I would also recommend reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff which was recently featured on Philosophy Tube

Edit: its important to realize that any government or entity might purchase the data this apparatus can collect.

Then there’s Nikola Tesla sitting there with a bulb that has a 2700k color temp and a lot less moths.

It looks beautiful and it sounds like it could be affordable. This kind of thing really excites me.

However I have some questions about the design.

Those ceramic tiles look really cool. They seem to be burnished on the outside. He talks about the cure time being really quick but wouldn’t you still have to fire them? Many kilns wouldn’t fit something that large.

Another thought is that this seems like it would be terribly insulated. Like wouldn’t the ceramic be conductive? I doubt the hemp fibers alone is enough of a thermal block. There might be insulation between 2 layers of tile but the ceramic frame itself seems like it would not be great. I wonder if it would be possible to use timber for the frame?

I also think realistically, you need at least one large flat wall for things like an electrical panel/sub panel and battery banks. In the current configuration, the small dome seems like this is less suitable for a home and more for storage or maybe a green house assuming it doesn’t get too cold inside. Maybe it could be improved if it was semi subterranean or had a heat sink like a fish pond?

Its not a complete list but check out https://distrosea.com/

Its called surveillance capitalism.

Microsoft is first and foremost a company that aims to profit on the data it can gather.

If you are working on a pi, you have to pay attention to the architecture that a distro supports.

As someone that tends to learn most by doing. Most of these comments are excellent my only suggestion is to try it. Most Linux distros come with live images which you dont need to install to test out.

Just download the ISO and put it on a USB and then boot from the usb. You can even make a multiboot USB with ventoy.

Or you can use distrosea to demo a distro in a browser.

I also highly suggest using the arch wiki for research. It will probably go into much more depth than you need at first but it will also not dumb things down or over simplify things for you so you might actually learn. Take this doc on what a DE is for instance, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_environment

Well for games it kind of depends on the specific DRM used and how exactly the game utilities it. DRM means digital rights management but there is a wide variety of DRM and ways it’s used.

Some DRM might limit the amount of computers software can be installed on, some might verify the contents to ensure none of the files were changed, some might authenticate with a server before starting up, and some might have kernel level access to read your RAM and log your keystrokes.

I’d also like to add that the yakuza series used for this picture are great games that now come with DRM, unless you buy them on GOG.

I bought a big bundle of the games through steam on sale and Yakuza: Like a Dragon came with DRM on steam. Buy on GOG, its the same game but DRM free.

I should have waited for the GOG sale, now I might pirate it to play the game I bought without DRM.

Its a good thing this hold over from immediately after the attacks on 9/11 happened is still in effect or the terrorist might have won.

Not to hijack the thread but which airlines is least likely to put you on a plane made by boeing?

What do you mean by a driver manager? I’m not familiar with that term, it sounds like a gui for managing and updating drivers. Or maybe you want something to help you switch between integrated graphics on your cpu to your dedicated gpu?

In most cases, updating drivers doesn’t require a GUI and can actually create more work. For instance, compare this Manjaro video of how to use its gui to install Nvidia drivers vs this line of code to install/update the Nvidia drivers on endeavorOS.

eos-update --nvidia

Ofcourse if you use an arch based distro you can also use the arch wiki to help you manage your drivers exactly the way you want. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

If you want to control which apps use your GPU or integrated graphics, than you can just install prime and prepend a package name with the string prime-run when opening or in steam launch settings.

I used to like Manjaro but they way they handled the recent pacman changes were so terrible that I no linger recommend it. It still has a great GUI and I think other arch based distros could learn from.

Most regulatory agencies classify Chilean sea bass as “overfished,”…

https://www.allthingsnature.org/is-chilean-sea-bass-endangered.htm

They changed the name to something which is morally not cool to eat.

Did they put an an “AI” in charge of marketing?

Huh. Why is both the Man-of-war fish and the man o’ war (aka man-of-war) jellyfish (although its not really a jellyfish) both also called bluebottle?

this fish lives within the tentacles of the Portuguese man o’ war, feeding on its tentacles and gonads.

Oh.

My first thought: That’s what short links and QR codes are for.

My second thought: Heinz says sorry for ketchup QR code that links to porn site

Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign

Baseball ball mouse

Totally. I have one of the newer pixels and it’s on the smaller side relatively, but it’s the biggest phone I can use comfortably.

I wear a size medium glove and it’s insane to me that it’s hard to find a phone I can use comfortably in one hand.

At the same time, I’ve started to realize that I should do less with my phone anyway. So I really don’t need it to do to much besides get a good reception and have a day or so of battery life. The most demanding thing I’ve asked my phone to do recently was to emulate some Nintendo games and run llama3.2:1B. But both things are better done either on a device meant to perform that workload or via a self hosted server where my phone is just a client.

I’m with you on those specs. Maybe the best features of new phones is the water resistance. Idk of its possible to have both water resistance and removable batteries and SD cards, but I miss being able to swap out to a fully charged battery or upgrade the storage at a whim. If I hadn’t choose tho, id stick with the water resistance.

So to add to your specs I’d like:

• water resistance
• 256 SD card minimum
• battery last 24hr minimum
• ability to switch from WiFi to cell mid call
• don’t need more than a 1080p oled display on a phone
• comes without any bloatware preinstalled
• runs linux with ability to sudo

This but my wife is 100% green and I am 100% yellow

I like the fan theory that jurassic park could have worked if they followed modern guidelines for zoos in terms of meeting the minimum enclosure sizes per animal and making sure that the animals were properly stimulated. But John Hammond just cut every corner he could.