I’ve fitted one into my old pickup, but again not worth the amount of complication that they generally come with, eg a massive screen in the dash and the canbus nonsense to go with it. I’d rather not have the level of canbus integration of modern cars, where a locking module or whatever failing can stop the whole car working

Not sure that it’ll be available this side of the Atlantic that soon, but it does seem pretty interesting

That’s very much my thinking, the kits have come down in price a huge amount recently, so it’s almost achievable now

I’d love to buy an electric car, but I want one with no electronics, if that makes sense. Electric power train, but no screens, “driver aids” or other nonsense

Good lad, fuck Palantir in every way possible

Ffs, it’s going to come down to somewhere really inconvenient to scroll to soon, isn’t it? Like Azerbaijan or Armenia

The next one up or down your vpn’s list usually work - Ukraine and Turkey

Had me in the first half, “European parliament bans lawmakers from…” had me wondering what fresh hell this was heading into, before the “using AI tools” gave me back a shred of hope for the future

You star, that’s the puppy. Many thanks

That’s a pretty fantastic site, with a lot of things I can use. It’s got all the Adobe things that I’m trying to avoid using, because fuck adobe even if i was pirating it, but not what I’m after. Great shout though, I’ll definitely be having another look at it

I thought it was bad juju to just announce what you’re trying to steal. I’m after Lightroom’s main competitor

You know that the second hand market exists, right? I bought my m1 air for £150, so I’ll be fucked if I pay the prices Adobe etc want for software for personal use, even if I didn’t think Adobe’s business model was deplorable.

That seems almost more important than the original post

Hey baby, are you a school? Coz I want to shoot kids in you

I think if you use them pretty hard, Leatherman becomes more reasonable, as I’ve used their lifetime warranty twice in five years, and will probably have this thing for another decade or two. No other multitool I’ve owned has stood up to how I use them, so their price is really justified for a get-out-of-the-shit tool for my use case. That said, I bought an Amazon one with extremely similar functionality for my mate’s kid recently for about £20, and it’s really impressive. For most people I guess that would last long enough to make the warranty a non-issue, and it will definitely do 9/10ths of what a Leatherman will

Hah, yep, that sailed straight over my head! That’s a dense boost…

Yeah, I got one of these for my camera gear, but have found hundreds of other uses for it

Nah not really, but it comes with a belt pouch though. It’s a little bit bigger than say a boost or a double decker or whatever, and it’s definitely heavy, but not spiky or awkward to keep in a pocket

My leatherman was a little over a ton, and is probably my most used tool. It’s my first line of problem solving in almost all situations

Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it