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what's exciting about this is that it's got an FPGA with micro-HDMI and usb-c so you should be able to use it as an e-paper monitor out of the box

downloaded this, enjoying it so far. thanks!

"inexpensive". I love that. Like we're all searching for rubik's cube solver robots for our loved ones for christmas but they're all just too damn pricey!

I tried to use this and it showed me an apache2 landing page instead of my app website, which led me to realise my app site had been down for at least a day because apache had actually crashed due to nginx using port 80 (I don't even use nginx so not sure what the heck happened)

Anyway, not the success story I'd hoped to post here, but it definitely solved at least one problem I didn't know I had.

I'm now going to add uptime monitoring

please stop submitting dailymail links. dailymail is fear-mongering hate-speech dressed up as journalism.

One practical way you could attempt to do this would be to massively tax airline tickets, ideally by distance flown, and then allow people to claim 4 untaxed tickets.

You could also maybe allow people to sell their tickets if they never intend to use them, which would create a new financial incentive for people to never get on a plane.

real paper made from trees is still considered crucial to countless businesses and government systems globally, despite the environmental impact of producing it. For decades, computers, smartphones and tablets have provided an alternative.

Is the impact of printing a paper navigational chart really higher than replacing that chart with an electronic device?

ARM wrestles

nice pun

yep you're right, I was wrong, it only goes back to late 90s

Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions

But for whatever reason, the scans are poor quality and very dark, and it can be hard to make out what piece is which. These ones look much better

Growing up, myself and my siblings built sets when we first got them as gifts, but after that they went in the pile. We would build whatever was in our imagination, from the multicolored heap.

Now I have my own kids, and they all want to build sets from instructions. The odd time we'll dive into the pile of orphaned bits and build a house or a boat or something, but mostly they want to recreate what they remember. My wife spends hours finding all the pieces of a set and bagging them up for the kids to build later (so she's gonna love this)

It's tempting to say "kids nowadays" but I think it's just different personality types. In other media, my kids are far more creative and imaginative than I ever was, but with Lego sets they prefer to recreate the perfect image than make a hodge podge thing that never existed.

I absolutely love Achill, it's stunning out there. I would love to live out there, if I knew I had reliable internet so I could work.

However, the €80k the government grant for doing up a derelict house is not going to very far. Ireland has always been one of the most expensive places in Europe, and the cost of living has steadily increased in the last 12 months.

In particular, building, renovating or extending homes has become prohibitively expensive because of a combination of labor shortage, rising materials costs and price gouging.

for the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee

So like $400

Very nice! I'm also this guy

I'm a writer who sometimes misses the fancy features of a code editor, so I started building

I haven't added any external services to mine yet. Interesting to see the things we have in common / difference though. I love the diff! How do you do the git-like history? I can't see any history when I try it out.

Also, a word of warning: as a developer-turned-writer, developing your own writing app is probably the single biggest distraction you can create, the greatest form of procrastination. Every time I sit down to write, using my own app, I find things I want to add, or change, or fix, and even when I resist the urge to work on them, I'm still _thinking_ about them when trying to write. I started my writing app journey in 2012, and my writing productivity has suffered ever since. Don't get me wrong - its a very satisfying hobby, but I dont write nearly as much as I could have done if I wasn't bug fixing in my spare time

Is this any relation to pico8, the fantasy console? If not, can the picosystem run pico8?

We used to bake potatoes in piles of grass from when my dad mowed the lawn. wrap your potato in tinfoil twice and bury it at the bottom of a large grass pile in the morning and come back at the end of the day. the grass gets so hot as it starts to breakdown. this is I think due to fermentation inside the grass mound and the insulation of the outer layers.

It might have been a day or so after the grass had been cut rather than that day.

I don't know how safe or clean it was, or how long it actually took to cook, or whether or not you _should_ do this, but we did, and it worked at least a few times

Ann Reardon is great, she debunks so much stuff. I didn't even realise how many fake cooking videos there were out there until I started watching her channel

I had to click through to find what the worst part of England was, and ended up on an FT article about Blackpool and the causes of and reasons behind its decline. Very sad but very interesting.

omg I remember todo.txt! I've kept that mantra alive with my own todo apps (private use only, I'm not selling myself here). I always build stuff that follows the same philosophy of "store everything in text files".

ditto. I was turned off LifeHacker a long time back by the ads and slideshows and junk content. delighted to start rediscovering it.

This post reads awfully whiny to me. Who cares if the new bulb that's 90% more energy efficient than your old incandescent is not exactly the same color as the totally unnatural electric light you grew up with? Sure, there are some niche areas like the gallery mentioned, where the color and evenness of the light is quite important to display a work of art properly, but the bulb in your downstairs toilet not being yellow enough is not something to get worked up over.

This is as vapid and facile an argument as petrol heads complaining that electric cars don't sound right.

As in, turn an inkplate10 into a secondary (or even primary) display for something like a raspberry pi.

I want to make an eink writing machine, something like a freewrite but not costing $500.

Has anyone figured out how to make Inkplate10 function as regular display?

I'm not clever enough to make it work, but I'm assuming its something to do with peripheral mode

In the future state, your AI will simply give you the answers directly. You won't email me and you don't need me.

that sounds great. you emailing me about a project and waiting for me to write an email to you is an inefficient waste of both of our time, and if AI can give us that time back, it should.

My point is that many if not all digital interactions become pointless.

but I disagree that it will render all digital interactions pointless - just the day to day drudgery.

20 years ago, if you wanted to find out the opening times of a store you had to call them up or walk to the door. now, you can google it in seconds. we have done away with a lot of the short phone conversations, and our lives are better for it. but we still talk on the phone. the conversations are more meaningful and less redundant.

Soon Office will include advanced AI capabilities to write and reply to email. What is the point of me reading it? If my AI can generate a satisfactory reply, your AI could have generated the response too. No email needed, nor a reply.

You'd be kind of daft not to proof-read the emails your AI sends out on your behalf. who knows what you might unknowingly agree to do?

We're now in a phase where anybody can generate spectacular art. What is the point of me looking at your generated art? AI can generate personalized art based on what it knows I like. If AI works, and it's headed that way, you keep ending up at the same question: what is the point of anything?

there is no point to anything, there wasn't before AI and there isn't now. anything we do is meaningless, because eventually we all die, and our efforts are ultimately forgotten. once you get over that you can make your peace with whether the pretty thing you look at is made by a human feeding sentences to a computer or a human carefully marking paper with a pencil, or some combo.

but seriously, as a human who has spent all of my life doodling, drawing, illustrating, painting, thousands of hours creating my own art, and even building my own tools to do so, I find AI is just another tool in the box. I can use it to make images, and now someone who has not spent most of their life drawing can use it to make something more visually stunning than I ever could. has it rendered my efforts meaningless? hell no, I enjoyed every second I spent drawing. I still draw. but I don't harbour any illusions that I'm doing it for anyone other than myself.

In a rare moment of humanity, one of your friends calls you. AI knows all about your friends and their recent events so had already summarized talking points. In case you can't be bothered, AI will carry out the actual conversation, it's trained in your voice

I love this thought. Why not go further, have AI reach out to my friends and ask them about things they (or their AIs) recently told "me" about?

Soon our AIs will carry on our social lives and we'll just lie in the dark with tubes in us. We become the computers, and the computers become us, and the robots have finally won.

key about naps: no need to sleep. brain never fully on, never fully off. If I took a 20 minute nap and didn’t fall asleep, i just took an excellent 10 minute nap!

When a person doesn't sleep properly, this is exactly the kind of rubbish they post on the internet

You can buy used phones on Amazon.

There are loads of premium refurbishment outfits like refurbed.at (Austrian) who will sell you a second hand device in mint condition.

There are also high-street tech repair shops that usually sell second hand devices, and one chain here (webuy) that work a little like Gamestop but also buy back electronics. They underpay and overcharge just like Gamestop, but it still works out way cheaper than new, and they provide a warranty.

I've bought from all three sources for myself and my family. I only had an issue with a device from webuy one time, and since it's local I was able to go back in and get a refund the following week.

This is the reason. All those people who need to be on the absolute bleeding edge, sell perfectly good phones for a quarter of what they cost new, to people like me. Everyone I know buys new phones for anywhere up to 800 for the latest Samsungs (and don't even get me started on the Apple stuff) and I just can't fathom it. It's like buying a brand new car and then selling it three years later to buy another brand new one because there's a slightly better entertainment system.

And yes, I know some of you probably also do that.

Maybe I'm just a penny pinching old man

I don't but now I'm curious