In Memex crowd thinking environment for thoughts unthinkable to separate beings, human-machine general intelligence raises superintelligent offspring to help all life.
Relevant plug with less text and more entertainment:
Who invented the modern computer look and feel – What they wanted and how it went – The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Mystery link with a share ID. Few will click it.
My previous LG fridge with an inverter controlled linear compressor was loud. It liked to run the compressor at 60Hz a lot, which fit my concrete apartment badly, so I had loud spots and quieter spots. Sounded like a car was idling outside. The compressor was mounted too rigidly, so the vibration conducted to the frame, making the fridge body work as a loudspeaker diaphragm. The cold air fan was loud too, whooshing. The best feature was soft start from a short stroke, so it sneaked up to full noise over a minute.
My current similar LG likes to run the compressor at a much lower frequency, producing infrasound, below hearing range. The cold air fan is quieter but still bothersome sometimes.
The fridge app can use the phone’s microphone to find out which compressor frequencies resonate loudly in the room, and avoid them.
When everyone’s phones are away, the fridge can pre-cool and make noise, and then go silent when someone is nearby, according to the motion detector.
“We value your privacy - give it to us”
Important, timely post. I think all the downvoters are cunts. This topic should not be suppressed, especially now.
I thought about that a few years ago and wrote this:
https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-to-come-up-with-three-new-laws-of-robotics-what-would-they-be/answers/23692757
I recommend you save a single frame from several versions of a film (VLC: Shift+S) and flip through them quickly in an image viewer that instantly jumps to the next image (Eye of GNOME) to see the differences.
I’ve found surprising differences in cropping, aspect ratio, brightness, and color tone - some people are just incompetent at encoding.
With good but heavy compression, only the finest details are blurred - especially film grain disappears when file size goes down from huge to big. That’s actually a plus sometimes when there’s so much grain I start itching and thinking of an ants’ nest.
My Sony phone records UHD @ 120fps in h.265, 60GB/hour. I’ve never seen a BluRay remux take that much space, but surely they exist.
This is a great time to watch Survivors (1975):
It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an apocalyptic plague pandemic, which was accidentally released by a Chinese scientist and quickly spread across the world via air travel. Referred to as “The Death”, the plague kills approximately 4,999 out of every 5,000 human beings on the planet within a matter of weeks of being released.
Maybe yes, maybe not. I’m 50ish now. When I was 20ish, I decided to do grunt work and invest most of my income. I got lucky with Russia, but now I regret helping the oligarchs. If I hadn’t gotten lucky, my winnings would be insignificant compared to those kids who inherited money. I also regret not investing in my education when my brain performance was at its best. I went to university late.
My guide to ethical investing:
https://feddit.uk/post/24222258
Not sure if Sony Xperia 10 III is “cheap” yet, but it can run Jolla’s Sailfish OS Linux.
I haven’t tried a Jolla Phone.
“Can run with ease” is a bit questionable with Nura in daily use as a main phone.
Nura is definitely not yet ready for everyone …
I wonder which is more secure, expired GrapheneOS or up-to-date lesser AOSP-derivatives with bootloader locking?
LineageOS supports so many old phones, but no verified boot (bootloader relocking).
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
I haven’t tried it, but I used its predecessor CyanogenMod for years without issues.
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/e/OS (a beginner-friendly derivative of LineageOS) also supports many old phones without verified boot. Some newer ones can verified-boot.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/
The better supported ones are “official” builds while the others are “community”.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/?channel=official
I’ve been using /e/OS community release on a Sony phone for 1.5 years. It’s okay. Most apps work with MicroG. Bootloader not lockable, but apps don’t notice.
Some bugs:
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iodéOS, another LineageOS derivative, has verified boot on some devices:
https://iode.tech/iodeos-official-supported-devices/
I haven’t tried it.
CalyxOS supports some Motorolas:
https://calyxos.org/install/
I haven’t tried it.
My Sony’s battery lasts a week in sparse use with /e/OS. It was the surveillance wasting energy.
There’s 400 million monthly active users on Quora (of which tens of percent are bots).
That link is in my answer.
Off topic: Shouldn’t “that” and “thank” start with a different letter? I pronounce them differently.