“Let Them Eat Cake” is a truly incredible, dark comedy & anti-capitalist short film. You should watch it before they get sued out of existence, because they speak the truth.
(Also I’m so glad that “Gmod face” has become a genre staple.)
Wireless charging sucks!
(Sucks more power that is.)
My buddy Ricky and I did a one-off experiment comparing wireless charging to FAST cabled charging. You can watch part one here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/442
I was pleasantly surprised that Qi charging had improved and kept case temperatures better in check, but we still saw elevated temperatures for roughly two hours on a full charge.
Now, iFixit delivers even more data on wireless charging, and it's not great. You're trading a lot of waste and heat for some mediocre "convenience"...
@SomeGadgetGuy Well.. That's not a novum. These are simple laws of physics that are taught in school. A circuit not galvanically connected will always need more energy to transfer it than a connected one. It's a thing well known for years, since the beginning of the electricity era.
@MartinBe in tech influencer land, there's been this push for the "convenience" of wireless charging, but that seems like it's all been built on phones that charge slow over a cable. "It's basically the same".
Apple and Samsung perpetuate this battery anxiety where the phones charge so slow, you need to be topping them off every time you set them down.
That means more accessory sales, and Qi pads are more expensive than USB cables.
Can we retire the notion of old people fearing technology? Because I just had three cases where five seniors didn't understand why I was excited about tech as they were.
They were excited about the possibilities tech could give the world, even after they are long gone. I explained I was very disillusioned with how the whole tech sector exploits marginalized people and exploits workers. I looked at the recent iPads coming out and said, no thanks because I have what I need. It works, and these new features don't justify the price investment for me. The very five seniors all marked it on their calendars to order the new tech or pre order the new tech.
I explained that what I have works for me so I don't need new tech. I geeked up my tech so that it runs new and gets everybody to think it's new.
Of course, the subject went to AI. Everyone knows I'm against AI on here and online, especially the labor practices and the profit seeking grab... anyway, the seniors were utterly baffled as to why I wouldn't be happy about AI.
These aren't tech illiterate seniors, either. They can tell me the difference between a GB and a TB and one of them knows a little about servers but that's basically it. They can't host their own email server or anything but they know tech.
Even one said, you know what? My grandson is like you. He's younger than you are and he actually doesn't like technology at all!
To prove to them AI had some really big flaws, I loaded up an LLM with a voice input. They could use a Microphone to speak into it.
I told all my friends with non American dialects to speak into the microphone, but don't try to sound American.
That's when, for example, GPT and other LLM's fell short. The others were amazed because they thought, well, AI would at least cover different dialects.
But the AI's understood the dialects I'd say about 40% of the time, but to be fair, I was in a hall with a lot of echos and doors slamming, etc.
There are tech people that salivate over the death of all humans, and how no more computer stuff will be done by humans ever again, but these seniors aren't like that at all.
Still, they were just flabbergasted that because I was a tech guru that I am far, far, far, less excited about tech than they were.
I am glad I did the little voice demonstration though! I tried a number of American dialects. It couldn't even understand a southern accent well, and that's American English! Imagine how awful the others were!
@weirdwriter The modern day Luddite is one who knows, is interested by and (sometimes) excited by technology but knows that the people, businesses and governance of them are the diametric opposite of who and what they should be for the betterment of society.
Dear tech blogs. Please stop.
These are massive trillion+ dollar megacorporations.
There’s no “war”, no need to choose sides. No flame wars to be had to take more of our money.
These are appliances to get stuff done or enjoy for fun.
Period.
After dealing with pre-installed malware on this mini-PC, I'm FINALLY done reviewing the hardware! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/459
"Besides the malware" does an Intel Core i9 make sense in a system like this?
Google showed off new business AI solutions while promoting their water cooled data centers. Now we find out Microsoft is not only failing to meet their carbon emissions goal, their emissions are actually UP 30%.
I just don't see how this era of cloud AI is going to be a sustainable business model...
Remember all the times Elon Musk said Tesla is so amazing for the environment? The company is being sued for violating the Clean Air Act hundreds of times in recent years by emitting harmful pollutants from its Fremont factory into nearby neighborhoods.
@parismarx Don't forget the #pollution, I & #Spacex are creating by sending those rockets to pollute the stratosphere too & depositing all those junk satellites there just like I talk a lot about #FreeSpeech while @x keep censoring people all the time
@cory I guess the next logical step for me to reclaim my data from my cloud provider would be to use something like syncthing to share it across my machines and VPS.
@underlap I haven’t gone quite that far yet (I’m not sure I trust myself with that just yet) — we use iCloud with Apple’s advanced data protection on and I’ve been using 1Password for over a decade now.
I remember the days when people were furious Google was scanning their emails to serve ads. Now we’ve reached the point that everything you send and receive is being filtered through its AI model and you’re expected to love it.
@sharan from what I gathered you can simply run the app on your local device.
If you want it available as selfhosted, so you can access it from multiple devices, you'll need some sort of webserver. Nothing special really, just some flavor of linux.
But you'll also need to know how to do it - I haven't found any offerings for a managed solution so far.
So this can be some Hardware you own/buy or a rented Server somewhere.
Here are the Docs, maybe those help. https://tech.anytype.io/how-to/self-hosting