VR is cool and the new meta glasses that are basically a vr headset in a glasses form factor is the direction that will make it far better. Too bad it’s all ruined because it’s a meta product and they insist you have an account for what is undoubtedly the most aggressive data collection in the entire world

Nyaa, animetosho, animebytes, bakabt (need invites for the last 2)

Alternatively find it hosted on a reader website (bato died but there are a ton of websites in its place) and download it with fmd2

This works extremely well so far. Emulation is even pretty well with retro arch that has a bunch of cores ported (including dolphin for Wii/gc and pcsx2), pcsx3, and a switch emulator that all still need work but can run games

Loading games is simple although the compressed fpkg format is not yet supported. It supposedly is already done privately but the devs are waiting on Sony to patch the bug related to it before release. Downloading games is miserable too, torrents are hard to find and a lot of them are hosted on download sites. Nothing like downloading 100gb from a sketchy site that’s capped at 100mbit, but hopefully that expands a bit now that basically every ps5 that wasn’t updated in the past week is moddable

It will be interesting to see what drops after gta6. As of right now the entire library can run as long as you’re on 13.60 but before this there were some games with issues because back porting games to lower firmware is a bit messy. Pretty sure that’s why the one dev who exited the scene when the hypervisor exploit was reported was holding on to it, they wanted to time it for gta6 release. There’s rumors that there is another hyper visor exploit that isn’t released though

The auto loader just makes it offline and automatically loads packages you select, you still have to run it every reboot

But a tethered jailbreak is nothing new. The real unfortunate bit is without a full hypervisor exploit you can’t run stuff like Linux. The older firmwares that were fully exploited were essentially solid gaming pcs that could run steam bc of this

That said it’s really a minor issue. The jailbreak process takes a few seconds, it’s really not a burden. It’s not like you have to reinstall everything every time. Apparently sometimes it can fail but I’ve done it a few times now and it’s very painless

Yes this is what I meant

https://www.ign.com/articles/one-piece-author-eiichiro-oda-literally-hid-the-manga-series-final-secret-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean

Didn’t he have someone actually put a treasure somewhere in the ocean irl? I don’t follow one piece but I remember reading about this because they apparently had to have a bunch of secrecy to avoid fans risking their lives or sowmthing

A recap may be a factor but tbh unless you see an issue (bulging cap) it’s probably not a major factor. Recapping is overly suggested and can create new problems, especially if you’re not great at soldering

Check the av connector first imo (CN5). Broken or loose pins could create intermittent issues like you describe

IC14 and IC15 are the video and audio encoder ICs, I would check there next (cold/broken joints, tracing around for shorts, etc)

Less likely but check the oscillator, if it loses clock it can drop video. Is the bios modded? That could also cause clock issues, or if the bios is failing. Less likely, and also could be cpu failure which is even less likely but possible

It’s probably fixable but a matter of your skills, time and money you’re willing to put in. Finding a board that works with a dead optical drive and swapping is much easier and likely cheaper if you can easily get Japan prices for used Saturns (in the USA they can be a bit pricey)

Pea protein is cheaper than whey protein. Its slightly less optimal in terms of amino acids but not by a huge amount and eating a diverse diet covers that anyway. 5lbs of naked pea protein is like $60 and it’s 76 servings that are each 120 calories and 27g protein per 30g powder. I add it to a lot of stuff like overnight oats and such

There’s already a number of hospital networks who refuse to provide pediatric trans care because they were essentially bullied into submission by this administration

Fwiw his point to bring back mental institutions has some merit in that interim programs and supported rehabilitation should be expanded though there’s no way he means it this way and he has no intention to fund mental health treatment, only pseudo prisons.

Starting in the 1960s the number of mental hospitals dropped precipitously. Mainly because of outrage at conditions, watch the Geraldo documentary on the willowbrook school, released in 1972, which further accelerated an already started trend because it was correct and conditions were atrocious

However, what is left out is that these places weren’t replaced with anything until much later. This led to decades of issues. Hospitals focused on physical health took the brunt, and social issues measurably worsened. This led to a rising trend in jailing people who were suffering from mental health issues and homelessness, which drastically hastened under Reagan in the 1980s

In the roughly 50 years since then psychiatry and social work in almost every state have moved towards community programs, in home services, and when things are extremely severe residential treatment and supportive rehabilitation residences. However, funding for mental health dropped almost constantly as asylums closed so these programs often started with shoestring budgets. Further for every president since Reagan these budgets have essentially continually dropped year after year. Sometimes tremendously; many states destroyed Medicaid and mental health funding in 2008 during the recession and since then it continually goes down or at best stays stagnant year after year

As a result most of these interim programs are inaccessible for many because they can only staff so much. On top of that the clinical fidelity is often poor to extremely terrible because you simply can’t attract talent. When I started in the field I did residential treatment for $9/hr. I then did mobile case management for $11. That was almost 20 years ago and those jobs now pay $13 and $15 respectively, still atrocious. Staff turnover is high because why not just work at target? You won’t have the constant threat of severe injuries (I literally just got an epidural steroid injection today to deal with a progressively worsening back injury from like 2015 at work), extremely depressing situations (I still remember the several case management clients I had who are dead because it was during the Wild West opioid days), terrifying liability (what do you do when someone is suicidal with a plan and begs you not to hospitalize? What do you do when you witness child abuse that is borderline at best and you know cps will just waste everyone’s time and destroy the rapport you have for no consequence? (You still report)). It’s not like when you have commercial ppo insurance through work and can see a decent licensed clinician for $10 copay (and the clinician gets 100-150/hr)

So then you get the people who actively resist funding these programs because they’re shithead politicians that just block any social service. But you create a situation where they give themselves ammo. They underfund the system so much as to cripple it. Then they can point to poor consumer satisfaction, poor outcomes, etc and starve them further. They can also gain constituents by having them experience this subpar treatment and then campaigning on tearing it all down (once again with no alternative proposed, which means prison)

tft lcds got in this too because they’re so dirt cheap and capacitive touch interfaces are cheap as fuck to manufacture. Even if the parts costs are a tiny bit higher relative to physical buttons and interfaces the money saved on assembly makes up for it (and in some cases the parts actually are cheaper

Plus in a kitchen or bathroom setting this is much easier to make water and dust resistant, which is an actual benefit tbf, but at the expense of ergonomics and accessibility

You can literally go on Amazon right now and search LCD toaster. There’s the $4-500 ultra bougie American designed (not made lol) smart one but then there are a ton of Chinese designed ones that are like $50-60 because it’s a $20 toaster with a (when bought at scale) $0.95 lcd strapped on

Marketing is dumb, this is why I left ui/ux/hci work. You can create an ergonomic and intuitive system that is evidence based and the ad men will be like “but can we pander to the lowest common denominator by ruining it with some useless feature that’s objectively worse to use?” And then they just dropped the pretense and said fuck ux, embrace dark patterns

I could bitch about this for days

We’re kind of describing the same people I think

See that’s utility and depending on the sensors you choose that can definitely be local only

But skimming the page for a Samsung smart fridge none of this is in the features. It’s that it can play music, you can put notes and pictures and shit, there’s an “ai camera” that can tell you what you need to buy (though something tells me that struggles if your fridge isn’t set up like a stock image and is actually loaded with like food and condiments and shit like a normal person)

A Bluetooth speaker can do the music part likely with much better sound quality, a smart speaker can handle the typical kitchen tasks like setting timers (which can be done purely in HA, you don’t need Alexa or whatever), a dry erase board and magnets can cover notes and pictures, and the reminders app on your phone can probably do a much more accurate job of keeping a shopping list. Then you can buy a fridge that doesn’t have a 32” proprietary lcd that is a major point of failure, and you can literally save thousands of dollars (quick search shows these fridges are 3500-4k, which is insane for a fridge, even a fancy huge one).

The market for these is people who have too much money (or are willing to take on credit debt) but also can’t be bothered to spend the 1-2 hours it takes to read up on how to do what you’ve done. Samsung, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc prey on these people

The top of the line one can make spherical ice though, which is admittedly super cool

I just don’t see the utility. I can be pretty pro “smart” stuff, especially if I can run it without an internet connection, but what’s the point for a fridge?

Like an oven I get, though I don’t have one. It’s laziness but there is some utility in being able to preheat the oven without getting up, or double check the oven was turned off. Although newer ovens tend to have rapid preheating that really can be quick (unlike my 1996 oven that takes 15-20+ minutes)

But a fridge? What are you going to do? Ensure it’s running? Except when something like this happens lmao. The only real thing it could add is an advertisement and data collection vector, which is the opposite of utility. I’ve also seen smart toasters. Not toaster ovens, but like pop in two slices of bread and push the plunger. Why? You have to come to the device to load it. Do you leave bread overnight getting stale and save the 30 seconds and greatly raise the risk of cold toast? Ridiculous

I didn’t say it was logical, just what’s written. It’s vague and technically anything with a value of over $20 is included. Currency isn’t specifically included but it’s not excluded either so things like the OP could absolutely occur and even be prosecuted with the way the law is written (at least in NY and other areas with similar statutes)

Depends on jurisdiction, obviously, but not always the case. Technically in New York any lost property with a value over $20 must be turned into police (NY Personal Property Law §§ 251–258). But as you say the ability to prove ownership of loose currency is basically nonexistent (unless you’re Mr burns in that one Simpsons episode) so prosecution is unheard of. At least, until we met our current surveillance state dystopia

Also in NY the money is not inherently turned back to the finder. Found money goes into the city treasury unless the finder stakes a claim. But this would likely take so much time and paperwork headache that any feasible currency you would find would almost certainly not be worth the effort (maybe if you find some mafia dummy’s billfold, I guess, but then it’s approaching “wallet” territory anyway and also probably a bad idea to keep for other reasons)

Technically in most jurisdictions in the USA you’re supposed to make a reasonable effort to find the owner (eg asking nearby people if they dropped it) and then turn it into the police. If no one comes forward to claim it you are then entitled to it

However in a practical sense no one would do this (except maybe the ask if someone dropped it part) and the police would steal the turned in money 9.9 times out of 10

That can theoretically be done with read only access

its absolutely wild to give an LLM write access to your email

This implies neurosurgeons aren’t talented

Ease really. Once the patents expired it was fairly simply to make a 3d printer, which is essentially a hot nozzle squirting plastic. It’s more akin to a pen plotter

An inkjet printer is significantly more complex. Even if you know how it works you essentially need a semiconductor level fab to make the printhead. That’s why all these projects just reverse engineer hp cartridges. Literally every inkjet printer patent could’ve expired 10 years ago and it wouldn’t change the engineering and manufacturing challenges