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> He wasn’t following a plan. He was just that kind of person.

Because the article is AI slop, plain and simple.

Skimming thru shit doesn't make the end result taste any better. All this terrible "writing" deserves is to be fed to another LLM and summarized into 3 sentences. Because that's all there is to the whole post. Why would the author choose to sloppost in a personal blog is beyond me. Personal blogs used to be a place for posting cool stuff you did in your basement. Now it's just another "personal brand" promotion engine. Hacker news is turning into linkedin, and people are turning into algorithmically entertainable slop-fed cattle. The end is near, I hope

A lazy wall of AI slop:

> I was looking for something simple. Something right-sized for my scale.

> Clear boxes don't have this problem. They scale.

> That's not a failure. That's the system working.

I wonder if there's a simple regex that could detect these. Perhaps I should ask Claude

The entirety of this post could be explained in 20 tokens: 1) use transparent boxes and bags for organizing 2) track the usage with stickers 3) remove rarely accessed boxes

We need a sponsorblock-style crowdsourced solution against such slop. Meanwhile I'm just blocking offenders' domains on all of my networks

When you have a small fuel efficient engine, you can tell and feel the difference. With a V6 under your hood, you probably don't care. US is mostly big engines

I do most of the maintenance of cars in our garage, and I would never accept double AC repair, suspension and radiator replacement to be "normal" around 120k.

The thing is, modern jeeps are a joke even compared to this "reliable" example.

There was a post recently about over-the-air update bricking Jeeps WHILE DRIVING ON THE FUCKING HIGHWAY. And no one cares. People keep buying this trash and defend double AC repairs. ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

100% manuals are the way to go if you want to feel like a driver, not a passenger. I love my manual Jetta Thing is, people are lazy. US market is automatics only. Can't make people understand what the clutch is or why slushbox is bad for fuel efficiency. No one cares. Gas guzzlers are the national idea My kid learned to drive a manual in 15 minutes. Too much effort for US drivers!

Mercedes or BMW don't sell "tough trucks" lol.

They sell luxury goods, which people know to avoid when they care about reliability

The thing is, jeeps are even beating the BMWs when it comes to unreliability.

Yes Mercedes built that garbage for the US market because US market eats that crap. Then stellantis took it a step up and removed reliability from their vocabulary entirely - more profitable that way. I'd pick a modern VW over American garbage all day any day.

But sure, keep yourself convinced about exceptionalism of American SUVs.

You won't have any options for non garbage vehicles pretty soon. It's more profitable to sell you garbage and than sell you the maintenance on the above mentioned garbage while getting a steady trickle of revenue for ad impressions.

Ford pulled focus/fiesta lineup from US ignoring great sales (despite widely known DCT issues) just so they can focus on selling the garbage SUVs and pickups, highest margin cars. But hey, no CAFE regulations to follow, can pollute as much as you want.

Jeep quality is a joke - they would've been sued out of existence with trucks like that in Europe. When I first saw the Jeep Gladiator photo I through it was a joke/meme.

Corporations do truly control everything in US. They'll sell you garbage overpriced trucks, convince you to feel happy about them and laught all the way to the bank while raking cash for all "dealer maintenance" required to keep such garbage on the roads. And then they lock down all the maintenance behind encryption so you can't replace a battery without going to the dealer for the unlock code.

Please speedrun your late stage capitalism asap, it's getting harder and harder to watch

You forgot to mention that ST is a manual transmission car, not for everyone

So your 12 yrs old truck with only 120k miles got:

- radiator replaced

- water pump replaced

- AC repaired (twice)

- suspension rebuilt

And that's considered to be a "good" truck? Good lord I'm happy we don't get such garbage sold here in Europe

Perspective from my side of small automation business ownership We started cleaning out company dependents dev stack from not necessary components starting mid last year. This activity just picked up full steam and we're planning block stuff like .microsoft.com and .GitHub.com in our main mikrotik router next month. My engineering team did amazing work divesting our development stack from windows. It is very hard to achieve in automation business. Most software development packaged for windows only. They did so much work replaced hardware vendors who did not work with Linux. Some work good with wine and we keeping them. We have internal company's gitea. We mirror EVERYTHING from GitHub we need internally. Even debian repositories! I expect that we can soon operate without internet connection for core business (install software on company PCs, develop automation code, etc), Company trucks all have 4TB hard drives with everything necessary for work outside the office. We have email and calendar on proton. Highly recommend amazing service and support. US companies cannot keep my company hostage anymore. It is hard to achieve this. But you can do it. Even we did in the field where windows OS is king.

Links from the video:

Propaganda interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reaJG7z-is

Propaganda document: https://support.apple.com/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/...

Rebuttal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xX3HpH16wnB5U_sfkN2Tl8uK...

We are a small automation startup in Europe. Our usual workflows include manufacturing a custom brackets, cases, etc. for out custom control equipment. We previously outsource everything to local shops, and recently switched to owning our own printing cluster. Started with 5 prusas and had to fix and repair things always. PLA dont stick to the bed at all. Switched to bambu recently and printing with ABS now with zero concerns. Printed >500 enclosures on 3x bambu X1s, much faster and better quality than 5x prusas. My personal recommendation for anyone who wants to print a lot with minimal maintenance. Bambu is slightly more expensive but ROI is very short compared to prusa in the short term

Thank you! I had no idea those SDs are hackable. We'll look into it as well. Would be nice to get ahold of a hundred SD on ebay. I'll search tomorrow. I like their form-factor and that it fits in SD slot tightly, very clean and no need to fit another box in the control cabinet.

Your point regarding liability: as-is systems are unreliable already so much that the manufacturer selling support contracts to firms like mine, so we to improve reliability through humans driving around and fixing&replacing them. The HW manufacturer has insane lucrative contract themselves and so now they need to fix things up so they re-contracting support of their shitty HW down the chain. Can't say more due to NDA. So "broken" state of controllers is already has, so we are not making any new hardware failure points. I did talk to my lawyer, he said my plans are ok. Thank you for your comment!

Thank you!! I believe I found just the product we need in the comments under the first article: https://fiber-punk.com/products/node-max-by-fiberpunk It's for 3d printers but it should work for us too