In addition to all the automation everyone has talked about, some of us are also data nerds.

I enjoy knowing the temp, air quality, etc. in every room. How does this change throughout the day/season? Did leaving this door open or this fan on improve anything? What can I automate at what threshold to improve things?

You can also get a lot of data about energy usage too. And if you have solar and battery, it’s neat seeing how much it affects and how much you save.

Automation is useful, but in the end it’s just a hobby like many other things. It’s fine to be into it or not into it.

Let’s get this out onto a tray.

Me and my friends played the Pokemon stadium mini games WAY more than the actual battles. They were a lot of fun.

And the nature of computers is that they are magnitudes better than humans at brute forcing. Machine learning can brute force (depending on the technique, it can be smarter than brute forcing, being more efficient) test many many many more designs and techniques than we could manually do. Sure it’ll fail many times, but it’s just a numbers game, and it can pump those numbers. It’ll try a lot of weird and unique stuff we wouldn’t even think to try, with varying degrees of success.

Yeah, it makes me think back to the CD days. I think just having a Windows install CD already premade for you made the process at least semi approachable.

Last month when I was installing an OS (it was proxmox, not exactly beginner friendly, I know) the first boot disk creator I used “worked” but ended up failing in the install. The second one worked though.

All in all, creating your own install disk is nice and flexible, but it really is a barrier for the average user.

I’ve never seen x-files, but it does get brought up a lot in conversation about Fringe (one of my favorites). Fringe starts off as {insert scifi thing} of the week, and then the plot starts to develop later. I recommend giving it a shot.

I stumbled upon this regex crossword puzzle a while back. I was never good enough to get it, but it seems like it could be fun.

I have also felt like this my entire life. Rather than a superpower, I’ve always imagined that I’m haunted by some low-level evil spirit that only has power over street lamps.

You know, it kinda makes me wonder if we should have listened a little more to the people who were paranoid of being tracked and went to live off the grid.

I watch his videos occasionally and I haven’t seen anything like that. Recently, at least, he’s just been doing the usual of taking apart and explaining random electronics he finds.

I rolled a 1.

The McDonald’s ice cream machines have a similar vibe, but that doesn’t seem to be as smartly/evilly executed as these trains. Remote kill switches are insane.

To provide an example it it being done near perfectly, see the Factorio mod scene.

That being said, I do feel similar to you about this. Something might be wonky about this. We’ll just have to see how it shakes out.

Also BEWARE of dihydrogen monoxide. It’s in every cup of water that you drink no matter where you got the water from. It’s all over the world. Nobody is safe.

Odds are that I get run over by a train shortly after. Also the factory must grow.

Yep. The people that use starlink are using it because it’s likely their only option, or at least it’s miles above (pun unintended) what few other alternatives they might have.

And you can pay for and print your pictures after the ride/appointment.

Indeed. To quote more of the bible:

James 2:26 (kjv) “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

I haven’t seen that much Gundam, but I think most/all Gundam have wheels in addition to legs. I guess it’s the best of both worlds. Wheels are best for even terrain, and legs enable traversal of uneven terrain and jumping. In fiction of course. In real life, we can’t build anything that complicated.

This reminds me of a funny story when I was a child. I would always watch through these mirrors thinking that I would see the cars in back clip through the back of our car because they were “closer than they appear”. Somehow it never crossed my mind that our car would also be closer.