I have a 2020 model CUV. Bit after infotainment, but before the all-digital dash bullshit.

I will be driving it until the wheels fall off, or until gas is literally no longer available.

Badly engineered, badly coded, badly built, and badly serviced. Great work, Americans.

You blamed it on Americans and specifically pointed out bad code, badly built, and badly serviced products.

Are you telling me to personally cast the fittings used in my water heater? To hand solder a PCB for my microwave? To machine my own engine camshaft?

Believe it or not, some people actually do that shit.

Also, please point to me where the any of that is specifically a fucking American problem? Your microwave PCB was probably manufactured in China or Taiwan. Same for the rest of the stuff you mentioned.

And yeah, feel free to solder shit. I fixed my microwave PCB that way when a thyristor fried. Microwaves are pretty fucking simple where circuitry is concerned, large components and they even come with a PCB manual, generally above the door. Even if you can’t build it you can at least repair it.

she was asking for it

Oh, so the penis costume was too short and too tight? Or it just gave the prosecutor an erection? /s

Such utter bullshit.

Ah yes, the reason Spotify is vibe coded, tech bros make shitty products, and Europe doesn’t have a decent competitor to Netflix is… checks notes … the threat of assassination of European leaders via “diplomacy.”

Bro, I don’t know whether you’re wearing the tin foil or smoking out of it but either way I think you should put it down.

I still say it’s a choice. There are European providers that are hosting alternatives even for the likes of Azure and AWS. Use them. Fuck off from Amazon, Microsoft, and other American companies. Vote with your wallet. Support local products and services. They exist. If they’re not as good, it’s in part because they weren’t supported over American options.

But that means the blame is misplaced. The opportunity for competition existed all this time, but other nations rested on their laurels or otherwise corrupt politicians must have stopped competition and/or regulation preventing that technological dominance.

Likely it was simply easier to say “let America do it.” Then there’s no responsibility or accountability and if anything goes wrong, blame America.

We’re a nation of ~340 million in a world of billions. Surely there’s a means for other nations to create the same level of technological progress and rival whatever products and services we have. Our education system is trash and our politicians corrupt. You can’t be saying there was no other country or non-American business smart or savvy enough to make it happen. I’d it’s happening that way it’s because they choose not to out of convenience. It was a choice, and we’re all living with the outcome globally.

Rather than blame Americans you could make the shit you want. Just saying.

America sucks at the moment no doubt, but what exactly is the rest of the world’s excuse for not creating viable local or collaborative alternatives to American corporate services and products?

in 24th place among social media companies, a few spots behind YouTube Kids.

I like how they salted the wound there.

As an older millennial, I felt the same way when media outlets were lumping my 30-odd year old ass in with 16 year olds not even out of high school and calling us a cohort.

Since I see you have some anime there:

• Gargantia on the Verduous Planet
• Samurai Flamenco
• Tiger & Bunny
• Cells at Work

Should all be wholesome and pretty kid friendly.

Also, some older cartoons you missed:

• Pirates of Dark Water
• Conan the Adventurer
• 2 Stupid Dogs
• Doug (Nickelodeon series)

I dunno if you’d consider it ergonomic but I use a Mistel MD770 and it meets your requirements. It’s essentially like a Keychron K2 cut in half.

Bring on the bad ones, we’ll kick them all out not vote for them.

Come on, let’s at least try to be a bit proactive next time, eh? Nobody wants to go through this bullshit again.

I did similar. 1/2” sheet of ply board, staple down the mat edge trim with a staple gun, and tape down the edge with duct tape. Didn’t even need the acrylic sheet or whatever and I used that mat for years.

Currently using the soft mat as is because I don’t have a lot of space and it’s nice to fold it up into the cube storage under my coffee table when not in use. I put some silicone grip tape under the arrows to keep it from sliding around much when in use, and it’s good enough up to around 8-10 difficulty.

Supposedly he thought it would increase his dismal polling numbers, as military action tended to do so for previous presidents.

Also, to distract from the Epstein files and several other things people are actively upset about.

Hell yes.

Just a cheap Ostent mat.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FJ2KTXC

There’s options from just this up to like $400 hard pads (L-Tek). It’s also cheap and easy to hard mod a soft mat like what I have if you’re interested.

Try Dance Dance Revolution. I’ve been weightlifting for years but hate cardio. DDR got me moving and sticking with it because it’s fun and gamified via scoring.

ITGMania for the app and Stepmania Online or Zenius-I-vanisher for song packs.

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Edit - ITGMania is an In The Groove oriented application. There’s also Outfox which is available on Steam.

I use ITGMania with XX Starlight theme which switches it to a DDR Max/Supernova style and scoring.

If you’re new to DDR none of this will matter to you, but figured I’d add it just in case, especially since IIRC In The Groove may have tighter frame timing for steps, I forget. 🤷

https://retrosizer.com/?psp-2000:129,96~psp

Good place to compare device sizes.

I get free Epic games from Prime Gaming, but I refuse to redeem them on principle. You couldn’t pay me to use Epic, or even give them an inkling that I support them.

I considered it briefly when they launched, and then they pulled the bullshit of game exclusivity on PC, which is why I left consoles behind. Because of that, I’ll never purchase from them.

Not really, six feet will do.