Look up calisthenics. You can do it for free with 0 equipment and gravity. Stuff like pushups are under this category. I’ve been doing it for years

A train is a kind of “land plane”. Instead of wings, it uses a track on the ground, otherwise it’s basically the same thing

I’ve noticed this. Phones take really distinctly “strange” photos. They’re mostly good for everyday use, but struggle to make something look really nice

Why do you need websites to make money?

Everytime something asks for my ID, I just abandon it and never use it again. I haven’t missed them

Once I was basically the only programmer on a huge project (“superstar”). One day I injured my hands from working too hard, and had to use assistive technologies.

The entire project ground to a halt, and management was on my ass all day every day about productivity. I even got a write-up and my bonus cancelled because I went from 3x output to 1.2x output (compared to my coworkers). Obviously I didn’t stay long after that…

So yeah, if you’re in that extremely niche type of situation, it probably matters. Creating an entire project by yourself kind of jobs. Actually, that tool looks extremely good for people who cannot use a mouse and keyboard for any reason. I would have used it. I didn’t like speaking to my computer to write out code in an open plan office.

Edit: this was way before A.I., so I meant literally those voice commands. Change tab to x. Type: while, space, open parenthesis, true, close parenthesis, space, open bracket… my coworkers got annoyed.

I know people who like being able to see their camera remotely. For example ,if someone is trespassing on their farmland, or business. I don’t use this feature personally, but I can see why people might want it

Yepp… memories of using the light level curve tool and white point and black point and the perspective tool. Then going in with the white brush and deleting any specks of dust that remained, and comparing to the original to make sure no lines got deleted

Having done a lot of scanning in the past, no matter how gentle you are, the book will be damaged; at least a little bit. Even if you do it manually, by hand, really slowly.

It’s the unfortunate reality, because books are not designed to be held open and pressed flat onto an unyielding surface. If you don’t press flat, you’ll get curved pages and bad quality (dark) images, which is sometimes ok and fixable by software, but often not. You can get really fancy expensive machines, but they still don’t fully solve the problem.

I did scanlation editing stuff for a while, and half my job was making the raw page scans look presentable, because the scanners didn’t want to destroy their manga (understandable).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning#Methods

It’s a lot cheaper, at least where I live. It’s also way more convenient to just put on the robot vacuum mop thing every few weeks. But you do you man

That still needs wifi access though. Internet access is a different story, I can’t think of almost anything that needs internet access. Maybe security camera.

Is it easy to isolate a device to LAN only via router? I never figured out how to do it.

Does it let you paint a square in your map layout to not mop there? Or split an incorrectly merged room into two? Or select specific rooms to do more often? I’m sure the remote is great for basic use though, but there’s a lot you can’t do with it

When I was a senior software engineer, I was offered a management position… I said no, because I knew I would hate it and do a terrible job. I actually like programming, and I absolutely hate asking an A.I. to do it for me.

Actually funny story. Or maybe unfunny. I was doing a web project a while ago, and the host site I was trying out asked me to describe my project. I naïvely did so, thinking it was like a description or something. When I hit next, the site A.I. automatically did my entire project for me. All the code, folder structures, API calls, everything.

I just sat there feeling bad feelings for a while. I think it actually made me a bit depressed. Took all the joy out of the project and I never touched it again.

So you can turn it on and access complex settings like map layouts and scheduling from your phone. Not sure how else you would do it. You can implement wifi securely, in this case they didn’t

These corporate jerks see themselves as Aragorn but in reality they’re Wormtongue

I agree with you that the current thing seems innocuous enough… but I think we’ve all been traumatised by recent events. Things have had a way of escalating extremely quickly, like: “oh yeah, we just approved 10,000 more satellites without even giving the general public a chance to react, so what?” Also, someone should coin that anime name.

I’ve finished the game now. No spoilers, but for any parents reading this:

People also said A.I. wouldn’t happen. I don’t trust them to not find some way to implement it in the worst possible way that impacts all of humanity. Like permanent daylight or something so there’s never time to sleep but now there’s 12 more hours in the day

It was actually fun to do khan academy high school math on my own terms