Thanks. That link seems to suggest that you can only import data from external storage, not export to it. Is that right? Major limitation if so.

It's like something from that Captain Planet cartoon, or an 80s movie sci-fi dystopia.

Either way, when the AI bubble bursts there is going to be a lot of cheap, high-end hardware on the used market.

And what jurisdiction? If they are using European's emails to train AI models, it's going to be the mother of all GDPR fines.

I think that alone is probably a good enough reason for them not to do it world-wide, because even Americans get emails from Europeans, and the possibility of some of that information getting into their AI models and appearing in the output is a huge legal risk.

I'd rather they tried stuff and gave up on it if it didn't work, rather than forcing it on us because of the sunk cost fallacy. Imagine if Microsoft had scrapped Windows 8's new UI when it became clear that everyone hated it.

Do iPhones support USB storage now? When I'm travelling I take a USB C flash drive with me, and move data onto it as I generate it, to keep the phone's internal memory clear.

It's been the case for many years that few people bothered with official Arduino hardware, because other manufacturers offered better options at lower cost. There is a whole ecosystem around it, mostly from Chinese companies but also from people like Adafruit.

I doubt Qualcomm could kill it if they wanted to.

Decent wind energy resources too. It is partly a political decision though, to help boost a part of Japan that needs some economic help.

Ventilation and filtration really help. UV light is effective too, but can be dangerous for humans. It gives your retina sunburn if you aren't careful. Either place it high up shining sideways, or use 222nm lamps that are safe for humans.

It's weird that we just accept seasonal viruses as something we can't do much about, when clearly we can. Offices with all the windows shut and poor ventilation - are those companies just trying to waste money by making their employees sick? And then they only want to give them a day or two off, so they can come back to the office and infect everyone else.

CO2 levels are a good proxy for how much fresh airflow there is. If there is a lot of CO2, it's because people are exhaling it and the air in the room isn't being replaced with fresh air from outside.

It's why you often feel sleepy when you board a plane - the ventilation system used air bled off from the engines, so until they start the CO2 in the confined space of the cabin with hundreds of people in it builds up fast.

Stale air is known to put you at much greater risk from airborne viruses. That's why during COVID people were advised to open windows and keep air moving. So CO2 levels are a good proxy for risk of airborne viral infection too.

Some people have been doing that for themselves with Home Assistant and similar tech. Qingping make some very good and affordable CO2 monitors that integrate well with HA.

Pretty much an admission that the government had these audit agencies all along so all DOGE was really able to do was not save any money, add more bureaucracy and indirectly kill a bunch of people in other countries.

“The US attempt to create a postsoviet style right wing oligarchic system collapsed because Americans are addicted to scams and turned the U.S. economy into a bubble for chatbots”

People who aren't you, but who are near you. They also matter. We all know quite well you don't care about those people, as you've let us know on numerous occasions, but they do matter.

TFS appears to be attempting to conflate the phone-buying habits of individual consumers with business hardware replacement cycles and productivity. It appears to be complete garbage.

I am left to assume this was shadow written by someone in the marketing department from some large tech company - e.g. Dell, Samsung, Apple, Google, Microsoft.

As an aside - it seems pretty wasteful (and pointless) to replace your smartphone even after 29 months, let alone every 22 months.