The advantage to OnStar is your phone will go flying during a crash. Mine ended up in the footwell. If you're injured or the car is mangled, you might be unable to reach or find your phone. Of course if the car is heavily damaged OnStar might not work either.

I have a 2023 Chevy Bolt. None of the infotainment displays show the % battery charge as a number. There's one super stupid info graphic of a x-ray picture of the car a bunch of thin green bars where the battery is. There's another control in the charging display which is a vertical bar of the battery charge. That bar has tick marks so you can count what % the battery is at. But in no screen is that battery level ever given a number. You always have to count the tick marks to determine the charge. Super annoying and super stupid. There's plenty of room for the number on that display.

I don't know what UX/UI people do anymore, but they clearly don't think about how people want use their products.

Another extremely annoying thing is there's a physical Climate button but no Climate button on the infotainment display. Every other button has a virtual version except Climate and the Climate button is in the middle of a row of other buttons. I always have to take my eyes off the road longer to press the Climate button than I have to to operate any other control.

As long as killing/crashing a screensaver process unlocks the desktop, X is a no-go for anyone who cares about security. I recently upgraded from a DVI monitor to a Display Port monitor. If I turn the screen off or it goes to sleep, the desktop resets itself to a tiny resolution and its panels crash. That moves and resizes all the windows that were open. Turning the monitor back on, you can see all the desktop windows while the desktop switches to the 'new' monitor's resolution even when the screen is locked. That's simply unacceptable. Looking for fixes, apparently it's a well know bug that simply connecting a 2nd modern display lets you crash a lock screen and gain access. I require better security than that.

I don't think Wayland does that. I'll be looking into switching to it this week if I can't find another solution. Basic failures like that sometimes makes me want to go back to Windows.

I'm just laughing at all the people who said they didn't need to care about the memory profile of their software because RAM is cheap and everyone has tons of it and can easily buy more. Remember those posts? I'm not seeing them anymore.

At least Knockoff mentions that in their readme:

When most people nearly-blindly choose one of the first search results, you can blame the company deciding which entries are listed first.

Coming next month, that LED now strobes in a unique pattern used as an identifier so all videos can be tracker to their creator.

Is that a good feature or not? I don't know. I just know it's going to happen. Then I'm guessing every other camera will adopt similar tech. It will be mandated by law to protect our kids (meaning Facebook will push it hard so every camera sold will have to pay Facebook patient royalties on the tech).

It is different in the US. Commercial customers can often get cheaper electrical rates because they're buying "in bulk" with a more consistent load. Though electric power is controlled locally so there's differences everywhere.

It's not the drug itself, it's what you do when on it. Specifically you significantly reduce what you eat. You get all those same benefits simply by fasting.

You mean if I got COVID a few times I could have turned my life into a video game? Dang, I missed out.

If they're smart it would be all of them. Why waste money on rent when you have no income? Why leave your aging parent(s) to fend for themselves?

A 10% increase in risk of XYZ means if you have a 0.001% of XYZ happening to you, then a 10% increase takes you to 0.0011%.

Also, what is up with "Participants were followed for a median of 12.38 years" and "methodological limitations were... measurement imprecision due to having only 7 days of accelerometer wear." Does that mean this study only looked at 7 days of data then 12 years later they checked on who died? Wow. Sort of makes the whole thing meaningless (and if so then fuck you to all the news articles implying it was 12 years of data). As if people never change their habits nor activity levels from week to week.

I bet the data is skewed to people who recently died too. Someone dying from cancer isn't going to be very active (though how many wear health monitors?). If those people were bed ridden that week then died within the next year or two and everyone else lived, that could skew the results. Though they claimed to factor in "health-status factors" so maybe they took that into account?

Or you can set your working hours in Windows Update and set the PC's sleep timer to 2 hours. Then Windows Update can run between when you stop working and before the PC goes to sleep.

It will exist in our lifetime, unless outlawed like human cloning. This seems to be one area sci-fi media is lacking. I wonder what it'll do to animal training and how much it'll screw them up with their owners being able to directly and artificially stimulate their brains.

I wonder if we'll get the opposite too: For criminals, go through this brain pain punishment or spend XX years in jail. Well I guess we could do that now and we don't so that probably won't happen. It'll be go to jail and get zapped if you don't listen to the jailers fast enough. That kind of already happens.

Instead of pleasure, you can use pain to halt addictions too. Spend a few moments inflecting sudden pain in different environments whenever you smell alcohol and you'll quickly build a trauma response to avoid it. Not sure if that stops the addictions or leaves you in a messed up state of both wanting to have and trying to avoid the thing.

Mine just died so it's either buy an exact replacement for $120 or spend $300 and save $200 in electric costs over the new few years. There's so many options out there and they all just miss a different mark.