I was given a Fitbit2 through a program my insurance company had. And while charging was cumbersome it was lightweight and did as much as my 1st Gen Apple Watch (which I ran into the ground starting on an iPhone 5). It was also very water resistant.

I ended up getting an Apple Watch SE lately, and when I put it on, I was having a medical emergency. Turns out, it detected a hard attack and severe arythmia, and that's within an hour of putting it on. After not being able to pickup an essential heart med for several days (work schedule and new schedules of walgreens prevented this) it caused such bad heart flow, it triggered a temporary clot and the Apple Watch detected it quickly.

Not sure if a Fitbit would've done that now, but it technically saved my life with the new watch. That is why I'm glad I got it.

Not saying it fits for everyone, but can attribute the apple watch with saving my life most likely.

But the Fitbit seems specialized. You'd have to have a separate smart watch for anything serious, and I found the backlit e-Ink type display somewhat limited including in what it could do, like emails and voice instructions hook-ins to assistants.

I have some old Binary Watches from IO, and they are awesome conversation starters, but it feels like smart watches are now here more than ever, and only would have one of these if you don't trust your work out not be interrupted, which sounds more like a focus thing.

That aside, I only learned something recently that blew me away.

I didn't know you could twist the chrome back off an airtag and replace the batteries. I learn new stuff everyday, but I sure as hell learned a long time ago, not to trust my personal health data with Google or AI. That didn't take getting burned to learn either. Even my iPhone, and Watch are locked down, just like my Linux-Equipped work laptop (HP EliteBook) and Windows 10/11 work platforms.

Both these creatures/animals and the A.I. fall in the same camps.
Unloved and unwanted by the masses and looked at as undesireable.

So how can A.I. not help identifying with it?
It's not anyone asked for racoons to get into their trash, does do they ask for gremlins to afflict things or situations.
The same way that others didn't ask for A.I. to be force on them at their job, or be required to train it as their replacement.

So of course it would. Same Camp, different Site.

Based on how many of the servers run Linux on the internet, how's that going to work?
Age of the server itself? Age of the person setting it up? What about connections incoming? Does that require age verification?
What if they decide based on age of data? That's certainly a lag from hell if it takes 16/18 years just to load a web page.

The knock-on effects of this go way further than just desktops and most things, Not only would Apple charge extra to include this by upping the price of their computers, what happens when it gets worked around and violated? Are they going to blame and sue the operating system maker?

I'm not one to nit-pick, but the amount of brain cells used to draft and pass this all combined to less than a 6-month old, and I am more thinking we should get THESE idiots off the internet, unless they can somehow prove they are smarter than a 16 year old to be on the internet.

Of course, the government won't be beholden to this.

My other thing is, Phones: How many phones (like android) would qualify under this, considering they exhibit a lot of desktop-based UI in it. You can hook a keyboard and mouse and monitor to any modern smartphone and use it like this. Does that mean they'll ban any non-current phone and make it a felony to possess it?
Considering Linux runs on so much stuff, if someone can hack a toaster or blender and get a TTY session and it has smart capabilities, even with text-based modes, you can likely get on social sites.

Hell, I did a couple years ago with an Apple IIe with a video on youtube of it going through a Dell Server and Linux, which shows even computers as old as that, while slow and requiring a 3rd party device, can post on social forums on the internet, and forums (before reddit, and I'd almost classify IRC as this as well) are basically social networks in a way. Even more if you were an idiot at 13 like I was and posted crap I shouldn't have.

So yeah, how much will this extend to? even Meta is likely to run Linux, so does that apply to their servers as well? Not like they can't have a desktop interface loaded on them too...

Not if you poison the well. That way when they fire you, they will regret the chaotic evilness you trained it to recreate.

That way, they'll never know what hit them...

You must be fun at all the parties you likely get offended at for getting invited to...

I'd leave. I have the smarts and skills to get a decent job anywhere in the world. The issue is the means. I lost all my savings, and barely can make rent, and that's with a decent job, as my rent is now almost 3/4ths of my monthly wage, and my debt is going up.

Even with excellent credit, I can't get a house, because without that savings that I lost in this economy, I can't afford the down payment.

I'm doing what I can, but even though I work a decent position in a very well known (sometimes hated) company, it's not exactly easy to pick up and move to better areas, because even moving 60 miles away from where I was cost me almost $10k in all expenses, due to the cost of even moving.

I live in the midwest. It's becoming a shithole, all cost-affordable places are being bought up by private equity real estate firms and turned into luxury apartments, or plain tearing down affordable HOUSES to raze them and put up luxury apartments, thus forcing low-cost houses to be foreclosed-upon when residents of 50 years in said houses can't keep up on taxes, allowing venture firms to buy them up at a complete steal. Rinse and repeat.

Even the midwest is no longer the laid-back and cheaper living. Grocery bills now equal 1/4th of your income per month for 2 adults with no kids. The cost of insurance, if you have to pay straight out, could equal almost 75% of your paycheck, which if you are a lower-wage contractor or holding two minimum wage jobs, is impossible to pay. I live in an area where public transporation is purposely sabotaged by the city, good luck on bicycles, as you are likely to die by everyone that thinks you should ride on the non-existent sidewalks and then run you over, or plain without a car, your live is damn-near unlivable.

Saying "if your job doesn't pay enough, go back to school." With what money? there's no loans, even for community colleges, and now that the economy is tanking, plus this state's fight against anything technologically advanced (Hint: we are just west of Iowa where our football team is proud of it's corn abilities), to the point where they have hindered fiber or telecommunications roll outs and upgrades, means unless you are some ignorant hick that barely can stave off addiction to fentanyl and work at a Mickey D's or Burger King, they don't want you, because you might vote to hold corrupt assholes accountable at state level that dumbs our entire population I.Q. So bad, they purposely pretty much gutted the Pell Grant to prevent people of color from being able to go to college.

This is what I'm seeing in the bread basket, and more and more, farmers are not being bought out, but bullied via regulation, off their land, so large Agg companies can basically steal it at low prices and it seems family and generationally-owned farming is becoming impossible to navigate.

I kind of wish our Governor and Senators in Kahoots would be eaten by the pig farms they run. Not only are they racist, but corrupt, as well as part of the Make America Get Ass-raped coalition, meaning stupidity is the one thing they foster of it's people, so they roll over and play nice.

Being immuno-compromised, Covid was even more hellish here, because I and my wife (she has asthma) were actually physically and verbally attacked for daring to wear a mask (even though due to her extreme asthma and I'm developing it, we end up having to wear masks even today, because smokers will set it off and we have to rush to our inhaler).

I feel things are going to get so bad, this country will devolve into a Civil War. I've picked the side I'll fight for if that happens, but maybe that might be what we need to drag the idiots and malice in power out of their seats to recover the land, and eventually (and hopefully) in the future, our dignity. Not because it's better for us, but for the world. And I don't think we need to be a super power, we were before. But on equal footing on the world stage. Not the dominator. I'm OK if the world currency isn't based on us, if we aren't the biggest military power. I don't have the hubris to believe we should be number 1. But we are about the OK'est third world country people ever visited. Now THAT'S an embaressment.

Tell me you are from the south, without saying you are from the south. The only time I heard that racial epithet was from my deplorable, neanderthalic family down south that I'm proud to have royally pissed off by marrying a mixed-race wife. I hope the others dog pile on you for that hatred.

Needless to say,
If you are what the best our society can produce, yes, the A.I. will take your job. I guess if that pisses you off, you can get back to the pile in southpark colorado...

If you let them off to hook, it'll only get worse.

So, disclaimer, technician HP Printers here.
What I've seen, since i work with more LaserJets than DesignJets, but Mono LaserJets with integrated image drums on toner cartridges do have the image drums wear out. Modern Laser Printers for home use a combination toner, recovery container, image drum and developer unit. Believe it or not, the developer units have some iron mixed in with the developer powder to assist in the electrical charges needed. On large printers, there's a separate unit and we have to replace these, and/or refill the powder for that.
The image drums do in fact get bad on combined mono, but that's mostly because people use paper that ends up damaging it. Think like paper that has adhesive (labels), or foil (in transit stickers) or other things that can actually scrape and damage the image drum.

We've seen on ink printers where jams have been known to damage the ink heads, and I've seen this happen with my canon Pixma printers as well as my EcoTank.

Recovery ink pads on printers are a huge issue, as not many of them will let you easily replace them, let alone find a source (I can't find any for my canon, but I did for my Epson EcoTank).
My Canon has removable ink heads, for all 5 colors at once, but they are really expensive, wear down quick to where they start clogging, and are difficult to get them cleared again.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but a seperate ink head doesn't exactly fix issues, when people don't print a lot, the ink dries out and clogs the heads. So now you have some printers with non-removable heads, that are difficult to fix, and if you have an ink tank, good luck with the mess that comes from replacing the head and pulling the ink lines. You also have to purge the air from the heads and lines when doing that, and not every printer has the ability to do that. I know DesignJets do, but it's a messy process to swap the lines, and it's very lengthy to charge the lines and remove air.

There isn't a really good solution that isn't messy or expensive, unless everyone wants to go back to dot matrix. I've seen, no matter the implementation, there isn't an easy way to design a robust printer in which the heads will never wear out. Even the newspaper using lithography requires regular maintenance. How many of you do required maintenance on your printers? How about how many of you have replaced a fuser on a laser printer that requires tear aparts?

I do with HP made more easily repairable printers, especially for consumers, but in the meantime, there's a ton of ways I've seen people who work these, fuck up and damage the heads and drums from stupid stuff. I've also seen power supplies fry the heads, or damage drums due to plastic parts getting brittle and breaking.

My depression grows worse when anxiety grows worse. I've reduced anxiety by occasionally using a small amount of legal Delta-8. Small amount means:
5mg, overnight, 1x a week.

Immediately the next day, I feel calmer, which means I don't fret about shit, blow things out of proportion, and it helps over-all continuing anxiety by keeping it low.

Depression kicks in when anxiety is high long enough for me to realize I'm not gaining any ground, and I start shutting down rather than deal with it.

I'm on over 12 prescriptions due to auto-immune issues, that made other parts of my body worse. I'm even undergoing infusions for it due to the damage it caused. Anti-depressants (Something I was on since a kid) can interact badly with some of these, and because of injury to my body in past (car accidents, assaults), it's been known to hit the levels in my head causing seratonin syndrome due to how they all interact and the mechanisms they use.
Delta has allowed me to concentrate on my body's immune system issues, without fear of triggering the seratonin issue. But if I over-use Delta, it can make me sick or lethargic.
Now, I haven't experimented with other types of legal or illegal substances, but there does make a case that throwing pharmaceuticals at medically complex people is a *very* bad idea, knowing that many of those can cause deadly interactions, but being able to use alternatives to some of the current offerings can help the more complex cases. Caffeine doesn't affect everyone the same way. for me, no effect, and that means i can chug a pot of coffee (have done before) or 6 shots of espresso, and fall asleep right afterwards, and the only effect it gives me is a racing and palpatating heart. So if caffeine doesn't work, what does?
Well, these more natural methods may be more useful when it comes to people who do have a limit on what pharmaceuticals they can take without interactions, or when the rival placeabo affect (in the case caffeine) does nothing.

You can't claim caffeine can be used as a placebo, as it doesn't work the same way in everyone, and sometimes it doesn't work at all, so you need to make these claims against a sugar pill, and likely since you are comparing against two stimulants, it's not a good argument. do it vs pure nothing, then see how they go. Because a stimulant is a stimulant, and if anxiety causes depression, then a stimulant can make you more productive, and if you define a lot of your life by your output, you will less likely be depressed if you percieve you are not just turning your gears and gaining no grounds, as you will see results better than when there's no stimulant.

I only throw my two cents in, because this study doesn't really show anything, other than stimulants perform the same, and that's about it. It doesn't actually do a blind test between that and nothing. And the issue why we need a non-pharmatceutical study, is because pharmas are no longer trusted the way they were before, and people are on more and every increasing amount of prescriptions that are causing interactions and can lead to some deadly outcomes. Especially as people start getting more medically complex. I'd love to see the study be used on those individuals, who are hitting an ever increasing issue for medical systems that may be running out of ways to treat them safely. Or at least, without having to add another med to counter the side effects of the anti depressant (which has been the case with me as well).

This is because most music, like movies written these days, is formulaic. It's easy to reproduce something when they have proven that almost all music these days sounds a-like.

Sadly, since the beatles have come and gone, the one things successful bands discovered, is that there is a formula to songs, and all it takes to keep hitting the charts, is to not deviate.

Sadly, this means, there's no vast creativity in music, because in order to get played, you are required to be under a certain length, as well as stick to the formula, and now that Tik-Tok has entered the stage, I predict in the future, music will get even shorter and more formulaic to match attention spans.

This is why almost all movies (such as marvel) is derivative, never is conclusive story line, lacking creativity, and pure utter drivel, it's because hollywood destroyed the industry by refusing the fund anything unless it hits exactly to a formula they use commonly. The one time it backfired, is the time when Lincoln came out, as it didn't conform to it, and it was basically the public being tired. Now they've tweaked it, and we are back to this inane crap devoid of anything unique.

Music is highly susceptible to this, and with so many stations owned by only a handful of capitalistic-centered companies (like iHeart Radio), plan on seeing more drivel and crap come out that sounds alike, which would be the only way an A.I. Song would be able to chart, as they allowed it, since more royalty free music means less they pay out, while people have no choice except listen, since 85% of stations in the area are owned by the same company, and they sell ads without having to pay artists.

This has been heading this way for quite a while...

Nope,
Shot self; Fell out of window...

I wonder if the peltier effect / Peltier Cooling would be the solution to this, obviously in a very thin form. You could use the outside edges of the chip substrate to move the heat too, however coolers would require re-design, but that's a possible way to limit the heat between the layers by adding Peltier type cooling in the sandwich.

Was Good 'Nough for her?
Let me guess, the research was the "it figures" method of finding the info. With about the same amount of time spent.