Just looked it up. It was with Sonos. It was also when they removed the ability to stream to multiple devices at once (I think that changed , but got rid of a lot of my chrome speakers due to the decline in recognition.)

They were discontinued because they lost a patent case. This one I won’t blame on Google… cept maybe for their legal team not flagging it for patent infringement.

Yeah, but insurance won’t cover it until like age 50.

Honestly I upgrade every few years and isually have to purchase a new mobo anyhow. I do think this could lead to less options for mobos though.

Which then get used to buy Spacex and Tesla merch.

Honestly I feel all news and social messenging services would be better served if they were forced to be public owned.

I’m just saying, the Pentagon seems a place where people might get lost…

Uranium mine. We’re gonna need reactors.

I do not like that man Ted Cruz…

You’re still a product of your upbringing. I was Conservative, like my whole damn family. I in recent years woke up. I never did hateful acts, but I had the thoughts. Sometimes I wonder if people can see the filth on me, see that I made racist jokes, etc. I’m teaching my child differently. She can go to church or synagogues, or whatever. I’ve told her we’ll go if she wants to. But she also knows how I feel about my days in church, and she remembers the days when she was younger and what she overheard. She respects religion, but hasn’t shown any inclination towards it. (Baptist churches, btw, in a Bible belt area, where people didn’t fight much about desegregation only since extreme minority until the 90s.)

Oh no, we were promised no more votes would be needed after 4 years. We’ll likely see Don Jr. in a few though after the heart attack…

Look up his family history. His grandpa was a technocrat and raved about Orania. He’s a product of his upbringing. His Dad ran emerald mines during Apartheid. Racism is taught. He’s a damn nazi.

I’ve never listened to the originals, but I love that 41 books (I think, I’m on eleven now) have been read by the same actors (including Bill Neighy) throughout. Gives a great feeling of continuity. Every time Death speaks without the book hinting I think, “Oh something bad is happening to somebody.”

Oh the algorithm is very very intuitive. It isn’t taking long to connect me with content I like. The Chinese videos are definitely there, but the app is learning and adapting quickly as US content is flooding in

Love all works narrated by Kramer, also all the newest Discworld recordings (absolute masterpieces)

Might try this. I’ve used TTS Server which uses the MS Edge Api to convert text over the internet to audio with few problems. Almost sounds natural except for the occasional word… Would love something better.

Edit: dang, PC, not Android. Anyone know of a way to run this mobile?

We’ve already seen what White Christian Nationalists are doing with period trackers and data related to abortion clinics. Requiring ID will be a privacy issue, and it will be used against people.

There is Red book and Red note from what I understand… and Red Note was on the Playstore in the US as of 2 days ago when I dl it.

Yep. So much is shared on TT. I learned recipes, news that’s barely covered, legal advice from actual lawyers, protesting tips, surveillance avoidance… (strange they wanna ban the app)

Signed up myself. Still rebuilding my FYP. Most US users I’ve seen are TikTok refugees. It picks up quickly though. I see less and less Chinese users and more and more US. Pearlmania is on there, Tizzyent (still kinda unsure if that’s a good thing). It’s happening.