I did exactly this, and also checked on the status of my gutters. My roof is 40ft above street level, and it’s scary to climb up there myself.

And their audio quality is amazing

It’s exactly counter to established research that places huge values on internet enables services.

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-much-are-search-engines-worth-to-you

18k per year valued for search engines, 9k a year for email and 4K a year for maps.

Of course framing might be slightly different, but getting people to saying thing is very different than getting people to put money where their mouth is. I would much rather trust the dollar signal, especially in the US.

Yeah, I think people forgot how terrible it was before email, gps, and etc.

Remember having to find the yellow book to call a plumber only to not get anything after trying 5 numbers? Oh wait, you don’t know how bad they’ll be because there are no online reviews. Memos from your boss via sticky notes? Faxing shit over and over again?

I mean, this study says it all, people need to be paid almost 20k to not use any online search for a year, almost 9k to not use email in a year. These services provide huge value for us in our daily lives. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/how-much-are-search-engines-worth-to-you

Even planet money gave a shoutout today. This is big news already.

Honestly, they are pretty damn stressed devices though.

If you think about it, they are on 24/7, with active usage at least 4-6 hours a day, exposed to god knows what humidity, unknown low and high temps, dropped every x days. It’s a modern technological miracle that they last as long as they do. Lots of read and writes with photo and video backups.

My 5 year old X died a month back (flash memory failed), I was actually impressed that it lasted that long.

It’s called prototyping do you even design think?

Only half joking as this is the actual strategy.

Ion canon ready

Chinese effort to nationalize segments of their internet tech industry has had pretty bad consequences in the past 5 years, so I’m not quite sure that will magically solve the problem either.

They don’t have to, but for capital intensive industries like streaming, it’s not something that you can easily build or federate, at least not until bandwidth and processing gets a lot cheaper

I would recommend checking out EU4 again. It’s an amazing game if you like history.

CK series is much more of a family simulator than country simulator, so that takes a bit of getting used to

Genshin OST, especially Sumeru, Absolutely slaps

Seems like a relatively easy thing for reputation to be implemented in the lemmy framework no?

We’ve come full circle. Jnco jeans and translucent controllers.

Monkey’s paw curls. Now you have to subscribe to Microsoft Game Pass ™ to access any activision blizzard game catalog.

So far I haven’t felt any overt political views other than be respectful of other people.

I used to be pretty extreme on the free speech side (a la Ellen Pao saga), but I think the biggest lesson I learned is that unfettered trolls just drive out solid content and create very toxic communities.

So…. You just get hit with ad bots all day long?

Let’s see the VIM one.