What I always heard is that it’s because oranges used to be seasonal: until the invention of reefers (refrigerated boxcars, not marijuana), they could only be shipped from Florida to the population centers up north without spoiling during the winter.

No, I said no such thing. Quit putting words in my mouth.

What I said – the only thing I said – was disagreeing with your rationalizing of the wear as somehow a good thing.

I’m not sure how much of a “lost artform” it can be when you can just buy a can of the stuff at Home Depot.

(Sure, that isn’t “the good stuff” as per @Orbituary@lemmy.world, but IMO it’s not a big deal. “Clear” and “thin” are the correct choices for OP anyway, so the only disadvantage to this premixed spray compared to buying flakes and mixing it yourself is that whatever is leftover in the can will probably go bad before OP has a use for it. Also, I’ve found spray shellac to be very easy to work with, but I suppose YMMV.)

On one hand, the patina of real brass oxidizing can be pretty nice. On the other hand, the ‘patina’ of brass-colored paint rubbing off of plastic or pot metal or whatever the Hell that thing’s actually made of… not so much.

“Coexisted” with giant sloths and mastodons? Nah, now we’ve just got a better idea of what caused their extinction.

but something P2P would probably work if you can stream from multiple seeders

Which is, in fact, exactly how PeerTube works: it’s got BitTorrent built right into it.

Frankly, it’s ridiculous how people keep harping on this “problem” as if it isn’t long since solved.

What part of “bittorrent” do you not understand? I am really getting fucking sick and tired of people like you posting this bullshit FUD.

Yeah, and there’s a reason contracts of adhesion are [supposed to be] illegal.

Please drink verification can.

It all becomes clear once you understand that the Jews returning to Israel is a precondition for the Christian apocalypse. Christofascists don’t give a flying fuck about the Jews; they support Israel as a country (and Zionism in particular) for the entirely ghoulishly selfish reason that they wanna get ‘raptured.’

Well, double dumb ass on you!

WTF, don’t they have a picket line to break or something?

Excuse me?

There’s a YouTuber called NetworkChuck who has a few videos on hooking Home Assistant up to Ollama. Here’s the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbVePuP7NY

(I find his style to be slightly bombastic and annoying, but the info seems good.)

Kubuntu, because at the time that was the only apt-based distro that both Steam and the proprietary AMD graphics drivers officially supported. (I had to use proprietary drivers because I bought a Vega 56 on release day and open-source ones weren’t immediately available.)

I think that’s the point: it’s selling the notion that 2014 lonely dude missed his opportunity to be “normal people.”

Disclaimer: I am wildly speculating as someone who has been been paying attention to smart home tech for a long time, but only minimally so because every time I checked it seemed too immature/janky/proprietary/etc. to bother dealing with. (It’s only recently, with the advent of stuff like Home Assistant, ESPHome, Tasmota, and hopefully-imminent Matter and Thread, that I’ve started to dip my toes in.)

First of all, I feel like a decade ago Z-Wave used to be the cheaper option. Second, my impression is that Z-wave, as an older standard with questionable compliance/implementation accuracy across vendors, just didn’t work quite as well as Zigbee, which I guess would make it less popular over time and therefore eventually more expensive due to fewer economies of scale.

I believe that Z-wave is more open then Zigbee (although it didn’t start out that way, and it’s unclear to me whether it’s completely so now or not).

Thread exists because it’s meant to be the royalty-free replacement for both of them (and the first royalty-free standard since X10).

7 years for me. That’s how long ago I built my current PC, which has never had Windows on it.

No it is not! It’s a standard, but is by no means an “open” one. Use of it requires paying royalties to the Zigbee Alliance.