Never trust anything banks, or bankers, tell you. It's all BS. Money has a way of twisting ethics and morals.

AI slop advertising RL slop. Sounds about right.

Do you mean the politicians or the corporations?

of idiots.

Microsoft is probably looking at integrating Xbox into Windows 11 somehow. I give up on trying to figure out what Microsoft's future plans are. They all seem to lead to the same place, enshitification and privacy raping.

My dad also did something similar. He integrated X10 modules and a TRS-80 computer into the automation mix sometime in the early 80s. All the sudden we could control or sense damn near anything. He then integrated a Zenith weather system and the weather reports and forecasts generated and displayed on the control panel screen in the kitchen were often more accurate than the local TV station meteorologists.

He did some pretty cool shit. He was once hired by a liquid waste disposal company to replace the relay logic systems the tanks and pumps used to a custom designed PLC solution. I remember the large schematics he made to reverse engineer the relay logic boards (which were huge wall-mounted monsters). I remember how excited he was showing me a Popular Electronics magazine cover with a DIP chip image on it (early 70's). He said this was the future. I was only about six or seven at the time but I was fascinated as he explained them to me.

Uh oh, someone poked a panda bear.

Correct.

In the 70's and 80's I grew up in an automated home. My father, and electronics engineer, designed a custom PLC that controlled items throughout the house. You would hear automated vents throughout the duct work doing their thing as heat was transferred around the house on winter days. The system would switch over to a large battery bank when power would go out, fire up the generator in the shed, and then switch over to the generator when warmed up (that saved our bacon during the blizzard of '78). When more automation was needed my father would simply build another card and plug it into a free S-100 looking slot in his custom PLC. Home Assistant is the modern version of this. Keep everything local and under your control. The only thing I didn't like about it was if you tried to take a shower longer than 15 minutes the alarm would go off at the control center in the kitchen warning that water was running too long some where, LOL.

I mean how much bullshitier can this AI bullshit get? People are buying this shit?

It's a couple days later now. That truly was the stupidest thing that day.

Wow that's expensive paint and ink.

The article doesn't say anything about heat absorption. I wonder if the fabric traps most of the heat associated with the light as well? I'm assuming it would.

Hey, that Pepsi formula was super duper secret. Even more so than that goofy colonel's 11 herbs and spices.