what you’ve described is AI generated music

i personally enjoy my privacy rights. it’s not like police here don’t use for example dashcam footage. they do. so our privacy rights are already sometimes being ignored in favor of practicality. but glassholes go a step too far. i do not want to be surveilled by a private company 24/7. i do not want male-to-male transgender (a looksmaxxer) chad broski to record women without their consent and then post the video online as power signaling, and to goon over it. make it a free and democratic association using open source hardware and code, and open weights models hosted in the respective country with strong privacy guarantees, and I’m maybe on board again. roll it out very slowly, address issues as they come up and don’t make the product even worse for privacy before regulations can step in, only to call it inevitable and the future and thus regulation-proof when the law has time to catch up. legal repercussions should be severe, as you are violating a fundamental human right.

if violating privacy rights was so important then it should still not be done by facebook

smart glasses are not hammers. aside from the disability aid angle, they are primarily used by perverts for perverted use cases, and facebook wants to double down on that angle with face recognition, so they know their audience.

if these were prescribed by a doctor I would react very differently

I’m staunchly against normalizing being recorded all the time in public

it’s much more innocuous, to the point that many people can’t even tell you’re recording or wearing anything special that’s sending your image directly to facebook, especially if you drill out the notification light (which many perverts do do)

generally here in germany there’s a right to privacy if a person is your primary subject, even in public. you need their consent. there’s a difference between people being in the background and only incidentally and going up to people and “appreciating” them with a recording that facebook sees and also the whole world sees because you post it online as a way to signify your power over innocent women

please don’t take my secret pleasures

blind people are actually decently assisted by smart glasses. it’s just a shame they’re mostly used by perverts. there should be a state-sanctioned version only for blind people, with limited features, and an open weights AI model hosted somewhere in the same country with data not used for training and such.

about the private security cameras, somehow amazon smart doorbells are still a thing though, and fairly common

an underrated feature in duckduckgo is easily toggling between international search results and local (my country) search results. both are things I want often, but I much more rarely want to select any other country, so it makes sense for the toggle to work the way it does. also noai duckduckgo is a blessing.

i haven’t had to switch to google in years. when I can’t find something it’s usually because I am looking for something from over a decade ago that nothing can find. I guess you have to search differently with alternative search engines, and I still have that proficiency.

English YouTube video by a Chinese bilibili channel HTX studio doing phone battery testing, testing every phone for 500 cycles in different conditions

These guys tested three phones per bucket for 500 charge cycles. Tl;dw:

iPhones lost 11.8% when slow charging for 500 cycles, 12.3% when fast charging, and 8.3% when fast charging from 30% to 80%.

The IQOO phones lost 8.8% when slow charging for 500 cycles, 8.5% when fast charging, and 6.0% when fast charging from 30% to 80%.

Only using half the capacity does make a difference, but you’ll only see longevity differences after multiple years, and only small differences then. These tests took 167 days, but the phones were charged and discharged 3 times a day on average, running heavy software to drain the phones quickly.

What I assume to be the reason for the difference between iPhones and Android phones is the maximum battery capacity. The iPhones started out with a much lower capacity battery to begin with, and even now iPhone batteries are sometimes pitifully small, so any wear and tear is magnified.

Also nowadays there are silicon carbon batteries which haven’t proven their longevity yet. There are rumors about lower longevity, because they expand and contract more during use. There hasn’t been independent testing to verify that yet. What has happened is that multiple Chinese phone generations have had silicon carbon batteries, and now even Samsung is offering phones (new z fold 8 line, soon S27 and more) with a small amount of silicon carbon, increasing the capacity about 10% beyond what lithium would provide.

ah that sucks. apparently wet food curbs the gain of weight a little (if it’s good wet food) because they’ll eat fewer calories per gram of food (more water), but I guess you’ve already tried that.

gravity feeders can work for cats that eat a lot of dry food, though their weight may be affected

i would add onto this more open world activities

for example for GTA VI I’ve extracted from the recent gameplay preview these activities:

• basketball
• jetski
• hovercraft / airboat
• motorcycle races
• car races
• shooting gallery
• robbing people, robbing every single store you can go into
• parachuting
• kayaking
• working out to gain permanent stats
• boxing / MMA
• wrestling
• underwater diving

really I actually want a functioning economy, complete with the possibility to work and scheme and murder your way up any company, own any real estate, operate any factory, etc. Even work as a janitor if you want to. i know that’s really unrealistic, but a man can dream. (the closest to the economy simulation thing is the recently released PC game big ambitions, but it’s just not the same. there’s also shadows of doubt for a fully simulated single crime-ridden city, but again not the same.)

that’s one butterfly too high

they abuse this mechanic to catch up on late trains, by stopping their trains a couple stops before the end stop and turning them around to drive the other direction, now not late anymore.

https://www.cati-autism.com/

https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

also depends on their age. lots of play until they’re two years old, then they get a bit cuddlier. but even our 14yo grumpy cat sometimes still likes to play.

yeah for real. if you watch AI shows you should at least watch “fruit love island” on tiktok.

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