I’ve heard some features are locked behind an app on newer low end models. Higher end models hsvd enough buttons to do everything.

My dishwasher is doesn’t need WiFi access… Like, I have my washer and dryer hooked up because getting a reminder of loads being finished is great, but the dishwasher doesn’t need anything like that.

Nae king!
Nae quin!
Nae laird!
Nae master!
We willna’ be fooled again! CRIVENS!

With all the wildfire smoke in the air, I’m actually sorta interested in these now. I wonder if you can get em cheap.

Look, in today’s world the entire banking sector relies on private communications to operate using the Internet. Why can’t private citizens get the same?

Same with me. They just embody relaxation and good times. Makes me smile when I hear steel drums.

Reminds me of Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians. The main character’s talent was breaking things. Takes a while for them to turn it into something other than just a curse.

Just to show the scope of talents in the book, the main character’s grandfather was late to everything. Someone shooting at him? He’d arrive too late and the bullets would miss.

That’s a processor, not a computer.

My first computer was the Tandy 1000 RLX which also had a 286 processor in it.

There’s also Groovy. A data execution pipeline program I use called NextFlow uses Groovy based scripts.

And compiling for different architectures can be very difficult. I’ve done a lot of work Power9 computers and it’s not as simple as having the right compiler flags. Often the dependencies aren’t built for your platform either so you have to go and compile those too. It can be quite a hassle.

My mom used to misplace her keys all the time, so she bought this device that makes a sound when you whistle, and then you can find your keys. The main problem with it was that it would also activate when she laughed, like a depressed person who only wanted to fit in and would laugh along with you. But hearing this thing make a sound when you were laughing just took you out of the moment. Very annoying and the device didn’t last long in the household. I suppose nowadays you could get an airtag or similar for your keys.

That keyring is fobulous!

So far, I think I’d visit OP’s island over anybody else’s.

Mine would be Weird Al, Vengaboys, Dua Lipa and Barenaked Ladies.

The sometime later is getting a call from the doctor that they have an STD and needed medication for it.

I also like how OP implied beer goggles were involved.

The Sunlit Man was so good. I love books that have fast pacing right from the start, and trying to figure out how the world worked was so much fun.

This is pretty sad to hear. Fairphone was next on my list of phones to try when my current phone gets too old. With the US boycott, I might have to go back to Samsung, but I hate the bloat.

Also the sort of things the schools spend money on. I don’t know from experience, but I think US schools pay for police officers to be at the school. That seems crazy to me, and expensive.

N=17 can make it difficult to get significant results, but if they did get significant results then they could have found some good biomarkers.

I’ll take a deeper look at the paper as I’m interested in this.

It couldn’t perform simple commands that Google Assistant used to do, so I reverted. I liked the voice, but it’s really not an assistant yet.

I thought this was a jab at Trump’s “concept of a plan”, but after looking at the article I dunno.

This is a genre I’m starting to really enjoy. I loves Against The Storm. This looks somewhat similar. I’d love to check it out!