RoboRay

They don’t have boats and really don’t care for going to the beach.

Common courtesy is to not even link to paywalled articles… The publisher has already made it clear they are not interested in public awareness of their content.

I’m honestly surprised that the US cares about it… There’s near zero economic or strategic concerns left in that region for the US.

And the outlets don’t make the connection that their readers are telling them to stop shoveling AI-generated garbage at them?

The charged particles that affect our electrical and electronic systems have mass and therefore cannot travel at the speed of light… We can see the visible light effects of a flare and know that the slower-moving particles that will cause actual damage are on the way.

Brave essentially has done this all along.

WTF is up with the random preview images anyway?

Flying out of Moscow and the plane goes down… what are the odds?

Assuming the maintenance crews haven’t already been mobilized and sent to fight in Ukraine.

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@biscuit

Button Mapper

Here’s an idea… stop giving your money to companies that don’t want you as a customer.

When I set mine to Mute, Netflix still kept launching. So I set it to Show Recent Apps and long-press to Mute. That solved it.

After four years with no new versions, there probably won’t ever be one.

Even the original 2015 Shield is still one of the top 5 Android TV devices ever made, with the 2017 and 2019 models also taking spots.

I did add the newer remote to my 2015 model as that’s a big improvement (other than the annoyingly easy to accidentally press Netflix button, but I remapped that to Show Recent Apps instead).

I have no idea if either is more effective.

I’m just used to every little town having a handful of local cops to handle local matters because that’s how it was in the very rural area where I grew up. Neighboring towns and counties did coordinate with each other for assistance when needed, and meet daily to discuss ongoing matters (they tended to each have somebody gather at the same place for lunch), so I expect the overall effectiveness is pretty similar… it’s just independent departments working together while primarily covering their own local areas rather than one giant department directing them all across a large area.

See the second part of my response, above.

The rural US is often very empty with long distances of pretty much nothing between towns. If those towns want a reliable, responsive police presence, they have to provide it themselves. Keep in mind that average population density is the US is about 1/4th of that in Europe… and it’s far lower than that when you get away from the North-East.

Revenue-generation from traffic tickets, if the town is along a major highway.

In other cases, it’s usually because the towns are just so far away from anything else and you can’t always wait 45 minutes for a cop to drive out from the city.

I just disable all that.

If I’m opening the Google app, it’s because I want to search for something. If I’m searching for something, I’m busy right now and don’t appreciate Google trying to distract me with other irrelevant crap.

Choose your network provider more carefully.

Maybe if there was a controllable delay on the teleporter…

NOTIFICATION: Your boss has entered the teleporter buffer. Allow materialization? [YES] [NO] [ASK ME AGAIN LATER]