Does anyone remember older 747 jets having these types of projectors to show movies on international flights? Always thought it was so cool.

Other elephant in the room is how healthy is the dad? A super motivated, athletic and engaged older dad is still better than an uninterested, over weight, young dad.

My 36" TV is fine, you monster.

Spoken like a true MBA. I call this trash Buzz word salad.

At least she even comments. Mine just waves her hand in disgust. She knows it enables her whole technological life, but couldn’t give a shit.

I thought it was a joke until someone at my company gave a company wide presentation on how to use AI to accelerate coding and st several points flat out ADMITTED he didn’t know what the hell it was doing but you just need to ‘baby sit’ it and you get useful scripts out of it. I’m a hardware engineer and I wanted to scream at him.

Because those boomers who are broke were attempting to keep up with those who actually had money. I know a few examples…

+10 I think. I have an off grid solar powered trailer with a raspberry pi that controls it and a cell hot spot so it communicates to home base. I’m a geek.

I work for an un-named company that makes stuff that has google assistant on them. Initially we put hardware mutes and piped the microphones to physical hardware that monitored for wake up words locally and would then start piping the microphone data to the mother ship once it was heard. Google told us to stop that, only way to certify the product as compatible with Google Assistant was to pipe the raw microphone data to the mother ship 24/7. That was 5 years ago and I removed all devices from my house.

Likely. The coils only job is to ignite the lamp by whacking it with high voltage to strip some barium elections off the coil to induce plasma and therefore electrical flow. The plasma then excites the phosphorus to make light. After that the coils could just be stubs of wire so long as current keeps flowing through the excited plasma. If you did it inductively it would achieve the same means but I don’t think the plasma would be as dense so the lamp not as bright. My theory anyways.

Wild to see this posted. I worked for the guy that invented this at Sylvania, I have a bunch of photos of the early prototypes. They never figured out how to commercialize it and in the process of trying to manufacturer it in China the manufacturer stole the IP and started making them under their own brand and stole the market. They were called Icetron lamps. I worked in their R&D facilities and domestic manufacturing sites in the early 2000s.

https://www.1000bulbs.com/pdf/sylvania-26313-brochure.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOorwXg30eX88Qqr_onubna8XmLWO2_-abII3J3MbnKVc_f8BRWMK

Ive been using a pi model B for the last four years as a wood stove monitor, data logger and web server for the landing page of said data. Is this a big deal?

I would like to say it was on purpose but it was not :( I might do math, spelling is not my forte.

I guess remembering grade school order of operation means you’re a guinus now? Bar has gotten pretty low…

Americans avoid it like the plague for some reason. I always back in because I can look at the spot for objects or problems before I start backing in to ensure I dont hit anything. Backing out blind can be risky otherwise.

I paid for a year of an incogni family plan and wiped my whole household off the internet. Within a month google searching largely stopped coming up with hits other than accounts I personally created. I’ve been quite happy with the service, It took no effort just $100.

Plus $1000 a year electric bill

I just installed mine for the first time 4 days ago. I was excited, it worked, looked great. Then it cracked, in 4 days. I have no faith in screen protectors anymore.

Are those old ISA sound blasters worth much? I think I have a few in the basement…

I overclocked my socket A athlon to the moon and loved every minute of its partial instability. Still have that CPU in the attic.