Switzerland doesn’t have the same sheet weight Brazil has.

And it probably doesn’t wants to ruffle big US tech companies with so many having their big European HQs in Zurich.

I was partly lucky I guess. My first Dyson never broke but was losing sucking power despite cleaning the filters, I had a killer rebate on a new one so I sold the old one and got a new one.

The new one had a very silly design flaw where the vacuum head pivots on a tiny, crappy, little plastic flat ring held by a single screw. That broke but thankfully while under warranty and they quickly replaced the part. Recently the same exact part broke again but out of warranty. Considered replacing it but for such an old vacuum, the part was expensive (about $80) and out of stock so I pulled the trigger on putting some extra money in a newer, better-quality one instead.

I’m all for repairing stuff to extend their life but some things just aren’t worth sinking more money into them.

My experience is cheap Siemens/Bosch is not great. Si ignore entry price models even if you don’t need the features.

I’m slowly replacing my breaking Siemens stuff with Miele and so far it seems to be worth the premium without having to research each model.

I just replaced a Dyson vacuum with a Miele bagless and boy, it’s so much more powerfu, and seems better designed and more robust.

Also fuck Dyson for lobbying for Brexit and then bailed to Singapore.

As in “ze motorboat hovercraft is full of iel”?

Affordable GPUs is a thing of the past I’m afraid. Bubble or not I’m afraid they will never come down.

Can’t sell something they can easily steal and get away with it.

LLM/AI: also GPUs.

ublock origin is so based, the dev doesn’t even accept donations. He wants people to donate to the chads maintaining the lists his add-on uses instead.

You make good points but some people are knew jerking on Firefox’s AI. One of them is client side translation which is really neat as I don’t need to send the content to some Google ad data vacuum.

Another AI model helps differently abled people to have websites described to them using, again, a local model.

There is also Libtefox which uses the same rendering engine without the other stuff if you don’t want it.

I consider it an important act to use non Chromium browsers as not to completely hand over the power of rendering web content to Google.

I’ll take slower over ad-bloated every day.

Ah yes, I’m certain Jesus would want his “followers” to hasten the end of the fucking world. Wait a minute, didn’t have supposedly let himself be crucified to save us? And Christians consider his sacrifice something of a big deal.

I did not expect people to interpret it into “because”. That’s even funnier than my joke.

And of course, the best way to prevent this doom is more religion. That always works out so well…

BC?

Edit: As in “B.C.” no “because”

And many Cantons offer to subsidize part of the installation. With increasing energy prices I bet those ROI are going end up better than initially projected.

Exactly, like all religions anybody can dig into the texts and find a justification for their personal and political views but the Jesus I was brought up with, while I don’t believe he existed, had some pretty decent key points (forgiveness, love, sharing, empathy, charity…). These contrast strongly with the judgemental, conservative, nationalist, racist “Christians”.

They would probably have hung this “rebellious, commie jew” themselves today if their much-awaited second coming had taken place.

It makes so much more fundamental sense for the followers of Jesus to embrace socialist values as opposed to the tendency of Christians to follow both conservative and capitalistic politics.

I’m an atheist but I was raised Christian Catholic and the stark contrast between the religious texts and parables with the actions of the average Christian or the Church was a great contributor to my rejection of religion. I still see value in some of the teachings (be nice to others, people before material things) and always took them closer to socialism values than the Supply Side Jesus right-leaning Christians adopted.

He would… kill it during the debate.

Wild cackling

And not having a foot in the grave would be nice.

Tom Wheeler. Sorry, I had to look up the name. He succeeded the professional ass clown that was Ajit Pai, seemed like another Republican Telecom shill coming from the industry to further errode the regulatory agency.

Turns out he had made his start in Telecom and the big players ate up his small company. He seemed to have joined them but he secretly had an ax to grind or at least the public’s best interest in mind.

Top notch guy. Greatest anime betrayals right there.