Every smartphone platform has media player apps available that can play locally stored media files. Seems a better idea to me to use the device already there just tin a different way.

There’s also plenty of great media player hardware on the used market if you really must have a dedicated device for this.

I was at an expo once and a marketing guy I was with said similar as we passed a VR booth. He said that VR users looked like people flailing their arms around with buckets in their heads, and that it would be very hard to sell the experience to outsiders who hadn’t already tried it.

Unfortunately it also seems the use cases are still fairly limited even when people do try it.

I just hope the shockwave doesn’t knock down the rest of the economy with it.

AFP has been long overdue for retirement. I do wish Apple would improve their SMB implementation though, it’s had performance issues and weird bugs for ages.

BPAs have been shown to absorbed through the skin. Headphones are increasingly worn for long, continuous periods. Unlike other plastic objects which are handled for shorter periods.

I’m not entirely convinced of the danger myself (tinnitus seems a bigger worry for headphone use to me), but I thought it was a matter worthy of further discussion.

Mostly Zigbee. Depending on the sensor, location and activity I’m getting between 6-18 months per battery, but I do have a lot of sensor, so there’s a regular churn of batteries.

Having passive sensors for smart home use would save me lot of time and money changing batteries. Interesting to see where this goes.

For a lot of people most of their content isn’t even 1080p. Plenty of people watching DVDs and many TV channels only broadcast in SD.

Display technology has long outpaced content delivery.

In a lot of cases “AI” is slapped on as marketing buzzword for anything with even a simple algorithm controlling it.

We got a new “AI” washing machine last month. As far as I can tell it the same as last years model just with some of the auto settings renamed to something AI.

I remember there being a spate of robberies targeting memory chips in the 90s when prices were high then.

History repeating itself again I guess.

Hopefully it comes with some improvements to battery life. That’s been my man issue with the 26 releases so far.

Oh look, yet another reason to use an ad blocker.

An open source smart glasses platform would be a much better direction.

But that only provides security assurances for the wearer of the glasses. Anyone else interacting with them doesn’t know how they are configured, and what is being recorded and/or shared.

The core technology is impressive, and has legitimate use cases.

But that doesn’t outweigh the enormous privacy concerns these devices raise. They aren’t being angled as an accessory for specific activities, but as everyday wearables. If smart glasses like these became common they would be unavoidable, creating leave of intrusion that’s concerning even without Meta being involved.

Yup, the UK once again creating a needlessly convoluted and harmful solution to an already solved problem.

I would laugh if I didn’t live here.

The figures are the averages for the full trial period.

So it’s possible they were making more queries at the start of the trial, but then mostly stopped when if they found using Copilot was more a hindrance than a help.

The new windowing system looks like a big improvement.

I think I remember running that on a Live CD that came with a Linux magazine.

Bloody hell I’m old.

The owner’s phone:

These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.