I've been working my way through my parents' slides from the 50s and 60s and my own from the4 60s and 70s with a Plustek 8200i. The Kodachrome still looks very good, the Ektachrome, not so much.

When you have to have "government" tax credits to get people to buy something, then that something isn't worth it. There are TONS of used EV's on the market now because people have gotten rid of them. Oh, they might have been "stylish" to have, but not any more. Range problems, battery life in hot/cold environments, having to wait 10-30 minutes or more to charge them and on and on. For short commutes, not to much of a problem, but if you live in a rural place and do a lot of driving they are not worth it. Pretty much anyone that wanted one, has one.

Needs to be 67 MB for Gen A to care.

That's the first thing I thought of, but I think the approach is different. Fabrice Bellard created an x86 emulator in javascript, and ran linux on it (later risc64). Joel Severin complied the linux kernel directly to javascript. If you look at the web page, he describes some previous attempts and how his more direct approach was inspired by them, and some of the limitations (scheduling is offloaded to your host OS, because with the web assembly build, every task in the js linux is a web worker, which because a thread in the webassembly implementation, which your OS decides how to handle.

Basically, it does appear to be novel, and it's pretty cool.

You have an illusion of your consciousness driving your actions, as opposed to the reality of consciousness being a summary of all the decisions you have already made and can no longer change.

Free will is a remarkably easy illusion to break. Here we go, I'm going to do it for you: name your three favorite actors, in order. Do it before you read the rest of this comment.

Did you do it? Was that a conscious decision? Did you weigh pros and cons between different actors to pick your best and rank them? Felt like you did, huh? Like you consciously picked something between those that were available. Was Vincent D'Onofrio one of them? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Clark Gable? Bryan Cranston? Oh, did you miss one of those? Did you miss actors you actually *know* existed, but you never considered consciously for your top pick? Oh my god, did your brain come up with a list of actors for you without ANY conscious input for you to "choose" from, even though you didn't get to choose that list?

There are several studies where we can determine what choice subjects will make before they're conscious of making the choice (picking between picture A or B) for instance. There are also studies where the corpus callossum has been cut as a treatment for people having uncontrollable seizures, and now their two brain hemispheres don't communicate. So the subject can be given a card that says, "go get a cup of water" which they read with one eye. And after they get up, they are asked the question, "why did you get up?" and they answer, "because I was thirsty". Because the brain hemisphere that didn't get the message that was read had to come up with a justification for the conscious mind for why they're going to get water.

This isn't up to debate. You can believe whatever you want. Or rather, you can believe whatever your hardware has decided for you that you're allowed to.

Yay for your anecdotal evidence. Here's mine: I drove cars made in the 80s and 90s, when they had to live in the repair shop. But I haven't had any problems with my cars in 20 years. The only times I've upgraded was because I wanted new features, and after an accident. Which I got to walk away from, because they're also safer. If I had been in a 90s car, I'd have been dead.

Now for the non-anecdotal data. Cost of car maintenance has fallen, which is making public transport less competitve. And in the US, average length of car ownership is at an all-time high, partly because keeping a car for longer is lower risk than it used to be.

The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...

The old tv sales pitch guy was right! Set it and FORGET IT! Stop screwing around with the stupid clock! Old indian chief was right! Only white man think cut bottom off blanket, sew it on top make LONGER blanket.

"You know we have cameras in that town," Milliman said. "You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing, correct?"

The pigs using ubiquitous street camera surveillance to accuse the woman, or the woman using ubiquitous in-vehicle camera surveillance to prove her innocence.

No part of this story makes me warm or fuzzy.

and the ubiquitous surveillance of large swathes of the internet as well. Woohoo!

Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.

Copying features already available in other operating systems .... tut tut.

Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.

How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.

Poetic justice.