Hey now, yer fancy pants logic ain’t wahlcome round these parts. - Muricuh

*8 foot beds

I drive a civic but ask the average American and you might hear something like this. https://youtu.be/MI7Tq6sRxE4

In that case, you’ve got some work to do to cripple telemetry on your PC. If you’re on Windows 11 (new 24H2 build) you’d better also disable Recall, because it’s on. https://pureinfotech.com/uninstall-recall-windows-11/

I hate Windows but I don’t hate you- protect yourself

OOSU10 and OFGB should also be run on it.

I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal

I challenge you to fresh install any version of Windows and never use CMD Prompt, Powershell, or Regedit for any reason, ever.

Very helpful thank you.

Yeah was standard pro I saw it on.

Good, it’s been my experience, at least on fully updated 10.

So all that effort to spare 1 watt of “suspend” power? Running home assistant all day long probably burns 500x that power.

I have to be missing some detail because that sounds absolutely insane in my head.

Hate to be “that guy”, and maybe OP’s no updates since 2019 exempt them from this, but modern 10/11 both immediately auto-restart the Windows update service when it’s manually stopped.

I haven’t had anything beyond a hug from my mother in 10 years.

A boss of mine some time ago would sneak up and pat me on the back, scaring me most of the time. Back then I hated it.

These days something like that would make my whole week.

Independant my aching ass. Haier US is Haier corporate’s (Qindao) b*tch and everyone knows it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier

The only “smart” appliance to own is an offline appliance.

More than half of their claimed user accounts are inactive. So many in fact that they’re starting to auto-delete inactive accounts. The only way they’d agree to such an idea is if it were far, far more expensive.

Maps is the only service they have that isn’t bested by something else.

They’re not making pennies on that data.

To pay vs letting them slurp up your data you’d be paying Alphabet thousands a year. It will never happen, but sure. It’s a nice fantasy.

Being open to subscription fees to remove data collection and ads after Google’s search engine became the trashiest, least useful search engine out there. https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/

That’s the most unhinged thing I’ve read in - well 5 minutes but it’s still crazy

Imagine a rental car that needs 8 hours of downtime to rent it again. Now imagine being management at Hertz and the fact they don’t even understand THAT much. Imagine how dumb the average American is and now think about the fact 1/2 of them are dumber than that- can’t find a door handle and are unashamed of that fact.

For the same reason Audi didn’t sell the Audi “5”, Pontiac never sold a “6LE”. and Saab didn’t try to sell the “9 turbo”. It sounds more impressive with the zeros added.

Headline should be : Hertz rending Teslas now, definitely not a terrible idea and average Americans not good at pulling levers that aren’t incredibly obvious

Get a (decent) PAID mailbox somewhere else. PAY FOR IT. There is NO “good, acceptable policies” free mail host on Earth. I won’t recommend any, people have opinions on all of them and most of them are wrong- I’m not here to have that conversation.

Buy and use your own domain. Example: custom domains are supported by some if not all of of the PAID mail providers. That way if you ever move services again, you can take your emailaddress@YourDomain.com WITH you.

Get it operational and set your old mailbox to have an inbox rule that forwards incoming mail ONLY FROM THE STUFF YOU WANT TO SEE to your new mailbox.

Now you’ll have time to switch online services/memberships to the new, proper username/email in your own time.

Once you no longer need that forwarder, destroy the old mail account and let it die forever.