I bought a 12 mini when the 13 came out. Not “flagship”, but not cheap. I bought it because it’s smaller than the other phones, and I just had its battery replaced. I hope to use it for a couple of more years.
I’m not sure what I’ll do next, I don’t really need anything like the 12 mini, let alone a flagship phone.
What’s this about a Microslop outage?
Just billionaires doing billionaire things.
If it’s something egregiously wrong, I prefer to edit it and own up to my stupidity.
If it’s my considered opinion being downvoted, then I take the downvotes and backlash. I stand my ground, unless someone makes a point that enlightens me to consider a different position. Then, I’ll edit the comment to that effect.
The rare times I delete a post or comment is usually because I’ve posted something demonstrably false that I realized after posting it, or I replied to the wrong comment.
Better to leave the comment up, and edit it when you realize the problem.
“The Earth is FLAT! EDIT: Well, apparently, I was misinformed and dupe by idiots. Mea culpa.”
Actual cash money. I’ve had the same $60 in my wallet for many years now. I never spend cash anymore.
On my daily walk, I carry pepper spray for the dogs. I’ve never used it, but I got it after I was bitten by a small dog on a leash, and befriended by a couple of strays who first threatened me. Since I started carrying it, another dog has threatened me, but again, calmed down and became friendly after I stood my ground with him. Seems like they just want to test me, or something. I didn’t even reach for the spray.
It’s good to have something to bargain with. “Here, take my expensive gun, just don’t hurt me.”
May he lose all sense of smell and taste, lose his hair, and forever have itchy skin.
This is sofa king stupid. Arresting honest, skilled workers just trying to make a living. I’m a little surprised DR Horton, Lennar, PulteGroup, etc. aren’t up in arms over this. But, I suppose billionaires of a feather flock together?
There are not, and will not be, enough white, skilled construction workers to take the places of these immigrants for many, many years, if ever. The job is tough, pays too little, and the upcoming generations have zero interest in the trades. No one under 30 is going to trade school or getting on-the-job training in construction or any other trade. I said “white”, because that’s exactly what the billionaire fascists want, and imagine will happen. They can’t see the writing on the wall, I guess. Furthermore, it’s a young man’s trade, and the current generation of skilled workers are now aging out. Fifty-year-old men are hard pressed to do such work, and as I said, there’s no one behind them to take their place.
Oh, and it’s fantasy that robots will take their place inside of 30 years. Also, 3D printed homes are just fluff and venture capital bait, and those still need skilled workers for everything but the bare walls.
I won’t make a step-by-step tutorial, but I will document a few steps along the way and publish my design when it’s complete. The only thing I have IRL for now is the thumb I printed and assembled. The hand design is the part I’m least confident in. And, the head is the most complex part, so those have been taking all the time till now.
There are plenty of tutorials online for this sort of thing. From modifying store bought models, to kits people make, to old-school casting plastic parts from self-made molds, to designing and 3D printing. I’m using Blender for the design, because I already know Blender, that’s a lot of previously-earned knowledge. I also have a lot of experience building things myself from previous jobs, and hobbies. I’m watching videos for the details I’m less certain of. The skull and skeleton are free downloads, but require extensive modification on the inside to this purpose.
The parts I can’t make and need to buy are stupid-expensive these days. The universal joint for the neck is only sold in pairs, but I only need one, I suppose to make it worth selling, were $15. The two boards to drive everything were $160 plus the two micro SD cards were another $22, but I went with a purpose designed solution, rather than an Arduino solution. There’s the servos ($45), the struts ($9), the turntable bearing ($7), a ball bearing for the jaw ($7), a box of tiny screws ($8), etc. It all adds up fast. Alibaba Express helps, but not much, buying enough at one store to get free shipping helps. Plus, of course, the 3D printer which I already have, but was $1000 six years ago, for a Prusa.
I’ve been working on my skeleton animatronic. I’ve wanted to do this for years, so I finally am. I have the design pretty well locked down. Printer filament ordered, parts trickling in as deliveries arrive from around the world.
I got the Bottango Solar board to drive the servos. Eyes pan and tilt, jaw jaws, head tilts and swivels, plus two hands that open and close and one arm that extends.
Google and Samsung. Two well-respected stalwarts in the privacy sphere.
Harvey is next:
https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/who-is-harvey-c-jones-nvidia-board-chair/91435445
He’s been on Nvidia’s board since the beginning. Jensen will no doubt remain on the board, he just won’t be the face of the company now.
Jensen Huang Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Tench Coxe Former Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
John O. Dabiri Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Dawn Hudson Former Chief Marketing Officer, National Football League & Former CEO Pepsi-Cola North America
Harvey C. Jones Managing Partner, Square Wave Ventures
Melissa B. Lora Former President, Taco Bell International
Stephen C. Neal Chairman Emeritus and Senior Counsel, Cooley LLP
A. Brooke Seawell Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Aarti Shah Former Senior Vice President & Chief Information and Digital Officer, Eli Lilly and Company
Mark A. Stevens Managing Partner, S-Cubed Capital
Suzanne Nora Johnson Former Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
He’ll no doubt still be on the board, still raking in billions. He just won’t be the public face.
Hoping to avoid investigations, I suppose?
Trump knew about the cheating a year ago. He shorted NVDA waiting for this to blow up and now he’s buying the dip waiting for it to rise again. He’s making hundreds of millions off this and “honorable guy” is his way of projecting that.
I have an old one. The battery is dead, I could replace it, but I didn’t really see the value. Power going out isn’t a terrible thing in my view, it happens so rarely for me. It’s a time to reflect and choose simpler activities.
The habit of saving early and saving often is so ingrained, I’d not lose more than a few minutes of effort on whatever I might be doing at the time that’s mildly important to me.
We won capitalism, and capitalism sucks.
American companies outsourced everything to countries where it was cheaper to manufacture, to increase billionaire and shareholder profits--AKA the rich getting richer.
Now China and others have all the manufacturing skills and infrastructure, so we as a nation are dependent on them for everything. But, don’t worry, the billionaires got richer and that’s all that matters.