Apparently your blue sensing photoreceptors in your eye are super sensitive to blood sugar, and you could do a blood sugar test with a color calibrated phone app having people compare two shades of blue side by side. If you can't tell them apart, your blood sugar meets/exceeds/is below a certain threshold. It's not hyper accurate but useful for diabetics.

All of Engie's plants use standard designsm there's no shortage of staff who know how they work and how to maintain them. Standardization is a major pillar of why France's nuclear costs are so low and so safe.

In our neighborhood all the kids (who look like they weigh about 75 lbs, so about 2x the hp/weight ratio of an adult) have these borderline dirt bike looking things and they're constantly doing the "ride doing a wheelie for 500' in a mostly straight line" except when they wipe out and slide into oncoming traffic. A couple of kids this year have already gone to the hospital in my area for that sort of thing. I dunno how fast they can go but seems like at least 30mph with tweaks which is street legal scooter territory. Ebikes are nice because there's no license or registration so the cost is low, but they're commuting 3-5 miles each way 5 days a week on public roads, so they're definitely part of normal traffic, and they're absolutely getting in a ton of very messy accidents.

The disorientation goes away for most people after ~1-2 weeks, but yeah, you have to be really committed to the product. I am very resistant to motion sickness but I recall a couple times in the first month where I was in some ultralight airplane sim (like pilotwings type thing) and looking down while banking sharply and almost threw up.
 
Mass consumer VR is a fucking dumb idea though, I'm stunned apple was still shipping hardware updates, they must have contracted for a million of the displays or something and were hoping they could limp across the finish line without sending too many off to the landfill.

They can sell the neo at a loss because parents will buy a kid a laptop even before they buy them a phone. If you've had an apple laptop for three years, what phone are you going to want? And yeah also it's a very transparent education market play, which again, feeds lifelong customers into their ecosystem.

Ok you hit your coffee limit early in the day. Sodium battery technology is here, finally, and solar and wind have been mature for a long time. There's no reason most countries can't go fully electric.

I've been wondering for a while what the steganography potential for AI generated music might be.

The photo side is awesome. Video is more awesome. Hide a whole movie in a movie you can.

If I have 50,000 AI generated songs in my albums, am I ever going to be asked to provide decryption keys?

You know, 'cause it doesn't sound quite right?

Like SETI. uuuggghh..... Like disco.

Where's a cryptography geek when you need one.

I think the idea is to keep shitting out 4.X releases until openai releases GPT-6, at which point anthropic will release whatever version of "mythos" they have mostly working that day as Opus 5.0 on the same day, or the next. They'll probably claim it's so operful they're skipping 5 and just calling it Opus 6 for marketing reasons

I don't remember her being in a bikini, but my mind blanked from self preservation almost immediately.

Everyone has to stop what they're doing for an entire day, travel to the training center, which costs money, they have to rent the training center, which costs money, they have to pay the training person to present the training materials, which costs money, and they have to develop the training materials/course, which costs money.
 
And then the next day is going to be complete chaos, because the training materials were developed against v0.7 of the software, and everyone is using v1.3 of the software, and nothing will get done for, minimum, 2 days, and you won't actually be at the same level of effectiveness for 3-6 months, and in some edge cases, 18-24 months, possibly longer.
 
I was at one company, and the 80 year old lady, Wanda, who ran payroll, worked on a specialty windows 95 computer, because she could not be retrained and didn't want to learn new software. And nobody messes with the payroll lady. This was in ~2014. I just looked her up looks like she passed away finally, probably still using Windows 95 all the way until 2023 bless her.
 
Anyways TL;DR for digital soveignry $2000/user is a trivial amount especially as a one time cost

I was talking about my fire tablets (8 inch, 10 inch).

You know, the color kindles.

In fairness, when they work, I haven't had any problems with formats (except pdf) and I use vlc for all my video and audio needs.

But randomly failing to read the sd card (top end SanDisk), requiring a reformat and recopying my library gets annoying, even if it's only every 3 months or so.

I'm sure the donated ones will be picked up cheap from Goodwill, and be used by someone more appreciative.

That's why I donate, not dispose.

You can shorten that list.

Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet are the only platforms now that protect my privacy and are the most secure.

The EFF told me so. Thank you.

I would have never figured that out on my own. /s.

Been trying to do that with my fire 8 for years.

It's been passed around to a couple of gurus, still a fire 8.

A friend gave me a 2024 fire 10. Gave it back to her for donation somewhere else. Won't see my sd card with my 80G library again. For the third time in 5 months

Pulled the sd card and it will go in the jar with the rest until I buy an android tablet I can root. Later this month.

Both kindles are headed for Goodwill.

I obviously won't miss them.

Yeah I'm kind of done feeding Google every scrap of information about me for advertising purposes. I switched to private search and email last year for about $100/year and don't miss them at all.

Mx25 Infinity on my 2008 hp G62 laptop. (Whoops, using xfce with gnome fork). Acting as a kodi server.

antiX26 on my i7 laptop. zzzICE wm. Daily driver.

PIOS on my pi3b. Xfce, jellyfin server.

All idle at less than 800mb. The jellyfin server doesn't have to do transcoding, serves up three streams at a time.

The kodi box is also the backup dev box, but with 8G of ram, I've never seen it at 50 percent.

The i7 is new as of 2 months ago. It's just shit fast compared to my usual. I'm still trying to catch up.

All of these Debian OS derivatives/compatibles I have run successfully and usefully from a 4G thumb drive.

I also ran Mx23.1 (wildflower) on the pi3b for about 8 months. Used it as my first kodi server. Functioned adequately if not spectacularly, and this is on 1G.

All run firefox as the default I believe.

Low memory options are out there and fun to use.