Daily Tech News 6 December 2025

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I bought myself a mini-PC for Christmas. Minisforum X1-255.

Not because I particularly need a new system, though this one is a lot better than my two existing Beelink units (twice the speed, memory*, and storage).

Mostly because it comes with 64GB of RAM and only costs $50 more than the RAM alone.

Looks like it's completely sold out in the US already.

Update: Placed the order just four hours ago and it's already shipped. Should have it by Friday.

* The existing units only came with 8GB of RAM, so as shipped the new one has eight times as much. But I already had RAM for those left over from upgrading my laptops, back when that was cheap to do.
AI gadget makers are chasing problems that don't exist, says the CEO of AI gadget maker Logitech. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a little unfair. Logitech's webcams use discriminative AI to keep you centered in the frame, for example, and to mute background noise. Other companies, though:
Faber argued that the wave of AI-first gadgets released over the past year remains untethered from a clear purpose. Products such as the Humane AI Pin - acquired by HP in February - and Rabbit R1 launched with the promise of replacing parts of the smartphone experience, only to draw criticism for slow performance, limited features, and subscription-driven pricing.
The upcoming unnamed product from OpenAI looks to be another screenless phone piece of overpriced junk.
Their reception has shaped the debate around whether a general-purpose assistant belongs in a dedicated device at all. According to Faber, these early efforts solve little that a phone or PC cannot already handle, which is a view that has gained traction as both devices incorporate larger on-device models and tighter integrations with cloud assistants.
As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.

Tech News

AMD's upcoming "Gorgon" family Ryzen 470 CPU is basically just a Ryzen 370. (WCCFTech)

I was comparing specs earlier. The Ryzen 370 has 12 CPU cores and 16 GPU cores, where the Ryzen 255 I just bought has 8 CPU cores and 12 GPU cores.

But the 370 is just 20% faster than the 255 while the relevant Minisforum model is 60% more expensive.
Intel chips could power iPhones in 2028. (WCCFTech)

That's Intel as a manufacturer, not Intel as a designer. They'll still be "Apple Silicon", but Apple has booked space on Intel's 18A production line to start fabricating chips now that TSMC is 100% sold out.
Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US because it is, well, 100% sold out. (WCCFTech)

This of for chips like modern AMD and Intel CPUs, where multiple small dies are packaged together on a larger silicon substrate.
Nimony is a compiler from the Nim team. (Nim-lang)

It will become Nim 3.0 in time, but it is already a useful compiler if you're interested in high-performance code with built-in memory management.
Two government contractors who were sentenced to prison in 2015 after being caught hacking government computers have been indicted for hacking government computers again after being rehired after their prison sentences ended. (Bleeping Computer)
According to court documents, Muneeb Akhter deleted roughly 96 databases containing U.S. government information in February 2025, including Freedom of Information Act records and sensitive investigative documents from multiple federal agencies.

One minute after deleting a Department of Homeland Security database, Muneeb Akhter also allegedly asked an artificial intelligence tool for instructions on clearing system logs after deleting a database.
Fill the cell in with cement. Then go after whoever hired these people.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Saturday morning?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 Good morning. Slowly I turned ...

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (WKHVO)

3 (Uses dynamite to blast m from comment jail.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 Would that be step by step, Fluffy?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

5 Seven days a week. Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 06, 2025 04:04 AM (pIfcn)

6 >>>Logitech's webcams use discriminative AI to keep you centered in the frame, for example, and to mute background noise.

Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

7 ouch

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:07 AM (RuTUS)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 06, 2025 04:10 AM (YoT4f)

9 >>>now that TSMC is 100% sold out
>>>Meanwhile TSMC is scrambling to build an advanced packaging facility in the US

TSMC = Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

10 AMV - S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Anime Night

That video seems very life-affirming. The first half ... especially.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:21 AM (RuTUS)

11 tech (2 days old):

Polymarket
@Polymarket
Dec 4
BREAKING: Within the past 72 hours:

- Apple's AI Chief steps down
- Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta
- Apple's Policy Chief steps down
- Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:36 AM (RuTUS)

12 Yeah, I saw those Apple departures. Not sure what is going on over there, though none of those people are notable success stories.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

13 Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.
_-_
Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition. And the stuff that actually is AI, well, not THAT useful yet.

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)

14 Bought one of those mini computers with impressive amounts of RAM and enough connectors to run just about anything I have. The only thing it doesn't have is all those flashing LED's and whirling fan LED's that add nothing but look cool. Didn't really need it, but its small enough to put on a table and its not very visible to anyone. Happy with it and the price was right. Two M.2 slots, and turns on a few seconds. Those little ones have got to be the future of home computers, as I like bigger screens than a laptop, or watching a movie on a tiny phone screen..

Posted by: Colin at December 06, 2025 04:51 AM (wlQdF)

15 I don't know Polymarket. The comments are pretty dumb, but this one's funny:

Dec 5
Tesla buys Apple & the fun begins.

... and prompted some engaging comments, like:

Totally Legitimate Person
@selfstyldpundit
9h
Tesla’s market cap is 1.4 trillion. Apple’s is 4.1 trillion. You can keep fantasizing but if there’s a sale it’s going the other way.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:51 AM (RuTUS)

16 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 06, 2025 04:52 AM (XQo4F)

17 13 Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition.
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)

high-fiber

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:55 AM (RuTUS)

18 16 Birdbath status?
_-_
Ain't no birdbath around here... If they was, I'd a seen it.

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:55 AM (vd6bO)

19 17 13 Yeah, most of the marketing gas these days has AI in it somewhere....kinda like all-natural, high fidelity, DIGITAL, High Definition.
Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:49 AM (vd6bO)

high-fiber

Lite, Low Fat, non GMO

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:58 AM (vd6bO)

20 12 Yeah, I saw those Apple departures. Not sure what is going on over there, though none of those people are notable success stories.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 06, 2025 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

It seems that C-suite techies (higher than these, I think) come and go.
(talking of Michelangelo)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:01 AM (RuTUS)

21 The 'muting background noise' has been a problem of late with a lot of videoconferencing tools. Try doing a music lesson on one of them...they decide that difficult passage you are playing for the student is background noise....fiddle witht the settings as recommended and still...about two notes and the music goes away.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:07 AM (vd6bO)

22
"talking of Michelangelo"

https://tinyurl.com/5n6pnyfu

(Poetry Foundation)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:08 AM (RuTUS)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 06, 2025 05:11 AM (tljrc)

24 G'mornin' everyone!

Saturday morning, affirm. Coffee will be required.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 05:14 AM (Cjt/F)

25 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:20 AM (AN2gy)

26 I haven't seen bunnies this early in the AM since last February or so. We have a solid crust so I assume it showed up because it would be a good place to forage.

I had finished with most bird feeder task and gone in the house, but I came back out with a little dog.
Bun Bun slowly retreated, but when I looked from the kitchen window it was back, munching away at cracked corn and millet.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:25 AM (AN2gy)

27 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (Ia/+0)

28 G'morning, all!

'Scromiting'

It's a thing

https://tinyurl.com/yc2yzfmm

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

29 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

49.
That's like a half a century ago.
Or more.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

30 >>> Two government contractors who were sentenced to prison in 2015 after being caught hacking government computers have been indicted for hacking government computers again after being rehired after their prison sentences ended.

There needs to be firings through several layers of management.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:28 AM (AN2gy)

31 29 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

49.
That's like a half a century ago.
Or more.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

In a world of 30-year generations, that's, like, gettin' on to two generations.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:30 AM (RuTUS)

32 Tried a schedule restart on my phone but don't think it restarted, didn't act like it was shutdown.
Was looking up my issue of no.media sounds and does say not restarted ( a few weeks now) could be the problem.

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:30 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Does anyone know -of course you do- 🙂how to get my phone off of private mode, so I don't have to keep filling in my handle and name which because of my poor typing on a tiny keyboard comes up sounding something like Dutch or that I've been having early morning drinking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:31 AM (zMLZ6)

34 Get a bigger hammer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)

35 That advice is for both Fen AND Skip.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:33 AM (XQo4F)

36 Man from Oregon contemplates "The Gift of Love"
and Luke 2:1-7:

https://tinyurl.com/5su732f8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:36 AM (Nx5jP)

37 or that I've been having early morning drinking.
_-_
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (vd6bO)

38

Good morning, good people. Winter is finally here, next Wednesday before it breaks out of the teens.

With snow.

Please enjoy the usual max benefit from your effort, while giggling at the leftwit fungi squirming under their utter wretchedness.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (vFbHf)

39 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin covered it about 20 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjQhkdqMUI

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

40 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:32 AM (XQo4F)

So, not a big fan of cell phones, eh?😉 Me either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:38 AM (Nx5jP)

41 I have a solution, switch to my new phone.
But this one still mostly works and is fine ither than it has no media sound

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:42 AM (Ia/+0)

42 Kind friends from North Dakota help farmer complete his final harvest:

https://tinyurl.com/56xn2dy2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:42 AM (ix8EF)

43 34 Get a bigger hammer.
_-_
Actually did that to mine once...kinda therapeutic, really....Dropped it on the ground and it started freaking out like it was possessed....screen was spiderwebbed, and it was like the screen was pushing buttons, but my sledgehammer handled the job nicely, put it out of its misery....wife insisted I buy a new phone, though, dagnabit.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)

44 Powerline Week in Pictures is up!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 05:44 AM (Cjt/F)

45 One minute after deleting a Department of Homeland Security database, Muneeb Akhter...

'Homeland Security'. 'Muneeb Akhter'...

I already see the problem, and it isn't the 34-year-old "Virginia Man", as the DOJ describes him.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2025 05:45 AM (f4tQo)

46 First graders help save their teachers life. Sunny Sky's site:

https://tinyurl.com/3d9cxksk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:46 AM (ix8EF)

47 43 34 Get a bigger hammer.
_-_
Actually did that to mine once...kinda therapeutic, really....Dropped it on the ground and it started freaking out like it was possessed....screen was spiderwebbed, and it was like the screen was pushing buttons, but my sledgehammer handled the job nicely, put it out of its misery....
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)

hahahahaha great story

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:47 AM (RuTUS)

48 "There needs to be firings through several layers of management."

And decide that a "Department of Homeland Security" was a bad fucking idea from the get-go and get rid of it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 05:49 AM (1JufS)

49 Wildfire uncovers Biblical town of Jesus' disciples:

https://tinyurl.com/bdywxe77

Faithpot site

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 05:49 AM (ix8EF)

50 T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! Is the song of this generation.
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.Harry

Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 05:50 AM (SXn5K)

51 Homeland Security is neither.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:51 AM (XQo4F)

52 39 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin covered it about 20 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjQhkdqMUI
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 05:37 AM (AN2gy)

Tons of fun!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 05:51 AM (RuTUS)

53 It does say it restarted, tried a diagnostic test and if there is a media only speaker then it's shot

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 05:57 AM (Ia/+0)

54 Maybe it's just me, but I think Don Rickles did a better version of Tim Walz than the Tim Walz version of Tim Walz that Tim Walz is doing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 05:59 AM (XQo4F)

55 >>>on-device models and tighter integrations with cloud assistants.

>>As annoying as AI is, dedicated AI devices are even worse.

Cloud assistants mean SaaS and subscription pricing for crap you don't need and likely don't want for myriad reasons.

Kill them all. Let God sort them out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:00 AM (dK+Kv)

56 * Emerging, blinking, from a dusty cave * Saturday? They still have Saturdays? Whaddaya know.

Evening and morning, Tech Folken. I'm up, a bit earlier than I planned (thanks, Stirling, you flying meatloaf!), and am having coffee before feeding the thugs and then myself. Whassup this day?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

57 S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night by The Bay City Rollers was released 49 years ago. . . .

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025

***
I hear it's all right for fighting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

58 Like the sound of a switchblade and a motor bike.

Posted by: Sir Elton at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)

59 >>>it is already a useful compiler if you're interested in high-performance code with built-in memory management.

What's their secret?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)

60 T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! Is the song of this generation.
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.

My grandchildren should be singing W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! That should be a difficult lyric. Hopefully AI will help them out?

Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 06:04 AM (SXn5K)

61 *What's their secret?*

It's got electrolytes. Plants love it.

Posted by: Idiocracy at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

62 Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 06, 2025 05:43 AM (vd6bO)

I laughed . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (QAQdw)

63 58 Like the sound of a switchblade and a motor bike.
Posted by: Sir Elton at December 06, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)

A couple of the sounds that you really like?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (RuTUS)

64 We have a dusting of snow

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)

65 I've bought a couple of items from https://protectli.com/

The ones that I bought are used as servers within my home network. gateway/ntp/dhcp/dns for one, the other a cacti server (https://docs.cacti.net). I've got Slackware 15.0 on the first one and Obarun on the second. (Both are Linux distributions.)

I won't claim the devices are cheap or cost-effective (that wasn't in my decision matrix), but they have been solid performers and simple to load different Linux distributions upon themselves. There's a 1U rack mount shelf you can get that works just fine (for those who have rack mounts).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 06:07 AM (1JufS)

66 From dust we came and to dust we shall return.
That's why I don't dust.
It might be someone I know.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)

67 Joe Biden:
"We're the United States of Ameragottit!”

https://tinyurl.com/m7s7zpxk
(Greg Price on X)

He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

68 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (bQ4nt)

69 Fen, at the bottom of the screen - might have to hold it portrait, it’s easier - you’ll see how many tabs are open e.g. “12 tabs open” tap that and it should show the public / private thing.

Sometimes I’ll brush the phone with my thumb or grab it wrong and it goes into ultra magnification mode. That’s fun to fix without rebooting.

The only time i was worried a little bit I was messing around in Settings. Oops.

I saw all the different languages it supports. Cool! I wonder what everything looks like in a different language?

Hm, let’s find something really exotic looking. Cambodian should do, I think. It worked! And …. You’ll never guess what happened! I couldn’t find the language part in Settings to get out of Cambodian, took me about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (4eslj)

70 Happy Saint Nicholas Day -a day celebrated in the Orthodox and RC church:

https://tinyurl.com/5n62zvbs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:10 AM (IEV/x)

71 You know...the thing!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at December 06, 2025 06:10 AM (XQo4F)

72 A company is building a new Lotus Esprit.

https://tinyurl.com/43yry6pc
(Carscoops.com)

Made famous by James Bond in a few of the movies, especially For Your Eyes Only.

I thought they were the coolest looking cars on the planet when I was like 10.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (6ydKt)

73 There is a article at American Thinker
Minnesota is raping itself

A Somalian is on a raping spree and hasn't served a very light sentence. They are doing what England did

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

74 67 Joe Biden:
"We're the United States of Ameragottit!”

https://tinyurl.com/m7s7zpxk
(Greg Price on X)

He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

Another transliteration:

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
12h
Joe Biden at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute cannot pronounce the "United States of America."

"We're the United Statz Aadfsoihiopuefhqwnjklavds"

That's the phonetic pronunciation. h/t @RyanSaavedra

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:12 AM (RuTUS)

75 My 'Net was out for a time yesterday afternoon. It happened mostly while I was napping. I got up to see texts from Cox about "the outage" and then "It has been resolved." No, it hadn't -- or so I thought. For a while I occupied myself with other things, then did what I should have done right away: turned off the system and my computer, waited a little bit, then switched back on. Success!

Rebooting often works.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

76 high-fiber

Lite, Low Fat, non GMO

Posted by: Don innSoCo at December 06, 2025 04:58 AM (vd6bO)

Green, sustainable, carbon-neutral.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:13 AM (dK+Kv)

77 He’s still doing the mumbling to screaming thing, too.

He's taking extended-release stupid/evil pills. His normal state is zombie mutter but, occasionally, a micro-dose of evil will be administered and he starts screaming... unless a little girl in nearby.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 06, 2025 06:15 AM (ExV1e)

78 hahahahaha from the comments under the @SteveGuest post:

Kevin Joseph
@ShiloZafun
10h
I'm hearing "United States of Merrick Garland" some times and other times I hear "United States of Olive Garden."

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:16 AM (RuTUS)

79
Good morning, Hordians. Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs let out, coffee made, now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian. Getting Her Majesty and The Big Dummy on the road to Florida this morning, going out for dog food for the beasts, plus some other shopping, then going to Confession.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:17 AM (tgvbd)

80 >>> A company is building a new Lotus Esprit.

>>> I thought they were the coolest looking cars on the planet when I was like 10.

When I was slightly younger, I had a Lotus Europa in my Matchbox collection and thought it was one of the coolest looking cars I had.

It was only in adult years did I realize how small they are. Apparently they are popular for DIY mods and you can get quite a lot of speed out of a decent four banger.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)

81 Keeping you centered in the frame and muting background noise sounds like mathy computing tech algorithms or something but not really Artificial Intelligence, tho.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)

That's just it. They use models and datasets to train the systems to recognize the problems and perform some sort of correction, which is pretty standard machine learning stuff. Hardly "AI" or even "I." But marketers don't care.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (dK+Kv)

82 Cool, 51 F., and raining lightly here. We expect rain all day. And here I need to venture out to Walmart for some stuff. Maybe the rain will keep some of the Walmartians home until tomorrow.

And this afternoon Linda wants to go to this Christmas fair, indoors at least, at the German-American Center in the city proper. Gah. Not the center itself, or the fair, or the people -- but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole.

I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

83 "...and other times I hear "United States of Olive Garden."

I'm just here for the bread sticks.

Posted by: Not A Doctor Jill at December 06, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)

84 interesting, R C, particularly the open-source BIOS.

I have noticed a variety of chicom-modded AMI-style BIOSes in boxes lately; got to regard them with a degree of suspicion.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:20 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Monday, Monday.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (0cOaq)

86 I've fed the monsters. Little Dagny did not think her wet food/dry food mix was to her taste and walked off from it. I rescued it from her brother. Now she's looking at me as though I never fed her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)

87
I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

I vaguely remember some satirical headline like "Boyfriends Fear Free Concert in the Park Season". This must be the winter version.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

88 "We're the United Statz Aadfsoihiopuefhqwnjklavds"
------------
Looks like a Hawaiian-Scandinavian hybrid language.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:22 AM (0cOaq)

89 85 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:21 AM (0cOaq)

I have broken out a newish Lipton Forest Fruits Frutti Rossi Black Tea with Strawberries - From France

and the whole room reeks of strawberries.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

90 "...but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole."

###

Download our apps.

Posted by: The good people of Uber and Lyft at December 06, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)

91 I've bought a couple of items from https://protectli.com/

The ones that I bought are used as servers within my home network. gateway/ntp/dhcp/dns for one, the other a cacti server (https://docs.cacti.net). I've got Slackware 15.0 on the first one and Obarun on the second. (Both are Linux distributions.)

I won't claim the devices are cheap or cost-effective (that wasn't in my decision matrix), but they have been solid performers and simple to load different Linux distributions upon themselves. There's a 1U rack mount shelf you can get that works just fine (for those who have rack mounts).

Posted by: Richard Cranium at December 06, 2025 06:07 AM (1JufS)

I have one set up as an opensense router/gateway that has been rock solid. Very impressive.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (dK+Kv)

92 As early as I was to the thread yesterday, I'm even more late to it today.

I am the time-pendulum.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

93 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Monday, Monday.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025

***
"From this time forward, you will service . . . us."

Posted by: Locutus of the Borg at December 06, 2025 06:25 AM (wzUl9)

94 92 As early as I was to the thread yesterday, I'm even more late to it today.

I am the time-pendulum.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM (O7YUW)

We've kept it all warm and cozy for you.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (RuTUS)

95 I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.

You don't remind me much of Claudius from "Hamlet". I hope that the day is better anticipated .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (IEV/x)

96 I am the time-pendulum.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:24 AM

Stay in your lane.

Posted by: The grandfather clock in the foyer at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (XQo4F)

97 "...but going into the city, wondering when the shot or carjacking will come, or when I'll burst a tire in a pothole."

###

Download our apps.
Posted by: The good people of Uber and Lyft at December 06, 2025

***
I'd sooner trust the Borg.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

98 98

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:27 AM (RuTUS)

99 it's a rough job, G&R, but someone's got to do it!

watch out for rogue Gallifreyans!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:28 AM (Cjt/F)

100 100

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:28 AM (RuTUS)

101 I'll grit my teeth, smile and smile and be a villain, and get through it.
*
You don't remind me much of Claudius from "Hamlet". I hope that the day is better anticipated .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025

***
Fen, the event itself is fine. For a time the German Center used to be in the suburbs, off a major Federal highway, and visiting there was great. For that matter, for a big part of my life the city itself was exciting and magnetic. Not no mo'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (wzUl9)

102 Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
...
Feb 23, 2014 — The Time Lords are the rulers of Gallifreyan society as well as their military leaders, selected from early childhood (age

, shown the untempered schism.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (RuTUS)

103 When I was slightly younger, I had a Lotus Europa in my Matchbox collection and thought it was one of the coolest looking cars I had.

It was only in adult years did I realize how small they are. Apparently they are popular for DIY mods and you can get quite a lot of speed out of a decent four banger.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:18 AM (AN2gy)

I had a few Matchbox, but several dozen Hot Wheels (they ran smoother and faster ).

My favorite was a silver Ferrari Tesstarosa.
I gave away most of my collection when I was a teenager but I still have eight or ten that I kept and the Ferrari is one of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

104 T-H-U-R-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! Is the song of this generation.
F-R-I-D-A-Y NIGHT! Was my generation.

My grandchildren should be singing W-E-D-N-E-S-D-A-Y NIGHT! That should be a difficult lyric. Hopefully AI will help them out?
Posted by: Harry A at December 06, 2025 06:04 AM (SXn5K)
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In addition to the "no math rule" maybe we should have a "no spelling rule."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2025 06:30 AM (ESVrU)

105 *( age 8 ) shown the untempered schism

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:31 AM (RuTUS)

106 97, this is wisdom, Wolfus!

happy to observe that the uber/lyft business model does not extend into cows&corn country, lol, nor does doordash ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:31 AM (Cjt/F)

107 >>> I am the time-pendulum.

You'll get in the swing of things

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:34 AM (AN2gy)

108 97, this is wisdom, Wolfus!

happy to observe that the uber/lyft business model does not extend into cows&corn country, lol, nor does doordash ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025

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I suppose if I *needed* a car ride, say, back from my mechanic or something, and had no other choice, I could do Lyft or Uber. But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)

109 Good morning morons

I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (m6HS6)

110 Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 06:09 AM (4eslj)

Thanks for the helpful advice. I gave it to FenSpouse and he fixed it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (uA11f)

111 mornin yall. People are incredibly stupid.

"A Tennessee man and his three-month-old granddaughter were found dead after being mauled by seven pit bulls inside their family home.

DA's office said authorities are still investigating whether the victims died before or after being attacked by the dogs"

Having been in the middle of a dog fight, I can attest it is a melee that you do not want to be in without a weapon.

Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

112 >>> My favorite was a silver Ferrari Tesstarosa.
I gave away most of my collection when I was a teenager but I still have eight or ten that I kept and the Ferrari is one of them.

I have none of my mine, but I do pause to look when I pass them in store aisles.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)

113 But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)
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My friend recently took a Lyft and the driver was quite based and a Trump fan! In the Portland metro area!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (0cOaq)

114 109 Good morning morons

I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:35 AM (m6HS6)

Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)

115 >>> we should have a "no spelling rule."

*** gimlet eye ***

Posted by: Autocucumber at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (AN2gy)

116 midwestchick.com Saturday Meme Drop is up!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:39 AM (Cjt/F)

117 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (0cOaq)

118 In another lifetime, I worked on an Elite a few times. It was a cool looking car but not real fast and the interior finish was terrible. It looked like a kit car inside. Most of what I worked on were electrical problems. Care to guess why?

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

119 115 >>> we should have a "no spelling rule."

*** gimlet eye ***
Posted by: Autocucumber at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (AN2gy)

Is that g-i-m-l-e-t?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)

120 But the recent stories about "immigrants" driving for them make me less than trusting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025
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My friend recently took a Lyft and the driver was quite based and a Trump fan! In the Portland metro area!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 06, 2025

***
Then I guess it's just the luck of the draw.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:41 AM (wzUl9)

121 I have none of my mine, but I do pause to look when I pass them in store aisles.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (AN2gy)

Haven’t been down a toy aisle in forever.

Do the toy cats even look the same?
Same size, materials, and all?

I recall Hot Wheels was getting into the fantasy style for while; crazy designs with bright colors, etc.

That turned me off of them.
I like my fake toy miniature cars looking exactly like the real thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:41 AM (6ydKt)

122 "I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now."

That must be something like the drop detector pendants for old folks I see advertised nowadays.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

123 I would like to have a Lotus Elan for the classicness but a modern Miata will be faster and much more reliable than the Elan's ever were.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:44 AM (vFG9F)

124 Wake up fellow believers in Christ😉 Hank Wiliams Sr-"I heard my Savior calling me"

https://tinyurl.com/2p5cdndw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 06, 2025 06:45 AM (IeCgc)

125 Care to guess why?

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:40 AM (vFG9F)

Made in Britain?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 06:46 AM (dK+Kv)

126 >>> I recall Hot Wheels was getting into the fantasy style for while; crazy designs with bright colors, etc.
That turned me off of them.
I like my fake toy miniature cars looking exactly like the real thing.

They had fantastic designs in the early 70s, though I think some were based on famous custom cars. Pretty sure my Red Baron mobile was not ;--)

They did do track and track friendly wheels a few years before Matchbox did.

I shall do some inspecting later this AM as I wander the supermarket.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:47 AM (AN2gy)

127 122 "I piloted an AI system a few years ago at work, it detected whenever someone fell, the system called me to tell me. This system is being widely commercialized now."

That must be something like the drop detector pendants for old folks I see advertised nowadays.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

super cool

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:47 AM (RuTUS)

128 Lucas, the Prince of Darkness?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:48 AM (Cjt/F)

129 Yeah, the Brits are pretty good at car design, but I’ve heard nothing but nightmare stories about electrical systems and all around terrible engineering in most of their brands from Jaguar to Range Rover.

I think Rolls Royce’s & Bentleys had a good reputation but who can drive a Rolls these days?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 06:48 AM (6ydKt)

130 Why do Brits drink warm beer?

Lucas made refrigerators, too.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (AN2gy)

131 Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
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It is mostly being installed in memory care neighborhoods.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (m6HS6)

132
Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:36 AM (vFG9F)

A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)

133 My Friend Flicka, the 1943 movie with Roddy McDowall, is on Movies! I have a faint memory of the 1955-1960 TV series -- probably more from the tie-in materials like comic books and coloring books than from the show itself. It, and all the other Western series on TV then, cemented my interest in all things Western, including the modern West.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

134

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

135 sock_rat_eez got it. Your prize is headlight switch made of paper mache and graham crackers.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

136 131 Wow. To be used inside a business (manufacturing plant or such)? Or by private patients/subscribers?
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:38 AM (RuTUS)
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It is mostly being installed in memory care neighborhoods.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (m6HS6)

Really great!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:51 AM (RuTUS)

137 >>> who can drive a Rolls these days?

"Honey, I know a promised we would take a cruise around the world when we retired, but I decided to lent a Rolls Royce for a weekend, instead."

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:51 AM (AN2gy)

138 The Red Baron was an actual show car.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

139 Owning seven pit bulls should be illegal or at least as tightly regulated as tigers. They are dangerously unpredictable dogs.
Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025
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A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025

***
I'll stick with my mini-tigers, thanks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (wzUl9)

140 AI is also coming into wide use analyzing health data in real time.

Mrs. So-and-So is sleeping longer than usual, let's check if she still needs her Trazadone.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:52 AM (m6HS6)

141 >>> The Red Baron was an actual show car.

I have learned something. I can let my brain rest for the day.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)

142 A very great deal of the problem is that assholes breed them for aggressiveness. The can be - I stress the word "can" - perfectly fine dogs to live with but only if their temperament is placid. And in most cases, that's not there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:49 AM (tgvbd)
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There is a beautiful pittie in our neighborhood that whenever we walk by, she flops over and demands belly scritches.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 06:55 AM (m6HS6)

143 Bentleys? James Bond's second Bentley in the novels was a 1953 Mark VI, bought at the end of 1955's Moonraker. Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis, set in '57, still has him driving it.

I did an image search. What a beautiful car, esp. in "drophead coupe" (= convertible?) form.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (wzUl9)

144 @128/sock_rat_eez: "Lucas, the Prince of Darkness?"

Lucas Electric is the Prince of Sudden and Unexpected Darkness.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

145 Woohoo!

woulda been a drop in replacement for my old TR-4A !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (Cjt/F)

146 Fluffy, its even got its own wiki page. I didn't know this about it:

"While the original model featured a 1914 Mercedes-Benz inline 6-cylinder engine, the full-size car received an OHC Pontiac 6-cylinder"

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 06:56 AM (vFG9F)

147 "Yeah, the Brits are pretty good at car design..."

No.
No, they're not.

Posted by: MG and Triumph owners everywhere at December 06, 2025 06:57 AM (XQo4F)

148
"All Parts Falling Off This Car Are of the Finest British Workmanship"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (tgvbd)

149 Slightly OT but:
A commercial that had sticking power:

(Wikipedia) "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" is a line spoken in television commercials for LifeCall, a now defunct medical alarm and protection company.

The line was spoken by actress Dorothy McHugh in a 1987 LifeCall television commercial. LifeCall subscribers, mostly seniors and disabled people, would receive a pendant which, when activated, would allow the user to speak into an audio receiving device and talk directly with a dispatch service, without the need to reach a telephone.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

150 I really wish that Google would get around to updating all of my Google home devices with Gemini since the home automation functions and capabilities of the AI are now better than Google assistant's.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (WYStd)

151 >>> The Splittin' Image was one of the first concept cars that sprung from the fertile imagination of Mattel designer Ira Gilford.

Found on the interwebz.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (AN2gy)

152 There is a beautiful pittie in our neighborhood that whenever we walk by, she flops over and demands belly scritches.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025

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I just don't find pitbulls and their mixes to be attractive dogs. German shepherds, collies, mini-collies, Corgis, even Schipperkes are good-looking or cute. Pitbulls, not so much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

153 Spider solitaire is evil
Have 3 empty spaces and only 8 cards hidden, 6 are doubles
533 moves and trapped

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 06:59 AM (Ia/+0)

154 I really wish that Google would get around to updating all of my Google home devices with Gemini since the home automation functions and capabilities of the AI are now better than Google assistant's.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 06:58 AM (WYStd

*raging eye twitch*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:00 AM (dK+Kv)

155 My FiL had an infamous Jaguar that became legendary for spending more time in the shop than on the road.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:01 AM (m6HS6)

156 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)

157 I've got a 65 Spitfire. It's not a very good car by modern standards but it's red and looks so cool with the top off. I can drive it to the gas station or grocery store and will get a half a dozen comments from people who want to look at it or talk about it.

I had one guy come up while I was pumping gas who said "I didn't know that Triumph made cars".

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

158 We used to hold rifle matches on a private range in central Ohio, where the neighbor had his own menagerie of big cats. The range owner was a policeman's widow who delighted in having her late husband's friends and competitors over for the weekend. I'll never forget her because she was kind of old and extremely good looking. If you camped out in the hay field, the lions and tigers inside their heavy fences would roar all night and really give you something to think about. Seeing all those EZ-up line tents from across the acreage gave a good impression of what medieval tournaments must have been like.

After several years, the family's insurance agent intervened and insisted that sponsored rifle matches on a farm were just too dangerous to cover. Nobody said a damn word about the pumas.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (zdLoL)

159 My FiL had an infamous Jaguar that became legendary for spending more time in the shop than on the road.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025

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And my mechanic warned me that, while Jags are great cars, the parts are no cheaper than Mercedes parts. He works on both and loves 'em, but acknowledges their drawbacks.

His father had a modern aluminum-bodied Jag saloon for a time, before he stopped driving.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

160 >>> The project was designed by model designer Tom Daniel in 1967 for the Monogram Company

Looks like the Red Baron got its start as a plastic scale model kit.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (AN2gy)

161 My brother still has his foster pit bull.
She’s a sweet dog most of the time, and she does listen if you’re using a firm voice with her.

But they are built so strong, and are so impulsive and fast, it’s scary because you never know when the aggression will turn up.

She already bit one person out of nowhere.
Thankfully it was minor, but bro and his wife don’t take her out of the house/yard anymore because of it.

And this dog has never been trained to be aggressive. She’s been loved, given attention, and treated like any other dog they’ve had.

There’s just something in pit bulls that can cause them to snap unexpectedly as far as I can tell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)

162 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025

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They seem to be more placid. The little ones are more yappy and excitable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)

163 modern standards, phooey!

also lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 06, 2025 07:07 AM (Cjt/F)

164 There’s just something in pit bulls that can cause them to snap unexpectedly as far as I can tell.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 06, 2025

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Apparently they have been bred for it. You might as well expect a collie not to herd as a pitbull not to be aggressive, methinks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

165 *raging eye twitch*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:00 AM (dK+Kv)

I know the horde doesn't like it, but the utility I get from these little devices is something that I now cannot live without. Had a smart home ever since I bought this place ten years ago, and it's awesome

I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)

166 >>> I've got a 65 Spitfire. It's not a very good car by modern standards but it's red and looks so cool with the top off.

Wikkid cool. I wouldn't say anything but would be noticeably gawking.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:09 AM (AN2gy)

167 165 I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)

I would welcome a list of those.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

168 "modern standards, phooey!"

I won't take this 1150 cc beast on the freeway. It's so low and little it's just too scary and at 80mph the engine is turning about 5000 rpm.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

169 I like big data and I cannot lie...

Posted by: Sir Spiesalot at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

170 Cat *breed* personalities seem to be much less variable than those of dogs. Siamese are noisier, Ragdolls are placid, Siberians are weird (I know, having lived with three and known a fourth very well). But all of them generally want to hunt small prey, play with toys, sleep curled up, enjoy human company, etc.

Individual cats are another box of litter entirely.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (wzUl9)

171 Through an extremely unlikely series of events, I bought a packet of Uncle Ben’s ready Brown Rice, which is intended for the Microwave. I think it’s semi-cooked already, Not a fan of instant rice, but at 6k feet brown rice isn’t practical without a canner. I’m thinking it might be OK in a crockpot? Chicken & Rice hangs in the balance

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (4eslj)

172 Time I went to pretend to be writing. In about an hour, when it's fully light, I'll head off to the grocery, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2025 07:12 AM (wzUl9)

173 169 I like big data and I cannot lie...
Posted by: Sir Spiesalot at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (XQo4F)

also dogs

156 I always liked bigger breeds of dogs
Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:03 AM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

174 @149/m: Wheeeeere's the beef?

;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

175 “ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Matthew 21:9

Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (E24OL)

176 >>> I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.

I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)

177 When I was a kid, my dad's uncle lived with my great grandmother and he had a kennel rasing pomeranian and chihuahua, they seemed snippy to me

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2025 07:14 AM (Ia/+0)

178 Pit bulls were bred for aggressiveness, I don’t think that can be removed or conditioned out of them. Once in a while they just snap and go into lizard brain mode entirely. Not a fan.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:14 AM (4eslj)

179 Uncle Ben's Ready Rice?
Are you kidding? Squeeze the package a few times. Tear the top back one inch at either top corner. Microwave on high for 90 seconds.
Boom. You've got perfectly cooked rice!
Thanks patriarchy!

Posted by: Guys everywhere at December 06, 2025 07:16 AM (XQo4F)

180 Those little ones have got to be the future of home computers, as I like bigger screens than a laptop, or watching a movie on a tiny phone screen..

Over a decade ago decided that a desktop was too big, noisy, hot and power hungry and moved to notebook computers which could be stored in a vault when not in use or when leaving.

Due to the nature of my work, I'm running 3 4k monitors (43", 2 x 36"). I want the mini PC to be the future since with USB4 and modern docking stations throwing a cube half the size of a Kleenex box in the vault is really easy.

The mini-pc gives me all the stuff a notebook does except the screen, keyboard, and the ruggedness for travel - which I need only a few times a year.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

181 >>> Cat *breed* personalities seem to be much less variable than those of dogs. Siamese are noisier, Ragdolls are placid, Siberians are weird

We had a ragdoll, can confirm. I think he was home brew, not a registered cat.

Mrs fluffy has noticed that tabbies tend to be extroverted and friendly. My puppycat is a tabby.

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (AN2gy)

182 I noticed it can get too hot and humid for dogs to do their job. On one of the worst hot and humid days ever experienced I was making a delivery to a house. Attack dog was under the deck in the shade. I heard a muffled, not very enthusiastic “woof” and that was that. Dog said “I ain’t moving”. In better weather I would have been a snack.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (4eslj)

183 174 @149/m: Wheeeeere's the beef?

;-)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (O7YUW)

"New ... York ... CITY?"

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:17 AM (RuTUS)

184 I know the horde doesn't like it, but the utility I get from these little devices is something that I now cannot live without. Had a smart home ever since I bought this place ten years ago, and it's awesome

I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)
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Have you seen Demon Seed?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:18 AM (m6HS6)

185 Get a rope.

Posted by: Pace salsa at December 06, 2025 07:19 AM (XQo4F)

186 175 “ The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Matthew 21:9
Posted by: Marcus T at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (E24OL)

Thank you, Marcus T!

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

187 Pit bulls were bred for aggressiveness, I don’t think that can be removed or conditioned out of them. Once in a while they just snap and go into lizard brain mode entirely. Not a fan.

The mental retards that live around here love their pit bulls and let them go charge people simply walking down the street (admittedly, I'm the only one walking down the street - people here are so lazy they drive to the mailbox)

That is why bullwhips are lovely stand-off weapons.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

188 Yeah tabbies tend to be gregarious and good natured. The nicest I knew was named “Mike” which for some reason I thought was comical.

My observation is you can tell a LOT about people, by the nature or disposition and health of their pets.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:21 AM (4eslj)

189 176 >>> I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.

I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.
Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:13 AM (AN2gy)

Now do toilets.

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)

190 "That is why bullwhips are lovely stand-off weapons.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

If they get inside the range of the whip you better have a pistol or large knife.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

191 171 Through an extremely unlikely series of events, I bought a packet of Uncle Ben’s ready Brown Rice, which is intended for the Microwave. I think it’s semi-cooked already, Not a fan of instant rice, but at 6k feet brown rice isn’t practical without a canner. I’m thinking it might be OK in a crockpot? Chicken & Rice hangs in the balance
Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:11 AM (4eslj)

Maybe it says, on the package?

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS)

192 But the 370 is just 20% faster than the 255 while the relevant Minisforum model is 60% more expensive.

Why would you give a product a name that most everyone will mis-read as misinform?

Posted by: From about That Time at December 06, 2025 07:24 AM (sl73Y)

193 >>> Now do toilets.

I saw the discussion yesterday, or earlier this week.

It brought to mind a parody I saw years back about the Google toilet. IIRC correctly, it blackmailed a guy into buying stuff because of his shameful browsing habits.

"Google: We're way up your ass"

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (AN2gy)

194 Nope, it only has directions for microwave. I didn’t look at it real close however, I’m still in the pissed off mode. Hazards of buying online. I thought it was a big ass box of instant. No, just a twee pack, it’s like a brick. I think it might have moisture, leading me to believe it would be OK after an hour in the crack pot.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (4eslj)

195 I have a strict no pit bull policy. Neighbor had one that killed one of my colts. A stray tried attacking one of the older geldings. S S S

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (sDNVV)

196 I realize that I am semi-protected by security through obscurity, but no.

I don't want my refrigerator phoning home about my consumption habits.

• Don't be the signal, be the noise.
• If you don't even make noise, you become the signal. (the dog that didn't bark)
• Don't do such evil shit that Leviathan decides to make you a cat toy.

Yeah, your refrigerator might not be reporting on you, but thousands of other things do. (e.g. neighborhood Ring door cameras, ALPR, traffic signal crossings, your phone, your power meter...)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (a4flb)

197 The more technology advances the farther away I want from it.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:27 AM (sDNVV)

198 Pit bitches can be very loving. Still protective though.

Posted by: no one at December 06, 2025 07:28 AM (W7XSX)

199 Why would you give a product a name that most everyone will mis-read as misinform?

Its a pure Chinese product. Their marketing teams open a can of alphabet soup and discover their product name and company name in the first scoop.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (a4flb)

200 200

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

201 Now do toilets.
Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:22 AM (RuTUS)
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There is a lot of good health data to be gathered from the toilet.

Please Google "poop chart"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2025 07:29 AM (m6HS6)

202 I know the horde doesn't like it,

. . .

I also work with "big data" and know that most of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense. Some fears are justified but others not.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 06, 2025 07:08 AM (WYStd)

Do what pleases you, group preferences be dawned. I was just going for the funny.

"[ M] ost of the fears people have over privacy are nonsense . . ."

I read that as, "not proven right or justified just yet."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (dK+Kv)

203 So many foreign sports car comments, and nobody has said:

FIAT

"Fix it again, Tony."

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:30 AM (RuTUS)

204 >>> Yeah, your refrigerator might not be reporting on you, but thousands of other things do. (e.g. neighborhood Ring door cameras, ALPR, traffic signal crossings, your phone, your power meter...)

I know that I am constantly observed , albeit passively. I feel like I have yielded too much ground already.

Not sure what you mean by 'be the noise'. Be statistically anomolous?

Posted by: fluffy at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (AN2gy)

205 The web based email, where I used to work would sometimes switch an account display to Danish. No idea why, but I got very good at logging into their account and changing it back to English.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (+mUZM)

206 195 I have a strict no pit bull policy. Neighbor had one that killed one of my colts.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2025 07:25 AM (sDNVV)

yikes

Posted by: m at December 06, 2025 07:33 AM (RuTUS)

207 I've had a few Fiats. They are not so bad if you can work on them. I had a 128 sedan that the fuel pump failed on so I strapped a motorcycle gas tank to the hood and ran a hose to the carb. Drove it for a few weeks like that.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

208 If they get inside the range of the whip you better have a pistol or large knife.

If I was going for a nice evening walk in a neighborhood I don't know, then I suppose, but it would look weird a kitted up for CQB.

Doing summer work as a teen, when canvasing a neighborhood occasionally people would greet me with a GSD or Doberman (the cool attack dogs at that time).

Having a BB Nidan in martial arts, providing the dog with a concussion or cracked ribs was effective (I had a very high risk threshold at the time).

Worst case, years later attacked by a GSD out in the alley at night - provided a sacrificial arm while the other jammed an automatic SOG knife in its chest and vigorously swirled the knife around in the cavity until the threat ended.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 06, 2025 07:38 AM (a4flb)

209 "I have a strict no pit bull policy."

Me too now. If I see one in the yard I am not going to wait around to see what it does.

Posted by: fd at December 06, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

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