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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 18 points 5 hours ago

Ive got a Bravia. They're good like upper midrange TVs, like the top end before you really start spending crazy cash

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 27 points 10 hours ago

Hell yeah

When I went I saw some Chinese equipment (security stuff iirc baggage X-rays or something) at the airport saying that they're helping Cuba

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Impeachment is not a thing that's ever going to happen.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 day ago

RAM is expensive, bulk storage like hard drives haven't gone up as much. Yet.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 day ago

One of the best things I host.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I buy privacy respecting smart shit

I have smart lights, but they operate off a radio (not wifi) in my house. That radio is connected to my home server, that I fully control. There's also physical switches on the wall to control them, which IMO is absolutely mandatory.

I'm a massive nerd tho so I don't expect the setup to be viable for most. Although I think Home Assistant are selling the servers as little ready made kits with the radio and all nowadays. But I'd still recommend some tech proficiency.

Plus my bedroom fan, my TVs, my robovac, etc all controlled locally through my server.

I fully concede it's all unnecessary tho it's just my hobby and there are some benefits. My lights slowly get dimmer and more yellow the later it gets. I have a little button on my nightstand that turns on/off my bedside lamp or I can double click it to toggle the overhead light. I can toggle lights from my phone without getting off the couch. It's nice.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

What spectrum is this?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe you're used to it. Putting up just my ring finger is hard and uncomfortable

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If we're gonna waste billions of dollars on military and ICE and shit imagine if we wasted all that on shit like this.

I mean, still would be better if we took care of people, but I'd take this over what we're doing now.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Capital isn't even particularly difficult. It's repetitive to a fault really. He repeats the concept of the Labor Theory of Value until you're good and damn tired of it, then it becomes a history lesson on working conditions in late 19th century Britain.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Audiobooks are great but not reading

Do you mean in the literal sense?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean so does Lemmy in the default interface (WebUI)

 

The original video had sections zooming into people's faces and license plates and shit. Didn't think it was cool to propagate that. It also went on for longer but not much else happened.

 

Full article textTAIPEI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Taiwan prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the chief executive officer of Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, alleging he was involved in illegal business and recruitment activities in Taiwan. Taiwan’s Shilin District Prosecutors Office said in a document it had indicted two Taiwanese citizens for helping OnePlus CEO Pete Lau illegally operate a business and recruit more than 70 employees in Taiwan. The allegations fall under Taiwanese law governing relations with China.

The document, dated November 2025, was first reported by Taiwan local media on Tuesday. Over 70 employees were hired in Taiwan to conduct smartphone software application research and development, verification and testing for the Chinese smartphone maker, prosecutors said. OnePlus is headquartered in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. It became an independent sub-brand under Oppo in 2021, according to its website. Oppo and OnePlus did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters. Reuters could not reach Lau for comment. Beijing claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan rejects China’s sovereignty claims and says only the island’s people can decide their future.

But Taiwan's tech expertise has made it a magnet for Chinese companies seeking talent, prompting Taiwanese authorities to block such efforts, which they say have included using shell companies registered in Hong Kong or foreign entities, or dispatching staff through hiring agencies to conceal their identities. In August 2025, Taiwan authorities said they were investigating 16 Chinese companies for allegedly poaching semiconductor and other high-tech talent, amid growing concerns over technology outflows.

(This story has been corrected to clarify that the document from Taiwan’s Shilin District Prosecutors Office was issued last November, not on Tuesday, in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3)

Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee; Editing by Stephen Coates

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

Smallest that would fit a battery and a Heltec v4.

Live in a fairly small town in the southeast US but the local Amateur Radio club has a Meshtastic radio on a tall building in town and I was immediately able to see ~20 nodes and had 5 people talking in LongFast.

Wish I could have an outdoor pole mounted base station, but living in an apartment makes it hard. It seems to work okay on my 3rd floor windowsill though!

Link to case model: https://www.printables.com/model/1519914-heltec-lora-32-v4v3-pocket-pager-case/files

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by bdonvr@thelemmy.club to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

Honestly they've had some struggles (beyond usual) lately. I'm really scared for them but does anyone know more? I know Venezuela is one of the larger oil exporters to Cuba.

 

Hello!

I woke up this morning to find the site broken, we weren't receiving any activity from outside. My apologies, unfortunately the server seemed to have broken riiiight when I went to sleep which made the downtime about as long as possible.

We've been running smoothly for months so this was very unexpected. The server will be catching up with everything we missed for a while.

Once again my apologies, and thank you for being a member of The Lemmy Club.

 

This is crazy. My hope goes out to Cubans and others in the path. Cuba does not need this right now.

May it level the illegally occupied Guantanamo bay, which has also been evacuated.

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