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New comment by rtkwe in "Asus Bike Booster"

rtkwe — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:10:07 +0000

That's a problem people already deal with in a lot of ways mostly by being better locked up than other more stealable bikes. Bikes being stealable isn't exactly a knock against this if you can take it off easily either...

New comment by rtkwe in "Asus Bike Booster"

rtkwe — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:20:08 +0000

It looks like their solution is to make it easy enough to install and remove you take it with you. My thought would be security bolts so the pool of thieves is at least limited to people with the right bolt head. Also it has a big battery built in so

New comment by rtkwe in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

rtkwe — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:13:34 +0000

Are they? The Pixel 11 Pro and regular screens are only a tenth of an inch larger than the 3 year old Pixel 8s. The screen sizes have largely stabilized IMO with people who want any larger screens being pushed into the folding phone category. I get it's larger than the mid 2010s normal but they're not really getting much larger in the last couple years.

New comment by rtkwe in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

rtkwe — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:02:57 +0000

Places are more concerned about mental health now for starters.

New comment by rtkwe in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

rtkwe — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:23:03 +0000

College is a pretty large step up for most people even if they're good at high school and go to a relatively decent one. It's a sudden promotion to full adult in charge of yourself and your success in a way that's hard to prepare for living at home.

New comment by rtkwe in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

rtkwe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:51:29 +0000

So many of the calls I get (in the US) have no mention of a company name and if you ask they hang up immediately AND they come from fake numbers so blocking or reporting is meaningless. Is the situation in France different? I don't think this would really do much for the situation in the US sadly unless we got reliable non spoofable caller ID.

New comment by rtkwe in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:45:14 +0000

For AR glasses the current best option for tracking is inside out tracking so the camera would basically always be deployed.

I don't think we have to go so far as assigning nefarious intent here, there are a lot of reasons they're designed as they are. For example your proposed solution is bulky, expensive and prone to damage, so there's plenty of non-nefarious reasons they don't have it operate that way.

New comment by rtkwe in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:48:57 +0000

I wish there was a way to do it without all the problems of having cameras on people's faces. The tech of AR glasses would be pretty neat to get working given I was raised on Sci-fi with visual overlays on people's vision being a pretty common piece of tech. You'd have to trust they couldn't get jailbroken to add recording though even if a company with enough trust made a set with cameras only able to be used by the inside out tracking system.

New comment by rtkwe in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:55:45 +0000

Most people are pretty obvious about it if you're looking. It's still the fact they could be doing it right in front of you without you knowing that really makes people hate the subtle-camera-on-face-products.

New comment by rtkwe in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:35:56 +0000

It's true but phones are much more obvious that you have them out and probably filming where the glasses aren't so can be more controlled and at least reacted to. The glasses create more uncertainty about if the person is filming.

New comment by rtkwe in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:20:54 +0000

Correct the issue isn't Meta people just don't like the idea they could be being recorded at any time to get blasted out to the whole world. Yes, in theory you're always open to being recorded in public but the glasses make it far more subtle /and/ up close so more normal interactions become subject to the intrusion in a way that would normally be quite obvious.

It's basically the same backlash that hit Google Glass over a decade ago. Nothing has really changed about the product and the reason people reject is so viscerally when they're not the user.

New comment by rtkwe in "Mario Meets Pareto"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:03:46 +0000

I'm not sure how accessible it'd be possible to make those interactive graphs any ways. The description would need to be dynamic since you can change the weights and you could only really decide to highlight a few beyond the maximum. I guess render it out as a table for the screen reader and say GL:HF to the reader to try to figure it out? Figure out a pareto score and sort by it so it's at least in a reasonable order?

New comment by rtkwe in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rtkwe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:23:17 +0000

How does it decide what claims are dubious and which aren't?

New comment by rtkwe in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rtkwe — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:15:31 +0000

I've done this and the answer is they all charge my phone quickly and I know the handful that are the highspeed cables either by the markings or knowing which of them are the good cables.

New comment by rtkwe in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rtkwe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:59:22 +0000

There are several apps that do something similar and the biggest issue is the marker on the chip it's interrogating doesn't guarantee the cable can actually provide that. The maker can program whatever they want into that chip and the devices will just negotiate and determine what they're actually capable of achieving anyways.

New comment by rtkwe in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rtkwe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:02:14 +0000

You have to first identify and ensure the two devices and their ports are capable of reliably creating and absorbing that data rate too or you'll never know if it's the cable or the devices that causes the cables to fail. What if your devices can but only intermittently or a software/firmware update messes with it's capabilities?

Dedicated test equipment that can reliably and verifiably test these high speeds is niche and therefor expensive. There's not really a way around that issue.

New comment by rtkwe in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

rtkwe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:53:54 +0000

Buy nice cables from a trusted brand and bin anything else. You're going to be overpaying though because there's not a lot of reason to be powering your laptop with a 480 Gbps TB 4 USB-C cable.

New comment by rtkwe in "Mario Meets Pareto"

rtkwe — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:21:37 +0000

What's broken about the scroll? For me it acts like basically any other scrolling presentation design used on hundreds of different websites.

New comment by rtkwe in "Mario Meets Pareto"

rtkwe — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:03:11 +0000

Does this site do that to you?

New comment by rtkwe in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"

rtkwe — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:29:49 +0000

It's cheaper to build out rather than build up. Datacenters are mass dense so building up requires thick floors and supports for the upper floors.