And Belgian!

I forget where I read this, but someone posited that the goal has always been “all day” battery. Ever since the first smartphones ,we’ve had, largely, the same battery life. It lasts most of the day and that’s good enough for most people. The secret, though, is that actually the batteries have gotten way bigger and more energy dense, it’s just that the processors and mobile radios are also more power intensive.

I suspect if you put a modern battery in a 5 yr old smartphone it would last 2+ days. But you’d have to deal with 3G radios, bad GPS, and slow performance.

One of the most amazing things about this would be to remove signs altogether. Just embed the sensor in the pavement and give the space the signs took up back to people, nature, or literally anything else.

Huge overhead highway gantries and traffic lights would be wonderful to remove, too. City sidewalks are narrow enough as is and they would be way better without 20+ft tall metal poles jutting out of the ground. Hopefully we can put trees in their place, but maybe I’m dreaming.

The word “feed” is very unsettling in the context of an AI toaster…

Absolutely this, people paying cash and with debit cards end up just subsidizing points redemptions. Merchants aren’t eating card fees (typically 1.5-3% of a purchase), they just baked it into prices.

With a stable income, watching what you spend, and auto-pay, carrying a card balance is super easy to avoid these days.

Open tiktok or shorts or whatever vertical video platform you prefer and scroll like 5 times, you’ll be bound to experience it.

What can a box of cereal cost, $30?

Nothing says boomer more than warm, raw Jimmy Dean’s!

Ooo, candy!

Agree completely! I don’t know how people remember random Wednesday night plans without putting it on a calendar.

Plans just go in one ear and out the other unless I write them down immediately

Exactly, the tech part of this is cool and novel.

The highly targeted fishing is less good, but that’s not to say they couldn’t use the same app to direct people at lower fished zones while the heavily trafficked areas recover.

Also a good use case for a government-developed app. They have the most up to date access to satellite photos (likely already paid for other departments to use, too) and a desire to make their fisherman more efficient.

*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

As compared to a recall and re-fitting a fab, a class action is probably the cheaper way out.

I wish companies cared about what they sold instead of picking the cheapest way out, but welcome to the world we live in.

She’s generally average from what I’ve heard amongst my friends. Not a slam dunk but not stumbling over herself. I think she’ll really have to prove herself and release a strong platform to sway any voters. The good news is that a decent number of people are going to vote for her just because she’s not Trump.

I suspect the real problem for some Americans will be a woman as president…which is just about how screwed America is right now.

Pretty notably she doesn’t have any big skeletons in her closet (that I know of at least) that Republicans can latch on to and create drama over.

Forums and websites have always used content to market things (think DAU or visitors to sell more expensive banner ads at the top of a post).

I agree that forum hosts were (mostly) random people that wanted to do something for their community, but monetization didn’t kill the friendly Internet, consolidation did.

I find the exact same thing. I always use an alias when signing up for some stupid parking app or new healthcare system that I can’t avoid and I’ve surprisingly never seen the aliases being re-used by anybody but them.

I was expecting at least a data breach, but it’s been clean for the past 10 yrs or so.

It’s possible data brokers are just good at stripping whatever is behind the “+” though.

Seems like it could be converted to a vending machine pretty easily if you could add your own OS

Already has security, waterproofing, payment processing stuff, and a screen to choose your item.

Wow, Dailymotion still exists! And they redesigned their website!

Do people ever post real content there…? I’m concerned if so