When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

No mention of safety in the article. Does a manufacturer of this size have to do crash tests?

Also, this sounds like the Spirit/Ryanair of cars. Everything costs extra.

For years, I drove ~10-20 minutes to and from work. Mostly stroads and freeway. I could never justify buying an extra nice car because I didn’t use it that much. Same for a nice car stereo. I’d just listen to NPR and talk radio for news, traffic reports, and maybe a quirky story about some cultural oddity or eclectic artist. If I spend thousands on a sound system it goes in my house, where I live and vibe. Now I work from home, ride my bike everywhere, and a tank of gas can easily last me a month. My current car was purchased for about $20k. If my car died for some reason, I don’t even know if I’d be willing to part with 20k to replace it. I appreciate that these guys are building something for ordinary people and not another faux luxury lifted minivan the size of a garbage truck.

I can see a lot of retired people buying one of these to drive to their once a week bridge tournament or bingo night.

Milk :D Build a heat pasteurization plant next to your data center and you can use the server heat for something productive.

I was wondering about this. Why wouldn’t it be closed loop? My buddies and I allegedly built a moonshine still in high school and the coiled pipe or hose coming out the top recondenses the liquid that boils off. Why not do something similar and pump the hot water under snow covered sidewalks to melt them and then send it back to the data center to get heated again once it has lost enough heat?

I particularly like what you said about supporting one thing. One is better than none and there is nothing to stop you from supporting more developers later. Just pick something that gives you utility, a project that you think is undervalued, or a friend’s project. Also, send the devs some encouragement on Mastadon or wherever they keep a public presence.:)

I agree, it’s a bit of a weird take especially when we’re talking about robots in a marathon, not in a textile factory or flipping McBurgers.

I guess I was thinking: why give up the efficiency of wheels/tracks/propellers for walking (a less simple movement) and why only one set of arms? Why would you want a robot to look human at the cost of being as multitasking and movement challenged as it’s owner? I kept imagining Angry Bender from Futurama where he has 3 very maneuverable metal tentacle arms on each side. (Though normally he’s pretty humanoid in shape too). I still think we’re overly anthropomorphizing them and it’s a bit creepy. It seems like we’re building the tech based on Hollywood as much as anything else. I hear you when you say the shape is a good “fit” for our built environment, but I think we can do even better so it’s interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.

Do these people miss slavery so much they have to build humanoid robots so they can own them?

Me: Alexa, does this shirt make me look like I have a beer belly?

Alexa: Bush did 9/11.

I think a few more people “get it” every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.

Tidal recommended this one when I moved from Spotify a few years ago. It worked, but I don’t know anything else about it: https://tidal.com/transfer-music

Gulf of… your mom! 😎😛

Also, don’t forget to donate if you can. Their liberapay says they’re getting ~120€/week in donations. I think freeing our wearable devices is worth a whole lot more than that.

I can understand when FOSS software needs a bit longer to cook, and let’s make sure they have some incentive to keep going at it.

Thanks for sharing. I remember reading about this while it was happening. Interested to see how it turned out.

If gadget bridge paired with a fully featured local analysis tool, I would love that and probably put them on my FOSS donation list too.

Same here, I’m about 75-80% de-googled, but I made the mistake of giving my partner and sibling-in-law chromecasts and now they’re addicted and I can’t get rid of the devices. Thinking about isolating them on a guest network once I’ve fully degoogled myself and I’m going out of my way to send them stuff from alternatives like peertube, Mastadon, etc.

Woooow, I did not know about this. Many of these devices easily cost $600+ new and they want us to pay a subscription fee? Also, they can’t even provide data export in a useful consistent and nonshitty format.

I get great utility out of my Garmin watch and Bike Computer, but there are a lot of alternatives now and we may even be able to cobble together a solid open source stack to replace Garmin/Strava/Trail Websites sometime in the next few years.

I’m not in the market for a new device yet, but when I change, I will be sure to give the alternatives a shot.

Germany can’t decide. Every few weeks I see an article that says “German city/company/institution is Ditching MS for Open Source”, and the next article is “Germany Cucked by Microsoft for Ten Billionth Time.” Can we just completely ditch all MS and agree to an open standard?

Yeah, even if we didn’t reuse, we could at least recycle. We got so into the craze of shoving computers in everything we stopped considering if we might be better off sticking to easily fixable tech for some things. My appliances are old as dirt, but parts are very affordable, there are 100s of youtube videos on how to fix them, and there are very few things that can break to begin with. That’s a far cry from the landfill of bricked smart fridges next to a factory somewhere.

Also, if you want to have more than one war at a time you’ll need to purchase add on slots for $4.99ea.

Oliver Welke is funny. Thanks for sharing.