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Terrifying. I know that Japan is earthquake-proofing its architecture but how about the underground infra? Do they have to dig and redo the pipes? The cables seem to be mostly overground (at least in this video) and are probably easier to repair (oldschool infra ftw).

Since I didn’t want to make any permanent changes to the phone, I didn’t want to remove these tabs, or to solder anything onto them. I just wanted to connect a cable to them in the easiest way possible.

Same here but I want to go for a xilink bluetooth adapter and maybe even sacrifice and old smartphone with a separate sim. Not sure if the AI stuff will work but it seems possible….

OpenVINO might be a good alternative, as many Intel-based mini pc’s support it. Or a decent desktop with an Intel CPU. Or maybe something with an Arc GPU (integrated or dedicated).

Disclaimer: I didn’t try it yet but the last rabbit hole regarding OpenVINO comparisons looked too good to be true and it seems Frigate supports it too. Win-win.

Mandatory recommendation of the Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K] [1] video/version. Especially with this particular song(!), as the 8K version [2] has a different one which doesn't really give the chills... Although, 60fps makes the image much better. Maybe combine the song from [1] with the video from [2]...

The source picture is the 1.5 gigapixels version (69.536 x 22.230 pixels).

Fun fact: watching the video on certain TV's makes them flicker wildly. Probably because they struggle with many dots in motion. On a monitor it works flawlessly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bNqBeAtC8

once people (i.e. grandma) changed the input to the streaming device, they couldn’t figure out how to get back to the cable box

Unless you have a remote with the magical "TV" button and you only have to teach (i.e. grandma) to press that one when the TV channels don't appear.

Not sure if this would work with cable boxes though, as they might get separated from the default TV input (as in, scanned channels) but THIS is something they should make smarter (learning the default input and assigning it to the TV button)

GMKtec Mini PC N97 [1] is 160 EUR on amazon.de (with the 70 EURO voucher that is). Got mine with free shipping to Romania, as the purchase was over 50 EUR.

Also, the N97 has better performance than the N100, but the power consumption is higher. For me its a plus as it's more powerful than the usual N100 mini PC's while much smaller and fan noise is quite low (for now at least...). Not really intended for high workloads and 24/7 anyway. More like a backpack PC.

[1] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/G5-Computer-Generation-12GB-256GB...

Reminds me of the credit card sized (literally [1]) USB stick I still have somewhere but it was too annoying to carry around and hope that next time that cheap stick still works...

Using the phone directly still seems the cleanest and most reliable way. Or maybe a combination of both, like those magnetic plugs [2] but with an integrated USB stick. Bonus points if you don't have to take it out at all (until needed) by either connecting the other magnetic part for data transfer and charging or data through USB OTG and wireless charging. One can dream... but the technology will shrink even further so who knows.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Enfain-Flash-Drives-Memory-Credit/dp/...

2. https://www.adafruit.com/product/5524

Or a combination of HA + Telegram (bots) that will trigger and respond to a /<command>, even with buttons.

Maybe less secure than a VPN connection (e.g. if somebody gets control over the channel or bots instead of you/other trusted members) and of course more finicky until the bot works as desired, but always a nice party trick.

Or a combination of VPN for home-critical automations and telegram bots for the simple/shared ones.

The desktop reminds me of TinyCore Linux, although bigger by 15-20 MB.

Fun fact: It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux.

Then again, "infinitely" might not even be necessary (got carried away there).

Maybe our full universe fits predictably in some pre-allocated space of such an advanced machine/project and 1 million years on our part is a days worth of disk space on their side. An then there are retention periods too...

Regarding the "substitute for God" part... good point, but what if we really come up ourselves with such simulations? It doesn't mean we are gods (literally), it doesn't even mean we are ourselves in a simulation. Just that we found clever ways to simulate the process into replicating something that we judge as correct (ironically). Like a game nowadays but a trillion times more complex. Looking at how much AI improved recently, what is to say that 100 years from now we cannot simulate this and then cheat our future with data extracted from other civilizations, rinse and repeat, to evolve exponentially.