Lol. A lifetime subscription for a singular one time payment is a bad deal in any service that requires upkeep. That’s what makes it so enticing to people generally.

I paid for a lifetime plex membership in 2014. It’s was $74.99. The use I have gotten out of it in the last 11 years has to have cost the company more than if I was a paying subscriber who paid a monthly fee.

When I say “can’t afford” I literally mean it costs the company money to keep providing these services over time. I have services available to me from my “subscription” that don’t even exist in the current offering.

I don’t even understand why this is what you focused on from what I said but I’m not doing this.

The point quite clearly is that this person very likely could have used the money they used to get started working for Uber or Lyft to do something else.

But even if they hadn’t that doesn’t mean being poor makes you do criminal shit. You can do with this information whatever you want to. I don’t care how you feel about what I said.

You ever tried to take out a loan with no credit or collateral? You ever tried to get one with bad credit?

Did you think about this at all before you made your snarky response?

I saw a comment somewhere about how it’s “ACAB” up until something like this happens and I was like "can you explain to me the process by which you think this person will be held accountable for the damage they have caused and the efforts that will have to be made to retrieve their personal property? Because that cost is going to be born by the tax payers and will have environmental implications.

They should have charged him for endangerment to his passengers too.

I just don’t understand why they don’t stop offering it altogether. This price hike shows they can’t really afford to offer it at all. Just stop. It’s okay. You don’t have to keep providing this service tier to new users.

I don’t care what the answer was. Because it’s got to be negligence and ignorance. I care that there are consequences. Which seem to be pretty thin on the ground these days.

There are a lot of people in the world not being paid a livable wage. Most of them aren’t going out of their way to defraud people for the purposes of monetary gain.

So the question becomes would making a livable wage make him less likely to do this? Is it the desperation that makes him commit fraud?

Was it not making a livable wage that made those idiots in CA fake bear attacks to get insurance payouts?

Was it not making a livable wage that makes porch pirates steal packages?

The problem is this is conjecture with no actual substance of fact behind it. Nothing in the article makes reference to him needing the money.

So you took your view that Lyft and Uber Drivers don’t make a living wage and put it together with the headline and decided in your head that the most probable motive was he was strapped for cash because he doesn’t make enough.

I want to remind you all of something. When you become a Lyft or Uber driver there are requirements including that a vehicle can’t be older than a certain model year, and has to have no cosmetic damage. I don’t own a vehicle that fits the requirements. Most people don’t. To maintain a vehicle for 15 years or less with zero cosmetic damage plus meet the other requirements for driving for Uber, you’d have to have money to maintain your vehicle.

It has to have 4 doors. It has to seat 4 riders. It has to have a clean title that doesn’t include rebuilt/salvage/reconstructed titles.

It’s likely that based on the cleanliness requirements alone you have to either detail it yourself or have it detailed.

Some of these drivers provide snacks and water and stuff.

So while I will not dispute that these ride share companies don’t pay what they should, I’m also going to point out that being poor doesn’t make you a criminal. This person jumped through a lot of hoops (some of them probably fairly costly) in order to drive for this company. And they chose to try to defraud some teenagers and their family.

I don’t because that implies that the AI can lie. What I mean by that is it implies that the AI has the contextual understanding to say something that isn’t true for the purposes of deception. AI can’t do that.

When an AI LLM provides an answer that isn’t true, it’s a rounding error.

Original lifetime Plex Pass for $74.99!

That’s what their email said. So my understanding is I must have been grandfathered into the pay one time and have it forever thing.

I paid… $74.99 for a lifetime plex sub in 2014. Is this the same service?

They’ll imprison us and use us as cheap labor. At least in the US. Unless they kill us.

The rich. Corps. That’s who they are selling services to these days. Especially the AI stuff. You can’t afford AI. I can’t afford it. But the corp you work for can. The no longer care about us plebs.

Love that for him.

The thing is, it isn’t an app strictly for what the article says some people use it for. Plus there’s a lot of differences between what is “street legal” vs what is race track legal. I know people who buy cars specifically to track them. They may change the tune on their car as a result. Doesn’t necessarily mean they are removing parts or doing anything illegal.

Hell. You can use this app if you happen to build a kit car.

I understand that you’re upset about the potential impact on the environment. But this is a fishing expedition.

It’d make more sense to subpoena companies selling deletion kits (and outlaw the sale of those in the US).

I’m tempted to install this app just because. I’m not going to use it (I own two perfectly good scanners with tuning ability), but I’m always up to fuck with the government.

The problem is that the situation isn’t strictly new for Liberty, and has been dragging for the better part of two decades. Per the Fortune report, Liberty was supposed to have started buying power from other sellers as far back as 2009, when NV Energy sold Liberty its California assets. A temporary agreement was set in place so the situation could be resolved, but that was extended repeatedly in 2015, 2020, and 2025, a fact that Fortune says it verified via regulatory documents.

Danielle Hughes, a local resident and CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark, also points out that at only 49,000 strong, even if the area could get a good short-term deal on power coming from the west side, it wouldn’t be able to find affordable long-term pricing competing with giants. Understandably, Spark and another local interest group want the California Public Utilities Commission to fully oversee Liberty’s procurement process, except that the entity has no actual power over NV Energy.

For its part, NV Energy is building out its Greenlink West 525 kV line and intends to transition Lake Tahoe to this pipe, but watts are only expected to flow on it come May 2027, making for the closest of shaves. The operator says that the transition was set “well before data center load growth was a consideration,” and “not a reaction to recent developments,” but at the same time, there’s no telling if the schedule could slip.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/49-000-lake-tahoe-residents-could-be-left-powerless-as-ai-data-centers-inhale-electricity-supply-power-company-looking-to-redirect-power-to-12-data-centers-high-demand-plus-a-regulatory-limbo-equals-a-dim-situation

If we could stop reposting this every hour or so, that would be great. The outrage over data centers aside it looks like this problem has been ongoing for more than a decade.

No. This is literally me comparing their law to our law.

They claim where they are from (not the US) doing this kind of deletion is FAFO territory.

I’m pointing out that it’s illegal (Federally) in the US as well. I think there are ways to use the app legally that don’t involve deletions, but the government is gonna do government things so the expectation should be that the government does in fact target random individuals to hold accountable.

Myth #1 – Deleting or Tuning a Truck is Legal

There is no way around this; it is 100% illegal to tamper with or modify the emission system on your truck in any way. It isn’t a state or local law (although those exist, as well), but Federal law. When we mention this, the first thing customers say is that “it’s for off-highway use only” or “it’s for tractor pulls.” They have the idea in their head that this will allow them to skirt around any laws, and that’s hardly the case.

Yes, you can legally have your emission system removed from your vehicle, but it requires recertification by the manufacturer and a new emission label and certification issued. You can’t just sign a piece of paper and proclaim you’ve re-certified your engine. You would need to go through the costly process of having your engine re-certified by the original equipment manufacturer.

Another common misconception among clients is that the EPA doesn’t go after small businesses. For reference, the EPA provides a list, by year, of every single resolution that is brought up against the Clean Air Act for vehicles. You will find cases ranging from providers of tuning equipment being charged over $4 million to a single owner performing a DPF delete on one vehicle.

At a best guess it’s because up until now Bitwarden was conducting public audits.

This meant people could check their work and also highlight problems if they were found.

That’s part of being fully transparent.

Changing that language may mean changing that transparency and that’s bad because it means the public will have a harder time holding the company accountable if something is wrong.

Technically, a lot of states do ban driving distractions which this obviously is.

But I’m sure that it’ll have to be decided in court or in amendment to current legislation to carve out/specify that this actually counts as that.

In the state I’m from, underbody light kits are illegal for use on public roads because they’re a driving distraction and you actually can’t use LED signs and so on for the same reason.

That being said I’d also like this to apply to billboards. LED billboards should be outlawed.