Don’t Buy a Ford
It’s ridiculous that they won’t stand behind their vehicles and do the right thing to fix this recall issue. Is this a slap in the face to people buying gas cars and not getting onboard with electric vehicles? Of course,…
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VPN Tier List of 2024
A pretty honest look at VPNs today, and he even mentions how so many are owned by one company along with there being a link to intelligence agencies. Personally, I don’t trust any of them and just run my own…
Getting Started with Flakes and Home Manager in NixOS
I’ve really been enjoying NixOS, and beyond learning the capabilities of the configuration.nix file there is a lot of value in using Flakes and Home-Manager which are employed by most NixOS users. These are very succinct and well done video…
NixOS is Mindblowing
I finally got around to installing and trying NixOS, and it is pretty special. What’s really interesting is that it’s not your normal Linux distribution as it’s immutable with atomic updates, and the main way to install apps is to…
US Probe of Hondas That Can Activate Emergency Braking for No Reason Moves Closer to a Recall
Some of these safety systems just aren’t that good. I remember a truck driver with a new Freightliner years ago saying that when she went through this one overpass her truck would emergency brake, and repeated attempts to get it…
House Passes Bill That Would Require Feds to Obtain a Warrant to Purchase Americans’ Data
The timing of this seems highly suspect when they’ve just passed the FISA legislation in the House of Representatives which expands the federal government’s illegal spying on American citizens. And I don’t trust our congress critter quoted in the article,…
Automotive Journalist Reveals How Smart Technologies in Modern Vehicles Cost You Your Control and Privacy
The article is at bottom, but I’ll place the YouTube video below, and the report by a viewer seems pretty credible. Consequently, there is so little real reporting on much of what they’re doing these days, and you can learn…
NSA ’Just Days From Taking Over the Internet’ Warns Edward Snowden
So perhaps this expansion was so important they compromised their Speaker of the House puppet to place the necessary vote. https://cointelegraph.com/news/nsa–days-from-taking-over-internet-whistleblower-edward-snowden By Thomas Mitchelhill The FISA 702 bill has been described by critics as a “dramatic and terrifying” expansion of…
Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
And this is why I wouldn’t have a smart lock. And you should really have a more expensive key lock that is bump key resistant as well (bump keys allow a bump to launch the pins inside the lock effectuating…
Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90%
And this is exactly why you should never trust the greenies, as original cost verses benefit calculations in the beginning showed it took many years to recover the cost of a solar installation. And the contentious part was you were…
“China Is About To Start Bidding” – Will Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Spark The ‘Halving’ Rally?
According to my Bitcoin node BTC Explorer, we’re just 4 days and 8 hours away from the Halving. This is a reduction of new BTC being rewarded to miners with each new block, going from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC along…
Automatic-Transmission on a Motorcycle? 2021 Honda NC750X DCT | Daily Rider
This dual clutch automatic transmission on this Honda is pretty outstanding. I would never own a motorcycle myself without a clutch and manual shifter, but this might appeal to new riders as manual transmissions have been phased out of vehicles…