Captain Janeway

Just a reminder, these corporations and not making razor thin margins. They can afford to pay better wages.

“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity”

I - too - can walk, garden, and drink coffee.

Print what? I skimmed the article and I’m confused. Can you print an 3D Eiffel tower on a piece of paper? Or is it more like you’re printing things with a small emboss/raised edge? I didn’t even realize that was something people wanted to do. Maybe for custom tiling?

Holy shit the article is far less tame than the title. They provided several ways to run commands as root and they can be generated as an over-the-air HTTP call. As per the article, if you buy the Jooki domain, it’s very likely you can control every single Jooki on the market. You can make the speaker do whatever you’d like. Pretty scary stuff. One has to wonder what nerds can do with that kind of tech: turn speakers into a low quality mic? Use them as bots for a DDoS attack? Just start blasting heavy metal music? Or just brick every device?

It’s pretty wild what the devs have done here. I can excuse executing commands as root from a file on the SD card. It’s not exactly safe or smart but it’s also not the most dangerous thing to assume only people with access to the device would do that. Hardly a worry for most parents as long as you’re not especially reckless. But to allow OTA root level commands to be run? That’s a horrible design. At least setup a user that can only execute a few pre-designed scripts. Don’t just give them carte blanch to run havoc on your hardware.

Just another reminder that every wifi enabled device is likely a ticking timebomb. Especially low quality devices meant for kids. Baby monitors, speakers, etc. have a history of being built cheaply and poorly. That’s why I bought non-wifi baby monitors for my family.

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I hate how much effort is put into property damage but when my house was broken into or when my friends truck was stolen, the police did nothing.

It’s also disturbing how hard it is to be anonymous. Crime or not, it gives me the creeps that anyone could probably track me down if they wanted.

That’s true for PC gaming but might not be true for these NUCs. I’m not an expert but I wouldn’t be surprised if they shaved costs with bulk purchases of RAM and SSDs for these devices. Regardless, I was just addressing a point you made about being forced to buy the components yourself which isn’t the case. Pricing is probably going to vary wildly depending on what you pick and you might be able to save money if you’re ok with less RAM or less storage.

You shouldn’t have to pick it all separately. Some Nucs are “barebones” and others come with RAM, CPU, Storage, etc. This Amazon link purportedly claims to have RAM, SSD, etc. pre-built into the ASUS NUC.

That being said, any NUC’s integrated GPU is likely going to be far superior to the RPi5’s CPU encoding (which I assume was your previous setup).

If you want to spend ~$1000, you might be better off with just going straight for the dedicated NAS.

It always takes way longer to think about what to type than to type it out. So any benefits from speedier typing don’t speed up the ultimate road block: our brains.

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Pizza delivery is notoriously dangerous. More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops. It took a long time for people to build up the courage and sense of responsibility for pizza before they braved those streets.

I honor our pizza delivery drivers. o7

The only thing I want AI (on my phone) to do is limit my notifications and make calendar events for me. I don’t want to ask questions. I don’t want to start conversations.

I want to open my phone and have 1 summary notification of things I received and things to do. I want the spammy ones to just be auto filtered because I never click on them.

I’d also love if I could choose when to manage all of these notifications with my AI assistant. The only back and forth I’d like is around scheduling if I need to make changes.

He fucked up. But it’s also kinda funny.