without pulling out your phone, [doing phone stuff x10]

Ding ding ding.

Everyone is so focused on AR glasses having some killer use case that must justify it’s existence. The use case is simply not pulling a phone out of your pocket; not waiting for face ID, tapping your way to the necessary app, and so on.

Removing these micro inconveniences has always been Apple’s forte (even if a little stagnant in recent years), so it’s no surprise that they will continue to pursue the same.

You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly

Why is it when I miss a day of Daily Show it’s eviscerated from my feed entirely, but no matter how many Jordan Peterson thumbnails I hastily pass over, they still appear week in week out?

To date I’ve watched one JP video: Matt Dillahunty verbally tearing him a new asshole.

The right wing rabbit hole is real and, even if you’re explicitly against it, YouTube is like “if I can get him to watch just one …”, because they know they’ll have you watching videos like the guy from Clockwork Orange in no time. It’s disgusting.

Pro tip: never press “do not show me this” on right wing videos, just skip over them. That engagement causes the algorithm to mark you as emotionally triggered by politics and they’ll just shovel more of the same in your face. For them it’s just a roll of the dice, and the value of them flipping you is too high to avoid.

I built a thermostat with a Wemos D1 mini and a relay module about 10 years ago.

Still use it today integrated with home assistant and can turn the heat on and off while away from home. It’s been reused across three boilers, no parts replaced.

It was a really fun project and I had virtually no experience with Arduino when starting out. Would recommend it to anyone.

As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.

The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.

It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still sell like hot cakes.

Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.

The comment I replied to said “at work”, not “while working”

Sure people have breaks, lunches … It’s not unusual to read news or social media during these times.

Is this the end of the metaverse?

I mean, it was DOA so I guess my question is more: is this Zuckerberg acknowledging that the metaverse is dead, finally?

There’s a reveal trailer and a launch trailer for Clair Obscura that give very different perspectives on the plot, well worth watching both.

Obligatory: thanks for all the daily posts!

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Any plans to play Oblivion or Clair Obscura?

An opinion from the guy who thinks the metaverse is a viable product? Yeah I’ll pass

Is there a Lemmy hall of fame yet?

Can I just tell everyone around this table that I just took an enormous sh-t before coming in here?

This sounds like some poorly thought out power play bullshit that he came up with on the way to work while listening to his alphabro affirmations playlist. What a loser.

Two things that are true about 6T but not the 9/12:

1. It was pre-OS merge and things still felt more like vanilla Android. I still recommend it as a barebones Android experience, but if I’m asked whether there is bloat now … I have to be honest and say that there’s been persistent creep in recent years.

2. Form factor. The smaller size sits better in the hand and pocket IMO, and I don’t recall feeling (after having OnePlus 5) like I’d lost screen space.

I’ve had a 9 Pro and 12 since 6T and 6T is still my favourite hands down

Hi, I have a degree in computer science and work with AI every day.

Feelings aren’t a good way to measure things scientifically, they are right about that.

But saying that words can just be filtered is easier said than done. You’re back at needing to do a lot of processing to identify and purge these words. This is still going to cost a lot of money and potentially lead to less meaningful inputs. Now you also have to maintain the software that does the word identification, keep it well tested, maintain monitoring and analytics for it, and so on.

So, in short, everyone here is wrong and I’m considering packing it all in and buying a small potato farm with no internet connection.

Russian glaziers rubbing their hands together right now

Gesundheit

I didn’t know this and it’s absolutely hilarious. Literally totally undermines the use of Blockchain to begin with.