Yessss. Just get more ddr4 and GPUs onto the market.

Fetch

Ha ha ha ha, proper architecture is so exhausting.

Most tracker brands for Android only ping from phones that have their app installed. Not all Android devices.

There are tags for both Apple and Android that connect to their respective networks; and phones of the right network passing by will spot and announce locations.

This year there are trackers which will connect to either distinct network, albeit you can only choose once and it can’t switch without a factory reset. Those brands will have an overwhelming market share AND not require a branded app for daily use and recovery.

Since there is no brand that has an overwhelming market share that means the chance to find a lost Android tracker is much smaller than the apple ones.

In the known universe, Android has 73% of the market. 73 is bigger than 27.

I have some, but I only trust them to find my keys within Bluetooth range.

I can confirm you can find the right tags even when outside of BT range.

The chipolo Loop

• is a rechargeable fob
• will work with either ‘find my’ network
• doesn’t therefore depend on app popularity
• pairing is “oh it’s done” level of easy. Bizarre.

The chipolo Card (not card One or card Spot; Card)

• is a card shape, of course
• also works with either ‘find my’ network
• therefore doesn’t need an app installed or running
• recharges by qi

The Rhino key device leverages/licenses chipolo tech, uses its tools, and therefore

• either ‘find’ network
• no special app required for daily use

The Rhinokey Card (this is getting repetitive)

• backs onto chipolo
• either network
• app not required for regular use
• Qi charges

The chipolo app:

• allows to adjust volume
• I forget what else.

We have one Loop we’re testing, and it works as expected, right outta her S24 or so, and with my S10. She shares me the loop right outta Find My. She installed no app. We did not pair it with an iPhone as hers is a work phone.

We intend to get more Loops, and Cards for the parents and ourselves. The boomers are all on iPhones so it will be fun science.

forecasted

\sigh

Familiarity goes a really long way. My mom still wants her PortalTV unit to answer to voice commands.

My mom and my wife’s mom have computers soon to be out of support. Windows.

They need something stable, but also that does all their normal stuff. I’d love something that updated cleanly like enterprise Linux, but gave them the win7 interface they had for so long (they complain about this one now).

So that’s your market. Yeah, a wine box would work well, and Nobara is nearly the winning candidate. But even it requires a lot of finagling for windows people, and I’d love something completely seamless so it’s easier to support.

They’ve only almost barely nearly shat out a usable Unix with hurd. Give them another few decades, my dude!

Upgrades between major versions - since they can be radically different - is generally not an effective feature.

Having said that, conectiva’s apt-rpm could upgrade and downgrade between major versions; and it worked really well!

The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention.

As an Open-source contributor and former owner of several projects, I’m embarrassed.

If you came into Open-source to become rich or famous, you’re a selfish fool. Code for the sake of the code.

I work 100% remotely, and my day job doesn’t even have profile pics. When we meet, it’s a dozen cartoon images or memes as faces. No cams, no pics.

The side gig I’ve had for 20 years has never had a pic. These people wouldn’t recognize me if I walked in the office one day.

Why should I? We don’t see a value.

Even if your spouse does, it’s the same bank account.

It’s totally okay not to sweat this stuff, since there’s never any good in stressing about it.

Fracking methane.

Policy is not decided by logic and sense, my dude. Sorry you have the same wonks dictating that as I do.

The coasts will be wealthy and independent. The middle will be poor and warlike. Two coastal countries and a lot of warlording in the middle.

till

\sigh

Can we start using “executed foreign nationals in international waters without proof, trial, process or even jurisdiction” yet?

Not everyone remembers to turn off “share my location with Instagram friends”.

I rode a bicycle to the 10th grade when I wrecked it in a non-dramatic fashion. Down the boulevard of a busy rural highway (shippers and logging) I’d ride every day to school.

I’ve never worn a helmet. #gen-x

Not proud of it, but it’s a quirk. I came here more to say that helmets are new for some of us.

Wasn’t there a paper about behavior changes with helmets and how the added safety could be off-set by more risk?

Finally: what’s the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.

Bill Gates spent a lot of his pro years running a bad company quite well, and exploiting a dominant position in the market that any soulless biz guy would love to have.

He seemed to get a conscience around the time he stopped running the show, and seems to be different while not regretting his behavior in that phase.

I think we can decide he was a bit of a cock back then, while still noting he’s done some good work since. We are nuanced enough, right?