So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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Sadly the LKLM is hidden behind some ridiculous "protection". Does anyone know a mirror that's usable?

I'll pull a number out of my ass and will claim that in at least 95% of all translation, quality and emotion does not matter at all.

Maybe you think of translating a masterpiece, a best-selling book. They are outnumbered by an order of magnitude by apps, websites, technical manuals, policy documents, reports, all mass-produced by every business out there and require translation but no one cares about the details.

Reminds me of a quote from the book High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic:

Any experiment involving semiconductors at a frequency of 10^-12 Hz will (eventually) reveal that they do not function. It takes so long to run an experiment at 10^-12 Hz that the circuits turn to dust. Viewed on a very long time scale, integrated circuits are nothing but tiny lumps of oxidized silicon.

If it's only photo ID images 2 years old, then everyone is safe! No need to worry about a thing.

My photo ID and driver's license information is of course completely different now compared to two years ago. I'm sure everyone has moved and changed their looks enough in two years to make that information virtually useless.

This is actually less than expected. Low enough that I think this is too optimistic.

Then again, the cost is not so much labor, but energy, raw material, and land use. I wouldn't be surprised if cost of property and energy is actually comparable between Taiwan and Arizona, so there's only the extra shipping and a bit higher salary for a few workers.

This reminds me of the people who are impressed that there are (potentially) asteroids made of gold, and how much that would be worth.

Well, here you are, proof that Mars is worth about twice as much as gold! Just build a railgun on Mars and keep shooting rocks down to earth! We'll all be billionaires!

They've been crying wolf so many times.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

It's pathetic that news outlets just go with it. The headline should have a bunch of questions marks, not full stops.

My inbox is already "decluttered" because I don't randomly subscribe to newsletters I don't want.

Maybe a lot of people still need this, because they can't read what they click on, and that makes me sad.

The only place where a gun would have a valid use for self defense is when people are screaming.

But maybe you just want to ban guns.

Pretty sure Clint Eastwood will win a bar fight with Mel Brooks, even at the ripe old age of 90+. He'll probably beat me up, easily!