I think it’s been changed since, but wow was it weird finding out that instead of taking photos, the Android app used to essentially take a screenshot of the camera view.
I made one for roughly $100 USD from an Arduino, steel rods, some stepper motors, and some 3D printed parts.
Having an existing 3d printer is a bit “draw the rest of the owl” for this, but being able to extend and modify a device like a pen plotter is pretty nice.
That language isn’t the same language I became more proficient in, so are you sure it’s not terrible, useless, and will lose handily to the one I use for my specific purposes?
Reminds me a bit of BMWs and their infamous and persistent coolant pump woes. The running joke in those circles is "replacing the entire cooling system" counts as "basic, regular maintenance". BMW makes a fantastic engine, then makes the water pump impeller out of plastic. For what feels like decades.
Interesting and novel take. Do you think making that would enable you to also make a better distributed note taking system, or do you think you need the distributed note taking system first?
I'd like to see some form of regulation around % of visible screens/information presented in a public space needing to be specifically useful to the population vs pure advertising.
It's frustrating to be at a train station where every wall is an ad for something, and the actual information concerning the trains themselves is either tucked away on a much smaller, much lower quality screen in the corner, or worse, not working at all.
Basically I'd like to see some solutions to the problem that I'm generally being shown ads at the expense of the public service I'm trying to use.
Sounds like he got the double instead of the nothing. The last line of the article mentions he now owes close to 200k, when he had originally owed 100k at the start of the scheme.
I wonder how much he banked from the sold access in the middle.
I ended up with a preorder for the new screen instead of getting a laptop now and the upgraded screen later. Before making that call, I explored a bit around up-cycling the original monitor into a portable display. There are apparently some boards that allow this, if that helps with your math.
I moved my primary phone from Android to iOS and this is hands down the thing I miss the most. I ended up silencing a lot of apps wholesale, mostly rideshares, as a result.
I’d love to see two types of upvotes on the site. One for “thanks for answering/engaging” and another for “this answer is correct and high quality”. Not sure how you’d restrict or verify the votes, but I think the issue you’re pointing out is a result of only having one metric of engagement.
Agreed that the vetting of private people would be invasive and not a good use of resources. It would also not work for recently compromised accounts.
I’m also personally torn on how much we want giant private companies controlling more and more of the core compute infrastructure and software.
In an ideal world, the code and software itself would be automatically analyzed for malicious use cases in release and deployment pipelines, but that’s a magic hand wavy kind of ask of a huge magnitude and complexity.
Haven’t nation state actors openly infiltrated high level companies? This would provide a false sense of security imo. If anything, we need better testing and behavior heuristics for incoming code.
If OP takes this approach, please please please make this usage data easily accessible, ideally both as a (free?) API endpoint and as a timechart/table in the web UI if applicable.
As a result, I can open Spotify in the background and have it play music while I game, from the primary SteamOS interface.