Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I’d like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos

Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.

Also, why extend it vertically?

To be more physically fit rather than becoming a Fitter, try landscaping, concrete work (if you’re brave enough to wear a mask for the dust and get called sissy all day long), or farm work if you’re interested in a wide variety of physically demanding tasks that are also dangerous.

Edit to the description of farm work

No.

But I would immediately buy a new laptop with a track ball and mouse buttons like this one

I’ve only seen one irl, and they are incredibly intuitive to use, and you don’t accidentally move the mouse while typing

Yes! Once a thing passes the nitpicker’s inspection, it is also good enough to pass the customers’ inspection

Similarly, if everyone at your work is constantly telling you “it’s not rocket science,” or something like that, look around for a job where being accurate and detailed is required. At least take up a highly detailed hobby.

Haha when I want to try a new brand or location, I judge it by how good their vanilla is.

Yes, exactly. If the shop can’t make good vanilla, then they’re a gimmick shop.

That looks like a 3d printed shell over some sort of scannable chip that pairs with an app on a smart phone to require a physical action to unlock the full phone experience.

A printed QR code paired with an similar app would serve the same function.

Most people don’t think about how things work. I’d guess that most customers thought all the smart features were internal and the Internet connection was just an arbitrary requirement

Yes. You can use it without understanding how it works behind the scenes. At some point, they’ll run into a situation where it is helpful to learn some part of how the fediverse works and then they can ask about it, generating more content and interaction along the way

Career advice be like:

Aha, occupant fatalities. I was hoping to find out if they were measuring people inside the cars mentioned or people in other cars or pedestrians or all of the above

It’s my understanding that LLM’s are thoroughly unsafe, always reporting everything it does and every input back to whoever made the LLM. So, wouldn’t it be easy for whoever owns the LLM to see what it’s being used for, and to refuse service to scammers?

It seems like an opportunity for vehicle-to-vehicle charging, putting the power gained from gravity into another vehicle.

It would need to happen quickly and at the same time as unloading and it would have to keep enough energy to climb the hill plus a safety margin.

Does it discharge extra energy into anything else? Does it burn off extra energy as heat to maintain regenerative braking?

Saving this for when I have time to watch it. The inner workings of computers are electricity and magic to me

The negotiations must have been brutal! /s

There is good amount of energy in the sunshine. The output of solar arrays struggle to make big power out of small surface areas because we haven’t figured out how to get more than 20% of the power that hits the panel. If they do get 20% or more, it’s been with very expensive and fragile panels.

If you can park on top of a parking garage, or in a spot on ground level where sunshine is not too much blocked by the surrounding buildings, you could surely commute on sunshine. Home parking barely matters for day shift workers in this scenario.