Chinese companies famously ignore patent law and do make copies and try to flood the western market with them.
Most startups don’t have the time and/or money to patent their ideas and big corps do squash them/steal their ideas routinely once they become noticeable.
If anything, startups can’t develop their ideas because some company will hold a generic patent like “clicking a button does something” (or “glide with a pet”) from 30 years ago.
Just a note on landlording: if you do plan on going down this path make sure you research the law and its enforcement carefully for the area. Specifically, if in the future you need to go live in that house but you have a tenant, what can you do to get them out, and will the police actually enforce it if the tenant is refusing to leave?
Also consider the morality of it, e.g. if you suddenly decide you want to live there, how would you feel about evicting your tenant?
It’s probably not a problem if you can give plenty of advance warning (like several months) and such, but if you expect to move in on short notice it may be rough.
Would you like another try or is that actually the best you can do?
Aside from what’s already been said, you can try playing with her as well with toys that keep you at a distance from her. E.g. stick with a cord on it and some toy on the end of the cord or something similar.
Try just moving it around in front of her to get her interest, then let it stay still for 5-10s to see if she’s interested in hunting it (if she goes flat on the ground, wiggles her butt or her head at it she’s preparing to pounce). Don’t let her get it easily but let her catch it before the end of playtime.
Some cats will appreciate it more than food, others won’t - they each have their preferences.
If she doesn’t engage and doesn’t seem to be interested in the toy at all, just let her be.
The last sentence changes this, you can video chat with people on earth and then invite them to your continent as equals. Could just get your friends and family on with you. Could even find new people online and invite them once you know them.
What kind of servicing do you expect it needs that can’t wait until you’re home, that wouldn’t be fixed by the old “turn it off and on again”?
Skeptical that he could write without a single typo, using apostrophes and all but forgot he is married. Not how being drunk works in my experience.
Thank you, I’ll give it a try tomorrow.
I’m in the same shoes about new job having to use teams and I wildly disagree. It is awful.
The best part of it is the noise cancellation on the microphone in calls seem pretty good and having a chat created for meetings is a good integration. BUT…
Compared to zoom, I guess it’s not a big deal really. I’d prefer zoom but it’s oh well. Compared to slack (which has it’s own set of problems, but still) however it seems like a pile of shit in my opinion.
Plex runs relay servers where your Plex server will connect to the relay and your player will also connect to the relay, making both ends of the connection egress type as far as routing and access control goes. https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/
It’s optional and likely not everyone uses it, but this provides a way for Plex to do remote streaming without the Plex server being reachable directly from the internet.
Separately, it costs money for Plex to run.
The issue isn’t with AI, it’s with how companies position it. When they claim it’ll do everything and solve all your issues and then it struggles with some tasks a 10 year old could do, it creates a very negative image.
It also doesn’t help that they hallucinate with a lot of confidence and people use them as a solution, not as a tool - meaning they blindly accept the first answer that came out.
If the creators of models made more reasonable claims and the models were generally able to convey their confidence in the answers they gave maybe the reception wouldn’t be so cold. But then there wouldn’t be hype and AI wouldn’t be actively shoved into everything.
Cabbages can stay good for quite a while. It was a lettuce, the thing that wilts during the car ride back from the store.
I’m sure there is more to it but telling you she had kids so you can take care of her sounds pretty bad - even though I know it’s not uncommon.
I have had to have this talk with my parents as well since I moved to a different country at 19. I’ve told them to prepare for me not to be able to be around all the time, and luckily they have done that. It still feels selfish after so many years and they have been great about it, so I can understand this conversation being extremely difficult when the parents expect to be taken care of.
I’d honestly pay a bit more to buy from better vendors. Price, options, shipping aren’t the things why I end up using Amazon mostly (despite not liking it).
It’s the fact that if I need to return something I just click 2 buttons and no questions asked a guy shows up at my door tomorrow to pick it up and my refund is back in my account by the evening.
If other vendors started doing that without all the caveats and conditions and such, I’d never look back.
I never understood why ending your own life is illegal, in general.
What is the government gonna do if I yeet myself off a cliff…? Throw my corpse in prison?
I followed the advice to not get close to colleagues for the last 10 years or so and regret it. I did it because I thought it’d make work harder when we disagree and I’m balancing friendship vs professionalism. Realistically, all the people I would have been friends with are mature enough to make it a non-issue.
I have started reaching out to some of my ex-colleagues I got on well with but it’s very difficult to rebuild the relationship without the daily interactions. However, I have a job at the moment because I have reached out to an ex-colleague just to catch up.
I’d say if you meet someone you like, try to make friends. Jobs will come and go but finding good people to surround yourself with gets much harder as you get older.
Interesting, for all its faults I have found Plex to work very reliably for playback.
You can also try emby, it has its own different faults but I’ve found it better for my above issues than jellyfin. I remember finding something else with it which made me go back to Plex again, but it escapes me what it was.
Has this ever backfired on you? While your motive is wholesome, I could see the practice itself seeming creepy. Like keeping notes of someone else’s life.
Not OP but there were 3 things that made me switch back after about 2 weeks (around 5 months ago):
It’s very impressive how good they made jellyfin with volunteer effort, it’s just very tough to compete with paid staff (in terms of how much time can they put into each feature and part). I do hope it gets there, cuz plex has been circling the drain for a while for me now.
Is talking about your hobbies and interests really small talk? I always attributed small talk to the like of “how is it going? Fine thanks and you? Fine too thanks oh damn crap/great weather we are having huh?”