Fitbit became Google Health and lost badges. Badges are little awards you get for passing certain milestones, like daily steps, or lifetime distance walked. This app brings them back.

Yeah turns out that with 8 billion people in the world a significant portion of them come up with something like "spaceman". That's the price of picking an ID that is also popular music, a movie, a name given to a profession...

Me I haven't been able to use my actual nickname anywhere, even here on Slashdot it was taken by someone. Joke's on them though I got the domain name. Someone with my nickname tried to buy it off me a while back but fuck em it's MINE.

That's a bit harsh. Can't we just encode it into a small chip which we could insert into a device we keep with us at all times? We could give it a clever name like Subscriber Identity Module. Ooooh I know, we'll also create an electronic variant that allows us to provision it via QR code to make it easier to move between devices.

I recently made an Android app with Gemini AI. I'm an embedded C guy, not done any Android development, and I just wanted a simple app for personal use so I thought I'd try it.

It made the app, eventually. I had to walk it through some parts, and repeat requests when it said it was done but hadn't actually done what I asked. Some research was needed to guide it, such as asking it to use a specific API call that properly aggregated data over a day, rather than trying to read all the raw readings and add them up manually.

I won't release it, it's AI slop. It works for me, but I don't want to support it, and I don't want to inflict that on anyone else. But also, I have an app that I would probably never have had the time or energy to learn how to make myself.

For whom? This article is about labour force participation. What's the point of creating jobs for people who have retired, people who have died, people who aren't old enough to work yet, or people who have stopped working for personal reasons such as potentially going back to study or caring for someone, or became a bitcoin millionaire, or ended up in jail without a Trump pardon?

That is what this article is talking about. There's plenty of jobs out there. Unemployment figures are quite low.

Is it? Why do I need to look at *THAT* number? Be specific. There's a reason there are close to 10 different employment metrics being tracked. They all track different things for different purposes giving us a different insight into different areas of the economy.

There's value in knowing the difference between people who are actively looking, people who are not actively looking, people who have given up, people who can't look, etc.

I have off-site backups, but also with GOG you can re-download the games.

I agree with one thing here, voters are dumb. Specifically the kinds of votes like you who don't understand the difference between U-3 and U-4 unemployment numbers published by the government the same way they have been for a long time.

Come up with whatever definition of unemployment you like, I guarantee you it falls into one of the stats published by the government with a clear definition.

Also labour force participation is not the same as disillusioned people. The latter are included in U4-U6 statistics which is a different number than the one being discussed here.

Learn the definitions.

No one is playing with numbers. The unemployment has always had multiple different definitions with multiple different results. U-3 (the traditional number you're complaining about) has had the same definition for a long time.

If you want to look at discouraged workers you want to look to something like U-4 or U-6 as the unemployment numbers, they are also published by the government and also have an unchanged definition.

Unemployment and labour force participation is not the same thing. The latter includes counting people who are retired or not yet of working age, or physically unable to work. It provides a different statistic with a different purpose and describes different economic conditions that unemployment.

Also dropping labour force participation was always going to occur (and is occurring in most western countries) unless the USA dramatically makes changes to the pension age due to simple population demographics.

Even correlational studies correct account for temporal effects you quarter-wit. Maybe instead of "derp derp correlation not causation" actually learn how science and statistical analysis works.

Well with that attitude you're certainly doing half of the "min/maxing" of your health, specifically the min part.

But your point is inanely stupid. We'll all die. The question is how will you die. Of old age while walking? Or after prolonged health issues from a debilitating disease that leaves you bed ridden for a percentage of your life?

Would you rather die of heart failure at 85 playing tennis, or die at 85 from falling down the stairs for the 5th time an activity that takes your fat diseased arse half an hour to do because you sat around your youth and fucked up your knees and lower body thorough your sedentary lifestyle all for want of not getting up to get yourself a drink of water?

Quality of life matters.

Errr sorry that is horseshit. The world is full of white collar people who walk from one meeting room to the other every 30min, go take a piss, have a smoke, get a coffee, go to the watercooler. There's pathetically few jobs out there that tie you down to your desk.

That is a very relevant point, but nothing to do with the OP self-vindicating his piracy.

What happens if your house burns down and you lose your physical discs? At least I still have my Steam account.

The problem with rare "What-If" scenarios is they are trivially made to look foolish by other equally foolish what-if scenarios.

Agree, but that's a reason to avoid specific games regardless of whether the medium is physical, on Steam, or whatever.

I have it under good authority doing months of Facebook related research while pooping that everyone who had the COVID-19 vaccine is going to die in 2026. The BBC reported on it so it must be true. At least a Facebook post reposted an X post that claimed the BBC had an article which reported on it, so surely that must be true.