I have a Hackberry Pi, which is a cyberdeck built around the CM5. It's... ok. The biggest problem is that Raspberry Pis don't really have a power-saving mode, so you get maybe 4-5 hours of battery life.

And without active cooling, the thing gets really hot

But, it's a cool gadget and reasonable if you want an ultra-portable computing device.

If the resulting Rust code is human-readable and human-maintainable, then yes... I can see wanting to continue in Rust rather than C as a valid use-case.

Yes, I hate all the LEDs on devices and I too would black them out or sometimes even open the device and desolder them.

Then I discovered a magical thing called a sleep mask, and that solved all of my nighttime light problems.

If the C code does something unsafe, how can it be machine-translated into safe Rust, without knowing the intention of the programmer?

And even is this is possible, what's the point? Why not just make a C compiler that emits "safe" assembler directly? It's not as if a transpiler is likely to emit human-maintainable code.

I know Canonical is all hot for Rust, but this particular project doesn't seem feasible to me.

Yep. Traveling into the EU is far more pleasant than traveling into the USA, at least for me (Canadian).

One wrinkle is that if I ever travel to the USA (which I haven't done in a while and don't intend to do in future), I go through customs pre-clearance here in Canada. So if they start hassling me, I can just say "OK, I've changed my mind; I don't want to enter the USA." They can detain me for a bit, but ultimately they have to let me go, because I'm on Canadian soil.

I don't want a car with any sort of touch-screen. In fact, apart from the backup camera, I don't want a screen at all. When the car is not in reverse, the screen should either be blank or showing GPS navigation. That's it.

People like this witness are the heroes we need. I hope he has security, though. With this much at stake, I wouldn't put anything past Meta or its political buddies.

I had a Pinebook PRO and it was... meh. Way too slow and underpowered for modern web browsing. Also shipped with Manjaro, but I'm a Debian fan. I installed Armbian instead; PINE64 doesn't offer much in the way of hardware documentation and so I spent a fair bit of time getting Armbian to work. I had to munge the device tree files based on the ones in Manjaro. I ended up selling the laptop.

In retrospect, I probably should have hung on to it. I could probably sell it for more now!

Inflammation increases the risk of cancer, and sugar increases inflammation, so it's not too surprising.

It is an exaggeration to say "Disney got their ass handed to them." Disney settled that lawsuit and opinion was mixed as to who won. Even a lot of republicans thought DeSantis was being stupid.

Trump is about to learn: You don't fuck with Mickey Mouse.

Disney takes no prisoners once it gets into a legal battle.

In other news, Google is working on an AI model that can de-anonymize anonymized data sets.

Social media's current surveillance-capitalism business model is destructive and corrosive. It's genuinely harmful to society and needs to be completely destroyed.

I'd be fine with social media that (1) is forbidden from using ads to obtain revenue; (2) only shows content from people or groups you explicitly follow, and only in strictly reverse-chronological order; (3) makes it clear when you've seen content before so you know you've seen the rest of the timeline, and (4) is only allowed to use subscription fees to sustain itself.

Meta makes probably between $3 to $5/month per user. If users are not willing to pay that much for social media, then clearly its utility is vastly over-rated.

So nobody has a gambling addiction? They just fritter away all of their money, lose their houses and cars and possessions because they're fully in control?

This is true. I used to be on social media, and then about two years ago, I deleted my accounts.

I lost touch with a few hundred "friends".

But I've kept in better touch with my actual friends then before. We text, we email, we meet for lunch or coffee or whatever, and we socialize. And nobody feels compelled to take pictures to prove it actually happened.

So yes. Friend count down by 90%. Friend interaction quality up by 300%.