Bespin was the original enshittification, a long time ago and a galaxy far away

I couldn’t help myself. I’m sorry you had to carry this burden

Less battery on pixel fold is pretty horrible, considering the Razr Fold now has 6000 mah.

There is still plenty of selection pressure. However, there has been even more artificial selection. Darwin was actually fascinated by domestic pigeons and studied them intensively https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3288640/

Pigeons are actually fairly intelligent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_intelligence

The original paper is also open access and a fairly accessible read! https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-47688-001

The FCC already regulates the volume of ads on TV and other over the air providers. However, streaming is somewhat of a loophole, and this helps close it

I’m enjoying the pen support on Razr Fold! Motorola carrying the torch. I find it more useful than on my S24 ultra due to the extra screen real estate

I have it; got it as a trade in for my S24 ultra. I have been on Samsung for a decade and was getting a little bored. The phone is great so far. Folding is a revelation. The phone feels more comfortable in my hand than the S24U, which is kind of a small tablet and just not as reasonable to hold to my face. Then you unfold it and the screen is glorious for multitasking and opening apps like Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird, Google Calendar in tablet mode. I got the pen and can see myself actually taking notes and annotating PDFs on this thing, where that was not feasible on the S24U. The cameras are pretty good, though I do miss the 5x telephoto from my Samsung and I have had to find ways to tamp down the overprocessing of photos. Impressed with the macro capability! I do find myself missing some things about Samsung, like the excellent Good Lock suite, and it is remarkable how much of the functionality of my Galaxy Watch is tied to Samsung, but overall no regrets so far.

I do something similar, except on the Kobo I run KOReader which can interface with Calibre-Web over OPDS

Yes, Jeff Vandermeer directly cites it as an inspiration! https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/jeffvandermeer

More of it for me!

That’s interesting to hear. I wish efficiency had been considered from the start. It seems like there has been a ton of waste. They should only do the calculations needed to achieve the user objective. But they were prioritizing market share over efficiency. Maybe they thought they could afford another couple years of subsidizing wasteful use to build market share, but it hasn’t turned out that way.

I expect that many companies will realize that an LLM is a tool that can help with certain tasks, but cannot fully replace most workers because there is a ton of context in people’s jobs that cannot be condensed into language. Similarly, many companies are now realizing with token-based pricing that frontier LLMs are not cost effective in many applications. You shouldn’t have a natural gas fired data center in Tennessee running a model to proofread your emails. You can have a local model do so MUCH more cheaply. This will leave the speculative data center companies holding the bag on a lot of hardware and capacity that is not actually needed.

I wish Carl were still around. He had a knack for cutting through bullshit we could really use right now

The Fifth Season. I’m currently on the second book The Obelisk Gate so can’t attest for the quality of the whole thing but it’s geological fantasy and I find it quite fascinating. The scale of the world and conflict keeps getting bigger and bigger. It’s very dark but also really draws you in as things ramp up. Themes of the paradox of tolerance, and the challenge of preparing for future crises. The magic system she came up with also feels very fresh to me

The show is also excellent

Demon Haunted World is very timely

There are solutions aiming to help with that like LibreELEC (basically a minimal backing OS for Kodi). But unfortunately any Linux-based streaming solution will have issues with DRM connecting to Netflix, Prime, etc. There are sidesteps around that too but starts to get more and more challenging for the average user

It just is nice to have Google results in there. I find that’s the coolest part of searxng, showing when the different indexers corroborate each other as important.