A reminder that every major financial institution declared the Metaverse as real, in many cases a multi trillion dollar market. It was all total bullshit.
@dave what the hell. I’ve ordered one, hoping I can bypass the firmware and do something fun with it.
Today’s cursed Hacker News comment: “The fact the market hasn’t solved this problem suggests it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving”.
@simple_sabotage not convinced by this one. Measure once, cut twice, it’ll mean you take longer and use more material, a win-win.
Is This Seat Taken is deviant filth that should be banned. A game in which you’re expected to accommodate the whims of people who want to use their phones in a cinema rather than unceremoniously ejecting them.
(Other than that it’s a very charming logic puzzle game about allocated seating)
@yvan vaporub still exists, not sure I have encountered a vaporub delivery system though.
I really need to break my Hacker News habit. At one point it was a reliable source of interesting articles and commentary. Now it’s 90% LLM Snake Oil salesmen and people who think society could be fixed if we simply stuck a price tag on everything.
I made the terrible mistake of reading Hacker News comments about health care systems before bed and now I’m absolutely raging at the fact I share a career with some of the most entitled self satisfied pricks on the planet
I was bored so I updated my Home Screen full of mobile app icons which are just a stylised circle.
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda I’m particularly spicy about this because of the time I accidentally booked the wrong flight for a work trip and ended up swallowing the cost because I was too embarrassed to submit an expense claim labelled “non-refundable flight booked on the wrong day”. (Thankfully it was only European and so not hideously expensive)
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda oh 100 times this. These days they’re Executive Assistants instead, because the C-suite are too important to book their own flights and schedule their own meetings but everyone else should just suck it up.
@shinydan @cmconseils big same here. I was walking a mile and a half each way to school. My son started secondary a few months ago and still wants walking to the bus stop ten minutes away, across a single not very busy road.
@dramypsyd @AndyIncarnate and in penance for that awful pun, yes, ovens and all other kitchen bits have a wild price range. Unless you’re really into cooking you probably don’t need to spend more than a few hundred.
@dramypsyd @AndyIncarnate no, a range is the bit on top you out pans on to cook things. What you’re talking about is an oven, that’s the big box that gets hot.
Today’s nonsense: Filing an SAR with Microsoft in an attempt to recover a potentially corrupted Minecraft save from Xbox cloud storage. Because apparently this is the only way to extract save games from an Xbox.
@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley [pictured: a party popping off, everyone is having the best time ever]
@Thayer the Pimoroni Presto, a gorgeous little programmable display with a network connection. £69. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/presto
@SonnyBonds @vkc a few quick examples:
Alerting when power drops back to normal levels so I know when the oven has heated.
Lights coming on when I enter a room and off when I leave.
Remotely turning on my gaming computer so I can stream from it.
A clock on my bedside table showing the current weather.
Dimming the lights a while before I go to bed. (And eventually turning off the TV if I ignore that and still don’t go to bed)
@tommorris if only they employed a staff of people who are trained to summarise the events of the day in a digestible manner.
@catsalad it’s just bad distinction between lower case and upper case letters. The protector is specifically optimised for use in aluminium smelting plants, and the unique risks found therein.
(I played it some on Game Pass and have reupped on Steam now. 4 hours of power washing pretend things this evening, while actual real chores remain incomplete around me)