In that case cell phones should be modular

In my opinion the only reason for the case is to make up for the fact that it's too fragile for regular use.

My current phone (pixel 5) is 8.2mm thick (thin!) and has a plastic textured backside that won't slip out of my fingers, and won't shatter. Give me a 1cm thick phone that doesn't need a case, has a bigger battery, doesn't have a glass back. I have zero desire for anything thinner than 8mm. I don't want a 3mm sheet of glass.

yeah Twitter is just a straight up nightmare at this point. i think it's a little bit of both -- it was always terrible, but it's gotten so so so much worse.

The lack of crypto bots (or any other unwanted crap) shoved into my feed against my will, and the ability to block Nazis and never have to deal with them again are the two best features of Bluesky. Good riddance to this ding dong. He's sucks. Let him go ruin some other platform.

It was the first wearable AI pin, sort of like a star trek communicator. And it was terrible.
 
But every time someone writes a 500 word article about those two facts, it gets a million clicks and tons of ad revenue, so they're gonna continue to do it until people stop clicking on the headline.

My guess is they're using bluetooth protocol, but over something like S band or whatever is more appropriate

We pay about $450/mo including electricity for a 35' slip in california. So about $12/ft. A couple of marinas cost more, and several cost less, usually between $350 and 500 for a 35' slip. I spend maybe $1000 on parts per year and $2000 on maintenance. It's like owning a cottage. Most everything will last for 20 years but then due to rust or UV or mechanical wear things begin to break at a pretty rapid pace.

RISC-V support is first class across the board; I've been running Ubuntu (with GUI and mouse!) on RISC-V at home since early (february?) 2022 on $20 devices. Go check out the MangoPi class of $25 RISC-V devices. Ubuntu support has been around for years now.

silent pc is not hard these days. a very old i5 that I built about 8 years ago still does great with 1080p content. I dont care beyond that.

tdp of 65w and less means you can run heatpipes in your pc and with onboard gfx (good enough for video) you have a silent pc.

install all the right ad blockers for YT and you get free 'tv' and generally full control. yes, install linux. no need for win (have not used win since win7 days).

I can also ssh and vnc into my other systems.

zero reason to use the sticks unless you are hellbent on DRM sources.

Used Apple products less than 6 months old usually retain 85% of their retail value, so selling for close to half of retail, especially for something where an older model is not available yet, is really stunning. This was supposed to be a flagship "everyone has got to have one" product that was going to sell out, and sell for more than retail on the secondary market. By apple standards somebody is going to lose their job over this.

For most of history there's been more workers than jobs. Covid amplified things, between people retiring early, and/or, somewhere in the range of 1% (additional) of the population dying in a single year. These kinds of "worker leverage" situations only arise perhaps once in a generation.

The most popular car on the planet (as measured by absolute sales) is the BEV tesla model 3, what are you on about

Oh look, it's the "it's to hard qq" crew. Go back home nobody needs your doomer shit

That's for the entire bay, though? San Francisco the city only needs about 14 miles of seawall. Then it's another 50+ miles to San Jose, and 65+ miles up to Richmond point. I would imagine each city will tackle the problem different as they're in different counties, different soil types and most importantly different elevations