Most people expect other things from something marketed as flying, but specialists know that this is exactly how most things fly. And lawyers know to read the fine print.

/s and argumentum ad absurdum, sorry for eristic tricks.

It feels like it's happening every Thursday and nobody cares. They just give people credit watch coupons or what's it called, and move on with their business. Worst case, a few pennies in fines.

So true. Kafka and Dostoyevsky are also quite a dopamine detox, because they're flat out boring and the pleasure is really fed with a syringe and worked hard for.

But the bit about society collapsing reminds me of Rick and Morty Covid* season finale after the credits. Where they made a small outro about their merch, asking people to buy their merch, buy anything, keep consuming, to keep the economy going and the world running. Read by Rick's drunk hiccup filled voice.

* everyone one was scared of a real recession, but ppl did keep buying stuff.

Just today I used it to get a summary of osteopat's credentials (Frank in Trondheim, guy's a treasure), because my brother asked who I'm talking about, when writing about feeling great after treatment on family chat.

It took 2 more prompts to get that summary, because the bot wouldn't stop ranting about how some osteopatic techniques are not yet medically sanctioned.

Thanks again for pointing that out. I feel childish for not seeing that issue. When I get more time I'll set it up in a VM to get more separation from my system.

I actually (or somebody close, friend or family, can't recall) did exactly that. It was a few years ago and I don't remember what got fried. Some small electronics. It was a barrel charger and it fit. Too bad that fitting didn't mean the power levels were ok too.

> I don't like the product because of its charging mechanism, not reporting battery level etc, I don't buy it.

Why shouldn't my wife get headphones because a company is a dick and makes them not work with her husband's phone properly? Looks like a dismissive argument trying to excuse malicious business practices. (I'm not in or from US, maybe that's normal and OK there, so sorry for ranting about it, as it might be fine or even good for you if you're invested in Apple). Anyway, why not buy them, headphones work very well for my wife. Other than price not being adjusted to product performance and quality, AirPods Pro 3 are a very good product. HR reporting is a cool feature. And I don't have bud-type earphones, so I borrow hers for exercising.

Back to "don't buy it if you don't like it" argument: it doesn't argument against apple being dicks for making the product purposefully not work with an Android phone. And if it does, please explain it more clearly, I believe I'm not the only one holding the point of view that it just doesn't exonerate them.

As I see it, it's malicious compliance, as there's no laws YET forbidding what they're doing. (Somebody recently RE'd AirPods BT protocol/calls IIRC and found them reporting battery on non standard ?variable name?. He then got Android phone to show battery level after a small modification.

For comparison, I would bet a beer (I see betting more as gambling) that if Samsung created headphones with HR monitor, I would still be able to see battery level and HR in my Oura app on my OnePlus. And vice versa for 1+ headphones on Samsung. Do you see my point?

And for the record, apple has recently released many phones, both low and high end, that weren't overpriced. And I vehemently oppose anyone whom I'll have to tech support later, getting any phone different than apple - for a non technical user these phones are perfect. Good default's. Non customizable - perfect from point of view of tech support. Just works. Just to show that I'm anti anti consumer conduct, not anti apple.

I can (actually can't, but for the sake of argument let's pretend) imagine why my wife's Air Pods Pro 3 can't supply heart rate data to my phone for exercising. But why can't they report battery level? ffs

Even if Lightning is better in some aspects (USB-C tongues break sometimes), forcing people to have special cables just for apple devices, when every single thing runs on USB-C, feels like done out of spite. And then? Apple devices don't support any fast charging standard. Spite again.

It's hard to see it differently, but there might be better reasons and arguments that I can't or choose not to see. Probably because I don't love the company that forced poor parents to buy their kids expensive phones just so the kids wouldn't get ostracized for not having green or blue bubble in text messages.

I also let a guy that had one beer drive me 5 min on a rural road.

Both were pretty stupid and in the reconsideration, I wouldn't do it again.

But having it run company servers is just next level.

It's like believing that cola zero is healthy, because it's sugar free. No, it isn't, should probably be illegal to sell and people only buy it because of millions spent on marketing.

Wish he would do some physics lectures. I always wanted to understand how antennas work.

Wonder if that helps.

Local model can be a local assistant, take care of your todos, calendar, private stuff in general. Things you shouldn't share with OpenAI or other Big Tech. Big Tech models for anything else.

Very nice orbital simulator, tho lacks maneuvering computer, hence it's hard if you haven't played KSP (have to wing it to make RV with stations and such).

Demo version and a gamepad are enough to do the most fun thing in the game. Atmospheric re-entry at orbital speed and disintegrating at 30-40km.

Game's called Flight of Nova and it's super chill. Executing the burn correctly and then coasting for 12min to get to a station, watching the views.

Headspace updated it's privacy policy info recently, which got me to have it checked with an LLM. And it turns out that what you're doing on $100 per year meditation app is still being sold to anyone willing to pay. Using headspace lost it's charm. I wonder if Andy ever agreed to this.

These lightbulbs, while using less electricity, use much more energy to produce. And I wonder what with their substrates, if that isn't more difficult to recycle too. I'm not sure, and don't want to judge, but if both every efficiency and recycling are harder, then these bulbs aren't really energy and environmentally efficient.

Those 15 min is actually quite a lot if you don't have the habit yet. But you're in a better situation than someone working at a slaughter line, with no time to scratch your nose for 2h15min in between brakes not long enough to eat, use bathroom and sharpen your knives for the next 2h15min run.

I still feel sorry for your herniated disk, I don't think it's just your laziness, but more ignorance and equally lazy ignorant surroundings normalizing unhealthy lifestyle.

But you can't say someone that can get up and stretch for 30s every 15 min has it as bad as people running to the toilet and eating by swallowing big bites just to make it in time before the next animal comes to their position in line.