I agree, it's a bit of a weird take especially when we're talking about robots in a marathon, not in a textile factory or flipping McBurgers.

I guess I was thinking: why give up the efficiency of wheels/tracks/propellers for walking (a less simple movement) and why only one set of arms? Why would you want a robot to look human at the cost of being as multitasking and movement challenged as it's owner? I kept imagining Angry Bender from Futurama where he has 3 very maneuverable metal tentacle arms on each side. (Though normally he's pretty humanoid in shape too). I still think we're overly anthropomorphizing them and it's a bit creepy. It seems like we're building the tech based on Hollywood as much as anything else. I hear you when you say the shape is a good "fit" for our built environment, but I think we can do even better so it's interesting that we decided our bodies were the pinnacle of biology and technology.

Do these people miss slavery so much they have to build humanoid robots so they can own them?

Not an epub, unless you saved a copy of Calibre!

I remember a very similar thing happened with one of our visitors. It was explained to me that some of these folks grew up with very strict parents and just get absolutely CRUNK when they have that opportunity. I can understand that. :)

I think a few more people "get it" every time the cycle repeats, but also, a sucker is born every minute.

Tidal recommended this one when I moved from Spotify a few years ago. It worked, but I don't know anything else about it: https://tidal.com/transfer-music

I ride class 1, 2, and 3, ecargo, and occasional muscle bikes. I probably ride class 3 the most. Due to where I live, it's not safe enough to ride only in the road so I regularly break the rules (in Minecraft) and ride on paved multi-use paths where I should technically be limited to class 1. I have never had a bad experience with pedestrians, usually I brighten their day with a smile, a ring, and a wave. I would probably be dead under a lifted Ram 3500 with smokestacks if I tried to avoid the trails completely. There's just no safe way through.

They should fix and expand a comprehensive on-road bike network before enforcing and nitpicking regulations when the few ebike issues are colossally outweighed by the car issues and people riding gas dirt bikes where they aren't supposed to.

Gulf of... your mom! 😎😛

Also, don't forget to donate if you can. Their liberapay says they're getting ~120€/week in donations. I think freeing our wearable devices is worth a whole lot more than that.

I can understand when FOSS software needs a bit longer to cook, and let's make sure they have some incentive to keep going at it.

If gadget bridge paired with a fully featured local analysis tool, I would love that and probably put them on my FOSS donation list too.

Same here, I'm about 75-80% de-googled, but I made the mistake of giving my partner and sibling-in-law chromecasts and now they're addicted and I can't get rid of the devices. Thinking about isolating them on a guest network once I've fully degoogled myself and I'm going out of my way to send them stuff from alternatives like peertube, Mastadon, etc.

Woooow, I did not know about this. Many of these devices easily cost $600+ new and they want us to pay a subscription fee? Also, they can't even provide data export in a useful consistent and nonshitty format.

I get great utility out of my Garmin watch and Bike Computer, but there are a lot of alternatives now and we may even be able to cobble together a solid open source stack to replace Garmin/Strava/Trail Websites sometime in the next few years.

I'm not in the market for a new device yet, but when I change, I will be sure to give the alternatives a shot.

I went from 40-45wpm on Qwerty to 65-75wpm on Dvorak, but after I stopped practicing, I settled somewhere in the high 50s low 60s. I specifically measured because I wanted to be able to quantify the changes. Speed wasn't my only concern, but it's the biggest change. There's no need to learn an alternative layout, but even people who don't may benefit from a small adjustment like making caps lock a left backspace and learning to touch type. In retrospect, I would consider more of the alternative layouts before jumping to Dvorak, but I don't regret it at all, even at work or with games.

How long did it take you to get back up to your old speed? It took me 1-3 mo. after switching. I think it helped that I used to look at the keys and when I converted I learned 100% touch typing.

The wheels in the pic look like they would choke on an acorn, or even something smaller. Not interested in finding out. I think this board is for the track. :)

Do we know how much they missed out on total, all of them added together? It would be cool to have a bar to track how much of the shortfall we as supporters could make up.

7.99/lb for Atlantic Salmon is a good price. I've only seen it go a dollar below that and not in a while.

I noticed meat prices jump at the start of covid. I used to shop at a store that was somewhere between a Whole Foods and a farmers market. They had all the prepackaged processed organic foods that will break the bank, but also cheap veggies that weren't quite nice enough looking for mainstream groceries. They used to have some of the most affordable meat in town.

Now I just go straight to the local butcher (lucky to have one). Sure I pay 2-4 times as much, but it's better meat, it's a local business, and the grocery stores don't get a cut! I just eat a bit less meat.

Yeah, even if we didn't reuse, we could at least recycle. We got so into the craze of shoving computers in everything we stopped considering if we might be better off sticking to easily fixable tech for some things. My appliances are old as dirt, but parts are very affordable, there are 100s of youtube videos on how to fix them, and there are very few things that can break to begin with. That's a far cry from the landfill of bricked smart fridges next to a factory somewhere.

My partner and I dated for nearly a decade before we decided to get married. It's more important that you two are on the same page than it is for you to measure up to some arbitrary cultural norm. Even after a decade, we still laid some ground rules and made some agreements about HOW we would handle things in a worst case scenario. Prenup/postnup type stuff. People may view this as nonromantic, but I can't think of anything less romantic than arguing about shit after the fact with someone you already broke up with.

Make sure you have your paperwork in order though. If you want your partner to be able to make decisions for you in an emergency or if you want them to inherit something if the worst happens, you should check because you likely have to explicitly set that up.

Most amazing egg thing I've had was an egg white whiskey sour. It was at a bar, but I've successfully recreated it at home.

I took care of a friend's chickens for a week or two once. I was carting off eggs by the bucketful. I would try it if I had the land, and dump the excess eggs on my friends for veggies from their gardens.