AC is fundamentally correct here.

One main thing to realize is that these things are real tools available across society *today*. They are not going away. There is no job where they will not be available when these students graduate. They are not cheats. Treating them as such is doing the students a disservice. Yes it is hard, because we don't yet know how very well (and what) to teach in the presence of these tools, but really *that* is the thing to solve for here, not how to 'catch', or even discourage use of them.

Seeing as this consumes the only PCIe port on the device, you can't use NVMe storage in conjunction with it, making the entire thing far less useful since all of the other storage options for the Pi are dogshit

the cost of the equipment is not what businesses are paying for in the cloud.

consumers are much different, but there are successful cloud pc services that have pricing oriented to consumers. The entire cloud gaming industry, for instance. Some of them like Shadow encourage and provide for the use of the system as a regular cloud PC. There is a value prop, but it does require a massively great Internet connection, which is where it honestly falls completely apart. Consumer ISP's are nowhere near delivering quality of service sufficient for this product.

Nonlinear accoustics is a thing; there's not technically an upper limit for the amount of energy you can drive a transducer with though I would assume it would be extremely difficult to couple enough energy through to cause any real damage. I know personally that it can sound quite loud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I also have little confidence this sort of thing is involved here; Occam's razor says it's a big nothing burger so I'm gonna stick with that until someone brings something concrete forward

.... And today I learned that daily passes to "cable tv" are a thing. Bye bye, YouTubeTV. Don't mistake my cancellation as evidence I ever wanted your service in the first place.

This is why I still come to slashdot. Fan of your work.

Yeah how much is it gonna cost? BMW already make you buy a subscription just to get "connected charging" where you can see and control your charge session from your phone. Bet you anything if you want V2L/V2H you will have to be paying. I was a very loyal BMW customer until about 10 years ago. It's a total clown show today.

Every time they talk about this damn thing it's a different size and works by a different mechanism. Explanations given vary from this magnetic field mumbo jumbo to essentially just being a near perfect dead reckoning integrator.

Anyone have links to any actual papers or journalism on the subject that hasnt been oversimplified to the point where it is just nonsense?

ChatGPT summary:

Duolingo, once widely praised, is now under fire after CEO Luis von Ahn announced a shift toward an "AI-first" strategy. This includes phasing out human contractors, using AI in hiring and performance reviews, and restricting new hires unless automation isn't feasible. The announcement sparked a strong negative response online, especially on TikTok and Instagram, prompting the company to temporarily remove all social media posts.

The backlash is more intense than prior criticism over layoffs and AI integration in late 2023. Users flooded comment sections with complaints about the replacement of humans with AI, emphasizing the importance of human connection in language learning.

In response, Duolingo posted cryptic and satirical videos featuring a masked "rebel" confronting von Ahn. While von Ahn defended the use of AI to scale content creation and improve efficiency, he admitted the LinkedIn announcement was poorly communicated. He emphasized AI as a tool to support—not replace—employees and claimed the company is still hiring.

Von Ahn later reiterated on LinkedIn that Duolingo aims to empower its workforce through AI education and resources, without addressing the fate of contractors. The controversy highlights growing public skepticism toward AI-driven policies, which often appeal more to executives and investors than to everyday users and workers.

It's annoying that you have to change your mac address every 20 minutes, but yeah. Free wifi (after hoop jumping) has been available for quite a while on many airlines.

It's clear the brute force approach works and is sometimes the best way to advance. Once you see the path to getting the job done, take it. I see projects like ITER and ChatGPT4 in this category. Can you learn to do these things more efficiently given a few extra years of R&D? Obviously. But you are also a few years behind, and you have probably spent a lot of effort prematurely optimizing.