Gemini actually dug me out of it, though, with additional prompting (this kind of surprised me; I assumed I’d have to eventually really step in). After all that distraction, though, I had to reset the convo to get it to focus on the files again.

Totally understand that you might be too annoyed at this point, but if you do have a few minutes, it’d be amazing to file a case @ https://firebase.google.com/support/troubleshooter/studio for the team to dig into.

But try this:

Open up a blank Flutter template in Studio: https://studio.firebase.google.com/new/flutter

After everything initializes and your Android and web previews set up, open chat by clicking the little Gemini spark at the bottom of the workspace and then add your prompt.

YMMV, but I got a very basic, but working chess clock in one shot with "Can you replace this sample Flutter project with a fully-functional chess clock that works on Android and on the web?"

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But also: hamstring stretches. YMMV, but whenever I feel the “twinge” that used to precipitate sciatica and a too-long stint of sleeping on the floor, I do some hamstring stretches and it dissipates. I haven’t had “back pain down to the knee” since I figured this “one simple trick!” out…

And back stretches. It really helped me to think about spinal stenosis and to realize and envision that massive cabling of nerves at the base of the spine, and then to remember to stretch several times a day to give that “wiring” some more room (especially after compressing and scrunching them for twelve hours straight hunched over a laptop on the couch!).

If they still have those account creds and first names, y’all reckon VKontacte has our old messages? :X

Oh well, have great memories, pouring one out for ICQ tonight.

As declaredapple said: talc and asbestos grow together in many mines.

So it’s difficult to say that any talc is safe without testing or knowing provenance.

It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see your comment downvoted. And all the diminishing comments.

Yes, cigarettes are dangerous, but those I’ve known that were exposed to asbestos and died (horribly) from it never smoked.

There are entire communities in the US that used asbestos in sidewalks and playgrounds.

Companies like Johns Manville dumped it by the truckloads onto playgrounds. People spread it over sidewalks and driveways and drive-in theater parking lots, sprayed water to harden it. That stuff was the definition of frangible. Kids played in it when it was dumped, played on it when it hardened. People reminisce about the powder, falling like snow, from the factories, and wiping it from their cars.

In the 90s, EPA officials showed up in hazmat suits, ripping up sidewalks and driveways and basketball courts. The company responsible created a fund for victims, went bankrupt, and now is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway .

“Lung cancer” shows up prominently in the obituaries in those towns many years later. And the billboards in those areas are dominated by meso ambulance chasers (it’s good money for the lawyers and the victims’ families can be strung along, many reports of “penny checks”).

It’s an environmental disaster we should learn from and not repeat, but I don’t have a lot of hope reading this thread.

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/cadminrecord.cfm?...

And the cause for their spread has been widely and publicly known for years: somebody found out that these things print cash. You own the land, you pay for one or two employees on-site max. Once PE woke up to the “strategy,” it was game on.

PE gets excited and overdoes it, wealth extraction hearkens enshittification, corner car washes are the new dollar store.

So I almost didn’t read past the subtitle, what’s actually new here? Oh:

“The omnipresence of the car wash in American life may be underappreciated: There are twice as many car wash outlets as McDonald’s and Starbucks locations combined.”

That’s almost unbelievable. Twice as many as McDonalds+Starbucks!

(Another concern: Who’s on the hook for all the PFAS cleanups when the scheme goes bust? Because you know it won’t be PE.)

A few questions:

- I see that it seems to require Ubuntu, assuming this would work on Debian as well without too many needed tweaks? And are there plans to support CentOS? Ubuntu is my daily driver as a desktop OS, but I rarely use it for server apps due to all the "extra stuff" installed and the network stack is slower out-of-the-box than CentOS and I am usually too lazy to do anything about that other than put my server stuff on CentOS.

- Is more documentation available (especially a hardening guide)? For example, I see that Munin's installed (huge fan of Munin, but I'd want to firewall it off for sure), Roundcube used as the front-end management, there are variables you'd want to configure (like support email), I'd probably want to not have sieve open to the world, etc. Basically, I'd love to see a concise list of services and open ports at minimum, so I could figure out what to omit from installation and what to firewall off.

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They don't take everything, but it felt better to give this to them than to have folks who didn't know these systems' import taking them to the dump.

Also highly recommend attending Vintage Computer Festival events if you get the chance.

* An Alexa app that provides a search interface to Old Time Radio shows on archive.org and saves your place (this was technically for my mother-in-law, the proof-of-concept with arcade sounds for my spouse). We all ended up using it a ton, though, it was kind of magical (the random function was really fun). I also set up an Alexa app to read me recent CVEs, but it’s more of a goofy parlor trick than useful. ;)

* A Rube Goldbergian bunch of terrible scripts that I can feed PDFs to, OCR, poorly-translate (using the expected engines or my own diymodel) and generate epubs from. And a bunch of scripts that convert Markdown to LaTeX and epub for personal book publishing projects.

Thanks for asking this question, it’s so neat to see everyone’s responses! I might ping my spouse on this post, too, who’s developed a crazy amount of personal projects that combine software and hardware to fixup our/our families’ lives.

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And I just got dark-pattern-suckered into a nakedwines.com subscription...