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I couldn’t imagine our org spending time on some random request from a private email. How does that work at your company? What would your boss say if you spent a bunch of time on an inofficial email?

I read lamest picture and my mind immediately jumped here

If you’re talking about eInk, the refresh rate and color fidelity are unacceptable for an apple device. There are eink phones on AliExpress, though. Just don’t expect apple-level quality.

And while Moebius uses a plastic substrate, Carta and Kaleido use glass and can be pretty fragile. My Boox reader’s display cracked when I worked it out of its case.

In Germany we say “stromerzeugende Haushaltsgeräte” and I think that’s beautiful.

Meanwhile, phone-sized readers like the Boox Palma exist and are much more capable.

They also have a Gemini site gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/hundredrabbits/

I self host because it replaces services I’d have to pay for and because it’s a cool hobby. You also have the other advantages of the cloud: easy access from anywhere on all your devices, you can easily share stuff with less computer literate friends and family.

Two things: decentralized generation (solar on roofs everywhere) and market forces (demand drives grid buildout)

Work at a larger organization and the only browser we’re allowed is fucking Edge. All other browsers are blocked as malicious processes.

Watched a clip yesterday and learned that compared to just last year, there were four times as many contestants and they managed to complete the race in less than half the time.

But the really fascinating things were mundane tasks like chopping vegetables.

Comparing that to what Europe has got to offer is what scares me.

It’s a muli motor, a long john with a collapsible cargo compartment in the front and not much longer or wider than normal bikes.

I call it „my bike with a trunk“. The kids are too big for it, but the dog loves riding.

No joke. I got a cargo bike and couldn’t be happier. Easily transports a full shopping cart of groceries.

I was able to get a used one cheap for under 600€, used it for a while and now have upgraded the hinges, speakers, battery, keyboard and motherboard along with more RAM and a larger SSD. It’s the perfect PC builder’s laptop.

The US and Japan have historically done the same.

See also Germany. Britain required stuff produced in Germany be marked „Made in Germany“, because many imported goods had the marks of British manufacturing and were of poor quality.

At this moment, I am sitting in a Amazon Kiro course. We have spent more than 2 hours and half the tokens of our test account just to fucking connect to an MCP server.

The process is so convoluted and Byzantine it has to be some kind of cult to enjoy this pain.

I‘m with Ed Zitron - the AI hype and especially stuff like this just makes it so obvious that the tech bros are flat out of ideas.

Don’t worry, Chinese LLM vendors without access to the newest hardware will take care of that.

A few years back I regularly ran half marathons. If I missed a few weeks of training due to illness, work or whatever’s, the trainer would often say „the body never forgets“. Thought it was just old guy pseudowisdom, turns out there’s science behind it!

I think you’re attributing a lot more to malice what can can more easily be just greed and stupidity.

Goodacre catalogues this and related scenarios in a 37-page risk assessment prepared for CISOs evaluating Intel vPro hardware connected to corporate networks. Its conclusion is blunt: connecting an untouched-ME device to corporate resources “exposes the organization to a class of compromise that defeats the host security stack in its entirety.”

I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.