besides besides just drinking more water than you piss?

bad kidneys,

1 and 2 are very easily ruled out simply by increasing the length of observation. eventually, they’re gonna have to, uhm. piss or shit. for 3, well. uhm. yeah.

though I did have an exasperated conversation with a friend of mine who insisted his insulin resistance kept him from not losing weight once he reached 270. he was confiding that his doctors didn’t understand and refused to check it (again.)(yes, that’s doctors plural. he bounced through three or four because they kept trying to explain that insulin resistance didn’t do that.)

It finally got to the point where I was like “Then you should call some physicists because as we understand the laws of the universe, that’s a literal impossibility.”

he… did not like that.

Except that’s not what happened in the pi and that’s not what is happening in the cars.

You’re paying for that hardware whether or not you also pay for the keys. You own that hardware. You would be offended if you bought a house and the previous owner said “oh and if you want to use the rooms, you’ll need to buy room keys”.

You should be offended at BMW. And Broadcom.

You get that, right?

R pi paid Broadcom for the chips. Then you paid r pi for the pi. Broadcom didn’t give anyone a discount there.

And you’re ignoring decades of scummy lawyering and lobbying to make the proprietary codec bullshit legal.

So, like. Proprietary codecs are also pretty disgusting.

But what you’re not being told- I assume this didn’t occur to you rather than you’re being dishonest- is that you didn’t necessarily need those keys- the chip wasn’t a dedicated decoder chip- it was the GPU.

And you have no idea how much I despised Broadcom for pulling that shit. (And I’m not alone. Most of us pirated the keys out of sheer irritation.)

It’s not that it’s cheaper.

It’s that they’re getting away with extortion and make more money that way.

Heated seats, for example, are not “software”.

It’s some form of heating element. You flip a switch and it runs electricity through some fairly resistive wires (iirc it’s carbon fiber; maybe NiChrome)

The most firmware you see is some kind of thermal monitoring to keep from getting too hot. It’s not a complicated system.

All this is, is a whole bunch of claptrap to sell you fully functional car, but charge you to unlock that functionality. You wouldn’t buy a house and then buy keys to use every room in the house.

You can call it what you want. I call it extortion. It should be illegal, and it’s certainly scummy.

No.

absolutely not.

you already paid for the hardware. it already has the firmware installed. All that they’re doing is flipping a software switch that tells the system to let the firmware/hardware be functional.

it being a one-time payment isn’t the problem. The problem is that you already paid for the heated seats or whatever else. I shouldn’t have to pay to have features that are already in the car.

“Leave me alone!”- le cat.

(Don’t think xcell actually needs to turn the power off, but they do need to send a technician in a bucket.)

American here.

Jeer, mock, boo. Castigate. We shouldn’t have even been allowed this year.

Also have to feed the 18-day-old troll accounts, amirite?

She looks very concerned about your swearing. Is the maintenance going okay?

I don’t have and don’t ever care to have one, so I’m not sure on that

Same, really. Even just getting in one is a bad idea.

That’s not what is being banned- though the newer style could still be electric and problematic, the style they’re really going after seems motorized pop out handles that look like this:

The normal pocket handles do create a not insignificant amount of drag.

The pop out mechanism is stupid, don’t get me wrong, but it does have an appreciable effect on range.

A.2, overpriced!

So, the flush handles actually save a lot.

The thing is, there’s purely mechanical ways of solving the problem. Including a hinge set somewhere towards the middle- so you push one side in, and the other angled out so you can open it.

Not the most convenient, but it’s less inconvenient than an over engineered piece of shit that breaks every winter.

I’ll hold your coat.

that kitty is beautiful, and I’m not even being threatened to say that.

probably prudent. Can’t trust these fucks with any amount of authority.

what restrictions are you talking about?

chances are, those are restrictions Microsoft is demanding. (for example, child safety. or “child safety”, considering gates is a pedo.) It uses game files that are controled and licensed by Microsoft.

The browser on the other hand is an application that uses a standard, open, protocol to take information and turn it into a readable page with all the content you like to see.

It’s not the browser’s fault that pornhub uses the same protocol as, I dunno… whatever biblestory website evangelicals think is “safe”. (do Song of Solomon next!)

Regardless, Microshit owns Minecraft, and they get to decide what restrictions it has on it.