" I played roulette with the mortgage payment and WON on 22 Black. WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I LISTEN TO ANYONE TELLING ME NOT TO GAMBLE ON 22 BLACK EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!!"

I just don't understand the blind hope of the crypto dudes. " I figured out how to do money by doing nothing just by buying a thing and watching number go up, my highschool and 1 year of community college has prepared me to be a financial genius those wall street guys never saw coming" Dude, smart people will eat you alive. It doesn't matter the market: Dumb money is gambling. And eternal gambling will have you broke in no time.

I was surprised to discover that you can purchase a 30TB hard drive for about half a grand.

That's 30,000 gigabytes, or about 30,000 hours of recorded video. How much of a person's life could be recorded on this?

There's about 8800 hours in a year, but you're asleep for 1/3 of that so call it 6000 hours. You can get 5 years of continuous video of your life on a device the size of a paperback book. If you can compress the video of your mundane activities, such as driving to/from work or waiting in line, only record single frames every second during these times, or do lower resolution during those times with key frames at higher resolution, you might get away with 4,000 hours of continuous video in a year. Probably less.

So this new disk could conceivable make a continuous record of 30 years of someones' life - all the interactions, all the people, all the information you see, all the places you've been.

(And probably more, probably more like 50 years. And if cloud storage is easily available everywhere, you wouldn't even need the appliance on you.)

This will inevitably lead to some interesting social changes.

For example, 50 Years of video using an AI assistant to search through and answer your questions (have I met that person before?) would be quite useful.

Also, the AI could train itself on your video and behaviour. The AI could then simulate you once you're gone.

Lots of possibilities here...

I own the superbox. I don't watch much TV, so it doesn't see much use, but yes, it has nearly everything. More stations than I know what to do with, all the sports channels if you care about that stuff, video on demand (they're just downloaded torrents) so while most are good quality, some have the weird logos or closed caption forced in, but mostly it all just works.

I do like the live tv rewind feature too. Show started at 5 o'clock and it's 5:20? No worries, just start from the beginning. Not available on everything but the most popular. Stream through your VPN? No problem, it's an android device so just add it.

Again, I rarely use it, but that's mostly because tv today is nothing but crap. But if you want to watch a thousand channels of crap... Well then get one of these and enjoy.

So basic economics of supply and demand?

Way to go Bloomberg... Right on the forefront

I think what we need is (a conceptual model of) two modes of personal knowledge.

One mode is your personal area of expertise. You could be a web app programmer, or biomedical researcher, or welder, or plumber, or whatever. You have all the knowledge you need to participate in your field without help.

The other side is "everything else". You use AI to get you by the tasks you need to accomplish, because it's too difficult or onerous to go and read the documentation for everything.

For example, just yesterday I wanted to convert an existing laptop windows partition into a VM to run on my office computer under VirtualBox. It took 12 hours of back-and-forth with ChatGPT, and I understood most of the actions at every step, but I could not have recited the steps needed. It's all sdisk and VboxManage and ntfsclone commands that I didn't know existed, but that made sense in context. I didn't know how to do it, but I knew how to describe what needed to be done, and I knew how to sanity check the steps.

For the two modes, perhaps we need an oral exam for each student to verify that they actually know their area of expertise. Or something similar: a proctored exam in a secure location, for example.

If the student shows competence in their area of expertise, then the education system can simply ignore everything else and let the student use AI as much as they want.

Just a thought. File under "changes in culture brought about by AI".

See previous story. Apple's AI was a complete flop. This will be running Google Gemini. Still dumb. Open Ai pin also dumb.

According to the developer, WMI is required for their licensing system.

It sucks, really. Before I bought hardware I surveyed the available software packages, LightBurn was best in class and they supported linux.

About a year later, they dropped linux support.

Does it handle Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)?

Anyone know?

(I use LightBurn for some laser cutters. It only runs on Windows and there's no viable substitute. Wine fails because it didn't handle WMI)

One of my favorite lines of all time comes from that movie:

"Sometimes, you just can't get rid of a bomb!"

Here's a video of China's greening efforts.

If China keeps on the way it's been going, eventually the whole country will be green!

Yes I don't understand why so many people are anti Bose in these comments. This is the right way to do things, and more companies should be encouraged to do so.

That battle for whatever its worth is over. Wayland won. X is legacy. Anyone still relying on X is on a dying ship refusing to get off and shaking their fist at rescue boats trying to help them.

What ever MS does is by definition blessed and correct, as they have the application that Libreoffice is trying to work with. Now it sucks that MS is so difficult to work with, but thats the price you pay. Libreoffice on its own terms with no ms compatibility is just fine. Not great. Not as good as Office 2003 but better than office 95. So a better version of 1997. Yeah, I'd put it there more or less.

You shouldn't be that impressed. Microsoft has spent a lot of time and money making it send minimal data, and optimizing the java script. And libreoffice.. it hasn't had a lot of love in a while. It works well for what I need it to, but I don't have the time and energy to refactor it to work more performant. I just live with it.