has evolved btw, it sucks.
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LimaBiker posted:Welcome to Germany, where mowing your lawn on a sunday is at least strongly frowned upon, at worst a reason to call the cops on you. Awesome, lawns are ecological vandalism anyway Everyone should be conscious of how much noise they're making and how it effects other people
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Apr 5, 2024 09:25
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Quote-Unquote posted:We've complained to the council but the owners are very rich so this goes completely ignored. Why he won't just get the loving thing fixed is beyond me. You don't get rich by wasting money on car alarm repairs every time some pleb complains about the noise.
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I used to live in a mostly residential downtown block and it was loving crazy how everyone making money was allowed to make as much noise as they want and how little action anyone took on complaints. The people running actual businesses like corner stores were always good, but condo developments and landlords. Holy gently caress. Contractors would swoop in the mornings and start blowing and sawing and poo poo well before the ordinances allowed. A lot of it stopped after I would go out and shout at them face to face but there was always some new suburban small business chucklefuck in a lifted "company" pickup trying to get an early start on their day.
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Oh, yeah, the hatred of smart TVs is totally overblown.quote:The patent centers around the idea of displaying ads on these TVs whenever they’re tuned to an HDMI input that’s paused or idle. Theoretically, this would allow Roku to present ads throughout your whole TV experience — and in places where it’s not viable to do so today. Your PS5, Xbox, Apple TV, or Blu-ray player could become yet another canvas for the company to continue growing its already-lucrative advertising business.
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We're gonna get the dystopia where everyone is so media saturated they stop being functional people.
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those ads better be good!
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Of course they are good, otherwise they wouldn't be so desperate for you to see them!
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Hartford Healthcare would like me to get that thing checked you know the one for your loved ones it's important as generic male podcast listener. Hey ladies, you know you should go get yourself looking the way you want through Hartford Healthcare. Some ad for a bank saying they aren't evil or whatever. Just awful. Ads in Spanish for the local lottery. gently caress podcast ads I don't like the lovely cell phone games, the mattress companies, or square space but I'd take all of those over the localized brain poison.
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Apr 6, 2024 00:00
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Outrail posted:We're gonna get the dystopia where everyone is so media saturated they stop being functional people. The first generation to grow up on smartphones and omnipresent internet hasn't yet reached maturity so yes, technically it's still a future development.
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Outrail posted:We're gonna get the dystopia where everyone is so media saturated they stop being functional people. We are like 60% of the way there already.
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That tracks, I'm 40% functional at best.
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Outrail posted:That tracks, I'm 40% functional at best. Always nice to meet another 40%er.
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Time_pants posted:Always nice to meet another 40%er.  The US gov has me right at 40!
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Hilarious. I bought a Roku because my FireTV stick experience was turning to poo poo, and it's not like I didn't expect Roku to turn to garbage eventually, and it is very slowly becoming more annoying, but danged if they ain't gonna try to speedrun it.
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Re: Rich People and their cars, there is a local BMW collector who always moves his cars as close to the road as he can during the winter in some sort of super obvious attempt to get some unsuspecting plow driver to wreck them. Instead they avoid them and the cars sit there as some sort of bizarro consumerism art piece.
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Well that's better than my neighbor with the enormous gmc pickup who parks it on the sidewalk because he's worried someone will sideswipe it and there's no room in the driveway due to his multiple other suvs.
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Does he also leave a matte black trailer hitch attached at all times to gently caress up people walking/biking around it?
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Oh lord no, that truck isn't for hauling anything.
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McSpanky posted:The first generation to grow up on smartphones and omnipresent internet hasn't yet reached maturity so yes, technically it's still a future development. The first iphone was released in the summer of 2007, I'd say the first kids bathed in touchscreens and ever present internet access since they had a little bit of awareness are going to be 20, this year.
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Waste of Breath posted:Well that's better than my neighbor with the enormous gmc pickup who parks it on the sidewalk because he's worried someone will sideswipe it and there's no room in the driveway due to his multiple other suvs. Doesn't that invite pedestrians to accidentally brush past it with backpacks and giant belt buckles?
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McSpanky posted:The first generation to grow up on smartphones and omnipresent internet hasn't yet reached maturity so yes, technically it's still a future development. it's not gonna be good
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Outrail posted:Doesn't that invite pedestrians to accidentally brush past it with backpacks and giant belt buckles? I would rip off the side view mirrors
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Waste of Breath posted:Oh lord no, that truck isn't for hauling anything. Neither is a matte black hitch, at least if you want it to stay matte black.
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Outrail posted:Doesn't that invite pedestrians to accidentally brush past it with backpacks and giant belt buckles? The rivets on some jeans could also give a good scratch
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ISPs basically did this with webpages, mixing their own ads into the content response along the way to your computer. it's what finally forced the entire industry to move to encrypted https for all connections
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The first iphone was released in the summer of 2007, I'd say the first kids bathed in touchscreens and ever present internet access since they had a little bit of awareness are going to be 20, this year. I don't see how that tracks; iPhone was released in 2007 as a niche toy for rich Mac users, the first iPhone that was truly better than any other phone was 2009, and nobody was giving their kids an equivalent device until iPads became a commodity in 2011 at the very earliest. (arguably 2012-2013, since that's when the first generation of wide adoption would have started buying their second generation of devices, and passing down their previous devices to their kids.)
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I just got an email from a company I unsubscribed from all emails from asking me to resubscribe to their emails
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~Coxy posted:I don't see how that tracks; iPhone was released in 2007 as a niche toy for rich Mac users, the first iPhone that was truly better than any other phone was 2009, and nobody was giving their kids an equivalent device until iPads became a commodity in 2011 at the very earliest. I'd say this is right. I used to sell phones at the time. In Canada it wasn't until the iphone 3g hit in 2009 or so that they really became popular. Even then, we were still selling flip phones for a few years after that. Based off personal anecdotes, it wasn't until around 2016 or 17 or so that the stores stopped making us do 'mobile greeter demos' where we'd show people all the new things smart phones they can do and why they should buy one, as by then everybody had one and it was pretty well saturated. By the time I left that biz in 2018, I had been saying only 'fast processor, faster parts, nicer camera' when someone asked what a new phone had, so definitely that late people generally cared less.
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what we actually need is for macOS and Windows to show you ads while your computer boots up, ideally 15 to 30 seconds videos. who wouldn't want to be entertained instead of staring at a rotating loading circle? you might say your computer boots too fast for that to be possible, but I'm sure there is a way to fix that problem. phones should also serve you banner ads in between the notifications, so you can stay informed on recent innovative concepts and products!
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euphronius posted:I just got an email from a company I unsubscribed from all emails from asking me to resubscribe to their emails One weird trick to keep spamming inboxes. People with boundaries HATE it!!!!
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Popoto posted:what we actually need is for macOS and Windows to show you ads while your computer boots up, ideally 15 to 30 seconds videos. who wouldn't want to be entertained instead of staring at a rotating loading circle? you might say your computer boots too fast for that to be possible, but I'm sure there is a way to fix that problem. phones should also serve you banner ads in between the notifications, so you can stay informed on recent innovative concepts and products! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh boy. If this ends up happening, I am blaming you.
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Popoto posted:what we actually need is for macOS and Windows to show you ads while your computer boots up, ideally 15 to 30 seconds videos. who wouldn't want to be entertained instead of staring at a rotating loading circle? you might say your computer boots too fast for that to be possible, but I'm sure there is a way to fix that problem. phones should also serve you banner ads in between the notifications, so you can stay informed on recent innovative concepts and products! If this happens it might finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.
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~Coxy posted:I don't see how that tracks; iPhone was released in 2007 as a niche toy for rich Mac users, the first iPhone that was truly better than any other phone was 2009, and nobody was giving their kids an equivalent device until iPads became a commodity in 2011 at the very earliest. It's actually wrong in the opposite direction. The Motorola Razr released in 2004 and was the first real "smartphone" most people were exposed to, and it was cheap enough that some people bought them for their kids. Everyone? No, but that's not what's being claimed. The first people who have had a phone as their main Internet device their whole lives aren't turning 20, they're turning 30.
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