Now just push th’ little daisies and make 'em come up

You can run it on a Pi via Box64. Source: I did it.

I’ve been able to control a consumer-grade CyberPower UPS for just my modem/router via a Raspberry Pi using Box64 to emulate the linux command line software for communicating with the UPS. I’ve never had any issues, and it had pretty okay documentation. You just connect it to a host PC via USB.

https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/standby/st625u/

This is the one, nothing special.

As you can see though, source, rpm, and deb versions are available. If a low-power consumer grade one like this has Linux support, I’d daresay most of them do. Like I said, I never had trouble.

This sounds like a Porn Parody of Search for Spock (on a Cock).

Oops actually now you have to upgrade to a new speaker, because since the old ones are no longer supported by The App™ Elite Edition, we have done you a “favor” and remotely bricked the device so now what was once repurposable electronics must basically be “recycled” (read: burned to release tasty toxins) because we hate you and the environment and ourselves.

Don’t even get me started on something as simple as a bluetooth speaker.

Quick press to turn on and off. Short hold to get into bluetooth pairing mode. Long hold to get into stereo pairing mode.

What’s the fucking problem with having more buttons??

Found Zizek’s Lemmy account.

Yeah I prefer my Purple Stuff Vodka Seltzers

but for real capitalism is truly plumbing the depths of nostalgia for our generations youth.

Look I’m just here for when we get to the Football in Suits scene.

I mean, this an extreme version of what is a reality.

One of the most popular local Mexican places in my town has always just been “La Puetra,” aka “The Door.”

More recently there was a food truck named “La Luna’s Tacos” or “The Moon’s Tacos.”

Gaming gets serious when your opponent in an online game is really talented and so you sit up and lean forward towards the screen.

My mind knows Seinfeld so well that even this unformatted, barely any punctuation nonsense reads perfectly fine to me.

This is actually a solid gold joke considering the number of times Dad just makes shit up when Calvin asks questions. Dad did this one to himself. You want your kid to trust that you know stuff, stop trying to joke with him like he understands that you’re just joking.

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Fuck it dude, life’s a risk.

They’re also both pay-to-win.

Honestly, Hobbes speaking for a whole generation right about now.

I’m making fun of them the same way I’m making fun of Trump voters. They don’t like me pointing out that they’re going to get what they chose.

“But it’s my right to be ignorant and not have to learn about the issues!” -Bluesky users and Trump voters, somehow.

Things like smoking will make dying a living hell. There’s a difference between “dying faster” and dying horrifically in painfully horrific ways that basically end with you pumped with fentanyl until you’re dead, and that’s if you’re one of the lucky ones.

It’s way more likely that you’ll grow up and realize you’ve been a lot more unhealthy than you thought, even without drinking or smoking. Like, “oh shit, I’m that majority of Americans who is overweight and it actually has been terrible for my body and I should probably change that if I also don’t want to die horrifically.”